I am Eddie's age and grew up going to see a lot of the same bands he did so I can understand some of where the stagediving influences come from. Yet, to this day, I have never see another singer sing from scaffolding and then rappel down using microphone wire. All hail Eddie. Thank God he survived it.
I was at the show in San Diego for that first climb that he was talking about at the start beginning of the video...everyone was wondering where’s he going, then is he gonna fall, then holy shit he’s singing from the light fixture 20feet above the crowd...it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen! Then Nirvana and the Chili Peppers were up next....one of the best nights of my life
Gotta love how you guys need any excuse to go all political, talking about being conservative or liberal, like you're any better. You guys seriously need to get your shit together and just learn to enjoy. But then again that's my opinion, still not hating on anyone.
I respect Vedder for being a true friend to the Chili Peppers. Anthony Kiedis promised the Dalai Lama to do the Free Tibet concert but they lost their time slot due to some scheduling error. This crushed Kiedis but Vedder told the promoters to split Pearl Jam's time with RHCP or else he'd drop out. They relented and Kiedis was able to keep his word. That's being a true friend
So you’re saying EV and PJ would go back on their word - i.e. the contract with the promoter - so that AK could keep his word, and that THAT is being a true friend? Interesting opinion.
@@mvramos I guess the promoters felt they can't go wrong with both Pearl Jam and RHCP in one slot, and Vedder was willing to share the time - which yes, is a selfless act. AK's book didn't go into detail on contractual info
@@mvramos ignoring the fact that if the promoter did their job correctly to begin with RCHP would have never lost their time slot due to an error and the whole situation would have been avoided, but go ahead and make your point.
I was a lighting tech in Seattle years prior and through this era, several of the riggers at one of the companies that lighted most of the Seattle shows were mountain and rock climbers. None did the scary shit Eddie did. Amazing to see him doing these feats. Also amazing that the band played on and watched. These days I imagine insurance riders have very specific wording stating EDDIE IS PROHIBITED FROM CLIMBING ABOVE THE STAGE. EDDIE IS ALLOWED TO ONLY CLIMB TO THE STAGE DECK!
One missed is from The Edge in 1992 in Orlando, FL. Eddie climbed up to the rafters and the venue's security guards didn't realize that it was Eddie and went out onto the rafters and grabbed him in a headlock to bring him back in. The guards were holding on to him and both he and the crowd were trying to tell the security guards who he was, but they didn't listen and continued to struggle with him. Finally, the band stopped and Dave came out from behind the drumset and all of the band members just stood there watching all of this. Finally with the music stopped and one of the guitarists speaking into the microphone about who he was, the guards finally relented and let him go. The band went back to playing and Eddie dropped down to the crowd below, who promptly cowd-surfed him to the front of the stage. Crazy thing to see.
11:07 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When he went down the microphone wire, that was just iconic !!!!!!!!!!!! There will never ever be anything like Eddie Vedder !!!!!!!!!!!!! In the early 90's I was working in NY and would come home to NJ to go to City Gardens. There was nothing bigger than Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Everyone was talking about Kurt and Eddie. When I hear their music, it takes me back to then, the happiest time of my life !!!!!!! We worked hard, partied hard, and got up the next day and worked hard again !!!!!!!!! It was the end of what would become the last of the best times ever !!!!!!!!!! Thank you Eddie and Pearl Jam !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono As a singer fuck no he was just incredibly lucky plus they had robust equipment I wouldn't suggest doing that with a Shure lmao
Imagine the adrenaline he must have been feeling not only climbing this, while rock plays, but hundreds of people watching and cheering. Mustve felt electric
Lol , everytime I see hysteric parents yelling at their kid to GET DOWN FROM THERE or on a THAT'S DANGEROUS rant I always thought "sheesh they're kids they're practically unbreakable/ heal rather impressively" , but watching Eddie I get what you mean
@@fbicappuccinoI’m pretty sure he was a stoner in the 90s. In fact, if I remember correctly, there’s a shot in Pearl Jam 20 where he takes a hit from a weed pipe and tries to hide it from the camera man haha
I went to Lollapalooza 92' in New Orleans. Lineup was RHCP, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins and many others. Unfortunately never had the chance to see Nirvana
Saw them all a few times. The 90's lollapalooza shows were incredible. Also Radiohead, first time I heard 100,000 people singing every single word to every single song, it was amazing and hypnotic. Great shows back then. And most tickets under $40.
I was at the Drop In The Park 1992 free show at Magnuson park in Seattle where he was able to toss his corded mic over the scaffolding and lower himself down after he finished the song hanging upside down by his legs. As an also rock climber at the time I understood where he was coming from.
But also, think of going to a PJ concert and only TALKING about HEARING that the singer climbs the riga and shit, but never actually seeing it til you see it with your own eyes :D
Ah, the days before everyone in the crowd had smart phones. It's a shame for stuff like this, but overall concerts were more awesome back then because everyone was just in the moment and the music. The less gear you had the worry about the more fun you had.
Yes. I have seen him still doing it in 1996, in İstanbul concert. He asked us "should I jump?" several times. I just finished the video and saw a 2014 climb. Wow.
