Article: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder talks of fame, frustration and the new album. (Originated from Orange County Register)

LOS ANGELES _ It's not that Eddie Vedder is antisocial. That's not why he's driving his record company nuts by declining to talk to the press about Pearl Jam's new album, ``Vs.,'' which hits the stores Tuesday on vinyl and Oct. 19 on CD. 
Like his equally silent bandmates, Vedder is simply being careful now that Pearl Jam has become one of the rock machine's hottest commodities. He has to be, if only for his own sanity. 
Suddenly everybody wants a piece of you; everybody wants to be your friend. Suddenly actresses want to date him. Vedder's not buying into it. 
``I was listening to an old Who record yesterday while chopping some wood,'' Vedder said in a rare interview ...

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