Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Pearl Jams again
Seattle band goes back to its rock roots for the new album Backspacer
By JASON MACNEIL, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
When longtime Seattle rock group Pearl Jam began working on their new studio album, the idea was to delete any of the sonic fat which appeared on some of their earlier efforts.
Hence, it seems quite suitable that the band chose Backspacer as its album title.
"I think basically we wanted it to be pretty focused," guitarist Stone Gossard says backstage -- alongside guitarist Mike McCready -- before a Toronto show last Friday. "If it wasn't really developing (into) a song or a plot, then it was, 'Just get rid of it.' We did the right work for them, they're fresh and they're up-tempo but they're not over-thought."
Backspacer, out Sept. 20, has 11 songs and clocks in at 36 minutes, 10 minutes less than their previous shortest effort, Vs., back in 1993. Gossard also says McCready, drummer Matt Cameron, bassist Jeff Ament and himself worked on the album while Eddie Vedder toured solo last year behind the Into the Wild soundtrack.
"With this album, the band was in full control of it to start out with. Ed wasn't involved," he says. "We got our songs together and got what was the base of the record, the backbone of it. Ed came in and it started to morph. We carried the torch and passed it to Ed and he inhabited it all. Once he wrapped his head around the songs, he knew how to finish them and we trusted him with that."
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, early reviews of Backspacer have tossed around the "New Wave" term quite a bit. But don't expect Pearl Jam to be wearing skinny ties and trading guitars for synthesizers anytime soon. From crisp, punchy rockers like Supersonic and Got Some to broader, well-rounded anthems like Amongst the Waves and Unthought Known, it's quite solid from start to finish.
As for favourites, McCready says Just Breathe, one of two Vedder-led acoustic-driven numbers, is his pick.
"I think Ed's harmonies when he comes in on the chorus are so striking and phenomenal and moving that it just draws me in every time I hear it," he says. "It's a beautiful love song."
Meanwhile, Gossard selects The End, the other number in a similar style.
"I think The End is one of the greatest songs ever written -- it's ridiculous lyrical, structural simplicity and finger-picking," he says. "How close his voice is to just breaking but it doesn't. I think it's exciting that he wanted to do some of that with this band too. It was a great opportunity for this band to have that as a whole rather than to try and separate it."
So far on their current tour, Pearl Jam has only performed a handful of songs from Backspacer, including the single The Fixer. McCready says more of the new material will appear in concert once the album is officially released.
"I think playing the new songs is just a joy," he says. "It's exciting for us as musicians because it's new art and (we) see how people react to it. New is always exciting, I want to play more of it."
But don't expect Pearl Jam to be out on the road months at a time supporting it. Gossard says they will continue touring, but would "love to make records and tour in smaller increments over the next 20 years."
It goes against the traditional music industry grain, but that's nothing new for these guys.
"There's a real collective energy that's built over the years," Gossard says. "There were so many times where people said, 'You're going to screw your career.' Everything that everyone said was going to be the end of us ended up being something that we grew from and that people respected."
After reissuing its debut album Ten earlier this year, Pearl Jam already has some extra songs hanging around for what will be its tenth studio album.
No timeline or musical direction has yet to take shape, but according to guitarist Mike McCready, one of the songs from the Backspacer sessions is a "big monster song of Ed's."
"It's like a nine-minute song, so there was a lot of experimenting with stuff that didn't fit in," guitarist Stone Gossard adds. "It has an enormous jam section."
"There are song ideas that are pretty flushed out, they're not all down but there's some pretty good stuff," McCready says.
Pearl Jam also opened and closed its Toronto gig with Neil Young covers, but oddly enough, the band has never played at Massey Hall.
Eddie Vedder played the venue two nights in August, 2008.
"Is that like a 2200-seater?" McCready asks. "We have one of those in Seattle, The Paramount, I love playing those venues."
And while neither has gone through Young's massive Archives Vol. 1 box set from start to finish, Gossard says he's still amazed by the man Vedder calls "Uncle Neil."
"I just saw the American Masters thing and it's so shockingly good," he says.
"He's one of a kind. He's really challenged everybody in terms of what's possible and how to stick to your guns and be totally relevant still. He's a total dreamer. He's very attached with manifesting his imagination. It's crazy."
Interview from Brazil. The band explained song by song.
My English sucks, but I wrote some notes:
Gonna see my friend
Written by Vedder in a small room.
He didn't want a loud song.
Stone said it seems inspired by Mudhoney.
Got Some:
Inspired by new wave from the 80's
It's about a drug dealer. The drug is a song.