I was thinking the same he was strong as hell hahaha is fucking hard to maintain your own weight only by the arms hahah glad he never seriously hurt himself lol
I saw a SGT while I was in the Army do something like that, we all got nervous and put our bags full of our clothes under where he would have fell if he fucked up, thankfully he didn't.
@@jaxonmoon9815 I'm 05, and was way too late for everything. Found out about grunge bout 3 years ago, when Chris Cornell had just died. Was even too late to have known Chris alive. Sometimes I just wish I would have been born in the 70s, would've been the best time to be born.
I’m kind of obsessed with watching a Eddie climb, and to think there’s so many climbs and dives that weren’t caught on film. I’ve seen countless pictures of Eddie climbing that I just cannot find video for. I think they should release all the old footage of their early show’s, they were all taped. His climbs were insane, especially during the 1992 Lollapalooza festival!
Yes I agree! Even though it seems like a lot, this compilation doesn't even include every single climb he's ever done, only the ones I could find! There should be a lot more footage out there somewhere
Most of this isn't band footage. In the early days it was likely rare for the band to video a show. I know relatively big bands of the early 80s didn't record a lot of their own stuff.
@@Azznbad they had a dude who did their merch in the early days who would regularly film their shows. Watch 25 years of Alive the early years have some rare raw footage. Same with their Twenty doc, the dude himself is interviewed. Hopefully one day more cool footage will see the light of day properly
I had a friend in college who used to climb all kinds of buildings and stuff when we were out partying. Always drove me crazy. He was a rock climber, so he had skills, but he was usually drunk. Then one day he fell almost 40ft. He was trying to get from a column to the roof of a 3 story building and slipped. Luckily he was able to aim for a big bush and only broke his arm besides being all scraped up. If he had hit the concrete steps that were a few feet away that would have been it for sure. When I saw him slip I realized the saying "my heart stopped" was really a thing. There were probably ten of us there watching and we all thought he was going to die. He was laughing as we helped him out of the bush. All the girls were crying.
@@RoastyPotato Nah, not that loose, he went home for the summer and it happened there. We knew he had some past issues but we kept him in line at school for the most part. His hometown friends were bad news though. He went missing for a few days and then they found him in the woods behind his house.
I remember an interview from other PJ members some years ago where they spoke about Eddie's climb. Someone said "The very first time I saw him climbing I could only think: We just took off and we might be loosing him due to a fall and all goes down the drain... "
During a Pearl jam show in the UK in 2016 i remember Eddie went to climb the side, got a bit of the way up, looked up and with a clear nod said "actually, no.." and came back down. I don't know if he was told not to do it or if he saw something unsafe and declined. Either way theres lots of pros and cons, okay i didnt get to see him climb but it was still an honour to be at the show he probably technically (or not) did his last climb, maybe..
This guy has the makings of a world class athlete, as well as amazing artistic ability. I find it impossible not to admire him, and also be a bit jealous of him.
I feel so blessed to have been a teenager in the last days of RocknRoll, thx Eddie We didn't know it at the time, but this was our Woodstock, the era to which all other era's were measured. I seen Soundgarden again, just before brother Chris was called home, I must......We Must Have 1 More Great Festival. "Those pits were all Love" we were safe we were one man! Faaaawwwwk I'm old lol
I was lucky enough to be at the Newcastle show featured in this video and even caught Eddie when he dived. I'll never forget there was about a dozen people waiting outside the venue and this small, scruffy looking guy comes out to talk to us all personally. We all though he must have been a roadie due to his accent. It wasn't until the band came out, we realized it was Eddie himself that came out to greet us.
@@kevnicholas4761 thanks for the reply. If was wrong I apologize. And by the way, you are sooo Lucky to have experienced Eddie's dive. You actually touched him !!!!. I am so jealous.
Saw Eddie Vedder do this at a concert at the Aloha Tower in Honolulu back around 91 or 92. Freaked everybody out when he started climbing scaffolding like it was nothing.
I have to say, this was a pretty fucking awesome collaboration! Thanks for sharing this! So good! I was rocking back and forth with the crowd when Eddie was swinging back and forth on some kind of rope or cable! Lol!
The athleticism it took to do this shit is amazingly impressive... I don't know that pro athletes could climb up structures the way he did! Here's another thing, rappers are trying to do this now at their shows but they don't know how to land right and people are getting really badly injured at those shows. "Dj Aoki" or whatever landed on this girl and literally broke her neck. She was ok after medical treatment but i'm pretty sure he got sued for that and rightly so. Don't fucking do it if you don't know how to do it properly.
Eddie probably did have some sort of method to his madness I guess haha, especially considering those rappers you're talking about! Don't go breaking people's necks, jesus
@@BearInMindMedia LoL ! well if you watch he turned so he landed on his back into the crowd, These morons are jumping feet first into a crowd. Of course someone will take the brunt of that landing. There were never any injuries or lawsuits with Pearl Jam , it would have been big news. I can't remember who else but someone did it at a rap show and I think ended up paralysed from jumping off a balcony. Everybody moved and the guy hit the floor. Its just not applicable to that genre In my opinion.
