Red Mosquito

let's blow the roof off this dump

Yeah people are way overthinking this. Carrie Brownstein would be a fucking snooze. What's she really gonna say? "They were super nice, normal guys on tour when we opened for them." Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

One of the broadcasting legends of all time is inducting the band. Vedder played on his second to last show. Pearl Jam was one of his favorite bands. For years, PJ would only play his show (including a special 10-song set for the release of S/T). Letterman coordinated a "sponsor-free" show for them when they performed that mammoth "Hail Hail." They respect Dave and always wanted to impress him.

Anyone who sees this as anything other than a coup (especially so last minute) is high as a kite.

All star jam with the late show band


GUARANTEED

evenslow wrote:Yeah people are way overthinking this. Carrie Brownstein would be a fucking snooze. What's she really gonna say? "They were super nice, normal guys on tour when we opened for them." Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

One of the broadcasting legends of all time is inducting the band. Vedder played on his second to last show. Pearl Jam was one of his favorite bands. For years, PJ would only play his show (including a special 10-song set for the release of S/T). Letterman coordinated a "sponsor-free" show for them when they performed that mammoth "Hail Hail." They respect Dave and always wanted to impress him.

Anyone who sees this as anything other than a coup (especially so last minute) is high as a kite.

Good points, evenslow.

Im a little taken back by it but im wrapping my head around it. Mostly i just really wanted to see some good ol neil jam....

Hopefully letterman brings some fire as well.

Also, will this be live on hbogo or hbonow?

oops, i thought it was this friday?

Strat wrote:

evenslow wrote:Yeah people are way overthinking this. Carrie Brownstein would be a fucking snooze. What's she really gonna say? "They were super nice, normal guys on tour when we opened for them." Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

One of the broadcasting legends of all time is inducting the band. Vedder played on his second to last show. Pearl Jam was one of his favorite bands. For years, PJ would only play his show (including a special 10-song set for the release of S/T). Letterman coordinated a "sponsor-free" show for them when they performed that mammoth "Hail Hail." They respect Dave and always wanted to impress him.

Anyone who sees this as anything other than a coup (especially so last minute) is high as a kite.

Good points, evenslow.

Im a little taken back by it but im wrapping my head around it. Mostly i just really wanted to see some good ol neil jam....

Hopefully letterman brings some fire as well.

Also, will this be live on hbogo or hbonow?

Oh, I totally wanted to see them jam with Neil. And, unfortunately, I'm guessing he might be really sick if he couldn't make it. Doubtful it was the flu. I REALLY hope I'm wrong.

The event is Friday. But it will be broadcast on HBO April 29th.

Strat wrote:oops, i thought it was this friday?

The ceremony is this Friday, April 7th.

HBO is showing later, not live.

evenslow wrote:Yeah people are way overthinking this. Carrie Brownstein would be a fucking snooze. What's she really gonna say? "They were super nice, normal guys on tour when we opened for them." Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

One of the broadcasting legends of all time is inducting the band. Vedder played on his second to last show. Pearl Jam was one of his favorite bands. For years, PJ would only play his show (including a special 10-song set for the release of S/T). Letterman coordinated a "sponsor-free" show for them when they performed that mammoth "Hail Hail." They respect Dave and always wanted to impress him.

Anyone who sees this as anything other than a coup (especially so last minute) is high as a kite.

The Pearl Jam section of Brownstein's book was very good, and in particular was pretty adept at bridging the public perception of the band with how the band actually operates, and the music they actually make. However, I was admittedly thinking of people who would probably be more familiar with the band's music than Letterman. I'm sure he'll be excellent.

digster wrote:

evenslow wrote:Yeah people are way overthinking this. Carrie Brownstein would be a fucking snooze. What's she really gonna say? "They were super nice, normal guys on tour when we opened for them." Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

One of the broadcasting legends of all time is inducting the band. Vedder played on his second to last show. Pearl Jam was one of his favorite bands. For years, PJ would only play his show (including a special 10-song set for the release of S/T). Letterman coordinated a "sponsor-free" show for them when they performed that mammoth "Hail Hail." They respect Dave and always wanted to impress him.

Anyone who sees this as anything other than a coup (especially so last minute) is high as a kite.

The Pearl Jam section of Brownstein's book was very good, and in particular was pretty adept at bridging the public perception of the band with how the band actually operates, and the music they actually make. However, I was admittedly thinking of people who would probably be more familiar with the band's music than Letterman. I'm sure he'll be excellent.

Great now I gotta go buy this book.

I dont want to wait that long to see the speech and performance though.

Strat wrote:I dont want to wait that long to see the speech and performance though.

YouTube will be crawling with audience recordings mere minutes after the ceremony!

It'll probably be periscoped, I'd assume.

digster wrote:It'll probably be periscoped, I'd assume.

Oh yeah. There's that too. I've never used it so I forgot that it's a thing.

I'm counting on RM to hook me up in this thread

why do we assume letterman doesn't know anything about the band?

Stipe would have been nice but i'm pretty happy about Letterman.

Peter Buck would've been a good pick but something tells me that isn't his bag. He didn't speak at REM's induction if I recall.

Who's betting they'll still play Rockin in the Free World?

Puddy from Seinfeld is a big fan, he's not available????

theplatypus wrote:Huge improvement. I actually want to watch the speech now.

this is great news (though i hope neil feels better)

Funniest man in recent American tv history Inducting the most famously humourless band in the last great American musical trend.


It might actually be great.

I'm more excited now.