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Rob Laing

"There are certain names I deeply wish were on the guest list tonight, but we lost them too early": Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder remembers his lost musical peers and covers Nine Inch Nails' Hurt in Seattle, Johnny Cash-style

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs at Climate Pledge Arena on May 30, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.

"There's no other guest list bigger than the one we have when we're in Seattle… to be honest I wish it were longer," Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder told the crowd at the band's second night at the city's Climate Pledge Arena on 30 May. But it's the names who will always be missing that were playing on his mind during the show – the peers no longer with us.

"There are certain names I deeply wish were on the guest list tonight, but we lost them too early to ways we could have never imagined," he continued. "And damn it if I can't stop thinking about them. But that's a good thing too, right?"

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