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Article: JAMMIN' AIRWAVES Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder plays DJ

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January 10, 1995
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The microphone went silent for a moment. "Am I on? Hey, ho," said Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, starting four-plus hours of a zany, subversive late-night radio broadcast on Sunday from the band's hometown of Seattle. It was titled "Self Pollution Radio" and starred Vedder as a rambling, sometimes aggressively political disc jockey who stressed women's rights and condemned the recent killings at two Brookline health clinics.

Vedder, whose band has been No. 1 on the charts in recent weeks, also sang 10 songs with Pearl Jam in an adjacent studio.The marathon broadcast -- aired locally on WBCN and WAAF FM stations -- at times resembled pirate radio, such was the radical, free-form tone that Vedder ...

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