

Indeed, the festival drew more than 30,000 fans to Asbury Park over the weekend for performances by the Avett Brothers, Lord Huron, Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Idol and more. The 2020 edition of was scrapped due to the pandemic, but an overwhelming majority of fans kept their tickets and returned to the event this year. She also referenced Asbury Park’s legendary club the Stone Pony as her late mother’s favorite place to watch her perform. Earlier during Smith’s own set, she recalled visiting Asbury Park’s dog beach and seeing another “big kid” playing in the water, who turned out to be Vedder. He also paid homage to New Brunswick native Patti Smith, saying he hoped he could “maybe be” her when he grew up. Vedder’s love of the Garden State didn’t only extend to Springsteen and Clinch. You get to go to Bruce’s house and I bet on the way, he’d tell you a pretty good story.”

Actually, have your partner take the motorcycle home, put Bruce in the back and drive him home. I just think that’s how you should do it in Jersey. “I just think that instead of a summons to appear in court, I think he should have gotten a police escort home. And he loves talking story a little bit,” Vedder said. “Of course you offer him a shot of tequila, and of course Bruce is gonna say yes, because he loves fuckin’ tequila. Vedder further nodded to Springsteen’s outsized legacy in the area as he mused about the Boss’ November 2020 DUI arrest for taking two tequila shots with a local couple in a state park. Pearl Jam has a similarly deep relationship with partners Danny Clinch and Tim Donnelly, themselves Jersey natives who quickly bonded with the group over music and surfing after their first meeting at a 1992 Lollapalooza tour stop 70-some miles away in Stanhope.
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Vedder has been a Bruce Springsteen fanatic since he was a teenager, and the two artists have built a very close personal and professional connection since the early 2000s. Pearl Jam would probably not have been on the beach in the first place if not for the roles played by a number of Jersey locals during the band’s 30-year career. “The ocean goes on forever and it looks like the crowd does too.” “We’ve got the moon lighting up the ocean,” Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder marveled early during the band’s headlining set. 18 at the third-annual festival on the Jersey Shore. The beach in Asbury Park, N.J., may have at first seemed an unlikely venue to host Pearl Jam’s first concert in more than three years, but it turned out to be a highly appropriate locale the weekend of Sept.
