i revise this PRAMG inference as they are using it as a means to promote donations to Vitalogy Foundation

yeah I don't find that usage tasteless and it sounds really nice

Was there ever a pre Riot Act Money Exchange?

Yeah, it's called the 10 club

********PRAMG ALERT SYSTEM ACTIVATED*******



The visionary bringing you an unabashedly climate-change themed album presents:

A private performance at a miami beach superbowl party honoring a private jet company



https://www.jambase.com/article/eddie-vedder-kobe-bryant-miami

even if for charity there is no justifying this when you are doing a climate change album

I wonder if he brought his personal submarine for this trip.

he's wearing the gilet again

I laughed at this.

bwhahahahahhhahahhahahahaahha the best.

Nice kicks.

I must be in the minority but I say make that cash and don't apologize. Imagine the flack they would get if they were still brooding as millionaire fifty year olds...

I don’t think it’s that they make money, it’s that PJ sell an ethos of consideration and humility in situation where it’s missing...from emotional early period, to binaural and riot act talking about immoral companies (insignificance, unemployable ) greed (Green disease) advertising isolating people (ghost) the list goes on... up to the abomination of Cant Deny Me where Ed calls out ‘the rich man’.... groan

Dave Grohl is swimming in dough but no one gives him crap for flying around in a private jet or taking corporate sponsorship because he doesn’t make his money by criticising it. Ed built this persona of a punk rock ethos for years, up to 2006 and just cashed it in over and over. It’s becoming more and more apparent while they do try to limit and control coverage of it. The salesforce AGM was the turning point for me.

I wish it wasn’t the case but I try to separate it from my enjoyment of the music. DOTC bodes well, a climate change album at this point is suspect anyway and I fear ‘woke’ but I’m nearly 40 and fanboying about the band is sad. I hope that I can take something from their perspective that I can apply to my own life at this stage and not get caught up in the band I loved 20 years ago.

Good post.

Ed dresses like a lame ass mall walker. The bored husband browsing the current events section of Barnes and Noble while his wife returns a blouse at Dillard's.

Ed and I are closer than I realised.

Well said. I just think it’s completely unrealistic to apply an ethos from 25 years ago to the band now. They’re mid fifties and 90% of the U.S. doesn’t even realize they are even a band anymore. They had a snippet of a song on a Super Bowl commercial and only the hardest of the hardcore would even have realized it was them.

They may have sold out by their own standards but in the large scheme of things they have remained pretty much under the radar. Except for the Target commercial, that was pure ass

At the end of the day they’ve become your standard rich “Hollywood” liberals which is almost always a recipe for gross hypocrisy.

A private performance for a jet company, in these climate change times, seems a lot worse than a Target commercial.

Am I the only one who thinks they've graduated from PRAMG and entered into the Post Lightning Bolt Money Grab era? They've upped the ante already. Massive Deal with Ticketmaster. Verizon commercial. Private jet private shows. Think about it folks.