Here's Eddie Vedder paying tribute to Daniel Johnston

Pearl Jam fans are very familiar with Eddie Vedder’s tendency to take some time and get a little chatty during concerts. More monologue than stage banter, it usually indicates that a show is turning away from angry Pearl Jam songs and toward sad Eddie Vedder songs, and that’s exactly what happened during Vedder’s headlining set at California’s Ohana Festival this weekend—though he played someone else’s sad song. As reported by Far Out Magazine, Vedder took a moment to tell a story about a “great, great songwriter” who died recently, saying this guy would make tapes of his songs and sell them in record stores around Austin, Texas, and then those tapes eventually ended up in other people’s hands and then “before you knew it, everybody was talking and sharing the genius of this young man.”