Eddie Vedder, being the lead singer of an explosively successful band, and probably carrying some of the rudimentary, procedural trappings you’d logically find in such an enterprise, was severely ostracized by the underground in the early ’90’s. The way this materializes in the minds of middle America (where I’m embedded) is basically through Nirvana, whose … Continue reading “‘Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime’: Applying Velvet Underground Discourse to Pearl Jam and the Eddie Vedder Quandary”