Celebs
The Pearl Jam frontman seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself at TD Garden Sunday.
Sorry, Pearl Jam fans — apparently the legendary band’s lead singer, Eddie Vedder, didn’t get an invite up to the stage at Sunday night’s Bruce Springsteen concert at TD Garden. But by all accounts he enjoyed the show from the pit down front.
Springsteen fan sites and celebrity spotters have been posting pictures snapped of the Pearl Jam frontman at the show, clad in what looked like a barn jacket and a trucker hat. He was all smiles in the snapshots, no doubt agreeing wholeheartedly with Springsteen’s full-throated criticisms of the current presidential administration.
Vedder has been known to pop up at Springsteen concerts in the past, joining the Boss on stage in both Chicago and Seattle over the years (and once, oddly enough, in Brisbane, Australia). He also performed a cover of “My City of Ruins” when Springsteen was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2009.
Vedder wasn’t the only celeb in the TD Garden crowd on Sunday, though. J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, fresh off his new honorary doctorate from MassArt, posted Tuesday about his backstage meeting with his longtime friend, noting that Springsteen and the E Street Band excelled at “showing Boston how it’s done.”
Wolf has shown up on stage at Springsteen’s Boston shows more times than most people can count, and practically took over Springsteen sideman Stevie Van Zandt’s Orpheum show in 2017.
Perhaps more importantly, though, there was a local hero in the crowd (and backstage) as well: Ngangandi Relle Maroni Minter, political director at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, posted Monday about his meet-up with Springsteen. MIRA was the featured nonprofit at Sunday’s concert, earning a shoutout from Springsteen from the stage and receiving donations collected from fans as they exited the venue.
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