Jerry Hannan's version of "Society"

brainofme

Just found this. Jerry Hannan (the composer of "society") performing the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGg9BtTLNk

pjtradeking

brainofme wrote:

Just found this. Jerry Hannan (the composer of "society") performing the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGg9BtTLNk

Nice find...

You know, that is one of things I love about ed. When he covers someones elses songs, he tries to stay very true to the original. He makes it his own with his voice and all, but that he shows alot of respect by not doing to much with it. I respect him alot for that.

brainofme

pjtradeking wrote:

Nice find...

You know, that is one of things I love about ed. When he covers someones elses songs, he tries to stay very true to the original. He makes it his own with his voice and all, but that he shows alot of respect by not doing to much with it. I respect him alot for that.

i know this interview with hannan has been posted before, but there's a quote that matches with what you said, so i'll post the part.

http://www.thetruthmagazine.com/sceneread.html


RJ – So how did you come to find out that there was real interest in some of the
material you came up with for the film? And describe what it was like to hear that
Pearl Jam lead singer, Eddie Vedder wanted to include one of your songs for
inclusion on his album. Talk a bit about the recording experience you had with
him.


JH – Gee. I got a random call from Sean and it went something like this:
“Hello?” “Jer, Eddie (Vedder) likes your song.” “Well that’s good.” “Can
you fly to Seattle RIGHT NOW?” “Ya” “Ok, call my secretary and head to
the airport.” “Ok.” …pretty exciting. I didn’t really think about it in an
emotional way. I just followed instructions. So the flight was magical –
which never happens. I sat in a left hand window seat and the plane
followed a sunset crowned by a new moon all the way to Seattle. A limo
dropped me off at the hotel where I saw Sean and Robin Penn standing
outside. All I had was my guitar, no luggage…so I gave it to the bellboy
and walked down the street to the corner where Eddie was waiting. We
were introduced and then walked to a bar to have a Mojito. The whole
meeting was about me and Eddie but we hardly said anything to each
other all night. I guess we’re both slow to meet. So we finished the night
walking home and Eddie said “I’ll do my homework.” Meaning he’d learn
the song. The next day I went to breakfast with Sean, Robin and film
producer Bill Pohlad. Then we took a cab to the studio but I forgot my
guitar at the restaurant. So I jumped out to retrieve it and took another cab
to the studio. I can’t remember the name of the place, but it was a nice
studio and everyone was very accommodating to me. Eddie was walking
around practicing the song so I pretty much left him alone until we
recorded, save for “if you need any input, let me know. Feel free to take
liberties and sing it your own way.” He said, “No, I like it just the way it is.”
He asked me how I’d like to record it and I said “let’s play it together.”…on
the first take we both said, “Well this one is it! Unless we get a better one.”
His voice sounded so great in my headphones, I couldn’t believe it.
However, the third take was even better so we said, “we’re done.” That’s
the one that’s on the soundtrack. We really only worked for 15-20
minutes. It was probably the smoothest, easiest recording of a song I’ve
ever done. Then I added the lead guitar, background vocals and light
brushes on a snare and voila! Even after this great recording experience,
it seemed we didn’t have much to say to each other. Later that day we
saw a screening of the movie which still had my version of “Society” in it.
Then we went and sang songs in a local dive bar, trading off with the $50
nylon string guitar I had brought up to record the song. Now I feel like I
know him pretty good.

Indian Summer

very nice! Thanks for sharing!

ya know, Youtube is the best thing to hit the net in a long time! I would have never seen some of this kind of stuff before!

airotsa06

Great post - thanks !

Bit of a difference in pitch methinks.................

harmless_little_f***

He looks as if he's just fine with society.....

potluck

nice post