July 23 - The details for Ed & Pete Townshend to appear on David Letterman Wednesday evening have been worked out and it's definite now. Check the schedule in PJ Events and set those VCRs!

July 7-10 - Pearl Jam would like to help get the word out to help their buddies recover their stolen gear. If there's anything you can do to help, please do...it will be greatly appreciated. Here are the details:

| 7/10/99 Updated Info | Gear List w/Serial #'s | Gear photos |

July 4, 1999, LA/Orange County

Hello all, this is Lee from Sonic Youth here... We have had a fucked-up situation come down on us over this last night--a brand new Ryder truck parked at a Ramada Inn in Orange County with ALL OF OUR GEAR IN IT was STOLEN! All of our guitars, tools, amplifiers, drums, synth -- EVERYTHING. We are fucked, both for the show tonight at the "This Ain't No Picnic" here in Orange Co., and for shows upcoming this week in Austin and Santa Fe. Our guitars are all mostly older and either very modified and/or fucked up/beat up. They are unmistakably ours, as are some of the amps, including my own 60s Fender Concert with the red/blue/yellow "Jasper Johns-style" target on it.

We are asking ANYONE with ANY INFORMATION about this to get in touch with us as soon as possible by calling our man Aaron Blitzstein in New York City at (212) 343-2314, or via email to "Mascaras66@aol.com". Call collect if you want to. Please no pranks, all, this is really serious -- all the gear we've used to write our last few LP's worth of stuff, instruments used for songs old and new which if truly lost will mean those songs will be lost forever.

Help us out if you can, there will be a reward for any info, I'm sure. All our road cases, etc, are fully marked up with our name on them, the guitars are so unusual that they won't really be too hard to mistake. ANY info at all will be appreciated.

If the thieves themselves read this, I'm sure we'd rather buy the stuff back from you than lose it forever (you fukkerz).

Here are some descriptions of gear:

• drums: green satin flame 60's Gretch kit (w/ "paisley" glow-in-the-dark kick head)
• Fender ToneMaster head & 4x12 cabinet
• Fender blackface Concert (4x10) w/ "target design" spray-painted on front
• Peavey RoadMaster head
• Marshall 4x12 cab
• Mesa Boogie 400+ bass head/4x10 cab/18" cab
• Fender Bassman head (two!)/ 2x12 fender cab
• Fender Precision Bass
• Gibson Les Paul Jr. w/ snoopy sticker
• Fender Jazzmaster's and Jaguar's -- lots of 'em, mostly modified to hell
• (original electronics pulled, different pick-up's, etc.) and usually way beat up.
• Travis Beans -- 1 Koa wood, one red beat to shit
• White roadcase/briefcase full of guitar tools

---Lee/Sonic Youth

June 25 - We've been waiting patiently for the never released "Whales" to be available on the MOM III project and now the date is finally set - look for MOM III on August 10th!

The details from Surfrider: "Pearl Jam along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Beck, Beastie Boys, Lit, Smashmouth, Brian Setzer Orchestra with Brian Wilson, Sir Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg w/members of Rage Against The Machine, Chris Isaak and the Butthole Surfers are among the talented and caring artists contributing tracks to "Mom III," Music For Our Mother Ocean, a benefit for the Surfrider Foundation. "The Whale Song" is the track Pearl Jam was gracious enough to bless us with."

Please visit the Surfrider link to learn more about helping to preserve our coastal environment. You'll find a sample of Pearl Jam's contribution at Surfdog Records.

June 20 - The 4-hour Tibet '99 cybercast of selected performances from E. Troy, Amsterdam, Sydney and Tokyo will be at 4pm PDT/7 pm EDT today - check for the necessary info and links here.

June 18 - An additional international release date: Last Kiss is scheduled for release in the UK on August 2.

June 13-16 - The first and additional Fanview/show reports are up for you now. Then, you'll find many terrific photos from the Tibetan Freedom Concert at the tibet99.com site along with videos/interviews of many artists. You'll need the MS Media Player to see the videos/interviews. For a look at the photos, go to http://209.216.207.147/flashNo/concert/live/chicagophotos/ and click on #25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 to see the photos of Ed during his set with backing by C Average.

June 9 - Some available international release dates:

Europe - Last Kiss and No Boundaries on June 14.

June 8 - The day is finally here! Pearl Jam's Last Kiss/Soldier of Love single is being released today with all proceeds going to CARE to benefit the refugees of Kosovo. You can find some interesting background information about the history of Last Kiss, written by Wayne Cochran and made famous by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in this article. J. Frank Wilson's mom contributes a very nice quote at the end.

Ongoing: You can keep up with all of Jeff's Three Fish tour happenings...gallery photos are in the Gallery and tour reports on the Synergy Message Pit.

Upcoming: Ed will be at the Tibetan Freedom Concert on Sunday. The TFC will be both on the radio and cybercast and you can register for the cybercast on the Tibet99.com. site. (Click on Concerts and then Live/Highlights to register.)

The No Boundaries benefit compilation, also with Last Kiss and Soldier of Love, will be released next Tuesday, June 15th.

May 22 - It won't be long now before the album is available...catch a sneak preview of No Boundaries from the Epic sound clips. You can also make a donation online for the refugees of Kosovo while you're there. (click on the small photo to view the enlarged cover art.)

May 12 - There's a rumor going around... No Boundaries is not the name of Pearl Jam's new album. See this next paragraph for info on the Sony benefit compilation album.

May 12 - The Details! We're happy to pass along the latest jammy info that you'll be able to find Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss/Soldier of Love" single in the U.S. on June 8th and the Epic compilation benefit album, entitled No Boundaries on June 15th; No Boundaries will feature both "Last Kiss" and "Soldier of Love," released initially as the 1998 Pearl Jam Fan Club Christmas single. Other artists appearing on "No Boundaries" and contributing to the cause are Rage Against The Machine, Alanis Morrisette, Neil Young, Oasis, KoRn, Black Sabbath, Indigo Girls, Ben Folds Five, Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Sarah McLachlan, Bush, Tori Amos, and Jamiroquai. The initial donation by Epic Records of $1,000,000 will be distributed among CARE, OXFAM and Doctors Without Borders, three international relief organizations working to provide food, shelter, medical care and other basic needs to the refugees of Kosovo. (We'll pass along release dates for other countries if they are different as soon as we can. Please check back for updates.)

May 5-8 - Do you like to bid on Pearl Jam memorabilia? Pearl Jam have contributed an item to raise funds for a wonderful cause: the Milarepa Fund's efforts to free Tibet from Chinese tyranny. Bidding is now open for an autographed copy of Vs. at the Milarepa Fund auction.

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Love and Peace,
OfTheSea and DigitalKat

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