Eddie Vedder - Bad Radio 2/11/90

Heres Eddie Vedder from back in his Bad Radio years... what the funk is up!!

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• eddie
• vedder
• pearl
• jam
• bad
• radio

[oceansjenny]

haha wow I can't believe all the hate... I like these tracks I think they're cool! Hasn't anyone seen young kids starting in bands lately? I've been to shows where bands have just formed... they are pretty bad. I could watch this all day. :) You can't start out amazing people!! I guess no one knows what its like to be early 20s anymore... Bad Radio rocks! ;)

[pachakutek]

Good find.... I'm a PJ diehard, but you have to accept these were Eddie's early, very funky?, days. We all have to start somewhere. You could see some potential though... Funk was big in that San Diego scene those days... some like RHCP never grew completely out of it, which is good in their way. Glad Eddie found Stone, Mike and Jeff... (or the other way around)..

[spearleaf]

This is so fucking silly.

[Ekyvvsaq]

@sdp026 Vs and Vitalogy is pretty punk. also "trendy grungewear" was trendy and was called grungewear BECAUSE Pearl Jam wore it. Pearl Jam sound grunge, ok. Even Ten, its dark and slow and had sludgy guitars and lengthy vocals and that was something that was really different from the rock music in the 80s

[RandomInOcity]

Crazzy Eddie!!XD

[LantaGem]

@sdp026 People also tend to believe Neil Young was a big influence on grunge because Kurt Cobain cited a line from one of Young's songs in his suicide note. However, it is just as likely that Kurt was quoting from a Queen song that uses the same line, as he was a big Queen fan apparently.

Either way, Young has always displayed a 'no frills' do-it-yourself attitude to his music which is similar to the ethos behind punk, garage and grunge, so yeah...

[LantaGem]

@sdp026 I think even PJ have (mostly) acknowledged the truth of your statement. But I think you're generalising a little.

Don't forget, it was the music press who first pidgeonholed them into the grunge genre, not PJ themselves. Also, Eddie at least was already wearing 'grungey' anti-fashion clothing and had definitely been influenced by various punk/alt/indie bands of the 70s and early 80s during his formative years.

[sdp026]

@Ekyvvsaq

You don't get my point. Pearl Jam's music was never really grunge - grunge was a form of sludgy punk rock, and PJ showed zero punk influence until later. They got labeled as grunge only because they wore trendy grungewear. Until "Vitalogy" came out, PJ just sounded like 70s radio rock - but since they were the most popular band to dress grungey and they were obviously heavily influenced by Neil Young, people mistakenly got the idea that Neil Young had something to do with grunge.

[Ekyvvsaq]

@sdp026 That would not be true. If you cannot see the influence of Neil Youngs Rockin in the Free World or Hey Hey My My on the grunge scene, thats too bad. Also he was one of the first musicians to actually get respect for being different wich was very "grunge". And Eddies future bandmates was sure dressing pretty glam, but so Green River did, also Kurt Cobain was wearing make-up and shiny jackets, they were not serious about the outfit.

[troglodyte01]

Did they ever find out what the funk was up?

[mlapadula]

@joeyponch : Trippy! I was at this concert with Eddie's mom and little brother. I think his girlfriend (Beth?) was there. I can clearly remember this exact song over 20 years ago. Of course, we had no idea what he would become. I remember meeting you too. I was about 16 at the time so the whole night was really cool for me.

[sdp026]

Also, this "Neil Young was the godfather of grunge" shit is nonsense. The only reason people ever said that was because Pearl Jam were the biggest corporate grunge band and were heavily influenced by Neil. Greg Ginn of Black Flag was the real godfather of grunge. When "My War" came out, the underground took his lead and started mixing sludge metal and hard rock with punk rock.