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PEARL JAM Pay Homage To WHO Concert Victims

June 27, 2006

MTV.com reports: Wearing a vintage WHO T-shirt, PEARL JAM singer Eddie Vedder took time out from his band's show Saturday night (June 24) at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati to pay homage to the 11 fans who were trampled to death at the venue (then named Riverfront Coliseum) before a WHO concert in 1979. He said show opener Robert Pollard, former leader of GUIDED BY VOICES, reminded him before the concert that the arena was a place where "great music happened and a tragedy took place." Vedder than alluded to his own band's tragedy, the deaths of nine fans at Denmark's Roskilde Festival in 2000, and mentioned that WHO guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey called PEARL JAM to help them through the aftermath. The singer then dedicated a moving version of "Wishlist" as a "little prayer for those who passed and all the survivors." PJ ended the show with a raucous, houselights-up duet with Pollard on the WHO's "Baba O'Riley".

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