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7 A $4 million-a-year major league baseball pitcher Michael Perlstein, “Slam Jam: Rocker, Cy Young Winner Team Up in Decatur Street Brawl,” The Times-Picayune, November 19, 1993; © 2010 The Times-Picayune. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
8 I was with Blackie and Ed from Urge Allan Jones, “I’m Not Your Fuckin’ Messiah,” Melody Maker, May 21, 1994.
9 But I never threw a punch Ibid.
CHAPTER 39: In the Rocket
1 Kurt had gone all out for me David Fricke, “Life After Death,” Rolling Stone, December 15, 1994.
2 [Someone] called and said he’d passed in Rome Austin Scaggs, “On an Honor Roll,” Rolling Stone, July 28, 2005.
3 I was flying from L.A. up to Seattle The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain, TV documentary, directed by John Dower, World of Wonder, 2007.
CHAPTER 40: Sitting in the Rubble
1 We used to go shooting together Steven Goldsmith and Dan Raley, “Friend Innocently Bought Shotgun for Cobain,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 15, 1994.
2 Hi, I’m Kurt Loder with an MTV News special report MTV News live broadcast, April 8, 1994.
3 We were these young people from southwest Washington Video interview with Krist Novoselic, November 18, 1999, courtesy of Experience Music Project Oral History Program.
4 There are some people that you meet in life Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 1 interview with Dave Grohl, November 8, 2009.
5 When I first found out, I was in a hotel room Robert Hilburn, “He Didn’t Ask for All This,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994.
CHAPTER 41: Fucking Great Products
1 We were rehearsing at the Moore Theatre Jon Wiederhorn interview with Sean Kinney, 1995; © Jon Wiederhorn.
CHAPTER 42: Some Imploding Going On
1 The first record or two, Ed and I could talk Eric Weisbard with Jessica Letkemann, Ann Powers, Chris Norris, William Van Meter, and Will Hermes, “Ten Past Ten,” Spin.com, August 2001. Reprinted with permission from Spin. All rights reserved.
2 Vitalogy was the first record where Ed was the guy Ibid.
3 Vitalogy was a little strained Ibid.
4 I have to ask another question “Pearl Jam’s Antitrust Complaint: Questions About Concert, Sports, and Theater Ticket Handling Charges and Other Practices,” from the hearing before the Information, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, June 30, 1994.
5 I am not going to answer that question Ibid.
6 That whole thing was a joke Weisbard et al., “Ten Past Ten.”
7 Dave was a different egg for sure Ibid.
8 It was the nature of how the politics worked in our band Ibid.
9 We’d be playing parks and racetracks Dave Simpson, “Pearl Jam: ‘People Get That This Means Something,’ ” The Guardian, August 13, 2009.
10 I thought I was going to die Brad Kava, “Vedder Days,” San Jose Mercury News, November 3, 1995.
11 We were afraid there’d be a riot Weisbard et al., “Ten Past Ten.”
12 Eventually they came out with a press release Ibid.
CHAPTER 43: The Mad Season
1 We had a lot of meetings Jeff Gilbert, “Alive: Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready Says Goodbye to Drugs and Alcohol and Is a Better Man for It,” Guitar World, April 1995; © Jeff Gilbert.
2 A lot of hallucinogenic mushrooms grow in the area Ibid.
3 I was under the mistaken theory I could help him out Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 6, 2002.
4 A lot of the songs that Jerry and Layne wrote Jon Wiederhorn interview with Sean Kinney, 1995; © Jon Wiederhorn.
CHAPTER 46: 70 Percent Off All Flannel
1 After Kurt’s death, I was about as confused as I’ve ever been Capitol Records press release, Foo Fighters biography, 1995. 503 That fucking letter saved my life Ibid.
2 I liked coke a lot TAD: Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears, documentary, directed by Ryan Short and Adam Pease, King of Hearts Productions, 2008.
CHAPTER 47: Fell on Black Days
1 During the Down on the Upside period David Peisner interview with Chris Cornell, 2010; © David Peisner.
2 The bass rig wasn’t working in sound check Ibid.