Pearl Jam : Censored

Three-fourths of the way through Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza set, Eddie Vedder began singing. "George Bush, leave this world alone!" - but all fans watching via the online stream on AT&T's Blue Room Web site got was sixteen seconds of silence. AT&T eventually admitted that Davie Brown Entertainment, the subcontractor AT&T hired to Webcast the festival, pulled the audio when Vedder got political. " We regret that it happened," says AT&T spokesman. Pearl Jam have since posted the unedited clip on their Web site, " I don't believe that a capitalist corporation....has the right to subvert the First Amendment if the Constitution, " guitarist Mike McCready wrote in a statement. "When one person or a company decides what others can hear, that is a totalitarian thinking!"