Vedder Thinks Cobain Would Have Liked Him

03/20/09 11:41am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Although Kurt Cobain disliked Pearl Jam when he was alive, Eddie Vedder recently told the U.K.'s The Sun tabloid that the Nirvana frontman would have liked Vedder if he was still alive.

"If Kurt were around today, I know he'd say to me, 'Well, you turned out OK,'" the Pearl Jam singer said.

Cobain took jabs at Pearl Jam before he committed suicide in 1994, and once said Pearl Jam were responsible for "pioneering a corporate, alternative and cock-rock fusion." (Some people here in the CHARTattack office would probably agree...)

The two later reconciled before Cobain died, and Vedder told The Sun he's glad about that.

"I don't think Kurt understood us at the time, but we became friends and I'm glad we had some of the great conversations we had, that I'm always going to keep [in my head].

"I don't talk too much about him in respect to Krist [Novoselic, former Nirvana bassist] and Dave [Grohl, former Nirvana drummer] and I know he said that early stuff about not liking us.

"But there's a couple of complimentary things that he said in public about me as a human being, which I'm proud exist."

Vedder went on to point out Pearl Jam had opposed corporatism throughout their career.

Pearl Jam will reissue their 1991 debut album, Ten, on Tuesday. Stay tuned for a review of the album on CHARTattack later today.

An extensive, three-part interview with Pearl Jam can be read in our features section.