@@Natalie-ox7xm let's not forget that those different times and different crowds, ofc jumping feet first is dumb but also back then the intensity of the show and the hype of the crowd was so up there that ppl would head bang the rest of the concert with a broken neck anyway
Although this kicks ass, the rest of the band had a strong point. "If he falls and dies, all of this Pearl Jam, gone, thats it" Its like grunge was fated to all die. Vedder cheated it.
i'd estimate these kind of publicity stunts netted half their fortune and fame . although kudos to standing up to tiketmaster --- that took even more balls !
I'm re-discovering Pearl Jam these days. My four year old boy is mesmeriezd by the Even Flow video. I am as well. The editing is really nice, but yeah it's all about Eddie going full ape!
Thank you for the reminder to keep climbing, do what calls to you to do!! Eddie still got it too, thank you for all the years of music and inspiration 💖
GodDAMN! Pearl Jam are fucking great live! I’ve seen them seven times since the early nineties. Seeing this now fills me with the same excitement I felt watching him then. What has happened to modern music?!
I was at Drop in the Park in '92 in Seattle. I was one of the kids that caught him when he stage dove. Great time. Cyprus Hill opened by throwing bags of weed into the crowd! It was the first of three Pearl Jam concerts I saw. I didn't know until now that he climbed at more than just my show. What a beast.
In '92 saw them during the ten tour in Hawaii, great show, played two nights, I was at first show and Eddie climbed on up was a solid 20 feet up in this amphitheater. The crowd telling to go on and drop so he did and in an instant it was only him and green grass. It took him a solid 5 to ten minutes to finally make it back to the stage. Still finished out strong. Really great show. My friends that went the second night says he did not drop the next night.
The man’s a great athlete...I’m sure that his surfing had his muscles all toned up...And his playing basketball when ever he could kept his beautiful body in shape!
This video is awesome! However I don’t see footage from when Pearl Jam opened up for The Smashing Pumpkins and the Chili Peppers @ Memorial Auditorium (a high school gym) in Burlington Vermont, fall of 92. EV did a huge speaker dive after crawling through the rafters. Never seen anything like that before or since. Legendary stuff. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Have told friends about it, now they can see what I was talking about.
I'm in the crowd right near where he lands at the Lollapalooza concert in Miami. His dive at the 10:11 mark. Doesn't look that high in the video, but he was way up there! He was definitely nuts back then! it was hot as hell at that show too. Miami in the middle of summer! Whew!
Saw the tour Vitalogy 1st time they came to Australia. Epic show, can't recall if he climbed though 🤔. I think his surfing background might have given him what he needed for these climbs. Definitely a strong core. Side note, I was at a tribute band show, The Doors Experience or something, and some dude tripping balls decided to climb the rigging. He got to the top, about 5 metres, maybe a little more, and jumped. He got caught up in the cables, and the stage lights frame came down as 1,and stopped about a metre or so above the crowd. The only thing that stopped it crashing onto everyone was that the frame got tangled in the cables too. So close to many casualties. Will never forget that night.
The one I saw wasn’t in this video, it was the 2nd Lollapalooza, summer of 1992 in Chicago. He climbed way way way high, we seriously thought we might watch him die. It’s great to see these videos because through the years I’ve told people about it and they think I’m exaggerating when I describe how insanely high it was
I’d love to hear the reaction from security and owners of the venue... and the rest of his band after the show. It’s amazing, but friggin scary as hell to watch.
I am Eddie's age and grew up going to see a lot of the same bands he did so I can understand some of where the stagediving influences come from. Yet, to this day, I have never see another singer sing from scaffolding and then rappel down using microphone wire. All hail Eddie. Thank God he survived it.
I did that shit all the time specially on antennas... 1500 ft up then base jumped yea get u some vedder
He's like a little cat 😺
Check out Bono doing his version at the US Festival in '83 during Electric Co - not bad at all!
He was suicidal from fame early on. We as fans need to know when to back off and let people deal with it all before we lose more.
@@jesskerr9805 good job next time have a pal record it.awesome
I was at the show in San Diego for that first climb that he was talking about at the start beginning of the video...everyone was wondering where’s he going, then is he gonna fall, then holy shit he’s singing from the light fixture 20feet above the crowd...it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen! Then Nirvana and the Chili Peppers were up next....one of the best nights of my life
Holy shit thats awesome
@@cascoporro3949 it truly was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
@@kirkgiles4136 I envy you man
Was security pissed?
Simply incredible! Glad you got to be a part of history.
imagine if he died. All the main grunge front men died from overdoses and suicide, and then there's Eddie, died doing parkour.
Instead he died by becoming a SJW
@@RAAZR- u thought a SoCal surfer dude was gonna be super conservative?
Other ones were murdered ( gematria effect news) zach author of two books . His old blog mostly talks about kurt
@@BigMacSoss u gotta love someone with that username trying to talk about the "white genocide"
Gotta love how you guys need any excuse to go all political, talking about being conservative or liberal, like you're any better.
