{"id":5511,"date":"2025-09-27T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/eddie-vedder-ohana-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:17:00","slug":"eddie-vedder-ohana-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/eddie-vedder-ohana-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Vedder Covers Devo, Zeppelin At Ohana Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1372124686.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder revived his side band, Earthlings, for the first time in two years last night (Sept. 26) to close the first night of his annual Ohana festival in Dana Point, Ca. The group, which also features guitarists Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer and Glen Hansard, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and bassist Chris Chaney, unveiled several new covers for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The first was an opening run through Devo\u2019s \u201cGut Feeling,\u201d which Vedder had never played live before, while later in the show, he tacked the instrumental intro of Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cThe Song Remains the Same\u201d onto Pearl Jam\u2019s \u201cRearviewmirror.\u201d Klinghoffer even wielded a Jimmy Page-style double-necked guitar for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/new-butthole-surfers-documentary-cements-the-psych-punk-heroes-experimental-legacy\/\">New Butthole Surfers Documentary Cements the Psych-Punk Heroes\u2019 Experimental Legacy<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/deep-cut-friday-push-by-the-cure\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Push\u2019 by the Cure<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-x-ambassadors\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0X Ambassadors<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before the latter, Vedder told a long story about being tormented by a high school teacher while growing up in the San Diego area, and how music helped him overcome the fear of not graduating or being fired from a job. \u201cThere was this piece of music, and I\u2019ll never forgot where I was or how loud it was, and for some reason, this piece of music \u2014 not even the words, nothing \u2014 it was like a drug,\u201d Vedder said. \u201cIt lifted me up. It was a liftoff. I realized, you know what? Fuck that guy. And someday, he will mean nothing to you. You\u2019re not going to be stopped by someone who is maybe not right. I was telling this story to a friend, and all of the sudden, he sent me back that the guy is still alive in San Diego. He\u2019s 83. He sent me his address. My first thought, just being honest, was, I\u2019m going to go find that guy and kick his ass, because he\u2019s 83 and I think I can take him. But, no, violence is never the right thing. Never. But, we will play this piece of music and I will let it be the reminder that music is power. Music has power. This person who had ill will for me? He didn\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"NOu9QDLYdc0\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere during the set, Vedder played full-band versions of songs such as \u201cSetting Forth\u201d and \u201cNo Ceiling\u201d from his 2007 <em>Into the Wild<\/em> soundtrack with Earthlings for the first time. Five cuts from his 2022 solo album <em>Earthling<\/em> also appeared, as did covers of the Who\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m One,\u201d the Mono Men\u2019s \u201cWatch Outside\u201d and George Harrison\u2019s \u201cIsn\u2019t It a Pity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another communal moment, Vedder welcomed his daughters Olivia and Harper to sing on a medley of the English Beat\u2019s \u201cSave It for Later\u201d and Pearl Jam\u2019s \u201cBetter Man,\u201d which is usually performed in the reverse order. Vocalist Sharlotte Gibson and Fitz and the Tantrums saxophonist James King also lent a hand, and returned for the finale with guests such as Stereophonics\u2019 Kelly Jones for Neil Young\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Free World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohana continues today and tomorrow with performances by Hozier, Leon Bridges, Green Day, Cage the Elephant and Wet Leg.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder revived his side band, Earthlings, for the first time in two years last night (Sept. 26) to close the first night of his annual Ohana&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1662,6,3926,260,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eddie-vedder","category-news","category-ohana-festival","category-pearl-jam","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}