Johnny Guitar:
It's about a man falling in love with a woman
Inspired by a Johnny Guitar's album cover.
Just Breath:
Written by Ed in a little room, all windows opened and a record player. He had a great and strong feeling and wrote the lyrics about the best moments of our lives; moments when we need to stop and just breath.
Among the waves:
Matt said it is a classic PJ song.
Supersonic:
Ed: it's about the love for music; the power of music.
Mike: Ramones+Led Zeppelin and even Black Sabbath
Speed of Sound:
Jeff: The last song recorded; it's his favourite.
The End:
Ed: Written on Saturday and recorded on Monday. He thought the other guys wouldn't want to record it.
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Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
It's growing up just like me.
Interview from Brazil. The band explained song by song.
My English sucks, but I wrote some notes:
Gonna see my friend
Written by Vedder in a small room.
He didn't want a loud song.
Stone said it seems inspired by Mudhoney.
Got Some:
Inspired by new wave from the 80's
It's about a drug dealer
Johnny Guitar:
It's about a man falling in love with a woman
Inspired by a Johnny Guitar's album cover.
Just Breath:
Written by Ed in a little room, all windows opened and a record player. He had a great and strong feeling and wrote the lyrics about the best moments of our lives; moments when we need to stop and just breath.
Among the waves:
Matt said it is a classic PJ song.
Supersonic:
Ed: it's about the love for music; the power of music.
Mike: Ramones+Led Zeppelin and even Black Sabbath
Speed of Sound:
Jeff: The last song recorded; it's his favourite.
The End:
Ed: Written on Saturday and recorded on Monday. He thought the other guys wouldn't want to record it.
Interview from Brazil. The band explained song by song.
My English sucks, but I wrote some notes:
Gonna see my friend
Written by Vedder in a small room.
He didn't want a loud song.
Stone said it seems inspired by Mudhoney.
Got Some:
Inspired by new wave from the 80's
It's about a drug dealer
Johnny Guitar:
It's about a man falling in love with a woman
Inspired by a Johnny Guitar's album cover.
Just Breath:
Written by Ed in a little room, all windows opened and a record player. He had a great and strong feeling and wrote the lyrics about the best moments of our lives; moments when we need to stop and just breath.
Among the waves:
Matt said it is a classic PJ song.
Supersonic:
Ed: it's about the love for music; the power of music.
Mike: Ramones+Led Zeppelin and even Black Sabbath
Speed of Sound:
Jeff: The last song recorded; it's his favourite.
The End:
Ed: Written on Saturday and recorded on Monday. He thought the other guys wouldn't want to record it.
it's official...i cant be more excited to hear this album. hopefully soon
I translated some of it, mainly the political parts, which make Eddie come off like a huge asshole when it comes to politics. Very self-righteous. He wanted to dance in the street when Obama was elected. He said it stopped raining for a day after he was elected. Pretty funny stuff.
I apologize for anything negative I said about Eddie in that article, I really sincerely apologize. I even posted a formal apology on the site for it too, I feel very guilty for calling one my favorite musicians "condescending" and other mean words about his political opinions. I should have thought before I wrote it.
I apologize for anything negative I said about Eddie in that article, I really sincerely apologize. I even posted a formal apology on the site for it too, I feel very guilty for calling one my favorite musicians "condescending" and other mean words about his political opinions. I should have thought before I wrote it.
I have to udate all my files (havent done it since Feb :oops: ) and am loving these interviews that I can just lash on and listen to while I work...thanks Kat (you hot young thing you )
For those of you who haven't caught this excellent article from Poland, which I wrote up recently, here's a link to the thread. Some interesting stuff about different songs on the new record, about the band's HQ, how the band seem to remember each gig very vividly and so on... it's a monster article, happy reading.
T
PM me or Sea any updates if you wish...and thank you, everyone. Together we can keep it up-to-date (like the set list threads) and everyone can hear what's on their minds. Oh, and the Backspacer release date is September 20.
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My eyes are hurting from trying to read all of these. I need to take a break, but thanks this will keep me busy for a while.
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:::My eyes are hurting from trying to read all of these. I need to take a break, but thanks this will keep me busy for a while.::::
There's a lot of audio in the list and that should help.
:::My eyes are hurting from trying to read all of these. I need to take a break, but thanks this will keep me busy for a while.::::
There's a lot of audio in the list and that should help.
i thought exactly the same..the audio once is a brake of reading..
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Here is an interview/live review from the 9-17-09 edition of Rolling Stone with Steve Colbert on the cover. I don't believe this has been available online so I cannot provide a link.
