eleftherotypia is the biggest greek political newspaper and today pearl jam had a full page article entitled "antiwar pearl jam"..

in brief it mentioned that pj are against war and bush,that they are coming in Greece,that their new album has several antiwar songs,that their records have sold more than 65 million copies and that the tickets for their concerts last only a few days....





http://www.eleftherotypia.gr (it's not there,just the site)

if you're feeling ambitious later can you transcribe it?

oh stip,y r u doing this to me?

*minutes

i'm working on it..



http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=113,id=57408588

Anti-wary Pearl Jam


American rockers, opposite in the aggressive drawings of Bush, circulating new album and come in Athens in September..


“Exist a lot of rage and confusion in atmosphere these days” says Ed Vedder, guitarist and singer of Pearl Jam. “We did not want to be whiners in seasons of fatalism, but we wished we do something creative. It is time to raise our voice. As an example, money from american citizens are being spent for the war but via multinational companies - one from which directed the vice-president Dick Cheney- while the shear between the privileged and poor opens always more a lot”.

President Bush draw the next war in Iran and Pearl Jam, the veterans of scene of Seattle answer with a new album and its forerunner song “World Wide Suicide”, for a culture that is leading itself to self destuction. They start a european tour
which includes for the first time,Greece. The politicised Americans rockers will present itself on 30 September in OAKA sports arena.

After four years of silence, the band released the album “Pearl Jam” where “we took all our fears and we changed them in hope”, as the 40th year old vedder
describes it.Celebrating 15 years on the scene of rock n roll
the band returns with 13 songs,most of which dedicated to the
republican us government which has led the states to corruption
and keeps finding exit in wars. Thus exist “Marker In The Sand” for the complex situation in the Middle East, “Gone”, a requiem for the American dream, “Army Reserve”, a anti-wary anthem, or even “Comatose” where Vedder speaks for the political impasse to the USA. "we are like an old car and this album is our new engine" as they speak for themselves.

Turn of citizens

“World Wide Suicide” is played by the radios and Vedder, despite the complete sovereignty of Preservatives, speaks for turn of citizens to the USA. “If you see carefully the numbers in the war of Irak, who fights and who dies, if you see the balance-sheets of companies and from the other the forty five millions of persons in the country that they do not have insurance, you realise that is class the question. The government of Bush uses the spectacle of war only as distraction in the enormous social problems of USA”.this is why the new album is wild rock n roll that sends political messages in the delivery of scene the decade the Sixty. “The music becomes more important when has a aim”, explains [Benter]. “If it thinks no one of the season of “Rock Around The Clock” rock was vehicle for a protest. And today it is essential if you allocate voice opposed in Bush.”

Naturally Pearl Jam are stars of rock n roll that their albums have sold above sixty five millions copies, while the tickets for their concerts are disappearred in few days. they try to show reliable with their political attitude, offering money for charitable aims and helping new bands. “When we began we wanted to play music, to circulate album and to give concerts”, it says apologetically Vedder. “The explosion of publicity round our Seattle offered a lot more money than that we waited for. But we were not dazzled by lights of publicity, thus Pearl Jam they are not only the fame and the money but the process of creation, the communication, the music that to us keeps live”.

great article...

i dare to say that greece is where pearl jam belong

many bush-fans out there?