Eddie Vedder 1993-09 Los Angeles, CA (Uncut Interview)

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Complete interview from September 1993

[@caesar349]

“Eddie, you don’t have to do the interview” - Bill Burr

[@carlos66965]

To be fair Bill Burr is a poor mans George Carlin.

[@jimclawley9117]

😂😂😂

[@michaeldodd3563]

Bill Burr brought me here.

[@generalleestoned2238]

lol, me too

[@opeth88]

What's the video called

[@michaeldodd3563]

@@opeth88 I think it was his yet to be acclaimed tour of Boston. Either part 1 or 2

[@BobbyNewb]

Likewise, lol, but Billy Numbnuts exaggerated a little. Still funny, though.

[@clacclackerson3678]

@@michaeldodd3563 Bill's tour of Santa Monica.

[@fuferito]

"He looks like Superman sitting next to kryptonite." -Bill Burr

[@softbatch1]

LOL, Bill Burr "I don't know, I kinda like Whitesnake!".

[@robertraymond762]

That's exactly why I'm here, too. Haha

[@TheNutzopants]

@@robertraymond762 me too~!

[@eatnosenuggets]

I've never watched a video that smelled like beer before. Well done.

[@kdr3619]

If he's actually drunk all those bottles on the table ... he's one coherent drunk! It's bloody impressive.

[@ipi223]

no other word Eddie! :P

[@oceansjenny]

Poor Eddie. No one should be asked to be interviewed when that drunk / tired.

[@MolotovQc]

Still many time its the best video type

[@danifranca95]

When he‘s drunk, he seems like he‘s sick, old, vulnerable or something like that, and this light seems so intimidating, such an interrogatory... x_x

[@simonedevlin7710]

It takes courage to make a video when you are "Comfortably Numb" yet extremely coherent, logical and polite with the interviewer who should have known better than to choose that moment to film. No matter how much someone tries to compromise you, inner truth and beauty rule.

[@NotAfraid280]

This is clearly stated to make him seem edgy lol

[@emell7025]

This guy makes Kurt look like a model interviewee.

[@texmom4697]

em el

[@tremorchristlester4688]

Homeboy is wasted lol. This also was a time where PJ was feeling the pressure of fame and the Industry, tensions were at high and the group damn near broke up.

[@mottahead6464]

Apparently there was no attempt to hide all those empty bottles or not to show those droopy eyes. And he seems pretty articulate to me even though he's clearly drunk. Kept some wits to him despite all the alcohol ingested.

[@sheldon6248]

Summer of 1993 San Diego 7:30am surfing and who do I paddle out to? Eddie Vedder was surfing same spot and I paddle out and last person I expected to see wave and smile at me would be Eddie lol. I had an out of body experience for a micro second then sat on my board about 15 feet away and Eddie ask how my morning was going and I did the same. He said he was on a little get away from his hectic schedule. I acted like I was cool about who I was talking to but had to say how much I love his bands music and thanked him for his honesty in his lyrics. He grinned and says hmmm honesty in my lyrics?! Interesting comment. He just smiles as he started paddling into a wave and says stay tuned in!! I've been a diehard fan from day one as I was a huge mother love bone fan. I've seen pearl jam 26 times on 3 different continents in 11 different countries. I'm hooked!! Haven't seen Ed out surfing since that day but I still surf the same beaches all these years later🤙🏄

[@megenthal]

there's something about sd beaches...

[@sheldon6248]

I love surfing SD but also north too. Going to PJ concert Tues in LA 😁👍 So Stoked!!

[@TapePlayer]

Jesus, just let him sleep it off then do the interview. "Worlds most awkward interview" finalist right here

[@sadieadler3065]

Poor Eddie. He tried lmao. I would hate to know this footage is still kicking around the internet if I were him

[@Keegæn]

Get the damn flashlight out his face😭

[@draganapasti_]

Eddiir is ća wprk of art I can't live without. Stunningly wise & gifted man. His remarkable sense for art simply shines out in every single verse of his lyrics...Love so much his open minded direct approach. His enormous love for music and creating. One is Eddie Vedder 🌹♥️

[@nemobard]

That last bit where he says 'I dont want to insult you by saying that's a stupid question' sums up this whole interview nicely. I feel so bad for Vedder. He's already so camera shy and then to have to deal with this idiocy. He looks so tired, they couldnt wait till the next morning? These people are vultures. Vedder made perfect sense to me, though, whatever he said.

[@laurawatters914]

Oh my goodness people leave him alone!!!!! He's a wonderful human being, he's just been drinking exactly ask Mark.

[@virginiaknighten4687]

“Ambush somebody.” Feels like Eddie was ambushed. The interviewer is a tool.

