Rodman Fouls Pearl Jam's Performance In Dallas

DALLAS - Dennis Rodman, shirtless, shoeless and guzzling wine from a bottle, bounded onstage during last night's Pearl Jam show at Reunion Arena.

The Chicago Bulls star and Dallas native made his unexpected entrance during the fourth song of the concert and began dancing and bowing down in front of his friend, lead singer Eddie Vedder.

So far, so good.

But it quickly became apparent that Rodman wasn't interested in just a cameo. He was hellbent on "performing" the entire show with the five-man band.

"I'm guessing you've been drinking for about three days straight," Vedder said after Rodman grabbed the microphone and chanted, "Are you having a good time?" over the guitar overture in "Corduroy."

He also commandeered the mike and tried to sing a few lines in "Alive" and then again in "Spin the Black Circle."

Someone backstage wisely cut off the sound.

Pearl Jam's members obviously didn't want him there - guitarist Stone Gossard recommended in indelicate language that he get off the stage.

But since he wasn't leaving and they weren't willing to have security guards haul him away, they tried to make the best of it.

At first, they persuaded him to sit down on a stool next to the drum kit so he would stop disrupting the music.

Later, Vedder decided to use the hulking athlete as a prop - climbing atop his shoulders and singing "Alive" as Rodman jumped up and down across the stage.

He finally left after about 45 minutes when Jeff Ament shooed him off the stool so he could sit on it and play stand-up bass on "Off He Goes."