But these things will take time, but my friend is going to be gone forever, he said.
I will love him forever, he later concluded.
During that concert, he responded to a fan shouting out I love you by thanking the person.
Im thinking of a lot of people tonight, he said.
And some in particular and their families.
And I just know that healing takes time if it ever happens.
It takes time, and that means you have to start somewhere.
So let it be music.
Let it be love and togetherness.
Video of Vedders speech from Tuesday isnt currently available, but read the transcript in full below.
Sometimes its hard to concentrate these days.
I was thinking about the history of this building and the Bowie history.
So I started to think about that and my mind began to wander.
Its not a good… [Applause starts] No, no, no, no.
And all these memories started coming in about 1:30 a.m. like woke me up.
Like big memories, memories I would think about all the time.
Like the memories were big muscles.
And then I couldnt stop the memories.
But then it was fine because then it got into little memories.
It just kept going and going and going.
And I didnt want to be sad, wanted to be grateful, not sad.
[Applause and standing ovation]
