Joseph Arthur is currently in the studio with Fistful of Mercy (yay!), so RNDM are likely not doing anything at the moment...
I wouldn't come to that conclusion. JA is in the studio with tons of people often. He tends to have multiple projects on the go at any given time.
If you followed him like I do, you'd know that he is not active right now with RNDM.
Oh, well la dee da!
I do follow him closely. I didn't mean that he's in the studio with RNDM today. I just meant that his other work doesn't indicate that he can't have RNDM on his mind, or that they're not making plans, are in touch with one another, etc.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
Love this album ! Love the combo of these guys - just had to say it :ugeek:
got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
I want to go but I want to go with you.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT
I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
Before Pearl Jam return to work on their tenth album this month, bassist Jeff Ament explains why he felt the need to get RNDM
Feature by Dave Kerr.
It’s “just another mid-winter, foggy and rainy morning in Seattle,” reports Jeff Ament when our phone call connects. Throughout his three decades in the emerald city, the prolific bassist has made the most of its indigenous bad weather. From his formative days with proto-grunge forerunners Green River and Mother Love Bone, to his long-term stint with Pearl Jam ever since, Ament has played a vital part in the Pacific Northwest’s staggering musical history. But it's not quite enough; while frontman Eddie Vedder was off on a solo tour, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard entrenched in a myriad of projects both new and familiar, and drummer Matt Cameron re-engaged with Soundgarden, Ament fell into his own extra-curricular activity.
Formed last spring, RNDM [pronounced R-N-D-M] reconnects Ament with an old acquaintance who’d helped drag him out of the doldrums when the sudden, tragic loss of Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood cast Ament's future as a musician into doubt, way back in 1990. “When Andy died I spent that summer not really playing music and just trying to figure out what I was going to do,” he recalls. “I was about halfway through college, so I had the idea that I might go back and get my art degree. Then I ran into Richard’s [Stuverud, now RNDM’s drummer] bandmate Tommy at a party and he said they needed a bass player, so I started playing with them – a band called War Babies, they had a record deal and some studio time booked. I went along and had a great time, mostly just playing with Richard, every day we’d show up an hour early for practice and we’d just work on rhythm section stuff; I’d bring a tape with a couple of songs that we’d just jam and play along with – like Prince and The Clash. We had so much fun that it made me reassess things.”
Of course, the rest is history, but Stuverud has remained a perpetual feature in Ament’s numerous side projects throughout the intervening years – from slowcore forerunners Three Fish to heavy blues unit Tres Mits. The new variable in their alliance is the addition of Ohioan songwriter Joseph Arthur – whose earthy vocals and stylistic divergence marries well with this dextrous rhythm section. Yet Ament suggests that the fact they became a band in any conventional sense, let alone recorded an album, was a bit of a happy accident.
“Richard comes out once or twice a year; we demo each other’s songs,” he says of RNDM's genesis. “I’ve known Joe for around 12 years now – whenever he came through town I’d go see him play. The last time, I just casually mentioned ‘hey, we should get together and write some songs.’ It was about having a bit of fun with other musicians, not that we’d intended to form a band and make a record. We had a great first night – Joe brought in a song called What You Can’t Control, which came together pretty quick. Listening back the next day, it sounded better than we’d thought, so we just volleyed songs back and forth over four and a half days.”
“All of our experiences outside the band only make the Pearl Jam thing better” – Jeff Ament
Whirlwind recording sessions are nothing new to Ament; with Pearl Jam’s backing, Neil Young’s Mirror Ball was written on the fly and recorded in just four days back in 1995. It’s a touchstone that RNDM looked back on as exemplary to their cause when recording their debut (eventually titled Acts), although Ament acknowledges the trade-off to working at such a pace. “There’s things about the Mirror Ball record I wish that we could re-do,” he chuckles. But we spoke about that particular record a lot when we were recording RNDM.”
