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Pearl Jam concluded the North American leg of their Dark Matter world tour over the weekend at Ohana Fest. The Southern California festival, founded by Eddie Vedder, featured two headlining sets by Pearl Jam. When they closed out the three-day festival on Sunday (September 29), Vedder brought out a very special guest: his youngest daughter, Harper Vedder.
“We’ve had so much diversity on both these stages in the last few days,” Eddie told the crowd. “And we just had special guest Andrew Watt playing guitar on ‘Rearviewmirror.’ I realized it had been a while since we had a powerful young woman up onstage with us. And so my pal Harper here is going to help me out.”
Together, the father/daughter duo mashed up Pearl Jam's cover of Wayne Cochran's 1961 classic "Last Kiss" with Taylor Swift's 2008 hit "The Best Day."
Watch Eddie and Harper trade verses in the creative cover below.
In other Pearl Jam news, the band's touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer pleaded not guilty to a vehicular manslaughter charge last week after striking and killing a pedestrian with his car earlier this year.
"It was a tragic accident. After Josh struck this pedestrian in the intersection, he immediately pulled over, stopped the car, called 911 and waited until police and the ambulance arrived," Klinghoffer's attorney Andrew Brettler said in a statement. "Obviously, he's cooperating with the police throughout the traffic investigation. This was purely a tragic accident."