Pearl Jam raise their eyebrows at AT&T's edited webcast of their Lollapalooza set.
According to Billboard, certain segments of Pearl Jam's Sunday night closer set at Lollapalooza were censored on the AT&T 'Blue Room' webcast. The band, no strangers to a bit of onstage agitprop ad-libbing, ended their classic 'Daughter' with a segue into Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall', containing the lyrical adjustments "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find another home".Fans discovered that when they watched AT&T's webcast, these lines were edited out. When the telecommunications giant were grilled about the missing parts, they told Lollapalooza that their content monitor cut them by mistake.
Pearl Jam didn't necessarily buy this explanation, stating on their website that the incident was "a wake up call, and it's about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band."
Responding to comments made by AT&T ex-CEO Edward Whitacre that the company would compromise their market share by blocking content, Pearl Jam wrote "If a company that is controlling a webcast is cutting out bits of our performance -not based on laws, but on their own preferences and interpretations - fans have little choice but to watch the censored version."