[@kathrineckardt2869]

Gosh, why do journalists publish sth. like that? Shame on the one who leaked the video. Hail to PJ who did not give any interviews anymore. Right thing to do. Let them do music, that is their job and passion. Holy this makes me angry. Incapable journalist whose claim to fame was to force an interview upon a musician, to drain some money out of it.

[@justingardner4658]

Why didn't he just interview "Mark"??? No wonder he went into exile around this time.

[@oceansjenny]

Justin Gardner seriously. All this interviewer cares about is the Jeremy video. Sheesh.

[@SpanishGoddessDiamond]

Poor baby he clearly isn't feeling well but still managed to do awesome interview... I honestly don't give shit how drunk or not drunk he is I love everything about him and massive respect him and to the idiot who said he use to be pure well HE STILL IS !!! Beautiful amazing guy he is and that is final!!!!!!

[@ellensecondlife9704]

He is pure😍

[@alenaM7210]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sillynelson1]

He's so hammered lmao

[@lizosaurusrex]

Poor kid. The pressure he was under at that time. It worked out for him in the end though. Personal losses aside...

[@sketchyold]

Lmao 😂 BS

[@mgr741]

Bill Burrs youtube-video on 90s rock brought me here...and Bill is spot on!

[@killiankiid]

Eddie always got butterfly’s with his thoughts

[@megannbee_]

eddie rlly blanked on “guerrilla warfare”

[@Ezrocker000]

Let the man rest XD

[@kanagawa2008]

I remember the days when I could drink that many beers. Sadly no longer.

[@Gunngirl]

All those beer bottles! I’m dying 😂

[@virginiaknighten4687]

And a wine bottle!

[@christopherbuckley7922]

Performance art. Looking back on this time period, I have such strange feelings about how Vedder and the band presented themselves publicly. Glad they grew up.

[@caesar349]

Indeed. I remember this era vividly and watching Eddie like this in interviews etc and being like “why the hell is he acting like this. So forced”. So I’m glad he evolved soon after

[@christopherbuckley7922]

@@caesar349 SOOOOO many myths about Vedder that got pushed in the early 1990s. Same with Kurt Cobain. A fair amount of it was just absolute bullshit.

[@Casherr93]

I mean it looks that 93 was a hell of a year for ed compared to 1992 or 1991, just how he looks

[@sketchyold]

Agreed. He was acting a part and creating a “tortured” persona. It’s complete unnatural and overwrought. The rest of the band seemed to be far more natural.

[@livliv1567]

People who took this kind of interviews have a lot on their consciousness. Some blood on their hands too,. Luckily, Ed had enough self preservation instinct, many others didn't.

[@katherinefarris-stanley4710]

Thank you I need to think ❤️

[@jonnies]

Bill Burr: "Eddie, you don't have to do the interview. You can just say 'Im suffering from exhaustion' and everyone will think you have a coke problem but who gives a f."

[@laynethomasstaley1698]

Wow😂😂 some things he said didn’t really make sense at all😂 He forgot shit😂😂

[@chrishansing1258]

Obviously they are not all of his bottles come on now 30 years later watching g this 😊

[@loretovallejos4871]

Quiero tomarme una cerveza con él... amo su contorneo al hablar y como van apareciendo sus pensamientos hablados. Love You Ed!!! 4ever

[@shelly9661]

Hi Sweetie 😘 handsome 😍 Smitten. Keep sakes forever

[@ellensecondlife9704]

Beautiful and pure smile.😍

[@rebelflower7339]

OMG, did he knock back all those beers 🍻 by himself? That's very impressive. 👏 #turnup

[@ellensecondlife9704]

I don't think he drank them all😁

[@melaniegrigonis1932]

Interviewer clearly trying to set up Eddie here- just cruel. and he held his own.

[@lisaspencer475]

Love this human. The interview is so pure. Just like Eddie used to be.

[@Luvie1980]

He still is human. Wtf are you on about?

[@katherinefarris-stanley4710]

We are the same in so many ways

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Edward Louis Severson III, más conocido como Eddie Vedder (Evanston, Illinois, 23 de diciembre de 1964), es un músico estadounidense, principalmente conocido por ser el cantante, líder y uno de los tres guitarristas del grupo estadounidense de grunge Pearl Jam. 59 AÑOS. (60)

[@what1864]

is that you jim morrison ? could you imagine having to edit that for tv ?

[@ChrisTrabantProject]

Eddie had a few beers!

[@diogopinto9462]

Drunk Eddie

[@katherinefarris-stanley4710]

❤️

[@maryluvscakes1]

Aw such a hottie! I love Eddie!!

[@joshuafult84]

Lmao at the Booker T mention

[@AmericanTestConstitution]

I don't think Eddie does any drugs or alcohol.

