Pearl Jam - Instruments of Social Change

Pearl Jam: Know Your Rights How a rock and roll band is fighting for peace and promoting social change.

Pearl Jam on Mtv’s UnpluggedThis was the first time I had seen this, or any band, nationally promotingfor a political cause. The year was 1992 and my love for Pearl Jam was born.

BushleaguerThis is the mask worn, and often impaled, by Eddie Vedder during theRiot Act tour of 2003. The band was actively trying to appeal to theiraudience to get out and vote in the presidential elections.

WM3Eddie Vedder at a court proceeding for the West Memphis Three. Sitting beside him isdefendant, Damien Echols, wife, whom he married while incarcerated.Also pictured is a t-shirt design made increasingly more popular by the band. Theirefforts paid off as the wrongfully convicted boys from West Memphis Arkansas werereleased from prison in 2010.

Vote for Change TourPearl Jam, along with other artists like Bruce Springsteen, the DixieChicks, and R.E.M. teamed up for a string of concerts dedicated toremoving then president George W. Bush from office.

The Race Against Chron’s DiseasePearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready holds up a Lotus Stratocaster Signed byStone Gossard, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Robin Trower, which wasauctioned off and proceeds donated to The Crohns and Colitis Foundation ofAmerica, a charity which funds Crohn’s research.

Pearl Jam - Instruments of Social Change

by Thomas Tresser on May 31, 2012

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