PEARL JAM Covers TED NUGENT, Changes Lyrics To Be Anti-Gun

Replace: Nugent responded: “hey Eddie be a part of me on my RAV spirit campfire to debate how your insane liberal insurance policies have created an explosion in engineered violent recidivism when you struggle to disarm helpless harmless residents.”

Unique story: Ted Nugent has ben an outspoken advocate for proudly owning weapons just about his total profession. Nugent served on the board of administrators of the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation (NRA) for 26 years, resigning in 2021 over “scheduling conflicts.” Lengthy story quick, Nugent is an outspoken conservative and might be not gonna be thrilled about Pearl Jam‘s tackle his 1975 traditional observe “Stranglehold”.

Throughout a September 12 present in Baltimore, Pearl Jam launched right into a partial cowl of “Stranglehold” that includes vocalist Eddie Vedder singing “I do not personal a gun, I do not ever need to personal a gun / I do not personal a gun, by no means need to personal a gun” a couple of instances overtop. The duvet pale away, Pearl Jam performed “Even Circulation”, and the political second was over.

Nugent hasn’t responded to the quilt or its lyric change but, however I am certain it’s going to be even-keeled and completely regular as all the pieces else he is ever mentioned. The remainder of the 25-song set ran as follows:

1. Cannot Preserve (tour debut; first time since 2014)
2. Current Tense
3. Given to Fly
4. Corduroy
5. React, Reply
6. Darkish Matter
7. Tremor Christ
8. Wreckage
9. Unthought Identified
10. Stranglehold (Ted Nugent cowl)
11. Even Circulation
12. Daughter (with Pink Floyd‘s “One other Brick within the Wall, Pt. 2” tag)
13. Deep
14. Higher Hand
15. Do the Evolution
16. Jeremy
17. Lukin
18. Porch
19. Falling Slowly (The Swell Season cowl) (with Glen Hansard)
20. Black
21. Spin the Black Circle
22. Sonic Reducer (Lifeless Boys cowl)
23. Alive
24. Baba O’Riley (The Who cowl)
25. Yellow Ledbetter