My favourite song on the album is ‘The Fixer’, it’s got a lot of different vocal harmonies which are littered throughout the album… MM: Matt wrote that one…
MC: I didn’t write the lyrics! (laughs). I did the melody. Ed brought in a lot of pop aspects to the song.
"I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
Thank you for your translation!!
The polish music press is teaching a lesson: how to interview this band making good questions.
It's not just Kurt Cobain, Ticketmaster or Grunge.
Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
It's growing up just like me.
So, here is part 5, one more like this to go. Please bump this thread if you like it, for the guys at 'Teraz Rock' who wrote this monster and for me who takes no credit for their wonderful work T
I wonder if the return to Ten, hearing that record again, didn’t inspire you to create some songs in the spirit of classic Pearl Jam. I’m thinking about ‘Amongst The Waves’. MM: Stone wrote that one. I love it but I wouldn’t say that by reaching out to that record we grabbed the new one. In my opinion they are different matters. That one is over and done with, it was a part of my life 18 years ago. A different version of that album has come to life now but I listened to it and that was the end for me. I can separate the two things. We’re going forward, making new songs, in a new phase of life. One thing doesn’t connect to the other.
MC: The fact still remains that the song does have all of the aspects that you expect of classic Pearl Jam. It’s my favourite song on the album.
There’s a classic rock sound on the solo. That’ll be yours, won’t it Mike? MM: Yeah, that’s me! I tried to get into the shoes of Mick Taylor in the early 70s. It’s played on a low pickup Les Paul with a solid sound of old Bad Company. Brendan called me and said he wanted something just like that. He wanted me to compose a solo for part of a solo, or better still the whole of it. I didn’t have the strength to do the whole thing, I’m too lazy for that! (laughs). So, I just wrote the end where the harmony with Stone appears (he sings it). It came about by two things: I was in the right mood and the band’s playing inspired me.
In a few places we can hear that you are moving in the direction of the inspirations of your youth, stuff you listened to in the 70s MM: Yes and no. I’m also open to new things. I listen to a lot of satellite radio and get new vibes from there, although they also play a lot of older stuff. Sometimes I discover something “old-new”. I’m thinking in particular about new wave, which didn’t interest me at the time because I was into metal… From more recent things, I’m inspired by Radiohead or Death Cab For Cutie. It all depends upon the mood. Yesterday I listened to the Stones’ ‘Sticky Fingers’. Indeed, I often fall into that kind of stuff.
‘Amongst The Waves’ should appeal to you because of the lyrics about surfing. MM: It could be about other things, but I certainly like it… You know, Ed has a very visual, tangible bond to water. Throughout our career he’s connected with that.I’m thinking about the line: ‘Everything flows amongst the waves’. It’s surfing, a time when there is something liberating and a person knows they are alive. You have to remember that human beings are made up of about 80% water… Every time I go to the shore I feel like a newborn.
I’ve seen the boards hanging here, do you all surf? MC: Yes, on those boards*. If someone disappears we know what to do (laughs)
*I don’t know if it was mentioned earlier that each board has member of the band on it. T MM: It happens like this, for example, Stone says 'there's a wave, where’s my board?’ And where’s Kelly (Curtis – band manager)? Kelly is sitting smoking a cigarette… (laughs) A few of us surf. I started a long time after Eddie. I just didn’t know anyone who did it before. When I met my wife, who comes from California, I got to know a friend who just did it non-stop. But it cost a lot of my time learning to use that fucking board. It required years. Now I can finally do it.
Can you surf around Seattle? MC: You need to go a long way up the coast, about one and a half hours from here. And you need to wear a thick suit because the water is cold, but it’s fine.
MM: I’ve gotta go, I’ve never been there… It’s hard to find an hour and a half to travel there and then surf and come back again when, in California, it’s just on the other side of the street.
Did the Californian climate have a positive influence on the record? MM: Maybe something comes through. When we arrived in LA we surfed a lot, that’s the upside of the stay there.
MC: Mike brought the sun to our record
MM: I was in the sun, I went there with my wife and child, because she has family there. It came about that we could surf and chill out. I’ve got a job where I can let myself do thatm my child doesn’t go to school yet… I’m trying to make the most of everything I can, that’s where learning begins. But I didn’t drag the rest of the band to California – that was Brendan.
