this guys comes off like an ass. i dont think he knows that much about pearl jam. ed punching people? HTI influenced by the grateful dead? whatever. its like, "hey we need a piece on the pj shows here in town, just make it sound like you have been to a lot of shows.


http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/2008_06_29_Pearl_Jam_rocks_perfect_storm_of_restraint__trademark_angst/srvc=home&position=recent

didnt ed get arrested for punching someone?

On November 19, two weeks into Pearl Jam's U.S. tour, Eddie was arrested in New Orleans on charges of public drunkenness after a bar room brawl. At around four in the morning, after the first of Pearl Jam's three sell-out shows at the Lake Front Arena, Eddie was drinking in a bar on Decataur Street in the city's French Quarter with members of support band Urge Overkill and Jack McDowall, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, Urge's local baseball team.

Eddie was allegedly involved in an altercation with a local resident, James Gorman. After a frank exchange of opinions, Eddie reportedly spat in Gorman's face. A full-scale fist-fight erupted, the fracas spilling onto the street. In the chaos that followed, Eddie was said to have knocked Gorman unconscious, while McDowall was flattened by a bouncer from the nearby Blue Crystal Nightclub. When the police arrived, they arrested Eddie. "And I didn't do SHIT!" Eddie explodes when I bring up the incident. "What happened," he says, "was that in New Orleans, somebody did something I didn't like and I spit in their face. And now there's a three million dollar lawsuit. That's fuckin' bullshit. It was like, I was thinking, 'Would I take this off this guy if I was just fuckin' anybody?'" And I thought, 'No, I fuckin' wouldn't.'"

Trying to get the story straight, I ask Eddie if he's talking about James Gorman here. "I don't know his fuckin' name," Eddie says testily enough to make me wish I'd never asked. So what happened? "I must have talked to, like, two dozen people that night in that bar and the names of 20 of them ended up on my cocktail napkin plus one for the guest list to our next show. And as far as I remember I talked to this guy for a while.

"You know," he says suddenly, interrupting himself, "I'm not supposed to even talk about this because it's still in litigation. But fuck that, man. Fuck it. I didn't do shit. I was with Blackie and Ed from Urge. I talked to this guy for a while and we tried to walk on. But this guy, he wouldn't let it go. He still had to have more. He still had to cover some more points. And Blackie says, 'Look, man, just mellow out, we're going, you know...' And this guy's going, 'No, no. I got to say one more thing, we gotta talk...,' and finally I kinda held him against the wall," he says, his voice dropping to a slow emphatic whisper, "I... spit... in... his... face. Big fuckin' deal. Anyway, then all hell broke loose. But I never threw a punch. Thank goodness. Because -- who knows? -- I could really have hurt him. Because that's when I realized, you know, that my friend was hurt. He fell into the bumper of a Jeep on the street there. So there's this guy, a talented and well-respected friend of mine who's lying on the ground unconscious because of this little dick who's saying to me, 'You're not my Messiah, you're not my Messiah...' and I'm going, 'That's what I was trying to tell you, man. That's what I was trying to tell you. I'm not your fuckin' Messiah.'

http://www.freewebs.com/pearljamstudy/5 ... rimnot.htm

this is my favorite part. ed's no angel, he's just a regular dude like anyone else.

except he can sing like god

i was not aware of that. i have heard the line "not your fuckin messiah" though

back in the day there were 2 bootlegs titled "no fuckin messiah" i think the titles came from this interview. the boots are kinda legendary, or at least they used to be

yeah i remember seeing those at indie record stores. my, how times have changed.

lots of those old boots are still available at the stores in greenwich village

are they still $50?

the most expensive one's i've seen there are $40 for a double...plenty of used ones for
$10 or so