" Pete Tounshend Was Probably More Of A Father To Me Than Anybody."

"If you trust me at all, if you want to listen to me at all..but you certainly don't have to...speaking from experience, I can tell you that things change. You can believe me, you don't have to. They probably won't change unless you make them. The best way to change something that's around you, something you don't like, is to change yourself. And I don't think you want other people changing you, I think the only person that can change you is yourself. So if you ain't happy, if you're reading magazines about generation x-ers and thinking 'yeah, I'm one of them', well fuck that. Don't let anyone tell you who you are. No, no. No one can tell me who I am. I can tell you who I am, but that would be a long story. I could tell you who I am and it wouldn't fit in a Rolling Stone. If wouldn't fit in a video...it's my life, it's your life. You're the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are somebody. And I'm probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I'd do it anyway. So if you feel like you've got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can't speak, take it off, speak up, speak your mind, shout it out, let em hear, shout it out"-------(Live during Porch 9/29/96)"

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic"------Ed

"Hey Listen Asshole, one more fucker thorws a fucking quarter out here, and we're out of here, I'm tellin ya fucker, what the fuck your blowin it for fuckin everybody. Hit me with a fucking quarter again, and fuck it, I'm outta here, we're all outta here, fuck you, and if anyone sees someone throw change right next to them, you have my permission to personally beat the fucking holy shit out of them. Thank you very much, fucking idiot. AHhhhhh, that felt good. Thank you.--------Ed (9/16/98 right after "go", referring to some asshole in the audience who thought it was a good idea to start whipping quarters on stage. You have to hear this, it is classic :)!!!!)

"My mind is in these songs, but the fact that so many people can relate to these songs is kind of depressing. Actually, now I understand those religious channels more. Everybody needs something"----------Ed

"I waited all day, you waited all day. But you left before sunset, and I just wanted to tell you the moment was beautiful. Just wanted to dance to bad music, drive bad cars, watch bad tv. Should have stayed for the sunset.....if not for me"--------Ed

"How many records you sell doesn't change how you look at the music. Getting a gold record was cool for about two-and-a-half minutes"-------Ed

"If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same"-----------Ed

"Everytime I see the spice girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes"-----------Ed

"There are definitely moments live where it's as good as any experience you can have. There have been shows where maybe the whole first half of the show my eyes have been closed. And then you'll look out in the crowd and there'll be somebody totally lost in their head, in exactly the same place you're in. That, to me, is the essence of music"------------Jeff

"We have to live up to the expectations of a million people. And we can't do that...and then, there's a cynical fucking media ontop of that. Fuck them. Fuck that. They question your fucking honesty. They think it's all a fucking game. They don't know whats' real......and when someone comes along who's trying to be real, they don't know the fucking difference"-------------Ed

""Thanks to the people in the back. I know they're just lighters, but they look like souls dancing"------------Ed

"Do you want a message?......Do you want a message?.....Kill your local rapist...but torture him first...then serve him to one of your enemies for dinner...I'll cook"------Ed

"I started playing the guitar because of Kiss. I was 11. I had the Kiss lunchbox, everything. Every kid at the time was into Kiss, with all the firebreathing and stuff. We used to leap around the couch with brooms and strut in front of the mirror. Actually, I still do that.-----------Mike

"You can't save someone from drowning if you're treading water yourself"--------Ed

So how many of you guys came out in limos? It's really great when your in a limo and you can put your head out the window and look out at all the homeless people....Next time you're in a limo just look out at all the homeless people sleeping in the alleys, I just dare ya to take a drink of that free alcohol.....This song is called Evenflow"------Ed

"Hey whaddaya want, somethin profound in every verse"--------Ed

"War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left"--------Ed

"Nature has applied every means possible to be sure I stand out in a crowd. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing has yet to be determined. My Road it may be lonley, just because it's not paved" -------------------Ed

"The bottom line is that when we all plug in, Eddie can make us dance and play like little molecules bouncing off the wall. And, for whatever reason, we can make him feel like singing."

