Pearl Jam Frontman Goes on Violent Tirade About Gun Owners (Explicit Video)

[donnay]

Peal Jam Frontman Goes on Violent Tirade About Gun Owners (Explicit Video)

The following is a transcript and video from a recent interview between Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and surfer Mark Richards:

EDDIE VEDDER, PEARL JAM: You know, this day and age, whether the world’s gone absolutely fucking crazy mad, I think in some ways you’re trying to provide even yourself some glimmer of hope. You know, the fact that we’re living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that’s happening, and yet there’s no further legislation taking place. It’s very frustrating and upsetting. And if I didn’t have music to kind of at least get some of the aggression out or take the edge off, I think that you wouldn’t want me having a gun either.

And it’s such a bizarre thing that issue too because, bottom line, they can talk about defending their home or it’s based in the Constitution when, you know, again, when that was put in the Constitution, you know, it took about three and a half minutes to load one pellet into a barrel with powder and the whole thing. So, you know, those laws are antiquated, and the fact that we have, you know, 30 bullet magazines and this, that, and the other thing. And really, the best argument that I can hear, or the one that they have outside of, you know, being in the Constitution is that it’s fun. It’s fun. And so is driving at night at 95 miles an hour.

I get so angry that I almost wish bad things upon these people. But I don’t have to because it seems like they happen anyways. It seems like every week I’m reading about a 4-year-old either shooting their sister, their dad, their dog, or their brother or themselves, because there’s fucking guns lying around. But I guess it’s fun.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHByTQbK5Q


Source:
http://intellihub.com/2013/10/14/peal-jam-frontman-goes-violent-tirade-gun-owners-explicit-video/

[Dr.3D]

Should rename the band to "Toe Jam."

[Anti Federalist]

I think that you wouldn’t want me having a gun either.

That's most of the hysterical anti gunners.

Projection, because they know their fits of rage and anger are danger.

Fuck him, Eddie Vedder was a douche back in the day as well.

[69360]

Washed up former rock star's opinion, why should I care about it?

[Elias Graves]

90%? Where does he get his numbers? Huffington?

[Elias Graves]

Besides, gun rights are "settled law." lol Passed, signed and upheld. Why are we even talking about this?

[Brian4Liberty]

That's most of the hysterical anti gunners.

Projection, because they know their fits of rage and anger are danger.

Fuck him, Eddie Vedder was a douche back in the day as well.

It's incredible how full of hate many of those on the left are. Guess it makes sense since they are generally emotion based.

And yes, once a douche, always a douche. They should gave kicked him out of the band after the first album.

[Uriel999]

Pearl Jam is an irrelevant band from the early 90s...who let him into the year 2013?

[donnay]

I wonder how many armed bodyguards does he have?

[A Son of Liberty]

Thanks, Eddie, for ruining my 90's.

Your political commentary is like your singing: unintelligible.

Should drugs be banned, too, Eddie? How about liquor? Maybe stupidity should be banned... then what would we do with you?

[Brian4Liberty]

90%? Where does he get his numbers? Huffington?

His bubble of an echo chamber, where everyone he interacts with kisses his whiny ass.

[bunklocoempire]

The guy is scared of the middle 8's -It's no wonder something like my rights are going to freak him out.


And it’s such a bizarre thing that issue too because, bottom line, they can talk about defending their home or it’s based in the Constitution when, you know, again, when that was put in the Constitution, you know, it took about three and a half minutes to load one pellet into a barrel with powder and the whole thing. So, you know, those laws are antiquated, and the fact that we have, you know, 30 bullet magazines and this, that, and the other thing.
Yeah Eddie, especially considering the bad guys still only use that antiquated stuff. Kudos to the baddies for showing some restraint with their weaponry.
I guess they do it for the kids?

What a bucket full of stupid.

[Cap]

Sigh* Ignorance sometimes has no bounds.

[Philhelm]

So, I take it that I will be able to enter his home unchallenged?

[Occam's Banana]

90%? Where does he get his numbers?

Same place he gets his Constitutional analysis skillz - out of his ass.

[Anti Federalist]

You know, the fact that we’re living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that’s happening, and yet there’s no further legislation taking place.

WHAT "insanity"?

Violent crime, cop killings and accidental shootings are at historic lows.

In fact, never before have the American people been so docile and compliant.

Far too much so, if you ask me.