You guys seriously need to get your shit together and just learn to enjoy.
But then again that's my opinion, still not hating on anyone.
Shoutout to Eddie's core for keeping him alive all these years.
And finger grip.
@@truthhurts837 arms, legs...
No doubt!
Yeah I noticed Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder both had lean and healthy physiques.
Lats
The fact that Eddie could’ve easily died on nearly all these climbs and is now pretty much the only grunge font man alive is insane.
Amazing to think about, man you aren't wrong.
@@308Savagebolt yes he is. Johnathan Davis is still alive.
Davis has never been in a grunge act.
@@danieljimenez1989 his voice is grunge but the band is nu metal
@@USFCpresident but the band doesn't suck.
I respect Vedder for being a true friend to the Chili Peppers. Anthony Kiedis promised the Dalai Lama to do the Free Tibet concert but they lost their time slot due to some scheduling error. This crushed Kiedis but Vedder told the promoters to split Pearl Jam's time with RHCP or else he'd drop out. They relented and Kiedis was able to keep his word. That's being a true friend
That’s awesome ❤️
So you’re saying EV and PJ would go back on their word - i.e. the contract with the promoter - so that AK could keep his word, and that THAT is being a true friend? Interesting opinion.
@@mvramos I guess the promoters felt they can't go wrong with both Pearl Jam and RHCP in one slot, and Vedder was willing to share the time - which yes, is a selfless act. AK's book didn't go into detail on contractual info
@@mvramos ignoring the fact that if the promoter did their job correctly to begin with RCHP would have never lost their time slot due to an error and the whole situation would have been avoided, but go ahead and make your point.
@@Garf2O you seem to be assuming that the scheduling error was caused by the promoter. Any evidence to substantiate this view?
He could have died before all the grunge guys but yet he's the one still alive.
“Hey Google, play Alive by Pearl Jam”
I believe he wrote a song about that.
😋
@@SPIDERM0OSE which?
@@summumbonum01
The one about him still being alive 😋
@@SPIDERM0OSE oh, I thought it could be something trully related to this, lol.
Other grunge musicians were doing heroin, Eddie was doing CrossFit
Calisthenics
LMFAOOO
It is still a wonder he is still alive :)
@@lowpassfilter9569 it's a blessing to us all!
Well, heroin probably helped Eddie to make those decisions!😁
If he couldn't sing he'd be the best lighting rig guy on the planet.
and thats the truth right there
I was a lighting tech in Seattle years prior and through this era, several of the riggers at one of the companies that lighted most of the Seattle shows were mountain and rock climbers.
None did the scary shit Eddie did.
Amazing to see him doing these feats. Also amazing that the band played on and watched.
These days I imagine insurance riders have very specific wording stating EDDIE IS PROHIBITED FROM CLIMBING ABOVE THE STAGE. EDDIE IS ALLOWED TO ONLY CLIMB TO THE STAGE DECK!
"If"...
Unlike josh😞😞 if ykyk
Like…… Josh? 🤣
One missed is from The Edge in 1992 in Orlando, FL. Eddie climbed up to the rafters and the venue's security guards didn't realize that it was Eddie and went out onto the rafters and grabbed him in a headlock to bring him back in. The guards were holding on to him and both he and the crowd were trying to tell the security guards who he was, but they didn't listen and continued to struggle with him. Finally, the band stopped and Dave came out from behind the drumset and all of the band members just stood there watching all of this. Finally with the music stopped and one of the guitarists speaking into the microphone about who he was, the guards finally relented and let him go. The band went back to playing and Eddie dropped down to the crowd below, who promptly cowd-surfed him to the front of the stage. Crazy thing to see.
Whoa, that’s nuts!!
That's amazing
wow. thanks for sharing this story
11:07 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When he went down the microphone wire, that was just iconic !!!!!!!!!!!!
There will never ever be anything like Eddie Vedder !!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the early 90's I was working in NY and would come home to NJ to go to City Gardens. There was nothing bigger than Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Everyone was talking about Kurt and Eddie. When I hear their music, it takes me back to then, the happiest time of my life !!!!!!! We worked hard, partied hard, and got up the next day and worked hard again !!!!!!!!! It was the end of what would become the last of the best times ever !!!!!!!!!! Thank you Eddie and Pearl Jam !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree!! Takes me back big time..best of the last good times
I learned a lot of things in this video, one of them is that microphone cables are much stronger than I thought.
Yeah theyre like guitar cables. But i still wouldn't risk my life by betting one will hold my body weight.
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono As a singer fuck no he was just incredibly lucky plus they had robust equipment I wouldn't suggest doing that with a Shure lmao
I mean, he was at most 145 lbs. My fat ass wouldn't be held up at 200 lbs.
@@SpicyPotatoe same dude lol
Everything was built for him to climb on as safely as possible. It was his thing.
It's amazing he's not dead, but to be fair it's pretty hard to see scaffolding and not want to climb it
Yeah, he's still alive
@@mercedes_nuts but does he deserve to be?
@@Johnsmith69448 Is that the question?
