Eddie Vedder writes songs on a manual typewriter, carries important papers in a 1940s suitcase, keeps his credit cards in a plastic Batman wallet and wears his beat-up lumberjack boots over a pair of blue argyle socks. He prefers to talk politics rather than Pearl Jam, and has a 21-month-old daughter who likes to sing Daddy's new single, "World Wide Suicide," during play group. "She dances around singing 'Suicide, suicide'," says Vedder, "and I have to wonder what the other parents are thinking."
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Pearl Jam
They have a new album out. Newsweek has the story.
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Heard a piece on npr yesterday, where Neil Young, sick of waiting for young rock stars to come out with an anti-war album, was forced to came out with his own. he wrote all the songs in a rage, in March! Interesting, eh? Maybe the young rock stars have all gone "politically correct" or are forced to be that way by their record labels..
I dunno much about Rock, folks, but did Rock ever have a tradition of protest? At least, since the end of the Vietnam war and "Mr President, have pity on the working man"? :-)
I spent last night at a Bangalore pub "Legends of Rock"
Some photos (Not by me!) here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57797569@N00/
I loved the sound of the songs, but, the lyrics are solipistic in the extreme- as are most songs and poems in history. I mean, protest is an exception.
not necessarily rock... but there hasn't been any kind of grassroots protests that have really brought the war to the guy on the street's doorstep. I think the way dubya has controlled the media in what it's putting out about the war has been pretty good. We hear of the 2000 odd soldiers who died, but I was reading an article on the 20,000 that have been injured.. maybe if those numbers got out that'd jog some protesters out.. someone shud do a study on how dubya(rove) managed this.
oh btw.. you should watch stephen colbert's roast of bush at the correspondent's dinner.. dayammmn!
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