[phill4paul]

Eddie Vedder's political bent is somehow current news? Meh, I'll still listen to Ten at eleven.

[Michael Landon]

The gun control supporters can have Vedder, I'll take Ice-T on my side any day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwIbyp4xBU


- ML

[ctiger2]

Surprise, another celebrity/artist reveals their ignorance.

[RM918]

I've long ago accepted that folks who's music I like (though with Pearl Jam it's been awhile) are typically politically against just about everything I believe in.

[jkr]

ONE
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...shut it

[aGameOfThrones]

It’s very frustrating and upsetting. And if I didn’t have music to kind of at least get some of the aggression out or take the edge off, I think that you wouldn’t want me having a gun either.


LOL. Extra police presence at their concerts, 'cause if his mic is cut off...

[Lucille]

I get so angry that I almost wish bad things upon these people. But I don’t have to because it seems like they happen anyways. It seems like every week I’m reading about a 4-year-old either shooting their sister, their dad, their dog, or their brother or themselves, because there’s fucking guns lying around.

And that pleases him. Lovely.


But I guess it’s fun.

Cops seem to think so.


That's most of the hysterical anti gunners.

Projection, because they know their fits of rage and anger are danger.

Exactly. Progs are most bloodthirsty and violent.

[jmdrake]

The gun control supporters can have Vedder, I'll take Ice-T on my side any day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwIbyp4xBU


- ML

And Ted Nugent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjOUD8f8aAQ

[FloralScent]

Josh Homme


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rFGFE54qY0

[heavenlyboy34]

Pearl Jam is an irrelevant band from the early 90s...who let him into the year 2013?
This^^ I bet most people either don't know who he is or don't remember him. Pearl Jam only had 1 or 2 albums that sold well, yes?

[Humanae Libertas]

No surprise he's been a liberal moron since the 90s. He even wrote an anti-gun song then mocking gun owners (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h93ce-oTi34). He was also buddies with Clinton and supported his war mongering.

[Brian4Liberty]

ONE
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...shut it

One good album where he didn't have any input on writing the music. All of the music was written before he joined the band. Once he had some say, it declined rapidly.

[CPUd]

I'm not really interested in his politics, but I think he's still a hell of a vocalist.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0En39L3Y3U4


Pearl Jam is still a great band- they've been playing over 20 years. If you remember back when they were playing arenas in the US, they tried to break Ticketmaster's monopoly over the business and started playing smaller venues. They still do big shows sometimes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgWG3clWlo

[Lucille]

This^^ I bet most people either don't know who he is or don't remember him. Pearl Jam only had 1 or 2 albums that sold well, yes?

That's why I could never understand this:

Pearl Jam Radio
Pearl Jam 24/7
http://www.siriusxm.com/pearljamradio

He is a great vocalist, but now I'll be inclined to change the station whenever I his slaver voice on the radio. (I own none of his music.)

[mczerone]

You know, this day and age, whether the world’s gone absolutely fucking crazy mad, I think in some ways you’re trying to provide even yourself some glimmer of hope.

The world IS absolutely crazy fucking mad, because everyone thinks it's okay, normal, moral to determine how others can live. To say what tools other people are permitted to use, to force everyone into socialist solutions that are compromised to the point where not even any socialists like them.


You know, the fact that we’re living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that’s happening, and yet there’s no further legislation taking place.

(1) your stat says a ton about the crowd you surround yourself with and the lack of investigation that you've done into the assertions that you use to justify your positions.

(2) So what if 90% wanted something? Might does not make right. 90% of people might want you to be banned from a recording studio ever again - are you just going to roll over and give in? Are you going to sympathize with people who are PISSED that you'd dare make a new record when so many people want you out of the business? Or are you going to exercise your rights to go in and make a damn album expressing your dislike of the red team? What if 90% of people wanted to limit what you could sing about? Would you let them, or would you stand up and say "I have rights, dammit!" Your right to speech is equivalent to your right to record an album, is equivalent to your right to make, buy, own, and rightfully use a gun.


It’s very frustrating and upsetting. And if I didn’t have music to kind of at least get some of the aggression out or take the edge off, I think that you wouldn’t want me having a gun either.

Angst, Frustration, Anger =/= Aggression. You don't have "built up aggression" - you have personal issues that music has helped you cope with. Aggression is what you do to other people without their consent. Like take away their goddammed guns.