I know right, I bet he would of been good at rock climbing
AND IF SO, IF SO
WHO ANSWERS?
WHO ANSWERS?
"O-o-ooh I, oo-ooh, I'm still alive"!
Yeayeah I, ohhhhhh yeah I’m fuckin high
@@fanosoX Yup! That, too! 😁
Ok that’s hilarious
Stage hands and crew deserve so much credit for keeping him as safe as they possibly could, even though they couldn't control him
Imagine him as a toddler, scary.
Underrated comment
😂
Lmao
Imagine the adrenaline he must have been feeling not only climbing this, while rock plays, but hundreds of people watching and cheering. Mustve felt electric
Thousands
i would have let him land flat on the concrete if he tried flipping down 20 ft on me .
Hes pretty lucky not to have slipped or lost his grip. Surely hed be dead or crippled.
I couldn’t even imagine how good it felt
Epic peak 90’s. Can we get a golf clap for all the stage builders.
This makes me nervous 27 years later
Me too
Lol , everytime I see hysteric parents yelling at their kid to GET DOWN FROM THERE or on a THAT'S DANGEROUS rant I always thought "sheesh they're kids they're practically unbreakable/ heal rather impressively" , but watching Eddie I get what you mean
I hate being so stupid knowing he is alive today, and these are old vids, but STILL getting worried about him!! 😂😂
Seeing this is like being wrapped in a warm 90s blanket of comfort and memories
Ahh man that's exactly the goal!! Hell yes
His last climb in 2014. Clearly out of breath and older, glad he did it when he was younger it was awesome to see him do it live. ❤️
I wonder if that really was his last climb...
What made you climb that high?
*chuckles*
Yes I was high
Hahaha
What a pocket rocket. You had to have a real trust in your fans back then.Still sounded good upside down. That was our Eddie 😍
the funny thing is, eddie never did drugs
@@fbicappuccino really? Never? Not even once?... Like... Really?
@@fbicappuccinoI’m pretty sure he was a stoner in the 90s. In fact, if I remember correctly, there’s a shot in Pearl Jam 20 where he takes a hit from a weed pipe and tries to hide it from the camera man haha
that's some core strength in those early climbs
Just found out Tarzan was in a band and made good music...lots of love and thank u for the memories back in 95 in Singapore Mr Vedder
11:46 the crowd cheers as eddie didn’t die
Imagine seeing that lineup in the early 90s, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and RHCP. Some of the best groups ever formed by a wide margin
I went to Lollapalooza 92' in New Orleans. Lineup was RHCP, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins and many others. Unfortunately never had the chance to see Nirvana
AIC
I'd throw in some Alice In Chains and Soundgarden too, but yeah that's the Holy Trinity back then.
ALICE IN CHAINS!!!! but. RHCP? NAH.PFFFT
Saw them all a few times. The 90's lollapalooza shows were incredible. Also Radiohead, first time I heard 100,000 people singing every single word to every single song, it was amazing and hypnotic.
Great shows back then. And most tickets under $40.
He must have murdered at the hot lava game as a kid, huh?
🤣🙌 And the monkey bars
I was at the Drop In The Park 1992 free show at Magnuson park in Seattle where he was able to toss his corded mic over the scaffolding and lower himself down after he finished the song hanging upside down by his legs. As an also rock climber at the time I understood where he was coming from.
Man... that must have been insane to witness right in front of you! I bet no-one was expecting anything like that haha
For such a soft-spoken chill guy, he’s fucking wild. Everything about Eddie is so desirable.
Yes, EVERYTHING about him. Love Eddie Vedder!
My kok's called eddy 💦
Except his politics
@@andymacdougal Well, if his politics bother you, there are plenty of Ted Nugent videos you might like. Eddie Vedder is the best.
Not really he was more of a poser in the grunge era more than being really wild
He was high on life. He was wildely nuts for those antics.
As a boulder climber, I can tell his skills are solid af.
It’s sucks that about 70% of his climbs weren’t caught on film :(
back in the day video cams and tapes are expensive, thanks to phone cameras we got now we can record everything
But also, think of going to a PJ concert and only TALKING about HEARING that the singer climbs the riga and shit, but never actually seeing it til you see it with your own eyes :D
Concerts without phones were better though
Ah, the days before everyone in the crowd had smart phones. It's a shame for stuff like this, but overall concerts were more awesome back then because everyone was just in the moment and the music. The less gear you had the worry about the more fun you had.
Yes. I have seen him still doing it in 1996, in İstanbul concert. He asked us "should I jump?" several times.
I just finished the video and saw a 2014 climb. Wow.
The fact that he's the only grunge legend still alive and could've died so many times climbing those damn stages. I'm glad he's alive though
Oh I, I, Im still alive
@@youssefmalak4504 Is there something wrong? he said... of course there is
Damn,Eddie was pretty strong,
Thats not easy climbing along like that,
Awesome 🤘
I was thinking the same he was strong as hell hahaha is fucking hard to maintain your own weight only by the arms hahah glad he never seriously hurt himself lol
Yeah! He’s a pretty good climber...!🤔😁
I saw a SGT while I was in the Army do something like that, we all got nervous and put our bags full of our clothes under where he would have fell if he fucked up, thankfully he didn't.
