"5 musketeers" _ question

GetALife

Hi there!

Got a question concerning an old import bootleg called "5 musketeers" - I am not interested in these that much but since I found a song on it I did not know so far or could not relate to anything known I'd ask you folks to help me out...

There is one song with Eddie on lead vocals called "Mystery" but I could not find it in the Bad Radio catalogue and actually it doesn't sound like Bad Radio at all. The boot does not provide any other infos. Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Chris

HeavyHands

GetALife wrote:

There is one song with Eddie on lead vocals called "Mystery" but I could not find it in the Bad Radio catalogue and actually it doesn't sound like Bad Radio at all. The boot does not provide any other infos. Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Chris

I used to have this boot too. The song in question is not by Pearl Jam. No member of Pearl Jam plays on it. Somehow it got bundled in with the PJ tracks.

Mystery is a demo by a band called Blind Horse which featured Bruce Fairweather from MLB. The following block quote comes from this website: http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gm082093_2.shtml

Following Mother Love Bone's untimely demise, Bruce Fairweather took a job at a photo lab, returning to music with Blind Horse (the name was inspired by the play Equus), a band started by vocalist Chris Tilden, and including bassist Mark Patterson and drummer Richard Stuverud.

Jonathan Poneman caught some early Blind Horse shows. "The first couple of times I saw them they were mind-blowing, and I was very interested in working with them [at Sub Pop]. They were akin to Black Crowes, but it wasn't 'Lead Singer Rock.' It had a very rootsy Rory Gallagher / Stones/ Humble Pie vibe. But they did it so effortlessly, so unpretentiously at first."

It wasn't long before Blind Horse was recording a demo; soon after, however, Stuverud left. Greg Gilmore remembers, "I was around when Blind Horse was being formed: I went and jammed a bit, but I was not moved at all. But then I saw them a few months later, and they were alright. A lot more time passed and when I saw them at RCKNDY, they were taking on a whole direction, making noise and creating chaos, a Stones kind of thing which I saw could be heavier, darker."

Gilmore promptly joined the band, but it was not to last. The Sub Pop deal fell through, and Gilmore played no more than five shows with Blind Horse before both he and Fairweather quit. Tilden followed, moving on to Native Messiah, with future Fire Ants bassist Dan McDonald. (Tilden would later audition for the Fire Ants.)

Only one Blind Horse recording would ever be released; "Black Sun" crops up on the Young And The Restless compilation album, released in 1991 by the Art Institute of Seattle's music department's own 3:23 label (323001). A limited edition of 1,000 CDs, the album also features the Monomen, Slam Suzanne, Slobberpocket, Damn Bam, and Inspector Luv and the Ride-Me Babies, who grabbed another piece of history when they headlined over the future Pearl Jam, at that band's first-ever gig.

I would direct you to giventowail.com, but currently Google is saying "This site may harm your computer."

GetALife

Thanks! How could I recognize this voice as Eddie's?!

HeavyHands wrote:

GetALife wrote:

There is one song with Eddie on lead vocals called "Mystery" but I could not find it in the Bad Radio catalogue and actually it doesn't sound like Bad Radio at all. The boot does not provide any other infos. Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Chris

I used to have this boot too. The song in question is not by Pearl Jam. No member of Pearl Jam plays on it. Somehow it got bundled in with the PJ tracks.

Mystery is a demo by a band called Blind Horse which featured Bruce Fairweather from MLB. The following block quote comes from this website: http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gm082093_2.shtml