-- Stone Gossard in Musician magazine, May, 1995

I waited all day.
You waited all day..
but you left before sunset..
and I just wanted to tell you
the moment was beautiful.
Just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars..
watch bad TV..
Should of stayed for the moment
if not for me.

Aye Davanita

She laid alone
during her best days
as a work of art
reading naked on the bed

Spent some of her best days
cleaning carpet from her hair
spent her worst days
owing you the pleasure
of of taking blame...

Spent her whole life
disbeleiving in her worst fears.
A work of art..
A work of art.

"in my whole life, i've never wanted to be a principal, a policeman, or anything of authority.....but, ummm, in fact all my life i've been in a crowd, like this, and whenever i was back there and people flew up on to the stage and jumped back off it already l, always looked so cool....and then when you're up here seein' peoples' heads gettin smashed in by a, big boots n cleats and stuff and it's really fucking ridiculous. so, uhhh, let's just police ourselves and have a good time, this is deep..."

"And now we've got a fight. What is there a fuckin' republican in the crowd?" Randalls Island 9/29/96

The "Shoe show" was: Indio, CA 5th Nov, 93. There's a great Soundboard recording in circulation.
also "the shoe show" in general, is one awesome quote from eddie. he's drunk, and he rambles funny shit. i love it. mainly his short version of my generation: "people try to put us down....... cause they're fucked. cause they're old and fucked

"We'd just played this amazing show, and it was real. Then to go into this, like, disco with Pearl Jam posters everywhere and people shaking your hand -- 'Hey, this is Barney; every time you see your record, Barney put it there.' That lasted for hours. I had friends who were laughing at me from the corner, and I was like 'Dude, fuck you, this isn't funny.' To me, it wasn't funny. It wasn't what the music was about. That was unlike anything I've ever experienced in my life, and I never want to experience it again." (interview - Rolling Stone - 10/31/91) ~Ed

"me and jeff, are gonna go to the front gates.....and when you exit, we're going to kick the shit out of every barefoot person here."