No shit..
surfing keeps a man alive, it is the source.....
As a climber, I can tell you Eddie has some serious upper body strength. Would love to see him on a rock face. 🤙
I guess. But Eddie didn't have much weight to lift. He's a very small guy, and back then he prob only weighed like 135lbs.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 I've always thought practical muscle like that is more impressive than people who can only pick up a heavy weight and drop it
@@maxxxmodelz4061 you do it then 🤣🤡 he would also hang with one hand. Haters gonna hate
I don't think he will be doing now, he is aging
@@maxxxmodelz4061 no way he weighed that little
God I miss those days of pure youth, energy and randomness....Eddie will always bring me back there in my mind ❤
This makes me cry, for whatever reason, I just wish to have been there, makes me feel nostalgic for things I never was alive for
You get to enjoy social distancing
You and me both, 98 was far too late for me. I'd give just about anything to go back.
@@jaxonmoon9815 I'm 05, and was way too late for everything. Found out about grunge bout 3 years ago, when Chris Cornell had just died. Was even too late to have known Chris alive. Sometimes I just wish I would have been born in the 70s, would've been the best time to be born.
‘97 for me
Live in the moment. Today is tomorrow's yesterday
I’m kind of obsessed with watching a Eddie climb, and to think there’s so many climbs and dives that weren’t caught on film. I’ve seen countless pictures of Eddie climbing that I just cannot find video for. I think they should release all the old footage of their early show’s, they were all taped. His climbs were insane, especially during the 1992 Lollapalooza festival!
Yes I agree! Even though it seems like a lot, this compilation doesn't even include every single climb he's ever done, only the ones I could find! There should be a lot more footage out there somewhere
Most of this isn't band footage. In the early days it was likely rare for the band to video a show. I know relatively big bands of the early 80s didn't record a lot of their own stuff.
@@Azznbad they had a dude who did their merch in the early days who would regularly film their shows. Watch 25 years of Alive the early years have some rare raw footage. Same with their Twenty doc, the dude himself is interviewed. Hopefully one day more cool footage will see the light of day properly
And he’s the only major 90s grunge singer left how tf did that happen?
Some got high on drugs, he got high on scaffolding.
Jerry Cantrell?
Because he put on an act while the other ones was really doing their thing
Other grange singers were doing heroin he was doing crossfit
Eddie blew minds, others decided to blow their own...
Imagine putting your life in the hands of a coax cable, the guy is truly a legend.
I trust coax cables. - Chip Douglas
@@johnhammond9962 • He was part Monkee, he didn’t know any better.
@@SongWhisperer It’s evolution baby!
@@travis2950 • LoL 😂.
Actually, that MIGHT be an XLR cable. I don't think coaxial is used for mic cables but by all means someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Pearl Jam Shows are a major part of my early adult life. I can’t thank them enough for all the epic memories.
I had a friend in college who used to climb all kinds of buildings and stuff when we were out partying. Always drove me crazy. He was a rock climber, so he had skills, but he was usually drunk. Then one day he fell almost 40ft. He was trying to get from a column to the roof of a 3 story building and slipped. Luckily he was able to aim for a big bush and only broke his arm besides being all scraped up. If he had hit the concrete steps that were a few feet away that would have been it for sure. When I saw him slip I realized the saying "my heart stopped" was really a thing. There were probably ten of us there watching and we all thought he was going to die. He was laughing as we helped him out of the bush. All the girls were crying.
Wow, that’s sounds jarring af. Glad to hear he got lucky.
@@RoastyPotato Yeah, we had actually already lost one of our crew over the summer to a drug overdose so it would have been double bad...
@@digiprez77 Oosh, heavy. Sounds like y'all were living loose.
@@digiprez77 hope all good now, big love dude
@@RoastyPotato Nah, not that loose, he went home for the summer and it happened there. We knew he had some past issues but we kept him in line at school for the most part. His hometown friends were bad news though. He went missing for a few days and then they found him in the woods behind his house.
Lalapalooza 92 at alpine valley Wisconsin was my first concert. He climed all the way to the top, and that place is huge.
You can see him flash back in time when he looks up. That's so awesome.
I bet a lot of folks think you're awesome.
Man i used to climb everything as a teen but now heights make me sick. So much respect for this man
Thank you for posting this video !!!!!!!!!!!!!
American Ninja Warrior Eddie Vedder Edition™
There's an alternate timeline where Eddie Vedder fell to his death in the early 90's
Aparently theres like a dozen of timelines where Eddie Vedder fells to his death lol
And where kurt didn't shoot himself.
