The odd story involving Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam selling tickemaster tickets while involved in a dispute with the company.


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It was an odd site to see in late summer of 1995 - Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder for one afternoon was selling ticketmaster tickets while his group was embroiled in a multi-year battle with the ticket giant. How did it happen? Well, i’ll tell you what, it’s not a tragic story and you can even thank major league baseball.
Established in 1988, Easy Street Records has been a staple of Seattle - for over 3 decades. Fast forward to 1994 and major league baseball went on strike. The strike lasted until April of 95 resulting in a shortened season that year. At the end of the regular season, in September the Seattle Mariners and California Angels finished with the same record. The league added one game to the schedule that would see both teams square off to play a tie breaker to determine the winner of the american league west division. The winner would advance to the playoffs and play the New York Yankees. The game was scheduled to be played at the Kingdome in Seattle, on October 2, 1995. Keep in mind, the mariners in their franchise history had never made the playoffs, so of course there was a lot of excitement around the city..
By September of 1995 Pearl Jam was about a year removed from their last release the previous year’s Vitalogy. Despite having back to back number 1 recpords the group was going through a lot of turmoil - refusing to do music videos for fear of being overexposed, they were also embroiled in a battle with ticketmaster dating back to 1993 and they wer e also coming to terms with fame,
Pearl Jam had brought what they saw as unfair business practices by Ticketmaster to the attention of the US government in the spring of 94. You might remember bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard testifying in front of congress that year about the whole issue. If you guys are interested i’ve done a fairly long video on their battle with ticketmaster, the link is down below.
Pearl Jam contended that the box office giant, scooped up its competitors, and took advantage of it’s market share by collecting sky-high service fees and signed excluisivty deals with major concert venues. As a result, Pearl Jam claimed, that fans suffered. , but by June of 1995 The Justice Department closed it’s investigation, with the ticket giant breathing a sigh of relief. Analysts believed the government folded against ticketmaster because it would have been a difficult case to prosecute, primarily because venue owners and promoters willingly signed the exclusivity contracts. Also, the justice department was short staffed and was already preoccupied with an anti-trust fight with Microsoft. To some, it was a matter of political convenience.
For Pearl Jam’s their concerts throughout the middle of the 90’s saw them play non-ticketmaster venues and the results were mixed. The band had to cancel some shows due to logistical reasons.
So in September of 1995, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was shopping at Easy Street Records.. The same day he was at the store, it was announced that tickets for the mariners angels game would be sold through ticketmaster agents, one of which was easy street records. In fact the record store was the only ticketmaster agent in the western part of Seattle It was a rainy Sunday when the announcement was made, it was odd because never rains in seattle. Sunday was a day that was typically slow for the record store. Normally, only one employee worked that day, but shortly after teh announcement was made, thousands of people descended on the store with a linup stretching over several city blocks and impacting traffic. Here’s Eddie vEDDER DISCUSSING WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
The owner of the store, Matt Vaughn was on vacation in Portland at the time and was worried that one employee couldn’t handle the swell of visitors. So he quickly rang up the store, buthe couldn’t get through to his employee named Clarke who was on shift that da

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