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...clash of rock-world titans. In one corner, with more than 20 million albums sold: the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. In the other, with more than $1 billion in annual ticket sales: Ticketmaster, the powerful ticket-distribution service. Not so much boxing as wrestling, the bout has got so messy that it's hard to tell who's left in the ring...
Just after the tour started, Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis reportedly said the band might relent and use Ticketmaster. That brought an outcry--from Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, who insisted that Ticketmaster was out. Then, on June 24, Vedder got sick with the flu, ended a San Francisco concert early and decided to cancel the entire tour-sort of. Days later, the band reinstated concerts in Milwaukee and Chicago and hinted at more...
...show will go on at Ticketmaster now that the Justice Department has declined to bring an antitrust case against the nation's largest distributor of concert tickets. Justice launched an investigation last fall intocharges by the rock group Pearl Jam and others that the company's service charge was excessive and amounted to price gouging.Ticketmaster sold an estimated $1.6 billion in tickets last year, taking in $240 million in service charges...
...think. On I'm the Ocean, Young, in his nasally tenor, sings "Need distraction/ Need romance and candlelight/ Need random violence/ Need Entertainment Tonight." Several songs appear to allude to the suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain. On Peace & Love, for example, Young performs a duet with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder that deals with mourning and the morning after. "I saw the dream/ I saw the wake," Vedder sings, and later adds, "I had it all once/ I gave it back...
...magazine smells." He makes no apologies for comments he made in the '80s expressing support for President Reagan's arms buildup: "I say what I believe in at the time. It may not be the same in four years." Now he's an advocate of Pearl Jam's effort to boycott Ticketmaster, the ticket-distribution service, in protest against its high prices. "Even if Pearl Jam fails, it doesn't matter," he says. "At least they've solidified their bond with the audience...