Mike: I think I have a monkey on my back. Eddie: Don't worry, Mike, it looks good there. ---------- when he was in Pensacola and he was telling the audience that its been a while since they played there and that the first time they were there, he and Mike roomed together. He was saying how he was a bit concerned about Mike b/c Mike was sitting on the bed mumbling and Ed tells the crowd, "At first I thought he was praying and stuff but then I realized he was just thanking God for getting him the hell out of Pensacola." --- "I wish I was a singer that remembered all the words" after f'ing up "Wishlist." -------- "Hey, listen asshole! One more fucker throws a fuckin' quarter out here and we’re outta here I’m tellin’ ya! Fucker! What the fuck, you’re blowing it for fuckin’ everybody. Hit me with a fuckin' quarter again and fuck it I’m outta here! We’re all outta here! Fuck you! And if anyone sees someone throwing fucking change right next to ‘em you have my permission to personally beat the fucking holy shit out of ‘em thank you very much, Fuckin' idiot! Aaahhh, that felt good thank you." --------- Eddie: "We have had a change of plans, Stone is going to sing for you now." Stone:"Hey all, I had to really twist their arms...they never let me sing." :) ---------- "Its good to know that our elected officials are really looking after what is important.....and I'm glad to know that I read in the paper the other day that they are once again concerned about flag burning. I mean after all there is nothing that pisses me off more than walking down the street and seeing flags burning everywhere. Flags burning here, flags burning there....who gives a fuck if the oceans are going to shit and the water is no longer clean! People are burning flags after all. Save the flags! Save the flags ----------- I've been told that there is another Ed (Ed Kowalczyk from Live) walking around here, but I've been told that I give better Ed than he does" [smiling].- ------- We've been thinking about it...we're gonna play a new song. If you don't like it...you know...you can go buy the new David Lee Roth record, we don't give a fu*k" (St Petersburg FL, 1994) ------- "But you know you're uh, you're not really grungy unless you got a sty in your eye" (Vegas 93) ---------- Or at Philly this year when Ed messed up Soon Forget and blamed it on the two chics "flashing their ti*s at me" --------- "speaking as a child of the '90s" instead he says "speaking as someone who's never worn an orange styrofoam piece of cheese.. on.. his.. HEAD". Then afterwerds he says "I just wanna reiterate. That little comment about the cheese head, it wasn't an insult, really. I actually have one at home and I where it around the house and I find it to be quite comfortable actually. It makes me look cool and I get chicks. It's awesome." -------- I also have this interview on tape with Eddie and Stone on mtv talking about the Jeremy video and Stone is going on trying to describe peoples' perceptions of the video and stuff kinda with this smirk on his face like he knows he's not really making much sense and then Eddie smiles and looks up at him and goes "I didn't understand that last part." ------- '92 show,.. i forget which one excatly,.. someone in the crowed holds up a shirt that gets Ed's att. he then start calling to the person holding the shirt to pass it up to the stage and says " throw it up i promise I give it right back." when the shirt reaches him he holds it up and says "what the hell is this shit?" {the shirt read 'VEDDER FOR PRES'} "are things really that bad?",...] ---- another,..... again I can't remember when and where and in this case even the song that they were playing. anyway,.. they're playing a song and Ed starts laughing part way through it. and stops to say "there is a girl in the front and her shirt says 'FUCK ME EDDY' well you'd have to spell my name right first",.. ----- MSG '98 first night. when Ed talked about the Breath signs and went on to explain that "someone slipped me a Viagra and I was busy doing something else. Six times of doing something else." -------- There was this interview with the band where they had just seen the Smashing Pumpkins and Eddie was dressed like a groupie with a bra and spandex shorts. The chick who was talking to them was a real ditz and just kept laughing really loud and asking stupid questions. Anyway, she asked Eddie a question about his lyrics and he said, "I don't wanna talk about my lyrics dressed like this." Then he showed the ballerina-type shoes he was wearing and thanked D'arcy from the Pumpkins for letting him borrow them. And Stone said "Well they look better on you." And Eddie got up and pretended to punch him in the stomach. ---------- Whats that? Ok, you said one of 3 things. You said give me, I know you said that. You said give me a pick, a drink or my dick.Whats did you say? Well I have a lot of guitar picks, and I actually have a few beers, but I only have one of the other thing and Im going to keep it so that I can entertain myself in boring fucking towns like Knoxville!" ------- After Eddie said stone was gonna sing one at Jones Beach, Stone steps up and says in that way stone has a way of saying things: "Is my band ready to kick it" ------- Also heres an eddie joke from an interview: Q:How many pearl jam members does it take to change a light bulb? A: Change? Change? We're not gonna change for anyone. -------- eddie: "my favorite line in it (referring to satans bed) it relates to who ever said that love comment before (read above post). you know i'm already in love, i can't stop to... in fact tonight is me and beth's... it's our nine year and