Red Mosquito

Reni13 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:04 am

do u remember RED MOSQUITO...well,i heared that ed wrote it in a hospetal because he was sick by food poison.whats the real story

Hallucination · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:10 am

Yep, was the same reason he had to pull out of a gig and Niel Young took over (how he was in the right place at the right time I don't know!) The line "I was not allowed to leave the room" is interesting, wonder if it was so serious he had to be isolated?

Reni13 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:16 am

i know that when nail showd up the people didnt like him and thy did like "BOOO"i think that the line "i was bitten, must have been the devil"
is about when he was sick

Jake · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:15 pm

what a crafty song.

lukin321 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:21 pm

Holy shit. I have been listening to this song for 8 years now and I dont think i ever once stopped to think about wha it meant. Wow. :shock:

Mickey · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:26 pm

lukin321 wrote:

Holy shit. I have been listening to this song for 8 years now and I dont think i ever once stopped to think about wha it meant. Wow. :shock:

jeremyvedder · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:09 am

Best pearl jam song ever.

except for tremor christ

decks · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:20 am **Posts:** 9

i always got a different meaning out of this:

i always thought it was about fears, and the fears in this song are represented by a metaphorical vampire (2 opunctures in your neck, AND hovering right outside your room) and how someone can run from those fears until they catch up with you. then i thought the lines "if i had knownk now what i know now" were the after affects of facing those fears and having seen that they werent that bad and you should have faced them in the begginning. dont know if that makes sense to you all, im real drunk.

jeremyvedder · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:37 am

I think its about being kurt cobain and his heroin problems

present tense · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:55 am

I always thought it was about addiction of some sort, but i've heard that story too.
(I love how PJ songs are open to more than one interpretation

)

fitzy · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:06 pm

I thought it was about a bug bite

McParadigm · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:07 pm **Posts:** 12393

It's clearly about the symbiotic nature of America's debt with China and China's need to sell products to America, and how that relationship can neither survive forever nor become something that either party can either escape.

That, or sex.

cjmst3k · **Joined:** Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:49 pm **Posts:** 260

i thought it was about werewolves...

fitzy · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:51 pm

cjmst3k wrote:

i thought it was about werewolves...

I got nothing......

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:41 pm

I heard it was ed had dabbled a little bit himself the night before & was really violently sick as a result..more plausable than a rotten tuna sandwich...

PeopleMyAge · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:52 pm

jeremyvedder wrote:

I think its about being kurt cobain and his heroin problems

no, you're thinking about alice in chains. it's their songs that are all about heroin. every single one of them. yes, even rooster.

Riot Actor 25 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:48 am

How long has it been since this made a setlist somewhere? Seems like it dropped off the edge of the earth.

PeopleMyAge · **Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:03 am

Riot Actor 25 wrote:

How long has it been since this made a setlist somewhere? Seems like it dropped off the edge of the earth.

i know for a fact it was played at columbia from this past tour cause i was there. other than that i don't know.

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:13 am

for me it's like Nothing as it seems live, you don't think you're gonna enjoy it but then its really great...

dissident27 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:27 am

I never listen to the studio version, but this is one of their best live songs by far.

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