![]() "You have a powerful voice, powerful message. What followed was an emotionally wrought performance using the Red Hot Chili Peppers classic, which has its own roots in singer Anthony Kiedis' experiences in downtown Los Angeles, as their chosen song, invoking visually emotional responses from the crowd and judges. And through this, we are now housed, my mother and I."īefore starting the song, the group's featured vocalist plead to the audience, "When we someone on the street, I want to encourage you not to look the other way." "I'm so blessed to have found the Los Angeles Community Action Network because they gave me a voice and an opportunity to rebuild myself. "We all are part of the Los Angeles Community Action Network and they have an arts and culture department there and that's how the core group got together," said another member, who revealed her own story of being houseless and having city officials come and take away all their personal belongings. When they changed the meaning of those words, they lifted the curse.The eight-person group consists of either currently houseless, those who have come to transitional housing or those who have lost loved ones that were houseless, explained one of the other members. "The audience changed the meaning of these words and when they sing 'I'm still alive' it's like they're celebrating. So every night when I look out at this sea of people reacting on their own positive interpretation, it was really incredible. "And folks are jumping up in the aisles, using their bodies to express themselves and singing along 'I'm still alive' en masse. The frontman continued: "So cut to a few years later and we're playing to larger and larger audiences and they're responding to this chorus in a way that you never thought. So it was a curse."Įddie Vedder performs with Pearl Jam on February 12th 1992 at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. "And fine the dad's dead but I'm still alive and I've gotta deal with this. So he took this to be a curse, like fine you told me this secret, but I've gotta figure a way to deal with this. To be honest I was barely there to be known. He added: "The guy was me, but I barely knew me then. "And one was that the guy he believed to be his father while growing up was not, and number two was that his real father had passed away a few years before. ![]() On VH1's Storyteller's series, the grunge legend explained: "The original story being told in the song is of a young man being made aware of some shocking truths. Pearl Jam-Historia de Alive (VH1 Storytellers)Įddie Vedder has often described the song as a "curse," but revealed how the interpretation of it has changed throughout the years. Once - the next track in the trilogy - sees the man go on a killing spree, while Footsteps (the third) sees him await execution from his prison cell. The fictional element of the song sees the mother then have an incestuous relationship with the son, who resembles his biological father. It tells the story of a man who finds out his father is actually his stepfather and that his biological dad is actually dead- an event which occurred in Eddie Vedder's own life when he was a teenager. The latter didn't make the record, but went on to feature as the B-side of their Jeremy single. Pearl Jam at Pinkpop Festival in June 1992: Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Dave Abbruzzese.Īlive is the first part of a trilogy of songs, followed by Once, which also featured on Pearl Jam's debut album and Footsteps. The rest, as they say is history.īut what about the song's lyrics and meaning? The band - then called Mookie Blaylock after US basketball player Daron Oshay "Mookie" Blaylock - recorded the track during a demo session in January 1991. After hearing it, they invited him to come to Seattle and asked him to join them soon after. He recorded his vocals to the music before mailing it back to the band. ![]()
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