Pearl Jam cover of Driven to Tears

[kinetickid]

Hi all !

I heard of Pearl Jam covering this song, but i did not know there was a video. The stuff Eddie says at the end is quite interesting too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGOYWPJz ... re=related

Enjoy !

Kinetic Kid

[TOWOS]

Thanks! He usually nails the Who covers, this was kind of "off range" for him, but interesting indeed.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

This RAWKS!~~~~~ Thanks KK!!! Jeez...the language at the end about voting...the man is after my heart....bummer I had to miss them at Bonnaroo last year due to chopping my leg all up.

I have Tubesocked - how apropos - to pull out the audio for IPod...Have at it:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=4jw69g29lpb

Oh, and Tubesock:

http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/

[TOWOS]

He is a great person and generally a good singer - only half of the song had "pitch problems" as Randy Jackson would put it

[smax]

nicely done and, of course, a great choice, the m8 was a bit odd, and i can do without ALL those solo's!

(and what a charming man youg eddie proves himself to be at the end of the song?!?! a charming mix of insulting, misogynistic, politcally-astute and education favouring and coprophagic......... tw*t on a stick )

[plutonic]

[quote="smax"]nicely done and, of course, a great choice, the m8 was a bit odd, and i can do without ALL those solo's!

(and what a charming man youg eddie proves himself to be at the end of the song?!?! a charming mix of insulting, misogynistic, politcally-astute and education favouring and coprophagic......... tw*t on a stick )[/quote]

Awesome! My thoughts exactly!
Except for coprophagic.
I had to look that up.

I think this was during Eddie's junk phase.

[Throb]

[quote="plutonic"]Awesome! My thoughts exactly!
Except for coprophagic.
I had to look that up.[/quote]
Me to.
The things you learn at this place

[DirtyMartini]

[quote="Throb"][quote="plutonic"]Awesome! My thoughts exactly!
Except for coprophagic.
I had to look that up.[/quote]
Me to.
[/quote]

Thirded.


Thanks for the link, kinetickid.

[giovanni]

Pearl Jam will re-release TEN in multiple formats in a few weeks....greaaaaatttt!
Lots of rarities and alternative takes and mixes.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Was just xlinking this on the Ticketbastard thread...

Just another reason PJam rulez:

http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/art ... imon.shtml

[Throb]

Wow, thanks for posting that.
Can you believe that was almost 15 years ago

Can you say "ahead of your time?"

"Our efforts to try to keep prices for tickets to our concerts to this low level and to limit the possibility of excessive service charge mark-ups have put us at odds with Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is a nationwide computerized ticket distribution service that has a virtual monopoly on the distribution of tickets to concerts in this country. It has been no secret that since Ticketmaster acquired Ticketron, the only other nationwide computer ticket service, service charges have been on the rise. It is today virtually impossible for a band to do a tour of large arenas or other significant venues in major cities and not deal with Ticketmaster."

Take out "acquired Ticketron" and insert "merge with Live Nation"

[Susan]

Well that was interesting. Normally I don't like to hear anyone cover the Police but that was pretty decent and conveyed respect for the original. It's also probably the first time I ever heard of a rock star complaining about girls taking their tops off but he does have a point about education and voting but I don't see the need to make fun of the girl in front of the whole audience. Oh and I had to look up that word too. Learned lots in this thread!

[Divemistress of the Dark]

It's chilling, seriously:

[quote]In New York, where we played a show at the Paramount Theatre in April of this year, we tried to distribute some tickets over the radio. Using a city-wide promotion, tickets were sold through the Paramount Box office. Here again, we were informed that Ticketmaster threatened the Paramount's management with legal action for supposedly allowing us to evade Ticketmaster's exclusive rights.

While we were experimenting with these alternative distribution arrangements, Ticketmaster attempted to threaten and intimidate us. For example, at one point the person in charge of handling concert arrangements for us was told by Ticketmaster in essence that he had better watch himself and that if we didn't back off he would be run out of the business.

[snip]

Pearl Jam believes that if Ticketmaster is unable or unwilling to provide the level of service that Pearl Jam believes is appropriate for the distribution of tickets to Pearl Jam concerts, then we should have the option to make arrangements to distribute tickets to our concerts through other means. That freedom of choice -- a basic principle of competition in this country -- does not effectively exist in the music industry today. Something is vastly wrong with a structure under which a ticket distribution service can dictate the mark-up on the price of a concert ticket, can prevent a band from using other, less expensive, methods of tickets, and can effectively preclude a band from performing at a particular arena if it does not accede to using Ticketmaster. The effect of this situation on ticket prices has not been subtle: prices paid by consumers -- the ordinary concert fans -- for tickets to see Pearl Jam or any other band in concert are higher than they would otherwise be if competition existed.[/quote]

[Throb]

And did anyone take them really seriously back then or really listen?

[Rancid Date]

[quote="Susan"]Well that was interesting. Normally I don't like to hear anyone cover the Police but that was pretty decent and conveyed respect for the original. It's also probably the first time I ever heard of a rock star complaining about girls taking their tops off but he does have a point about education and voting but I don't see the need to make fun of the girl in front of the whole audience. Oh and I had to look up that word too. Learned lots in this thread![/quote]

The first thing that I thought after seeing that video was, “That poor girl.” The performance of one of my favorite songs was lost to me – decent as it was. I felt sick – like I needed a shower.

I do think that women (make that everyone) should educate themselves and vote responsibly. I think that a girl taking her top off at a rock concert is not classy. I think that a rock star making fun of that girl is even less classy. I think that it was downright cruel. This girl, stupid as she may be, was a big enough fan to purchase front row tickets to this concert. She gets there. She gets excited, and she is having the time of her life. Then, out of nowhere, her idol, her god destroys her. He mocks her fandom, her sexuality, and her intelligence – all in one fell swoop. The wound is public and irrevocable.

Or maybe she was stoned and doesn’t remember any of it!