I was reading about Courtney Love, for the simple reason that I had a lot of hate in me today and thought she'd be a good person to let me get it out on and I read something about a Rolling Stone article from like '98 called "Inventing Eddie Vedder" that supposedly somewhat of a hatchet job to Ed, but I couldn't find it online. Anyone?

I was surprised when she did that after hearing a bootleg where she told someone in the audience to "go fuck yourself with Eddie Vedder's dildo". Maybe she lightened up.

I saw a video where she threatened to have some guy in the pit thrown out for wearing a Pearl Jam tee shirt, she made him take it off and then she took it. Funny since apparently she covered Jeremy recently she's such a bitch.

Anyways I think the article was totally unrelated to her, it just popped up on a google search. In fact I think she was against it for some reason by "hatchet job", I mean it was supposedly a total anti-Eddie article.

It's Courtney related because the next month Rolling Stone printed a letter she wrote, condemning them for the article and sticking up for Ed.

Her drama is OLD.


I cant think of anyone she hasnt bashed.


I think Gwen Stephani did a fairly good job making a ton of cash off of Holleback Girl.

I should have told Kurt not to marry her the day I saw him sittin on the bench.



lol

Here's the original article about Eddie: http://www.freewebs.com/pearljamstudy/1 ... newhoy.htm

The only information I can find about Love and Stipe's response letters comes from an MTV.com article:

Love Blasts "Rolling Stone"

Jan. 6 [14:00 EST] -- In a letter published in the January 23 issue of "Rolling Stone," Courtney Love takes the magazine to task for what she calls "a brutal press rape" of Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder.

Love and R.E.M. mouthpiece Michael Stipe (who also has a letter printed in the issue) became the latest artists to rush to Vedder's defense after the magazine's infamous cover story about the singer. Some feel the magazine's Vedder piece (compiled without the singer's input) portrayed him as a manipulative, fame-hungry performer.

Love's brief, venomous missive praises Vedder for battling Ticketmaster, and then draws a parallel between the reclusive frontman and Abraham Lincoln. The Hole singer, and budding actress, even took the opportunity to flame the magazine for a piece on the "crisis" of female rock stars entering parenthood, saying, "truly enlightening... I forgot that male musicians don¹t procreate." After lambasting "Rolling Stone," Love closed her letter with, "Corporate magazines still suck."

In his letter, Stipe asks, "Limbo, limbo, limbo. How low can we go?" before summarizing, "Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, and the readers of 'Rolling Stone' deserve better."

Of the controversial cover story, "Rolling Stone" reports that it stands by the reporters involved and the facts presented.

Link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/143012 ... tone.jhtml

Remember when she asked why couldn't it have been Eddie Vedder that died after Cobain killed himself?

Remember how she was a fucking crackhead?

Was?

I have to say, I'm not much of a name dropper, but I did get to meet and briefly speak with Francis Bean. And I was oddly attracted to her. She's gorgeous, in a fucked up way. A funny in an uncomfortable way. But I really dug her.

Should I see someone about that? Like a shrink, I mean?

No. You should have done her in the butt.

It talked about how popular he was as a kid and how he made up this brooding image. I was happy to just have Rolling Stone with a cover story about Vedder

He talks directly about the article on the US 1996 tour.

I'm pretty sure i read a more recent article where they pretty much apologised for the article, or said the writer had a vendetta against ed lol.



It was a pretty dumb article from what i remember, it basically said he was popular at school when he was younger therefore he couldn't actually be as miserable as he looked.

I can never decide whether i find courtney love entertaining or sad.

Yeah, it's an interesting story to read from a journalism perspective. If you pull out all the quotes from it, there's nothing really surprising or new there. It's all in the way the writer slanted it.

He knew the music business and worked hard to promote Bad Radio--therefore he must be full of shit when Pearl Jam suddenly goes multi-platinum. As if trying to get your shitty local band a gig in a local club is equivalent to wanting to be (and being prepared to be) Mick Jagger.

All the stuff about his school experience is comical, too. And then there's that opening paragraph where he makes it seem like everyone in the band is depressed and at the show against their will.

The most interesting part of that article to me is the Ticketmaster discussion. I know tickets were screwed up, but was their boycott really so unpopular? Why would anyone have so much negative to say about it?

Wow, I just finished reading that article... that was fucking cold... Eddie must have really pissed that guy off somehow. Pretty sure that's why there are songs like Corduroy, Animal, and Not For You

I was totally gonna give Courtney Love credit for sticking up for Eddie but ya know, she killed Kurt Cobain, so I don't think I'm gonna.

And the best thing Frances Bean was even involved in was Maynard James Keenan's "FREE FRANCES BEAN" tee-shirts