And it’s such a bizarre thing that issue too because, bottom line, they can talk about defending their home or it’s based in the Constitution when, you know, again, when that was put in the Constitution, you know, it took about three and a half minutes to load one pellet into a barrel with powder and the whole thing.

(1) Strawmen. It's about property rights. It's about owning resources and being responsible for your actions. It's about not trusting a monopoly police force to defend you when you can't afford private security. It's about prying it from your cold, dead, hands.

(2) No rights are "based" in the Constitution. Rights exist (if at all) outside of the Constitution - it was merely written down to say "We're not going to violate these." If 90% of people want to violate this right, at least be honorable and play your little govt games to get an Amendment passed. Then at least we'll see who the real free men are, and those who'll just say "well, it's legal to take my guns now..."

(3) Yeah, And it took that long for the govt to load a single shot into a rifle, too. If anything this is an argument for less regulations, seeing as I can't legally own half of the crap that the police and military (but I repeat myself) use everyday.


So, you know, those laws are antiquated, and the fact that we have, you know, 30 bullet magazines and this, that, and the other thing. And really, the best argument that I can hear, or the one that they have outside of, you know, being in the Constitution is that it’s fun. It’s fun. And so is driving at night at 95 miles an hour.

Yeah, and one is inherently reckless and the other is as benign as owning a ladder, a 4-wheeler, or a razor blade. You walk around barrel-sweeping people, and that's just as reckless as driving 95 at night (on a populated road without headlights). That's perfectly fine to be actionable. But carrying a holstered weapon poses as much a threat to innocent bystanders as eating a peanut butter sandwich in the park (it could kill someone... 1 in a billion times). And it can actually prevent mass shootings! And deter theft!


I get so angry that I almost wish bad things upon these people. But I don’t have to because it seems like they happen anyways. It seems like every week I’m reading about a 4-year-old either shooting their sister, their dad, their dog, or their brother or themselves, because there’s fucking guns lying around. But I guess it’s fun.

Every week, huh? Are those new news stories, or are you so burned out that you just re-read the same anecdotal fodder over and over and over?

You do know that it's the COPS shooting kids, dogs, innocent mentally handicapped people, people having seizures, or THEMSELVES every week, right? And they get to have all the fun without any of that pesky liability that private gun owners know that they have.

I was going to put your new album on my iTunes' wishlist for when I have some media-cash, but I don't think that I am, now.

And it's not because you're anti-gun. It's because you are so passionate about something for which a high teenager could muster and deliver a better argument and because you are just an angry, bitter person that happens to have a marketable skill, much like Mel Gibson or Ted Nugent.

[Natural Citizen]

That's why I could never understand this:

Pearl Jam Radio
Pearl Jam 24/7
http://www.siriusxm.com/pearljamradio

He is a great vocalist, but now I'll be inclined to change the station whenever I his slaver voice on the radio. (I own none of his music.)

I think Pear Jam sucks, personally. Just part of the grunge fad that destroyed one of the best eras of positive energy/music which preceded it.

As far as the man's argument on the fact that it took a couple of minutes to load the musket, it should also be recalled that those they were pointing them at spent the same amount of time doing this. They had the same weapon. Muskets.

[Dr.3D]

And if I didn’t have music to kind of at least get some of the aggression out or take the edge off, I think that you wouldn’t want me having a gun either.

It's statements like that one that lead me to believe the reason these liberal people are worried about others having firearms is because they themselves feel they couldn't be trusted with one and thus they feel that nobody should be trusted with one.

[specsaregood]

It's statements like that one that lead me to believe the reason these liberal people are worried about others having firearms is because they themselves feel they couldn't be trusted with one and thus they feel that nobody should be trusted with one.

I trust you are not just now coming to this conclusion.

Edit: FTR, I've always thought pearl jam sucked. I remember driving my friends handmedown 1972 Eldorado with the awesome air suspension, cruising all slow and creeper like, yelling "hey sweet tits" to all the cute college girls. the music playing, slunk low in the seats, often partaking in some sweet leaf, and then pearl jam would come on and I'd change the effing channel. and my friends would say, "hey man, whyd you do that? that was pearl jam!" And I'd say, "that's why I did it." bitches.

[Prog Snob]

Sometimes musicians need to just shut up and be musicians. Let the politicians handle the politics. Eddie Vedder isn't in the position to be alienating fans with ignorant remarks. I find there to be so many celebrities that come off as hating this country and it's disgraceful.

