The Sound And The Furies
April, 1994
Eddie Vedder stood onstage in New Orleans and threw back his arms. He thrust out his chest, a momentary he-man. "I want you to spit on me," he said. The audience obeyed immediately. Gobs flew into the light, and Vedder moved as if he were catching a spring rain on his face. After a minute, he called a halt."That's how a real man takes it when you spit on him," he said, referring to his arrest for spitting on a Bourbon Street waiter two nights earlier. Then Pearl Jam crashed i...
