Pearl Jam reworked Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold” into an anti-gun anthem whereas briefly overlaying the 1975 single throughout their live performance in Baltimore on Thursday (September twelfth).
Midway by way of the newest present on Pearl Jam’s North American tour (get tickets right here), guitarist Mike McCready launched into the immediately recognizable opening riff of “Stranglehold.” Eddie Vedder joined in shortly afterward to repeatedly sing, “I don’t personal a gun, I don’t ever need to personal a gun/ I don’t personal a gun, by no means need to personal a gun.”
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As soon as they have been executed, Vedder didn’t remark any additional on the tune, and the band launched into their very own basic “Even Circulate.” Watch fan-shot footage beneath.
As an outspoken gun rights advocate, Nugent was unsurprisingly displeased with Pearl Jam’s tackle the tune. In a tweet responding to the quilt, he invited Vedder to “be part of me on my RAV spirit campfire to debate how your insane liberal insurance policies have created an explosion in engineered violent recidivism whilst you battle to disarm helpless harmless residents.”
In stark distinction to Nugent — who briefly hosted a Discovery Channel present referred to as Ted Nugent’s Gun Nation and defended the NRA after the Parkland college capturing — Pearl Jam have spoken out in opposition to gun violence and publicly supported the non-profit group Everytown for Gun Security on a number of events.
Throughout Vedder’s personal Ohana Music Competition in 2019, he devoted a efficiency of Pearl Jam’s “Arduous to Think about” to Everytown, whom he praised for “working so exhausting for frequent sense gun legal guidelines.” He added that we must always “respect the best of possession, but additionally protect our proper to really feel protected in our cities, our communities, our colleges, and our properties.”
Extra just lately, Pearl Jam directed followers to the Everytown web site in 2023 for Nationwide Gun Violence Consciousness Day. “[We] stand with the communities combating in opposition to rising gun violence,” the band wrote in an announcement. “Nobody ought to dwell in worry of gun violence — of their colleges, neighborhoods, or anyplace.”
Pearl Jam are presently touring behind their newest album, Darkish Matter. See the remaining schedule, and seize your seats right here.
hey Eddie be part of me on my RAV spirit campfire to debate how your insane liberal insurance policies have created an explosion in engineered violent recidivism whilst you battle to disarm helpless harmless residents.https://t.co/OBjHpsWgru
— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) September 13, 2024