[@VicM-xc9zb]

He drinks wine.. alot.

[@DulcileneAparecida-m5k]

Amor vc demais 💯 seu lindo kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk eu e meu irmão giba eo professor Marcos curtimos muito 1994 muito bom música maravilhosa 💋 saudades lindo Eddie até bêbado e lindo demais 💯 maravilhoso demais 💯

[@rendajameilia]

Oh my he's wasted! 😕

[@rvpstudioscanada3991]

Man.. that guy is *THIRSTY!*

[@debonaire_nerd]

This is that interview that Bill Burr was ragging on Eddie for lol AAAAWWWW GEEEZUSH

[@jasonclarkston2893]

Jesus Christ....Guerilla Warfare....I'm pretty sure thats it.

[@denisethorbjornsen7493]

Perhaps the pressure of performing all the time he needed to relax

[@DulcileneAparecida-m5k]

😂 até bebo do é muito gato de mais kkkkkkkk 🤪

[@Dawne]

Whispering paths...........

[@ChrisTrabantProject]

Had enough beers Eddie?

[@jadynberhardt9151]

His drunk voice sounds a lot like Rami Malek in some areas. Maybe it's just me?

[@erikl6988]

Bill Burr brought us all here

[@DulcileneAparecida-m5k]

Que louco kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Eddie nem me chamou kkkkkkkkkkkk bebeu todas e nem chamou kkkkkkkkkkkk 😭

[@killiankiid]

4:49 what are they doing with lights 😂😂

[@virginiaknighten4687]

Eddie reminds me of John Lennon...the jacket...the long rambling dialogue...

[@cynthialittle5759]

10:10 pst genius 337 not a high opinion of his self around 333ish

[@joshuafult84]

11:17

[@jimclawley9117]

I love Pearl Jam but you wouldn’t go for a beer with him would you. Doesn’t seem like you could have a laugh and chat shit

[@ramonalvarado9503]

His face so small... big hands.

[@conorstephenson6397]

Does this whole drunken persona thing he’s doing seem a wee bit desperate to come across as a ‘troubled artist’ to you guys?

[@virginiaknighten4687]

I can’t say that I’ve thought that...

[@juliakadovideos264]

I don’t think the drunken thing is a persona hahah look at all those bottles! But he did have an angsty vibe around 93-94 that I think he played up on!

[@dooley8746]

Nope, because he really was troubled around this time. You just need more context. What's interesting about the video is it's an mtv interview where he's talking about the band's issues with mtv. Maybe they should have canceled the interview because he had been drinking, they talked about canceling it, but they went ahead with it because he seemed to be making sense. But then they also show the beer bottles. I'd love to hear from the interviewer and cameraman about who's side they were on during the talks. Their music dealt with some pretty heavy stuff that hit very close to home for the band. Their video for Jeremy was meant to make a major statement, but it also faced a lot of backlash and Mtv eventually edited the video for younger audiences (which essentially negated the whole statement/left out info Eddie felt pertinent from the story that inspired the video). Part of him totally understood the concerns that prompted the edit, but the edited video also altered the entire communication and he didn't want the edited video to air. It made him very hesitant to make more videos going forward. I'll try to give you an example so you can see his point of view. Let's say you shot a man who was actively physically attacking you, that's self defense. But when the news runs the story, they leave out the context and just say you shot a man. How the general public deals with you from here on out will be drastically different than if the full story is told. You'd be pretty upset the full story isn't told, right? Or if the news reported that a man was shot, no context given. The people of the city might go on a witch hunt looking for whoever shot him, not realizing it was a justified shooting. That would be a pretty dangerous situation as well. Different scenario but the concept is similar. Eddie made the video thinking it would only air at night, but mtv was so excited to have a new Pearl jam video they went ahead and aired it right as children got home from school and didn't disclose that Eddie never intended it to run during the day, making Pearl Jam look real bad to the public. Then the mtv-edited video made it clear the kid in the video died, but not that he shot himself. How was that less traumatizing to young audiences than knowing he committed suicide? Or not airing it while children are awake at all? And it's about a real story that happened, that a news channel could talk about freely during the same time slot, but mtv got in trouble for showing a video depicting the shooting. If young audiences are too immature to handle the video, then don't run the video or at least run it late at night like the band intended. The edit didn't make it better for the kids. Should the news be only on at night? The news described the incident that inspired the video when it happened and kids are allowed to watch the news... Sometimes artists really are troubled. I suppose he could have chose to not care about kids or that people thought he set out to traumatize children, but he did care. He wasn't faking being troubled. Right before this interview, he was also being pressured by the label to make more music videos, but no guarantee had been established yet that his videos would air as submitted (or that younger audiences were actually being considered), and mtv still hadn't disclosed that they never intended for the video to air during the day, so in this interview he was arguing he shouldn't have to make any more videos given what happened. He actually expressed himself very coherently, and it was a good productive conversation at the time of filming. I would guess all those bottles were from the entire band and maybe even several bands, and that he wasn't very inebriated. Pearl Jam did end up making more music videos, but only used video concepts that would be allowed to air during any time slot for future videos - never fully trusting mtv again. I find this interview very interesting, the band was right in the middle of the Jeremy video being a scandal and weren't perceived kindly by the public.

