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Article: Pearl Jam, Playing a Different Tune; After Four Years of Corporate Warfare, The Band Calls a Temporary Truce
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 18, 1998
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After 90 rousing minutes of power chords, Pearl Jam has
surrendered Madison Square Garden's stage to a perplexing spectacle.
Dour men in dark suits are methodically stacking cardboard file
boxes in neat rows behind lead singer Eddie Vedder's microphone.
Some fans at the concert late last week are baffled, others
are whooping giddily. To anyone who's been following the Lewinsky
scandal, the boxes look familiar. Has the Starr report just been
carted onstage?
"Ken Starr's people wanted a few backstage passes and I told
them I'd do it if I got a copy of the report," Vedder wryly informs
the audience. The boxes, it turns out, are merely props, but they
give Vedder the chance to lacerate ...