Eddie Vedder Solo Album Started As A Joke

"The opening chords to Pearl Jam's Soon Forget are unabashedly from the Who's Blue Red and Grey. Hearing that song when I was 13 legitimized the instrument � it was just a beautiful piece of music," Vedder tells Rolling Stone. "After that I felt like I almost had to make a whole batch of songs to make up for the fact that one was 30 seconds of plagiarising� I thanked Pete Townshend profusely, but I should probably send him some dough � or a nice ukulele." more on this story