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Losing a member

i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
edited November 2008 in The Porch
I'll post this just to be polemic. PJ have had a few drummers, (as one current thread highlights), but they've been stable now for nearly a decade, as well as adding Boom. So, a hypothetical question...

Who could the band lose and still be PJ?

I'm too chicken to even answer my own question here, as I can't see the band beign the same if any member left, but I'd appreciate the thoughts of those of you out there who are more decisive than me! Polemic yet indecisive, strange combination...
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  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
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  • Stone IronsStone Irons Posts: 430
    Definately Boom, possibly Matt. However, none of the other members who have been with the band for it entire existence qualify.
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  • NewDamageNewDamage Posts: 1,913
    They definitely could not lose any of the original 4.

    Even though Matt has been the longest tenured of the drummers, if he left it wouldn't be as big of a deal if, say, Mike or Stone or Jeff or Eddie walked away.

    I still don't really count Boom...
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    Boom is not an official member of the band.

    I think they could lose Matt and not have any issues. He is the best, but the history of the band it to change drummers, so that wouldn't be the end.
  • mavimavi Posts: 941
    LiteTheMatch wrote:
    Eddie Vedder
    Yeah, that guy... sure.. why not!

    This thread again?
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  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    i'd hate to lose my member
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • G ForceG Force Posts: 1,393
    Bad Karma Thread.
  • bovy_jbovy_j Posts: 1,008
    I wouldn't like to see any of the members leave! As I love Pearl Jam the way that they are!

    buuuuutt...if...in theory, one of the members decided to leave... I think the band could continue to be a band if Matt or Boom left. As long as Matt was replaced by another kickass drummer...I don't think I'd like PJ without a drummer ;).
  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    mavi wrote:
    Yeah, that guy... sure.. why not!

    This thread again?

    Yea he's always yappin about politics and social change.

    I just want to hear some Even Flow!
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • stonegstoneg Posts: 1,940
    I don't think I would even notice if Boom was gone.Don't get me wrong I like the guy just don't think he adds to much.Matt could leave and I would really miss him but that is it.If Mike ED,Stone or Jeff left It would not be the same.
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  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    stoneg wrote:
    I don't think I would even notice if Boom was gone.Don't get me wrong I like the guy just don't think he adds to much.

    Crazy Mary would be seriously lacking.
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  • stonegstoneg Posts: 1,940
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Crazy Mary would be seriously lacking.
    Are you joking? It was great before Boom.
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  • AmherstJammerAmherstJammer Posts: 1,510
    Ed... only if he is replaced with Jim Morrison. Imagine what those songs would sound like. Jim is the only man that could bring what Ed brings...
  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    BostonJammer wrote:
    Ed... only if he is replaced with Jim Morrison. Imagine what those songs would sound like. Jim is the only man that could bring what Ed brings...

    the bottle of booze?
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,090
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    i'd hate to lose my member

    That's what I was thinking. :eek:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • GivenToJam88GivenToJam88 Posts: 1,187
    i hate these threads
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    2008: 6/19, 6/24, 6/25
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I think at this point in their career, if they lost any member they would cease the band but continue to give us great solo works.
  • eldarion75eldarion75 Posts: 2,488
    Is it weird i still think of Matt as the new guy? could be 'cos i preffered Jacks playing..but it was a quick ten years too...
  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I think at this point in their career, if they lost any member they would cease the band but continue to give us great solo works.

    Tone wasn't great.
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  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    ^ No one would buy those side project albums if they weren't members of PJ first. Boom is the most expendable, then Matt. I've come to respect Matt a lot more, not as a drummer necessarily, but for his contributions to the band. The guy writes some killer songs.
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  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    The only members I could see leaving are Boom and Matt, if anyone else left after all this time it wouldn't be Pearl Jam anymore.

    This coming from a Guns N' Roses fan...
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