And where Layne didn’t overdose
And where Justin Bieber was not born
And where Chris Cornell didn't commit suicide
I remember an interview from other PJ members some years ago where they spoke about Eddie's climb. Someone said "The very first time I saw him climbing I could only think: We just took off and we might be loosing him due to a fall and all goes down the drain... "
During a Pearl jam show in the UK in 2016 i remember Eddie went to climb the side, got a bit of the way up, looked up and with a clear nod said "actually, no.." and came back down. I don't know if he was told not to do it or if he saw something unsafe and declined. Either way theres lots of pros and cons, okay i didnt get to see him climb but it was still an honour to be at the show he probably technically (or not) did his last climb, maybe..
Probably felt a bit unfit and decided to tap out 😂, he's getting on in age lol
I was at Drop in the Park and watched him do that in the rain. Still the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in any concert,
This guy had some core strength by the end of this tour, holy shit!
He cheated death early in life so death gave up on him thats why he's still alive today
Thank you for putting all these clips together. Eddie…..Respect.
This guy has the makings of a world class athlete, as well as amazing artistic ability. I find it impossible not to admire him, and also be a bit jealous of him.
He never had the making of a varsity athlete. Small hands, that’s his problem.
@@aunch3 I see what you did there uncle junior:))
I suck with heights so my palms were sweating watching this....
My whole body was sweaty when watching this
Im fine with heights and work on sketchy swaying scaffolding sometimes 30+ high and i was sweating watching.
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono 30 meters or feet..?
No one performs with this reckless abandon anymore. Long live Eddie!
This was also the last decade of good music.. US of course
Never seen Greg Puciato during the Dillinger Escape Plan?
The dude helping out at 11:44 is really an action figure called “90’s Man.” You pull a string in his back and he says, “90’s, man.”
Unique front-man indeed. That first climb was sketchy to say the least. Glad he made it through to bless us with more music.
Amazing that, Eddie was the one of the big 4 to still be alive. I respect him.
I feel so blessed to have been a teenager in the last days of RocknRoll, thx Eddie
We didn't know it at the time, but this was our Woodstock, the era to which all other era's were measured.
I seen Soundgarden again, just before brother Chris was called home, I must......We Must Have 1 More Great Festival.
"Those pits were all Love" we were safe we were one man! Faaaawwwwk I'm old lol
I was lucky enough to be at the Newcastle show featured in this video and even caught Eddie when he dived. I'll never forget there was about a dozen people waiting outside the venue and this small, scruffy looking guy comes out to talk to us all personally. We all though he must have been a roadie due to his accent. It wasn't until the band came out, we realized it was Eddie himself that came out to greet us.
Now that is one hell of a story, sick! Those earlier days sound amazing, you could just walk up and talk with the guys
I heard Eddie tell an interviewer early on in his career that he was 6'2" then. I wouldn't call that a small guy
@@tamarahorn1506 Eddie is 5' 7"/ 169cm
@@kevnicholas4761 thanks for the reply. If was wrong I apologize. And by the way, you are sooo Lucky to have experienced Eddie's dive. You actually touched him !!!!. I am so jealous.
@@tamarahorn1506 Eddie is tiny - like a little cat with a big voice climbing all over things.
It was like he had a death wish in them days best band with the best rock performer still to this day. Legend 🎤
As a teen in the 90’s Eddie was my biggest crush. 42yo and still a Pearl Jam fan. Glad hes one of the few still alive.
Saw Eddie Vedder do this at a concert at the Aloha Tower in Honolulu back around 91 or 92. Freaked everybody out when he started climbing scaffolding like it was nothing.
Their insurance carrier be like:🤦🏻♀️ Another PJ tour this summer
1:55 Stone Gossard is down there playing his guitar and looking at Eddie like -duuuude...
My hands got sweaty watching him doing this
I have to say, this was a pretty fucking awesome collaboration! Thanks for sharing this! So good! I was rocking back and forth with the crowd when Eddie was swinging back and forth on some kind of rope or cable! Lol!
I like how there's a whole stage diving guitar riff they play every time he pulls his shenanigans.
He used to do it during the solo section of the song “Porch” that’s why it’s always the same song.
The athleticism it took to do this shit is amazingly impressive... I don't know that pro athletes could climb up structures the way he did! Here's another thing, rappers are trying to do this now at their shows but they don't know how to land right and people are getting really badly injured at those shows. "Dj Aoki" or whatever landed on this girl and literally broke her neck. She was ok after medical treatment but i'm pretty sure he got sued for that and rightly so. Don't fucking do it if you don't know how to do it properly.
Eddie probably did have some sort of method to his madness I guess haha, especially considering those rappers you're talking about! Don't go breaking people's necks, jesus
@@BearInMindMedia LoL ! well if you watch he turned so he landed on his back into the crowd, These morons are jumping feet first into a crowd. Of course someone will take the brunt of that landing. There were never any injuries or lawsuits with Pearl Jam , it would have been big news. I can't remember who else but someone did it at a rap show and I think ended up paralysed from jumping off a balcony. Everybody moved and the guy hit the floor. Its just not applicable to that genre In my opinion.
@@Natalie-ox7xm let's not forget that those different times and different crowds, ofc jumping feet first is dumb but also back then the intensity of the show and the hype of the crowd was so up there that ppl would head bang the rest of the concert with a broken neck anyway
@@leekeeho543 Yeah, if anything gets dislocated a good mosh will put it back in place. Works every time.