eleven month anniversary. and i meantion that because it is the longest of anybody in the band, except for actually stone and jeff. (stone and jeff proceed to grind there guitars together in a very vulgar manner to the delight and screams of the crowd). stone: we know what you were thinking. disgusting. eddie: in fact the first band they were in, you saw two of the memebers tonight if you were watching mudhoney, that was green river. see how it all fits in. i just want to meantion the nine year, eleven month thing because i know i ain't going to be playing on our ten year anniversary. fuck that. --------- I thought of another one. Eddie and stone are talking about the singles movie. Eddie says how he plays the drums in the movie and the drummer is amazing. Then Stone Says, " NO hes not, the drummer is a hack. Eddie:"Yeah, but hes a great hack" or something like that. ------ " So I think the radio stopped brodcasting so we can start fucking around now" followed by huge crowd response "actually they are still brodcasting, well fuck it, anyway we´re gonna fuck around ------ "It's Stone's fault, Stone's the problem ------- I love that shoe quote... right after Ed yells at people throwing shoes on the stage, and then threatening that he and Jeff will beat up all the people with bare feet... he decides it would be a good idea to give them to charity .. "I know, we can donate them to charity, thats right, more shoes, more shoes, shoe the shoeless" ..aaahhh cracks me up every time. ------- The Mike quote is funny (if I get it right) "I heard a Creed song on the radio the other day and I thought 'is that us?'" ------ The Paul Simon thing was great.... He was saying that he hates when people go "hey, I'm Paul Simon and I need a career so I'll go to South America or Africa and steel their music but change the words cuz I'm so fucking cute.... I mean 'you can be my bodyguard and you can call me Al'.... What a fucking genius...." --------- The other is Atlanta 98 when he was talking about the Beastie Boys playing the next night. He was remembering a band called the Yeastie Girls from San Diego and he sang one of their songs: "We're the Yeastie girls with Yeastie power/ we don't shave and we don't shower/ Gather all the people, wtahc and see (?)/ We put things in our vaginas that you wouldn't believe!" ---------- A girl in the front yells out "Eddie!", loud enough to be heard throughout much of the auditorium. Ed's reply: "Yeah, OK, so you know my name. And if I knew your name I'd tell you to shut the fuck up." ________ means2makeamends In one of the european boots (Zurich, I think...) they start playing NAIS and Stone's guitar is out of tune... so they stop and Stone goes: "We have all these funny tunings... sometimes you get one wrong... but the next time we play it it will sound so much better!" then Eddie goes: "um... that's Jeff's song. Stone doesn't know how to play it and he's trying to blame the guitar..." cracks me up, 'cause he sounds so serious when he says it. ________ This one (actually two) is from Adelaide 7th March 1998: courtesy of www.fivehorizons.com: Just before 'Habit,' Ed starts singing "Lemonade ... Powerade ... Adelaide," and everyone cheers. After 'Habit,' Ed has a very tongue-in-cheek chat about Oasis: "So I just wanna state for the record that ... ah ... I don't know if I'm speaking for everybody but ... we love Liam Gallager. I mean honestly ... I'll tell you what. I was walking around last night and I ended up playing pool with a couple of you, you're out there I know. Had a great time ... had quite few of those things--Coopers (or) whatever they are--Onya, mate! And it was just going great. I was making friends left and right ... then I was getting free beer, it was just quite a night. But then some asshole asked me for ah to take a picture ... and I just headbutted the fucker right in the head ... and it felt fucking great GREAT. It was awesome ... I tell ya ... it's pretty cool this rock star thing ... I like it a lot." He's talking about Liam Gallagher who had headbutted a fan after he asked for his picture. Great quote, excellent show. ------------- there's another one that i vaguely remember from many moons ago in melbourne i think. Ed was wearing a t-shirt with 'NW' on it, & he started coming up with all these things that 'NW' stood for. here are a few :- - Nobby Weeny - Niggers With Attitude - Naughty Wife - No Worries - Numbscull security guards beating up the fuckin kids when it is them that is paying their fuckin salary! something like that anyway. there were heaps more as well. maybe one of you guys has got a better memory than me. ------------- "Ah, this song, I don't think you've ever heard it before - it's a new song, but it was written a long time ago - it's dedicated to the bastard that married my momma" *Ed strikes the first notes of a new song called better man* ___________ Numscull macho meathead security personnel roughing up kids..young men and women..throwing them out for no reason when ultimately its THE FANS THAT ARE PAYING the security guards salary..right?..these guys have been good..these are all new guys..we're talking about last night..we got the guys from last night THE FUCK OUT of here..as long as I have the whole country listening I might as well say that they said "what are you talking about problems us beating kids up that's our usual policy..we got the best security bunch in the country..in all of australia..we've just been to perth, adelaide, sydney with 32,000 fuckin ppl..." - phew I remember that quote off by heart..my wife laffs when i read it out http://www.pearljamnetwork.com/quotes/index.shtml

BACK 2 index