Backstage with Vedder and Co. in Chicago. Plus: Supercharged new tunes
By: Brian Hiatt
AS EDDIE VEDDER SITS backstage in a Chicago arena, puzzling over the set list for tonight's Pearl Jam show, he's wearing a stage outfit that even the Dude would reject as a touch too casual: knee-length surfing shorts; a T-shirt decorated with a picture of Felix the Cat holding a bomb; suede half-boots; and a pair of long white socks from his band's merchandise collection. "We make things we can use," Vedder says, smiling underneath his thick beard. "I mean, I've never had to buy socks again."
More than ever, Pearl Jam is a self-contained, self-sustaining entity. Their new album, September 20th's Backspacer, will be the first that the band will release on its own, with no U.S. record label. Until the album comes out, Pearl Jam are performing only a couple of the disc's tautly arranged, hypermelodic tunes, but their enthusiasm for the material is obvious: Midway through the show, as Stone Gossard kicks into the Stones-y riff of the first single, "The Fixer," Vedder leaps straight up in the air as if it's still 1991.
"Fight to get it back again," he howls over and over as the song concludes. The new tunes are as punchy and fast as anything they've ever written: "Normally, as you get older, things start to settle down a little bit," says Vedder. "And you play more like, you know, porch songs, at that porch tempo — the tempo of your rocking chair," Vedder says. "But what feels like lightning in a bottle to us is still the stuff that has momentum."
Although the band is fascinated by the lavish production of U2's 360° Tour — Vedder even had a vivid dream about it recently — Pearl Jam's own approach is as minimal as arena rock gets. "We haven't had a discussion about what we're going to do about the stage setup," Gossard says with a laugh after the show, between sips of red wine. "Maybe we should have a mirror ball this time." Adds Vedder, "Our approach is, we just keep playing."
Along the way, Pearl Jam shake up their set lists, night after night — this evening's show includes 21 songs they didn't play the previous night in Chicago, including "Nothingman" and the recently revived rarity "Brother" — plus covers (the Who's "The Real Me," Neil Young's "Fuckin' Up," and chunks of Pink Floyd and Sleater-Kinney).
Vedder is in charge of the set lists: "We give him a lot of control," says Gossard, "because he's shown himself to be good at using that control." The singer walks a delicate balance between hits and obscurities. "It's a big room, so you try to put in enough things people know," Vedder says. "And then there's a whole other faction that's very unhappy unless we play something we've only played twice before."
Tonight, one member of that faction — wearing a homemade T-shirt emblazoned with the words "No 'Even Flow'" — elicits Vedder's only grumpy moment: "We take requests, not orders, sir," he says after the band finishes that very song, with lead guitarist Mike McCready and drummer Matt Cameron stretching out on wild solos. "You should know that by now."
Before the show, Vedder met with his friend Tomas Young, an Iraq War vet paralyzed from the chest down after taking a bullet to the spine, who was featured in the documentary Body of War. Young brought his brother Nathan, who just returned safely from his own latest tour of duty. Nathan asked Vedder to play the stark anti-war ballad "No More" — and that was one request Vedder treated as an order. "If a soldier asks you to play this song," he says, "you play it."
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it´s in german, but ed´s comments are subtiteled.
sorry, it was already posted: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=106611
Yes, please...
It's growing up just like me.
http://www.nme.com/video/bcid/34124633001/search/NME
(sorry if it's already been posted)
A german interview about backspacer
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Pearl Jams again
Seattle band goes back to its rock roots for the new album Backspacer
By JASON MACNEIL, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
When longtime Seattle rock group Pearl Jam began working on their new studio album, the idea was to delete any of the sonic fat which appeared on some of their earlier efforts.
Hence, it seems quite suitable that the band chose Backspacer as its album title.
"I think basically we wanted it to be pretty focused," guitarist Stone Gossard says backstage -- alongside guitarist Mike McCready -- before a Toronto show last Friday. "If it wasn't really developing (into) a song or a plot, then it was, 'Just get rid of it.' We did the right work for them, they're fresh and they're up-tempo but they're not over-thought."
Backspacer, out Sept. 20, has 11 songs and clocks in at 36 minutes, 10 minutes less than their previous shortest effort, Vs., back in 1993. Gossard also says McCready, drummer Matt Cameron, bassist Jeff Ament and himself worked on the album while Eddie Vedder toured solo last year behind the Into the Wild soundtrack.
"With this album, the band was in full control of it to start out with. Ed wasn't involved," he says. "We got our songs together and got what was the base of the record, the backbone of it. Ed came in and it started to morph. We carried the torch and passed it to Ed and he inhabited it all. Once he wrapped his head around the songs, he knew how to finish them and we trusted him with that."
