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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

and yet i still don't heart pearl jam

So what if they are/(were??)/are still one of the most influential rock bands in the history of music?

And so what if they did help along the "grunge" movement and revolutionized rock AND/OR roll as we know it today?

AND SO WHAT if I am guilty of having faked liking them for years, while wearing shredded flannel (yes, over a mod-black dress, mod-black tights and mod-black-mary janes) in a misguided effort to simultaneously look cool and rebellious? Those were troubled times indeed.

pearl jam. They sued Ticketmaster. They're anti-Bush. They've promoted both John Kerry and Ralph Nader! Parts of them used to tour as a band called 'Mookie Blaylock', a hilarious name for either a band Or a basketball player. There isn't anything about pearl jam I shouldn't NOT love.

Now, even more reason to love them/hate them: the band tracks their carbon emissions from tours and then PAYS IT BACK! They are donating $100K to Seattle-based environmental organizations to offest the environmental damage their tours have done.

Guitarist Stone Gossard said the group has been tracking its carbon emissions from vehicles used on tour and energy used in concert venues and hotels to estimate the band's contribution to global warming."We can get a really relatively accurate picture of what that looks like over a year, and it's a considerable amount of carbon," Gossard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a backstage interview at a concert in Los Angeles. "We emitted about 5,000 tons of carbon on our last tour."

Admirable stuff from an admirable band (even if you never liked grunge).

2 Comments:

At 7:53 AM, Hugh Bris said...

Pearl Jam and The "Grundge Movement".

NAWT a good time for music. But yes they are Uber-Liberal and they do fight the man and all that neat pseudo-hippie crap.

I suppose you have to give them props for putting their gobs of money where their mouth is and they are better than Nirvana.

Still... There's this bad taste in my mouth everytime I say their name.

 
At 11:48 PM, leeetle seeester said...

"AND SO WHAT if I am guilty of having faked liking them for years, while wearing shredded flannel (yes, over a mod-black dress, mod-black tights and mod-black-mary janes) in a misguided effort to simultaneously look cool and rebellious? Those were troubled times indeed."

It takes a big person to admit this and I am proud big sister pandologist of mine. Pearl Jam...P..J...PJ...pyjamas...flannel... i smell conspiracy...

 

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