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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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Chicago
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Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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