I always wondered how Ed, as a Californian surfer, go on with you guys. He represented another culture, another musical culture, too. Do you remember a period of coming to understand one another? *Mike just relates the story of how they made a tape with Matt drumming and sent it to Jack Irons, whose drumming Stone had loved on ‘Uplift Mofo Party Plan’…. And the rest is history for you all, I’m sure. He doesn’t actually say if it was difficult getting to know Ed. [T]
Okay, I’ve stressed you enough with questions about your beginnings, but… in the special edition of Ten there is a replica of the cassette recorded by Ed. Who had that ‘Holy Grail of Pearl Jam’? MM: Jeff Ament. Or Ed. Jeff and Ed keep all of those things.
MC: Jeff is a very good archivist. He keeps everything in order – quite the opposite of me (laughs).
MM: I also keep everything in some boxes. But I’m working on it, I’d like to be tidier.
This is possibly one of the best pj interviews I have ever read...s&s you are a legend for doing this, thank you so much...I NEED backspacer NOWWWWWW
+ 1. thank you sooo much for this interview!
"Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
You probably won’t bring in the country listeners though, at least because of you ideological opposition to one another. MM: Well, I dunno. We’ve got a big fan from the world of country music. Dierks Bentley, my friend, it’s going up in his estimation. I got to know him some years ago… we’ve definitely got a number of fans among the country listeners. I don’t think they are all against us.
MC: I reckon a lot of Nashville musicians value rock. We label them all as conservatives and to a certain extent that may be true. However, I think that a lot of them like our rock group.
Jeez - he was just here in my small town last year for the fair week... he performed here. Ah, that makes more sense to me now why Barbie was all over him and how he got her up on the stage with him.
Barbie, stop fondling my favorite musicians and their friends!!! :evil:
Anyway, keep it up Tim and many thanks!!!
JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
Thanks you for translating . Great article, and it sounds like a great album! Can't wait to get my hands on Backspacer
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder, to find an approach and a way to live
Constant Recoil..Sometimes life, Don't leave you alone
When the anxious is the present, unwrap your gifts, take your time
I didn't read the whole translation, just made a quick look at some parts and I've found two small things that maybe need correction. No hard feelings, it's still awesome job that you did i shit and i stink and those are only really small things - I'm doing this only because this article is really good and might be of a good value for PJ biographers so better give them something as correct as possible
In your translation:
We can hear a lot of the past on the new album, which wasn’t on the previous one. It’s funny, bearing in mind that through the Ten remix you got rid of the past. MC: The past on Ten is really an echo. We’ve utilized it on the new disc in a totally different way, it’s a question of instrumentation.
MM: I agree. There are strings, French horns, other types of percussion and interesting piano sounds. Brendan played the piano parts, he dubbed them and added pieces to a few songs… he’s good at it so we let him do that kind of thing. It’s a totally different quality in comparison to the straight production of the Ten sound
Whereas it should be:
We can hear a lot of space on the new album, not present on the raw Pearl Jam. It’s funny, bearing in mind that you got rid of the spatiality of Ten in its' remix. MC: The whole spatiality on Ten is really just a reverb. On this new record we gained it in completely different way. It's a matter of instrumentation.
MM: I agree. There are strings, French horns, other types of percussion and interesting keyboards sounds. Brendan played the keyboard parts, he dubbed them and added pieces to a few songs… he’s good at it so we let him do that kind of thing. It’s a totally different quality in comparison to just turning up the reverb, as we did it on Ten.
This one is for a fans of guitar porno:
There’s a classic rock sound on the solo. That’ll be yours, won’t it Mike? MM: Yeah, that’s me! I tried to get into the shoes of Mick Taylor in the early 70s. It’s played on a tuned down Les Paul with a solid sound of old Bad Company.
It should not be "a tuned down Les Paul" (man, that would be great if he would do that, but that's not Mike's way of doing things I'm afraid) but "a bridge pickup of Les Paul". The exact translation would be "low pickup" but I'm guessing it's the same (I'm not too good on Polish guitar terminology).
That's all what I've found. I only read the first part of translation in whole (and it was perfect I think) though.
I didn't read the whole translation, just made a quick look at some parts and I've found two small things that maybe need correction. No hard feelings, it's still awesome job that you did i shit and i stink and those are only really small things - I'm doing this only because this article is really good and might be of a good value for PJ biographers so better give them something as correct as possible
Tomek
No problems Tomek, I know nothing about guitars so I just guessed with 'tuned down' because it was a phrase I had neard somewhere!!
The 'spaticiality' bit was a simple blunder on my part. I'll use your ideas for both.
Thanks for pointing them out, I'm doing this partly because I love 10C and I know everyone will enjoy the article, and partly to stretch my Polish a little. It's always good to learn something new.
No problems Tomek, I know nothing about guitars so I just guessed with 'tuned down' because it was a phrase I had neard somewhere!!
