.PearlJam salute friends, family, Taylor Hawkins at 'Gigaton' tour opener
. Performing in a city where both frontman Eddie Vedder and drummer Matt Cameron have long-standing roots, the band saluted a host of friends and family in the audience, as well as Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died suddenly in March.
Vedder revealed early in the show that Pearl Jam had chosen songs that had “something to do with the ocean, even if they don’t mention it in the words. Half of them were written in the ocean anyway.
Vedder said his mom , brothers, uncle and nephews were all in attendance, as well as NBA star Bill Walton and Vedder’s childhood guitar teacher Bud Whitcomb, who owns local music store American Music Exchange. He dedicated “Long Road” to his late brother Chris, who worked as a rigger at Viejas Arena prior to his death in a 2016 climbing accident.
“We lost him pretty quick and it fucked us up, but we got through it together,” Vedder said. “The last time we played here, he was working up in rigging. There’s a plaque here up in the rafters with his name on it.”song “Quick Escape,” Vedder paid tribute to Cameron’s close friendship with Hawkins . “He emitted something very incredible and very special. We’re all missing him, and so, Matt, I’m sorry again for your loss,” he said.
One subject Vedder did not address was Monday’s leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that would essentially reverse the right to an abortion guaranteed by. The issue has been core to Pearl Jam’s activism since the early 1990s, as Vedder detailed in a
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