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, early reviews of Backspacer have tossed around the "New Wave" term quite a bit. But don't expect Pearl Jam to be wearing skinny ties and trading guitars for synthesizers anytime soon. From crisp, punchy rockers like Supersonic and Got Some to broader, well-rounded anthems like Amongst the Waves and Unthought Known, it's quite solid from start to finish.
As for favourites, McCready says Just Breathe, one of two Vedder-led acoustic-driven numbers, is his pick.
"I think Ed's harmonies when he comes in on the chorus are so striking and phenomenal and moving that it just draws me in every time I hear it," he says. "It's a beautiful love song."
Meanwhile, Gossard selects The End, the other number in a similar style.
"I think The End is one of the greatest songs ever written -- it's ridiculous lyrical, structural simplicity and finger-picking," he says. "How close his voice is to just breaking but it doesn't. I think it's exciting that he wanted to do some of that with this band too. It was a great opportunity for this band to have that as a whole rather than to try and separate it."
So far on their current tour, Pearl Jam has only performed a handful of songs from Backspacer, including the single The Fixer. McCready says more of the new material will appear in concert once the album is officially released.
"I think playing the new songs is just a joy," he says. "It's exciting for us as musicians because it's new art and (we) see how people react to it. New is always exciting, I want to play more of it."
But don't expect Pearl Jam to be out on the road months at a time supporting it. Gossard says they will continue touring, but would "love to make records and tour in smaller increments over the next 20 years."
It goes against the traditional music industry grain, but that's nothing new for these guys.
"There's a real collective energy that's built over the years," Gossard says. "There were so many times where people said, 'You're going to screw your career.' Everything that everyone said was going to be the end of us ended up being something that we grew from and that people respected."
http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDis ... ?e=1712714
After reissuing its debut album Ten earlier this year, Pearl Jam already has some extra songs hanging around for what will be its tenth studio album.
No timeline or musical direction has yet to take shape, but according to guitarist Mike McCready, one of the songs from the Backspacer sessions is a "big monster song of Ed's."
"It's like a nine-minute song, so there was a lot of experimenting with stuff that didn't fit in," guitarist Stone Gossard adds. "It has an enormous jam section."
"There are song ideas that are pretty flushed out, they're not all down but there's some pretty good stuff," McCready says.
Pearl Jam also opened and closed its Toronto gig with Neil Young covers, but oddly enough, the band has never played at Massey Hall.
Eddie Vedder played the venue two nights in August, 2008.
"Is that like a 2200-seater?" McCready asks. "We have one of those in Seattle, The Paramount, I love playing those venues."
And while neither has gone through Young's massive Archives Vol. 1 box set from start to finish, Gossard says he's still amazed by the man Vedder calls "Uncle Neil."
"I just saw the American Masters thing and it's so shockingly good," he says.
"He's one of a kind. He's really challenged everybody in terms of what's possible and how to stick to your guns and be totally relevant still. He's a total dreamer. He's very attached with manifesting his imagination. It's crazy."
http://www.exploremusic.com/exclusives/ ... die-Vedder
Interview from Brazil. The band explained song by song.
It's growing up just like me.
My English sucks, but I wrote some notes:
Gonna see my friend
Written by Vedder in a small room.
He didn't want a loud song.
Stone said it seems inspired by Mudhoney.
Got Some:
Inspired by new wave from the 80's
It's about a drug dealer. The drug is a song.
Johnny Guitar:
It's about a man falling in love with a woman
Inspired by a Johnny Guitar's album cover.
Just Breath:
Written by Ed in a little room, all windows opened and a record player. He had a great and strong feeling and wrote the lyrics about the best moments of our lives; moments when we need to stop and just breath.
Among the waves:
Matt said it is a classic PJ song.
Supersonic:
Ed: it's about the love for music; the power of music.
Mike: Ramones+Led Zeppelin and even Black Sabbath
Speed of Sound:
Jeff: The last song recorded; it's his favourite.
The End:
Ed: Written on Saturday and recorded on Monday. He thought the other guys wouldn't want to record it.
It's growing up just like me.
thanks for the translation!!
this album just gets better and better!!
Matt said it is a classic PJ song.
And he is correct, the ONLY classic Pearl Jam sounding song on the CD..the CD is "punky"
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• 2008-06-19• 2009-10-27 2009-10-28 •2009-10-30
• 2009-10-31
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*Eddie Vedder 2011-06-25
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- 2013=10-22
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it's official...i cant be more excited to hear this album. hopefully soon
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Int @ Ed Vedder from 'La Repubblica', Italy, 08.30.2009
pearljamonline.it
http://www.grungereport.net/2009/08/31/ ... -politics/
http://www.grungereport.net/2009/09/02/ ... cal-story/
Your blog - free speech is free speech brother.