The 'spaticiality' bit was a simple blunder on my part. I'll use your ideas for both.
Thanks for pointing them out, I'm doing this partly because I love 10C and I know everyone will enjoy the article, and partly to stretch my Polish a little. It's always good to learn something new.
Cheers,
T
I'll take small errors any day - but thanks to Tomek for pointing them out!
I just finished reading part 5 and looking forward to the next 3 parts!
If you are not planning to do the remaining 3 parts here - I wonder if anyone agrees with me here that you update the first post with all five parts?
Thank you soo much again and I second everyone in this thread!
JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
I'll take small errors any day - but thanks to Tomek for pointing them out!
I just finished reading part 5 and looking forward to the next 3 parts!
If you are not planning to do the remaining 3 parts here - I wonder if anyone agrees with me here that you update the first post with all five parts?
Thank you soo much again and I second everyone in this thread!
Yeah, there is just one more part. It's nice.
I thought about updating the front page but I wondered if it wouldn't bee too big, isn't there a limit to how much you can post in one comment, or something? If not, I'll cut and paste the whole lot there.
Yeah, there is just one more part. It's nice.
I thought about updating the front page but I wondered if it wouldn't bee too big, isn't there a limit to how much you can post in one comment, or something? If not, I'll cut and paste the whole lot there.
T
Good point....some folks find it distracting to browse through to read the whole article with breaks and responses getting in the way (e.g., going "wtf? who is barbie? I'm trying to read the article!!!" )
Perhaps update with a completely new thread with posts following up with parts so that way there would be no other posts than yours getting in the way.
I'm sure people wouldn't mind a duplicate thread because the second one would be more organized and uninterrupted before any responses are made... it's entirely up to you, of course.
JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
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Leaving is for the answering machine.
The polish music press is teaching a lesson: how to interview this band making good questions.
It's not just Kurt Cobain, Ticketmaster or Grunge.
It's growing up just like me.
I wonder if the return to Ten, hearing that record again, didn’t inspire you to create some songs in the spirit of classic Pearl Jam. I’m thinking about ‘Amongst The Waves’.
MM: Stone wrote that one. I love it but I wouldn’t say that by reaching out to that record we grabbed the new one. In my opinion they are different matters. That one is over and done with, it was a part of my life 18 years ago. A different version of that album has come to life now but I listened to it and that was the end for me. I can separate the two things. We’re going forward, making new songs, in a new phase of life. One thing doesn’t connect to the other.
MC: The fact still remains that the song does have all of the aspects that you expect of classic Pearl Jam. It’s my favourite song on the album.
There’s a classic rock sound on the solo. That’ll be yours, won’t it Mike?
MM: Yeah, that’s me! I tried to get into the shoes of Mick Taylor in the early 70s. It’s played on a low pickup Les Paul with a solid sound of old Bad Company. Brendan called me and said he wanted something just like that. He wanted me to compose a solo for part of a solo, or better still the whole of it. I didn’t have the strength to do the whole thing, I’m too lazy for that! (laughs). So, I just wrote the end where the harmony with Stone appears (he sings it). It came about by two things: I was in the right mood and the band’s playing inspired me.
In a few places we can hear that you are moving in the direction of the inspirations of your youth, stuff you listened to in the 70s
MM: Yes and no. I’m also open to new things. I listen to a lot of satellite radio and get new vibes from there, although they also play a lot of older stuff. Sometimes I discover something “old-new”. I’m thinking in particular about new wave, which didn’t interest me at the time because I was into metal… From more recent things, I’m inspired by Radiohead or Death Cab For Cutie. It all depends upon the mood. Yesterday I listened to the Stones’ ‘Sticky Fingers’. Indeed, I often fall into that kind of stuff.
‘Amongst The Waves’ should appeal to you because of the lyrics about surfing.
MM: It could be about other things, but I certainly like it… You know, Ed has a very visual, tangible bond to water. Throughout our career he’s connected with that.I’m thinking about the line: ‘Everything flows amongst the waves’. It’s surfing, a time when there is something liberating and a person knows they are alive. You have to remember that human beings are made up of about 80% water… Every time I go to the shore I feel like a newborn.
I’ve seen the boards hanging here, do you all surf?
MC: Yes, on those boards*. If someone disappears we know what to do (laughs)
*I don’t know if it was mentioned earlier that each board has member of the band on it. T
MM: It happens like this, for example, Stone says 'there's a wave, where’s my board?’ And where’s Kelly (Curtis – band manager)? Kelly is sitting smoking a cigarette… (laughs) A few of us surf. I started a long time after Eddie. I just didn’t know anyone who did it before. When I met my wife, who comes from California, I got to know a friend who just did it non-stop. But it cost a lot of my time learning to use that fucking board. It required years. Now I can finally do it.