[Dr.3D]

I trust you are not just now coming to this conclusion.

FTR, I've always thought pearl jam sucked. And not for this nonsense; but because their music annoyed me.
No, I've been watching them and they seem scared to death about what they might do if they had a firearm. I suspect they feel nobody should be trusted with a firearm if they know they can't be trusted with one.

[Flugel89]

No, I've been watching them and they seem scared to death about what they might do if they had a firearm. I suspect they feel nobody should be trusted with a firearm if they know they can't be trusted with one.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Most of the people Ive talked to that are anti-gun dont have a good temper.

[Dr.3D]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Most of the people Ive talked to that are anti-gun dont have a good temper.

Thanks for the evidence in support of my theory.
http://jarkesypolitical.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Projection1.png
Psychological Projection: Personality disorder Democrats suffer from the Most! (http://jarkesypolitical.com/2013/01/31/psychological-projection-personality-disorder-democrats-suffer-from-the-most/)

[Lucille]

Update: Pearl Jam Singer Stops Concert to Push Victim Disarmament
http://www.infowars.com/eddie-vedder-stops-pearl-jam-concert-to-push-for-gun-control/


Statement from Alex Jones: At the beginning of Vedder’s dopey and stuttering diatribe, the Pearl Jam frontman says that pro-gun Americans are trying to take his First Amendment by exercising our free speech to keep him and his drooling fans from taking our right to self defense.

Vedder, you are the perfect authoritarian progressive, dumber than a box of rocks, barely able to talk and blaming those of us that disagree with your victim disarmament push as trying to take your First Amendment away. That’s what authoritarians always do, accuse those they are enslaving of being the oppressors.

You and your armed body guards need to get this straight, you are the ones trying to take people’s rights. You are a hypocrite. Stop trying to deny the common man and woman the right to self defense that you enjoy with your army of armed attendants.
[...]
An appalled Infowars reader sent a YouTube clip of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taking a break during a recent concert to advocate gun control, citing the tragedy at Sandy Hook as justification for wanting to further infringe on the Second Amendment.

“I had the unfortunate experience of bearing witness to Ed Vedder piss on himself intellectually, advocating taking our guns,” the reader that sent us the video stated.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDUERnILQM&feature=player_embedded

Lots more at the link.

[satchelmcqueen]

and this is why i like megadeth.

seriously, eddie needs to leave if he feels so unsafe with people like me having guns. im better than him cause he just admitted to possible gun violence if he had one, without music to calm him.

[anaconda]

Vedder catching it from pro-Israeli faction:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/eddie-vedder-israel-comments_n_5594801.html

[anaconda]

Vedder was all in for Ralph Nader in 2000:

http://www.nyrock.com/features/2000/nader.asp

[COpatriot]

This is a band with a handful good songs among a heap of whiny horseshit and hasn't put out a really good album since 1991. This is par for the course for your average dumbass rock star though.

[anaconda]

This is a band with a handful good songs among a heap of whiny horseshit and hasn't put out a really good album since 1991.

Released October 1993:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/PearlJam-Vs.jpg/220px-PearlJam-Vs.jpg

[nayjevin]

Wow ya'all are rough. guy is just growing up to be the highest form of singer - the frontman for ideas that change the world. Easy to get carried away with emotion with that particular talent. Guy is Nader - guy is 'something's wrong with this picture.' Someone could reach him.

[dillo]

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...shut it

Uh thats not true

Also its pretty ironic that one of their biggest hits is about a kid shooting up a school, isnt that kind of like war profiteering

[JK/SEA]

Wow ya'all are rough. guy is just growing up to be the highest form of singer - the frontman for ideas that change the world. Easy to get carried away with emotion with that particular talent. Guy is Nader - guy is 'something's wrong with this picture.' Someone could reach him.

Ted Nugent perhaps?

[FloralScent]

Alice in Chains > Pearl Jam

[Bman]

Far too much emotion. Far too little logic.

[Slave Mentality]

Alice in Chains > Pearl Jam

Word.

Pearl Jam wouldn't make a pimple on Stone Temple Pilots' ass! Soundgarden >>> Pearl Jam

I always hated Eddie's voice.

[bolil]

Should be wary being that his work depends and the recognition of a right.

[nayjevin]

It's not like he's on the side that believes political decisions ought to be made when they benefit him. He just wants people to stop dying. In other words, an ally.