This appeared on Sunday August 30th.
T
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=109511
eddie vedder pictures!
20 minutes long TV interview from Berlin with Ed and Matt.
2007:München,Düsseldorf,Nijmegen
2008:NY1,NY2,Mansfield1,Mansfield2
2009:London,Rotterdam,Berlin,Manchester,London
2010:NY1,NY2,Dublin,Belfast,Berlin
2011:PJ20,Montreal,TorontoI+II,Hamilton
2012:Amsterdam I+II, Prague, Berlin I+II, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen
2013: Phoenix, San Diego, LA I+II, Oakland
2014: Amsterdam I+II, Vienna, Berlin
2016: Philly I+II, MSG I+II
q and a with ed from irish independent newspaper
2009:Manchester,London 2010:Dublin,Belfast,London,Berlin 2012: Manchester 1 +2,Stockholm,copenhagen 2013: New York ,Philadelphia
2014: Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes 2018: London 1, Lisbon 2022: London 1+ 2, Krakow 2023: Austin 1 + 2
There's a lot of audio in the list and that should help.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
"New music, new friends. Pearl Jam."
I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks. - Stone
"This record is us speaking out in class." -EV on PJ
Backstage with Vedder and Co. in Chicago. Plus: Supercharged new tunes
By: Brian Hiatt
AS EDDIE VEDDER SITS backstage in a Chicago arena, puzzling over the set list for tonight's Pearl Jam show, he's wearing a stage outfit that even the Dude would reject as a touch too casual: knee-length surfing shorts; a T-shirt decorated with a picture of Felix the Cat holding a bomb; suede half-boots; and a pair of long white socks from his band's merchandise collection. "We make things we can use," Vedder says, smiling underneath his thick beard. "I mean, I've never had to buy socks again."
More than ever, Pearl Jam is a self-contained, self-sustaining entity. Their new album, September 20th's Backspacer, will be the first that the band will release on its own, with no U.S. record label. Until the album comes out, Pearl Jam are performing only a couple of the disc's tautly arranged, hypermelodic tunes, but their enthusiasm for the material is obvious: Midway through the show, as Stone Gossard kicks into the Stones-y riff of the first single, "The Fixer," Vedder leaps straight up in the air as if it's still 1991.
"Fight to get it back again," he howls over and over as the song concludes. The new tunes are as punchy and fast as anything they've ever written: "Normally, as you get older, things start to settle down a little bit," says Vedder. "And you play more like, you know, porch songs, at that porch tempo — the tempo of your rocking chair," Vedder says. "But what feels like lightning in a bottle to us is still the stuff that has momentum."
Although the band is fascinated by the lavish production of U2's 360° Tour — Vedder even had a vivid dream about it recently — Pearl Jam's own approach is as minimal as arena rock gets. "We haven't had a discussion about what we're going to do about the stage setup," Gossard says with a laugh after the show, between sips of red wine. "Maybe we should have a mirror ball this time." Adds Vedder, "Our approach is, we just keep playing."
Along the way, Pearl Jam shake up their set lists, night after night — this evening's show includes 21 songs they didn't play the previous night in Chicago, including "Nothingman" and the recently revived rarity "Brother" — plus covers (the Who's "The Real Me," Neil Young's "Fuckin' Up," and chunks of Pink Floyd and Sleater-Kinney).
Vedder is in charge of the set lists: "We give him a lot of control," says Gossard, "because he's shown himself to be good at using that control." The singer walks a delicate balance between hits and obscurities. "It's a big room, so you try to put in enough things people know," Vedder says. "And then there's a whole other faction that's very unhappy unless we play something we've only played twice before."
Tonight, one member of that faction — wearing a homemade T-shirt emblazoned with the words "No 'Even Flow'" — elicits Vedder's only grumpy moment: "We take requests, not orders, sir," he says after the band finishes that very song, with lead guitarist Mike McCready and drummer Matt Cameron stretching out on wild solos. "You should know that by now."
Before the show, Vedder met with his friend Tomas Young, an Iraq War vet paralyzed from the chest down after taking a bullet to the spine, who was featured in the documentary Body of War. Young brought his brother Nathan, who just returned safely from his own latest tour of duty. Nathan asked Vedder to play the stark anti-war ballad "No More" — and that was one request Vedder treated as an order. "If a soldier asks you to play this song," he says, "you play it."