[@stallion427]

He seems full of himself, your just a musician gived a break

[@--thatbih]

Lol the early '90s when being edgy was cool

[@allthingshorrorrelated]

I feel sorry for Ed in a way, cos during this era the media made the tortured artist a thing to live up to, and poor Ed fell for it hook and sinker. Shame cos he seems like a fun, happy guy, but he had to hide that cos it was not cool to be happy and fun during that stupid grunge period. You had to be serious and boring. What a pretentious time.

[@dgilbertson10]

Look up behind the scenes vids with Layne Staley. He was energetic and fun on camera. It wasn't all doom and gloom.

[@toddrichardson8595]

It was NOT a pretentious time... I was in high school and Pearl Jam was the one Band that was going against the grain and they could've been much bigger than they were had they chosen to chase all of the fame.... This was some of the absolute best years to live!

[@Casherr93]

​@@dgilbertson10 that was 1991 and early 1992

[@megenthal]

agreed about pearl jam,. but nirvana made every interview a joke -- contrary to popular opinion they didnt take themselves too seriously.

[@38calibercoffee]

Eddie Vedder is about as deep as a kiddie pool.

[@dkm4567]

Yet, here you are.

[@sketchyold]

@@dkm4567Why not? His phoniness is entertaining.

[@sketchyold]

He’s a fecking poseur phony. He’s the poster boy of passive aggressive pretension.

[@alenaM7210]

horrible

[@josh-rz3uq]

He's trying so, so hard to portray himself as the stereotypical tortured artist. Pearl Jam was the phoniest band of the 90s.

[@zepps88]

You have no clue what you're talking about. Kurt, Layne, Chris, and Scott didn't kill themselves because they were pretending to be tortured artists. They were middle class kids in hometown bands who were shoved into the limelight and that takes a toll on a person. 1993 was the worst year for Pearl Jam. You have no idea how much pressure Eddie was under during this time.

[@ButtHill420]

josh no, Counting Crows were

[@dailytimes6787]

josh he was an orphan that was raised by foster parents lol

[@josh-rz3uq]

@@dailytimes6787 No he wasn't.

[@dailytimes6787]

josh yeah but he could have been

[@birdo623]

Sit up like an adult, Eddie!

[@BlackKettleRanch]

This is nauseating. And this guy feels entitled to lead people through legislation and tell them how to raise their kids.

[@rosalinacv1996]

Tina Huston 😒

[@cyrodiil6362]

Eddie’s changed a lot in the past 25 years.

[@askledhead]

I'm curious what is nauseating , do you also think that the men who founded our own nation wore makeup and wigs and who also had pistol duels , that kidnapped , beat , tortured and sold other human beings nauseating .✌

[@leighness1988]

I think he's smashed. And everyone feels entitled when they are drunk.

[@erynstuebgen5228]

People are always asking influential artists what they think about legislation and social issues, and then they get mad when the artists answer. Anyone with enough airtime will be asked to comment on these things, and anyone with as much influence as these guys will be tormented about what their followers will take away from the things they say in answer. Social commentary is unavoidable when it comes to fame. And your opinions stated in comments on KZbin can be criticized just as harshly thanks to social media. Now you know how it feels to have someone say your opinions are nauseating. You're welcome.

[@newperson9662]

The most pretentious and fake guy in rock

[@deemarlin]

HE is sooo trying to sound like someone can you guess??? HE IS IN HEAVEN SOUNDGARDEN HINT HINT ED has no way to think for himself

[@deemarlin]

FAKE FAKE FAKE

[@Julieroo28]

Why are you screaming about an interview that was 30 years ago? 😂

[@sketchyold]

@@Julieroo28Because he’s a fake. He’s like an actor who really pulled one over by depicting himself as tortured and eccentric. He wasn’t even a part of the original “Seattle Scene.” 😂 And he was a popular kid in high school who was all into drama. No kidding? He certainly made a killing playing a part thanks to his band. Too bad Andrew Wood died, because he was a superior front man and MLB was a superior band.

[@Julieroo28]

@@sketchyold I would say Ed is still eccentric. And I also think he didn’t take instant fame well. Andrew Wood was not very good. MLB wouldn’t have lasted.