VH1 will be airing Pearl Jam’s performance on Storytellers this Saturday, July 1st. You can check out the commercial for the performance here, but if you’re a fan I would urge you to check out the most recent interview Eddie Vedder did with Rolling Stone as well as the exclusive feature interview. Who knew Eddie tried his had at house music?
Perhaps my favorite part of the interview is Ed’s description of the opening track “Life Wasted” off the Pearl Jam’s new self-titled album:
I ask him about “Life Wasted,” on which he sings, “I have faced it, a life wasted/ I’m never going back again.” He closes his eyes as he talks about how attending a friend’s funeral can help you “realize what a gift this is, to be alive. When you leave that funeral, that drive is as important as any single stretch of road you’ll travel on. You’ve got a renewed appreciation for life. And I think that feeling can last through the day, through the week, but then things start getting back to normal and you start taking this living and breathing and eating thing for granted. I think that song is there to remind you, ‘This is that feeling.’ “