Can you surf around Seattle?
MC: You need to go a long way up the coast, about one and a half hours from here. And you need to wear a thick suit because the water is cold, but it’s fine.
MM: I’ve gotta go, I’ve never been there… It’s hard to find an hour and a half to travel there and then surf and come back again when, in California, it’s just on the other side of the street.
Did the Californian climate have a positive influence on the record?
MM: Maybe something comes through. When we arrived in LA we surfed a lot, that’s the upside of the stay there.
MC: Mike brought the sun to our record
MM: I was in the sun, I went there with my wife and child, because she has family there. It came about that we could surf and chill out. I’ve got a job where I can let myself do thatm my child doesn’t go to school yet… I’m trying to make the most of everything I can, that’s where learning begins. But I didn’t drag the rest of the band to California – that was Brendan.
I always wondered how Ed, as a Californian surfer, go on with you guys. He represented another culture, another musical culture, too. Do you remember a period of coming to understand one another?
*Mike just relates the story of how they made a tape with Matt drumming and sent it to Jack Irons, whose drumming Stone had loved on ‘Uplift Mofo Party Plan’…. And the rest is history for you all, I’m sure. He doesn’t actually say if it was difficult getting to know Ed. [T]
Okay, I’ve stressed you enough with questions about your beginnings, but… in the special edition of Ten there is a replica of the cassette recorded by Ed. Who had that ‘Holy Grail of Pearl Jam’?
MM: Jeff Ament. Or Ed. Jeff and Ed keep all of those things.
MC: Jeff is a very good archivist. He keeps everything in order – quite the opposite of me (laughs).
MM: I also keep everything in some boxes. But I’m working on it, I’d like to be tidier.
+ 1.
You rock! I enjoyed reading so far...I'll read some more later - gotta give up my laptop to my daughter so she can find cheat sheets on her DS game!
Jeez - he was just here in my small town last year for the fair week... he performed here. Ah, that makes more sense to me now why Barbie was all over him and how he got her up on the stage with him.
Barbie, stop fondling my favorite musicians and their friends!!! :evil:
Anyway, keep it up Tim and many thanks!!!
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
Constant Recoil..Sometimes life, Don't leave you alone
When the anxious is the present, unwrap your gifts, take your time
I wanna know what that 425 hp v8 is....
8/7/08, 6/9/09
I wonder too! I googled that and wondering which one.... I'm not an expert with cars!
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
In your translation:
Whereas it should be:
This one is for a fans of guitar porno:
It should not be "a tuned down Les Paul" (man, that would be great if he would do that, but that's not Mike's way of doing things I'm afraid) but "a bridge pickup of Les Paul". The exact translation would be "low pickup" but I'm guessing it's the same (I'm not too good on Polish guitar terminology).
That's all what I've found. I only read the first part of translation in whole (and it was perfect I think) though.
Tomek
No problems Tomek, I know nothing about guitars so I just guessed with 'tuned down' because it was a phrase I had neard somewhere!!
The 'spaticiality' bit was a simple blunder on my part. I'll use your ideas for both.
Thanks for pointing them out, I'm doing this partly because I love 10C and I know everyone will enjoy the article, and partly to stretch my Polish a little. It's always good to learn something new.
Cheers,
T
I'll take small errors any day - but thanks to Tomek for pointing them out!
I just finished reading part 5 and looking forward to the next 3 parts!
If you are not planning to do the remaining 3 parts here - I wonder if anyone agrees with me here that you update the first post with all five parts?
Thank you soo much again and I second everyone in this thread!
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
You may be right... I misunderstood by reading his first post that there were 8... but 8 pages, not parts! :P
My bad!
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
Yeah, there is just one more part. It's nice.
I thought about updating the front page but I wondered if it wouldn't bee too big, isn't there a limit to how much you can post in one comment, or something? If not, I'll cut and paste the whole lot there.
T
It could be anything. I was hoping it was an m3
but thats not quite 425 hp.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
Good point....some folks find it distracting to browse through to read the whole article with breaks and responses getting in the way (e.g., going "wtf? who is barbie? I'm trying to read the article!!!"
Perhaps update with a completely new thread with posts following up with parts so that way there would be no other posts than yours getting in the way.
I'm sure people wouldn't mind a duplicate thread because the second one would be more organized and uninterrupted before any responses are made... it's entirely up to you, of course.
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII