Friday, August 14, 2009

Old Mohawk Anecdote



In November 2001, as a "small political protest" against the bombing of Afghanistan, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder got a mohawk.

"I didn't want to walk around looking normal," he explained, "like maybe someone thought I was OK with the world."

Vedder's new do brought some unintended consequences.

"A day or two after I'd got my hair cut, I was out trying to find a gift for someone," he recalled, "and I was accused of shoplifting, of stealing some earrings! It was definitely the hair..."

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