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Denver Fans Walk Out of Pearl Jam Show
I like Pearl Jam. But this is getting ridiculous...
Dozens of fans walked out of a Pearl Jam concert after lead singer Eddie Vedder took a mask of President Bush and impaled it on a microphone stand.Several concertgoers booed and shouted Tuesday night for Vedder to shut up as he told the crowd he was against the war and Bush. He impaled the mask during the encore of the band's opening show of a U.S. tour.
When will "artists" realize that we don't pay to come and hear what they think. Sing, dammit, sing!!! That's what I paid for.
"It was like he decapitated someone in a primal ritual and stuck their head on a stick," fan Keith Zimmerman said. Vedder used a Bush mask in Australia and Japan to perform the song "Bushleaguer," from the band's latest album, "Riot Act." The song's lyrics say, "He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer."
Jeez, it went over big in Australia and Japan...Why not here?
During the show, Vedder said: "Just to clarify... we support the troops. We're just confused on how wanting to bring them back safely all of a sudden becomes non-support," he said. "We love them. They're not the ones who make the foreign policy .... Let's hope for the best and speak our opinions."
Fine. Just don't speak them on my dime. Speak them when you're piling into the limo after the show. I paid the money, you do the show. And speaking of shows, why don't you truck your asses over to Iraq and Afghanistan and do one for the guys you love so much?

That stuff about "we support the troops, we don't support the war" has gotten pretty rank by now. It's a pious platitude — they don't want the vilification that's going to come in the wake of actually spitting on them or throwing rocks at them, but they regard the troops as some sort of subhumans, not worthy of actual consideration by important people like them — innalekshul people, who know stuff we don't, 'cuz they're so much smarter than we are... Oh, and they're sensitive, too. They can detect McCarthyism at 300 paces, f'instance...

Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-04
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