Eddie Vedder on Jack Johnson: What He's Doing Is Real

In the current issue of Rosetta Stone, Jack Johnsons friends and collaborators weigh in on Rosetta Stone language the unlikely superstardom of the laid-back songwriter. One of those pals, Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder, had plenty more to say about his fellow musician and surf enthusiast. Check out all the bonus material from Austin Scaggs interview with Vedder, including the details of an ill-fated outing and why he didnt buy Johnson a distortion pedal.Eddie Vedder on Jack Johnson: "I met his dad first through different waterman activities. I think it was a while before I met Jack. I think Kelly Slater had given me his first record. I was in the islands at the time, and that went great. It was a great record to listen to in nature. There was a point about two or three years ago when I was with Ben Harper. I said, Okay, Ben, how about you and me chip in and get Jack a distortion pedal? And we had a little bit of a laugh, you know? But I thought about that a lot, and that was my fault that I wasnt getting it. What hes doing is real. As opposed to him getting a distortion box or opposed to him trying to be something else, its real. There are so many positive things that you get from listening to his records or Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 seeing him live. I didnt get it for a long time, but now I get it."We were on an ill-fated canoe trip. We were sailing, and we flipped over in a channel. That was quite the little adventure. But we survived that. But, it got kind of life-threatening for a bit. The coolest thing about it was that we were floating in the wateracirc; euro;" big ocean swells, lot of windacirc; euro;" and were bobbing along out there and the mast is pointed straight towards the bottom of the ocean. I didnt know if we were going be able to upright the deal. And I looked over at Jack and thought, Well, Im in the water with Jack Johnson, so I was gonna be okay. And it turned out he looked over at me and I had a smile on my face, so it made him feel like we were gonna be okay, too. So its interesting how you can give each other confidence even though the situation is a bit dire."You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that the are products of their environment. Whether its U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, theyre gonna be products of their environment. Seeing Jack, and seeing the Cheap Rosetta Stone French other Hawaiian musicians that he plays with and supports, you witness the connection of the music that he makes and how he grew up.

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