Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder goes on anti-war rant onstage

At a show in England this past Friday, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder took a break from the band’s performance to launch into an anti-war rant that got fans pretty riled up. Some publications are taking Vedder’s rant as anti-Israel (due to the current Israel/Palestine tensions), but all in all, he makes no direct reference to that. Watch the rant (starts at 4:10) and a read a transcription below via SPIN: 

“What the fuck? What the fuck? We can have this many people having a peaceful time. We can have modern technology. We can reach our friends. We know what they're thinking before they're thinking it. The advertisers know what we're thinking before we're thinking it. We have technology — all this in our hands. At the same time that something this positive is happening, at the same fucking time, not even that far away, they're fucking dropping bombs on each other. What the fucking fuck?”

“I swear to fucking God, there are people out there who are looking for a reason to kill! They're looking for a reason to go across borders and take over land that doesn't belong to them. They should get the fuck out, and mind their own fucking business… Everyone wants the same goddamn thing: to have our children, eat, procreate, draw a painting, make some art, listen to music, fuck some more, have another baby, eat, work, eat, work, love, love, love, everyone's the fuckin' same! So why are people at war? Stop the fucking shit, now! Now! Now! We don't want to give them our money. We don't want to give them our taxes to drop bombs on children! Now! No more! Now!”