HALL OF FAME!!!!!!

[chewm]

They literally picked up a busker in the streets of Chile, recorded him in some public bathroom, and slapped it together with some rehearsal footage

I love the chilean comments on that video from people who are proud of that.

[chewm]

God, Ed sounds bad.

[dprival78]

That video was so half-assed

there's nothing for to say

[evenslow]

That video was so half-assed

there's nothing for to say

It almost makes me want for to lay down.

[TremorJam]

Uncle Neil is sick (Hope he's okay) and David Letterman will be handling the induction speech now. It will be cool to see Dave and hope Neil just has a cold or something simple.

[Jorge]

Huge improvement. I actually want to watch the speech now.

[darth_vedder]

source?

[TremorJam]

source?

Haven't seen an Official source yet. I check the Porch on 10Club's forum's for updates and saw it there. It's apparently on Twitter as well.

[dprival78]

letterman knows even less about pj then neil

[digster]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... on-w475086

I would have gone with Stipe or Carrie Brownstein (I do also kind of wonder how much Letterman knows about PJ), but alas. Hope the illness isn't serious.

[VinylGuy]

never thought of letterman...it makes sense...it was the only tv show they went in the No Code - ST era.

[Chris_H_2]

how is Chris Cornell not inducting them?

[evenslow]

this is fucking awesome (while hoping neil is alright).

It doesn't matter how much you know about pearl jam, it matters if you can give a good/entertaining speech and letterman will absolutely do that. plus, there is this: it's david fucking letterman!!

[Norah]

if true that's pretty awesome

[epilogue]

I do hope Neil's okay. But I'm pretty excited to hear Letterman's stepping up. Could be a lot of fun.

I hope I can still score a ticket. *coughcoughRUDDOcoughcough*

[dimejinky99]

Man I'd say ed I'd piiiiissed.

Letterman though?

[MadTIGERmaN]

how is Chris Cornell not inducting them?

Neil, Cornell, Carrie Brownstein, were the obvious top 3 from the get go.

Its really not a matter of knowing the band though it seems, Ed did induct the doors after all. John Densmore would have been a cool pick, hes always spoken real high of Pearl Jam.

I love Letterman, just seems like a really off the wall / out in right field pick.

[guestT]

Dave will do a good job. He seems like a big goofball but can bring the heat when he gets fired up about something. And music is something that really seems to fire him up.

Will HBO re-air the entire ceremony at some point, or have it on demand? We'll be traveling this weekend and my wife will murder me if I hole up in the hotel to watch HBO.

[dimejinky99]

how is Chris Cornell not inducting them?

Neil, Cornell, Carrie Brownstein, were the obvious top 3 from the get go.

Its really not a matter of knowing the band though it seems, Ed did induct the doors after all. John Densmore would have been a cool pick, hes always spoken real high of Pearl Jam.

I love Letterman, just seems like a really off the wall / out in right field pick.

The best Induction speeches are when the inductor knows the inductees though and can talk about them and rip the total piss out of them but tell stories about them too.

Bruce Inducting U2 is a good one. As is bono inducting Bruce. Ed Inducting REM is also good if fanboy rambling but still first hand and sincere.


It's a shame they won't have a true peer induct them.

[Farmer John]

Yeah I hope Neil is okay.

Letterman should be great though. Everyone's going to watch it too because it's David Letterman in all his bearded glory. I don't need someone going through the wikipedia page for pearl jam, or even giving a convincing case for why they're a Hall of Fame worthy band. Just give me Letterman ranting about whatever for a bit, probably Trump, then about Pearl Jam he'll say "My god, these guys were good. YOWZA!", or something like that.