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On 1/14/2025 at 3:27 PM, Nevada Convert said:

No, totally real. Toonkee has all the photos. Please someone get ahold of him and tell him that I would want everyone to see them. It was a great time of life. The address of the house we were renting was 5163 Acuna St. in San Diego. Eddie was good at stage diving because he'd practice jumping off the fence into the pool. Virtually all of the first PJ album lyrics and lead vocal were written by him in the backyard naked on a scaffold we used to jump in the pool. A Nazarene Church was right next door. I'd come home for lunch when I was working at Farmers Insurance (this is where Eddie got into Polaroid Camera because he's use my work camera and used extra work film I had) and he'd play me what he had written so far and I gave him my comments. 

In 1996, Rolling Stone published a bullshit article about Eddie and it pissed me off. So I decided to write a book to set the record straight. I never completely finished it. I got about 10 chapters done. I couldn't write a book, so I just wrote what happened. Here's my old non-existent website on the waybackmachine with a chapter or two of the book. I still think it's pretty interesting:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080617233126/http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pages/PearlJam.htm

"The Songwriter" is an interesting chapter linked at the bottom. 

I texted Toonkee, I haven’t seen him on here for a while. 
 

 

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On 1/14/2025 at 4:04 PM, 4UNLV said:

I texted Toonkee, I haven’t seen him on here for a while. 
 

 

 

On 1/14/2025 at 4:23 PM, Nevada Convert said:

He might still be on the MWC Board. 

Hey, Mike.  Here are the pics I was able to find that you emailed me. Thanks very much for trusting me and letting me inside your real world those years ago.

You will always be my favorite poster. The troll GOAT! 

It was always fun to watch you work everyone over all the while knowing that you were really a normal and good guy. 

THE GOAT!!!!

Peace, brother.  

 

 

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 I am a massive Pearl Jam fan and this is without a doubt Eddie's handwriting. 

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On 1/14/2025 at 6:40 PM, toonkee said:

 

Hey, Mike.  Here are the pics I was able to find that you emailed me. Thanks very much for trusting me and letting me inside your real world those years ago.

You will always be my favorite poster. The troll GOAT! 

It was always fun to watch you work everyone over all the while knowing that you were really a normal and good guy. 

THE GOAT!!!!

Peace, brother.  

 

 

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 I am a massive Pearl Jam fan and this is without a doubt Eddie's handwriting. 

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I should've given you a lot more pics, that's for sure.

I love you, brother. You're a great man. 

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On 1/14/2025 at 6:40 PM, toonkee said:

 

Hey, Mike.  Here are the pics I was able to find that you emailed me. Thanks very much for trusting me and letting me inside your real world those years ago.

You will always be my favorite poster. The troll GOAT! 

It was always fun to watch you work everyone over all the while knowing that you were really a normal and good guy. 

THE GOAT!!!!

Peace, brother.  

 

 

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 I am a massive Pearl Jam fan and this is without a doubt Eddie's handwriting. 

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I just sent you my address, and you can pick up all the photo's, book detailed outline, etc. left in my open mailbox. The original book copies are in storage in Kansas, and contact my sister suzie.ama@gmail.com when they get that stuff. You can have one if you want. Great stories. It's a lot of stuff. 

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On 1/16/2025 at 4:00 PM, Nevada Convert said:

Sorry you don't like me that much. I was just being stupid. I still think you're a good man, Brew Poke.  

I totally thought you were serious, and you trolled me well. I don't not like you. 🙂

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This is what I wrote in 1996-97. I was immature and a little bit upset with Eddie because he was getting a swollen ego at the time, so I just made a human "good and bad", but by far mostly good analysis. Today, I wouldn't write about some of the petty things. But this is what an immature kid wrote in 1996-97. The point of the entire book was to counter the 1996 RS article that was claiming that he didn't have it tough growing up, in HS or pursuing fame in Bad Radio and Indian Style. I feel bad about how some of what I wrote wasn't sensitive enough, but I really gave him tons of praise because it was real. Eddie was flawed, but also a real hero. That's what human beings ultimatey are. I considered Eddie to be my brother and still do because our bond was so amazing during those times. He did tell me some deep personal things that I never considered to be put in the book and will take to the grave, today. I never understand tell-all books and selling out loved ones. 

I really, really, really regret 9B and 9C. Totally ashamed of myself. I only included it because I wanted to show the awesome 9A. 

 

 

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When I was in middle school we had to do a "lip sync" for a drama class and the teacher expressly forbade anyone from doing Pearl Jam's "Jeremy."

I did Genesis' "No son of mine."

Isn't that ironic? Don't you think?

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On 1/16/2025 at 5:18 PM, Nevada Convert said:

This is what I wrote in 1996-97. I was immature and a little bit upset with Eddie because he was getting a swollen ego at the time, so I just made a human "good and bad", but by far mostly good analysis. Today, I wouldn't write about some of the petty things. But this is what an immature kid wrote in 1996-97. The point of the entire book was to counter the 1996 RS article that was claiming that he didn't have it tough growing up, in HS or pursuing fame in Bad Radio and Indian Style. I feel bad about how some of what I wrote wasn't sensitive enough, but I really gave him tons of praise because it was real. Eddie was flawed, but also a real hero. That's what human beings ultimatey are. I considered Eddie to be my brother and still do because our bond was so amazing during those times. He did tell me some deep personal things that I never considered to be put in the book and will take to the grave, today. I never understand tell-all books and selling out loved ones. 

 

 

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Not my jam, but nice Mr. Convert. Passion of younger years.  A fine part of the journey.  In my prayers every night, Mike. 

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On 1/16/2025 at 7:50 PM, AlpineSummer said:

Not my jam, but nice Mr. Convert. Passion of younger years.  A fine part of the journey.  In my prayers every night, Mike. 

Thanks so much. You're a good man. 

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