Chords for David Lynch conversation with Eddie Vedder

_ _ Eddie, so good to talk to you.
And I ask everybody this thing,
how old were you and where were you
that music started, you know, being a thing for you?
I think love of music.
I had a couple uncles.
I was the oldest of the kids, but I had a couple uncles who, _
you know, I'd steal their Beatles records.
When I'd go visit grandmas, they were [F#] living with grandma,
and I remember stealing Yellow [G#] Submarine,
you know, just for the week.
They'd track it down eventually,
and _ Woodstock had a lot of stuff.
So I was _ 5 or 6, but somehow, you know,
we'd go listen to the records [F]
where [E] _ they were staying,
and I'd want to take them home, and I did.
And they were OK with that.
But I think they influenced me, and then I spent some time
at a group home in Chicago.
My parents were these foster parents.
_ Then there was older kids around.
It was in Chicago,
so there was older kids and [F#] African-American kids
and [F] Irish kids, and in the basement we had a turntable,
and they had, like, Sly Family Stone [E] and all the [N] Motown stuff,
and even, like, the Jackson 5, because then there was a kid
who was, like, 8, and I was 6, and he could sing,
and I just [B] started singing to those records.
So you started singing first?
Yeah.
Yeah, I picked up a [F] guitar when I was [G] about 12.
And then when you picked up the guitar, _ did you take lessons
or did it just come out?
For about, I think I had, like, 6 lessons,
and then he went on vacation, and then [F] I just started learning
kind of [E] on my own, [F] and [F#] I never went back.
I actually just recently talked to that guitar teacher
about 2 weeks ago for the first time in 30 years.
Wow.
And so I'm going to start taking lessons again.
Yeah.
I just wanted to be from the one guy.
_ _ That's pretty good.
And so _ 13 or 14, you're playing guitar and singing.
And so where did the road _ lead you here?
_ _ _ _ Well, I kind of toughed it out for a bit, and at one point
I gave myself a certain amount of years.
_ _ I figured until I was 30 to kind of do something as a [Fm] musician.
_ _ I had a little band, and I was really into home recording,
_ because that was right at the advent of the 4-track recorder
where you could do home recording in a very [F#] consumer-friendly way
and just on cassette, 4-track cassette.
[G] And so I'd overdub and write songs.
_ I kind of would study the Pete Townsend demos
and certain people that played all the instruments [F#] themselves,
and so I'd kind of work on writing like that
and played in bands here and there and got better at it
and then _ _ _ bands and bands and then ended up in Seattle in 1989.
How'd you go out to Seattle?
A friend of mine, a good friend of mine,
_ got an offer to play drums in a band up there,
and they said, by the way, do you know any singers?
And he threw me a tape, and I was working midnight shifts
at a gas station and _ recorded on a 4-track that morning
like three songs and sent them off and never thought anything about it.
And then [Fm] a [G] couple weeks later, they [F] flew me up to Seattle
and [E] we started playing together.
[G] _ _ That's history.
Yeah, it was a good, you know, it's funny
because we've been listening to that stuff recently
because we put out some of that early [F] demo stuff
and I hadn't heard it since, what, 18 years ago or something.
And [E] _
it was [G] _ interesting to hear, almost terrifying,
because I don't really remember spending more than three or four hours
on these three songs and recording them in background vocals or whatever,
but it was probably in the end.
You know, I look to where I have a family now
and I get to travel and my life's been really quite full.
I think of it as like the best life I've ever lived _ so far.
And _ _ I think, wow, that was an important three or four [N] hours.
I didn't realize it at the time, which is probably good.
Tomorrow night, Eddie, you're going to be on the stage
at Radio City Music Hall, and it's so great of you
to come out and support this initiative
to teach 1 Million Kids Transcendental Meditation.
Tell me about how you came to be doing this
and what your thoughts are on that.
Well, the one thing I'll say is that _ because of my appreciation,
my deep appreciation for your work,
and when I got the call from you and I felt like, wow,
I've been waiting a long time for this call.
Not that I'd expected it, but _ it was _ really _ exciting
and _ not knowing necessarily what it was about.
And if you would have called and asked me, you know,
if you said there was some yard work you needed done
around the house, I would have been there.
Bless your heart, Eddie.
And then it turns out that _ what you have in mind
has much more of a societal and global connotation.
So it's _ a _ _ _ _ massive _ _ exercise _ in doing something really positive
that again is [F#] this non [F]-denominational.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ You know, you said something years ago that always stuck with me,
and _ it was something, and it was very simple,
but you said, you know, ideas, _ they're the best thing going.
Mm-hmm.
And it really, really stuck with me, and then here it is.
It's really, this one in particular is one of the better ideas.
Beautiful, Eddie.
That's really good.
Really good.
Yeah.
And thanks a million for doing this interview,
and more importantly for being on the stage tomorrow night.
And thank you for bringing this to the people
and doing it with such a strong, galvanized approach
[F] [E] and _ with such focus, and we're so proud to be part of it.
Yeah. _ _