Sometimes, yes.

Austin 1995 - "Hey, we're trying to look good and save lives at the same time."

Many times, it's an excuse to see if the band can kick right back in where they stopped, and sometimes it gives Ed an excuse to scold some fan, like LA 2013 (I think).

and like I said before, sometimes it's heartfelt, like 11/25/1996, at the beginning of Yellow Ledbedder, when he stopped kids from launching each other onto the heads of people up front. Brixton '93, loaded out of his mind, he still tried to get the crowd to chill.

but then there's this... How much does it look like he cares about the fans here?

Ed weighs like 93 pounds though

The way the crowd swayed afterwards was scary AF! He's lucky he didn't cause mass fatalities at Pinkpop. He continued to do that shit in 93, too. Baba in San Jose comes to mind.

Anyone know when and why he stopped going into the crowd?

He started to weigh 120

I heard he got up to about 250.

Ed the fat ass dot com.

That's not nice

where's verb

My memory is hazy on this, but didn't Ed jump into the crowd at one of 2000 tour shows, post-Roskilde, and Stone blew up at him about it backstage during the encore break?

that sounds familiar, but it could have even been before roskilde

as far as encouraging violence or anything like that, eddie vedder is the last person i would blame. even before roskilde. there was a show in europe in 92 or 93 during Black where he started freaking out at people slamming during a slow song. there's a time and a place. "whipping" is probably a good time, but pearl jam has never been a huge violent pit type of band.

the stage diving stuff, in retrospect, was irresponsible. but at the same time, that was kinda the culture in rock music at the time. i'm pretty sure kurt cobain played the guitar while the crowd held him up. EV took it to extremes, but i mean if i could stage dive during 'porch' i probably would have, too.