During a recent interview with the New York Times, Eddie Vedder recalled his time working at a club in San Diego, where he helped load in bands’ gear.
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Strangely, 2022 is kicking off with a feud between Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx. Rolling Stone reported the trouble started when durting a chat with The New York Times, Eddie Vedder recalled working at a San Diego venue back in the 1980's when glam metal was at its peak. Vedder remembered, "I'd end up being at shows that I wouldn't have chosen to go to bands that monopolized late-'80s MTV. The metal bands that I'm trying to be nice I despised. 'Girls, Girls, Girls' and Mötley Crüe: F you. I hated it. I hated how it made the fellas look. I hated how it made the women look. It felt so vacuous." Although Vedder gave props to Guns N' Roses for injecting "some teeth" into the L.A. rock scene in and around the Sunset Strip, he couldn't help but namecheck Crüe drummer Tommy Lee's ex-wife Heather Locklear by saying, "One thing th
As one of the leaders of the grunge movement in the early-'90s, Pearl Jam was a big part of the new wave of rock bands credited with killing the glam rock/