@@joepublic3933 90's low budget chiropractic
Pound for pound the strongest human being I've ever seen in my life. Pretty good singer too.
The band was probably thinking , if he dies we're done . I'm sure the record company and managment wasn't to happy this crazy shit
I was 14 at my first Pearl Jam show in 1992. Kansas University. He climbed waaaaaaay high
He did one sometime in Austin at the city coliseum when they opened up for smashing pumpkins and the chili peps. I became a life long fan that day!
Although this kicks ass, the rest of the band had a strong point.
"If he falls and dies, all of this Pearl Jam, gone, thats it"
Its like grunge was fated to all die. Vedder cheated it.
Eddie is amazing! Love him! ❤️
Imagine being in the band not knowing if they is yal last performance together because of 1 slip
they is yal
@@gordonfreeman5872 he had a stroke
i'd estimate these kind of publicity stunts netted half their fortune and fame .
although kudos to standing up to tiketmaster --- that took even more balls !
First UK gig at The Riverside in Newcastle, he did a complete circuit of the ( admittedly small) club without touching the floor.
I'm re-discovering Pearl Jam these days. My four year old boy is mesmeriezd by the Even Flow video. I am as well. The editing is really nice, but yeah it's all about Eddie going full ape!
Thank you for the reminder to keep climbing, do what calls to you to do!! Eddie still got it too, thank you for all the years of music and inspiration 💖
GodDAMN! Pearl Jam are fucking great live! I’ve seen them seven times since the early nineties. Seeing this now fills me with the same excitement I felt watching him then. What has happened to modern music?!
David Lee Roth was probably the first rock singer to do stageclimbing in the '80s but Eddie Vedder took it to another level !
One of the GOAT bands with one of the best front man and vocalist ever. Then he starts climbing and jumping off . Crazy epic.
I was at Drop in the Park in '92 in Seattle. I was one of the kids that caught him when he stage dove. Great time. Cyprus Hill opened by throwing bags of weed into the crowd! It was the first of three Pearl Jam concerts I saw. I didn't know until now that he climbed at more than just my show. What a beast.
The entire world is this man's playground.
In '92 saw them during the ten tour in Hawaii, great show, played two nights, I was at first show and Eddie climbed on up was a solid 20 feet up in this amphitheater. The crowd telling to go on and drop so he did and in an instant it was only him and green grass. It took him a solid 5 to ten minutes to finally make it back to the stage. Still finished out strong. Really great show. My friends that went the second night says he did not drop the next night.
Not only did Eddie drop the mic he climbed down damn the cord. Classic!
The man’s a great athlete...I’m sure that his surfing had his muscles all toned up...And his playing basketball when ever he could kept his beautiful body in shape!
This video is awesome! However I don’t see footage from when Pearl Jam opened up for The Smashing Pumpkins and the Chili Peppers @ Memorial Auditorium (a high school gym) in Burlington Vermont, fall of 92. EV did a huge speaker dive after crawling through the rafters. Never seen anything like that before or since. Legendary stuff. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Have told friends about it, now they can see what I was talking about.
Lmaooo his "eEuAuUgH I caN sEe yoU aLL " at 10:49 always kills me 🤣🤣
Vedder doing those climbs was epic in rock n roll history. Soemthing very Jim Morrisonesque
He had big balls. That was life or death
Hats off to the boys for still playing whilst their singer and brother went off like that👌
I saw him do this at Lollapalooza, Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario, July 18, 1992.
I'm in the crowd right near where he lands at the Lollapalooza concert in Miami. His dive at the 10:11 mark. Doesn't look that high in the video, but he was way up there! He was definitely nuts back then! it was hot as hell at that show too. Miami in the middle of summer! Whew!
Stone and Mike are think at the 3:00 mark, "Darn it, this dude dies, we won't find another singer that good".
Saw the tour Vitalogy 1st time they came to Australia. Epic show, can't recall if he climbed though 🤔. I think his surfing background might have given him what he needed for these climbs. Definitely a strong core.
Side note, I was at a tribute band show, The Doors Experience or something, and some dude tripping balls decided to climb the rigging. He got to the top, about 5 metres, maybe a little more, and jumped. He got caught up in the cables, and the stage lights frame came down as 1,and stopped about a metre or so above the crowd. The only thing that stopped it crashing onto everyone was that the frame got tangled in the cables too. So close to many casualties. Will never forget that night.
The one I saw wasn’t in this video, it was the 2nd Lollapalooza, summer of 1992 in Chicago. He climbed way way way high, we seriously thought we might watch him die. It’s great to see these videos because through the years I’ve told people about it and they think I’m exaggerating when I describe how insanely high it was
4:49 At the Riverside, Newcastle... Was at that one! And a few days later in Bradford.
Imagine being in the crowd watching Eddie be all cool climbing n swinging then all of a sudden he lands in your arms.
Sounds painful
I’d love to hear the reaction from security and owners of the venue... and the rest of his band after the show. It’s amazing, but friggin scary as hell to watch.