RNDM are supported by Pearl Jam’s unique infrastructure as a band-turned-independent business, including their own in-house label (Monkeywrench). “We have 30 employees who are on salary, get health insurance and rely on us to be creative enough to put out records and go on tours,” says Ament of the responsibility. “That part’s probably the thing that I’m most proud of – we go down to our building and have what we consider to be this pretty cool little business going. It’s a great space and it makes you want to work hard for something beyond yourself and the band. It’s a cool thing. Sure, we need to be involved in some of the things that record companies take care of, but I think in the long-term it will keep us in the game.”
With a four-year interval since Backspacer – his other band's last recorded appearance, conversation inevitably turns to Pearl Jam's current status. Whereas Mike McCready has recently floated the idea of an experimental sequel, Ament offers a more guarded update: “There’s talk of us getting together in March – hopefully that’ll quickly turn into going in the studio. We have tonnes of instrumental ideas and partial songs – things that are in that in-between state. It’s just going to take us getting into a room together for a week to ten days and knocking through these arrangements to figure it all out. Hopefully by the end of that period in March we will be ready to do something. I try not to get too hung-up on what-ifs – we still need to have twelve really good songs before we can go ahead to the next step. When we got together and demoed last year it was super creative – I don’t think anybody’s sitting on their laurels.”
Having freed themselves of major label constraints since departing Epic in 2003, Ament attributes the autonomy that Pearl Jam’s constituent parts now have to the band’s longevity. “We’ve always supported each other’s side projects and I think we all know that Pearl Jam takes precedence over all the other things,” he says. “I think that even when Matt started talking about Soundgarden again, just as fans and friends of all the other guys in that band we were excited that they were going to get back together. We supported that fully – I mean, they’re playing here next week and we all want to go and see the show! All of our experiences outside the band only make the Pearl Jam thing better. Sometimes, just creatively, you hit a new spot in terms of how you write songs – you bring that back to the band and it’ll help us naturally evolve.”
RNDM, meanwhile, already have the makings of their next LP, which Arthur suggests will take a turn into psych-rock territory. “There’s a whole bunch of songs,” Ament confirms. “We’ve been going through mixing that stuff this week, messing around with sequences to see how it feels, talking to the people who run our little record label here and see what the feasibility of it is. RNDM’s not going away. It’s a good creative space for all of us. It’s a lot of laughs, and around this point of my life it's definitely where I’m at."
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2016: Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Jacksonville, JazzFest 2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1 2022: Nashville 2023: Ft. Worth II
I'm not too familiar with the history of Jeff's other projects, but what seems to be the consensus on whether or not this awesome band will keep playing for awhile longer?
2012: Missoula MT, Orlando FL (Eddie Vedder), Jacksonville FL (Eddie Vedder), Montreal QC (RNDM)
2013: Seattle WA (RNDM), Portland OR,Spokane WA,Seattle WA
2016: Miami FL, Tampa FL, NYC, Boston MA 2018: Boston MA
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You're welcome!
Just hope Ament + Arthur + Stuverud .. would be able to release a DVD from any of their past show's. Or even start up a fanclub with goodies.
http://rndmband.com/
Clue maybe?
Shaped like Mickey Mouse's head. Oranges. Paper.
I would guess RNDM show's in Florida?
Good call.
Or maybe they're in Florida writing new songs? Or writing new songs about Florida? I'd be happy with anything that involves writing new songs
If you followed him like I do, you'd know that he is not active right now with RNDM.
I do follow him closely. I didn't mean that he's in the studio with RNDM today. I just meant that his other work doesn't indicate that he can't have RNDM on his mind, or that they're not making plans, are in touch with one another, etc.
I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
I want to go but I want to go with you.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT
I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
Their social media sites are posting goodies on a regular bases.
Something must be happening behind the scenes.
Or their just trying to stay in touch because something is coming later down the road. Much like PJ does.
https://www.facebook.com/RNDMband
RNDM has a beef with luggage
Feels like a new tour, perhaps?
RNDM has a beef with skylines!
I really like the next tour part of this post!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
yes! europe please!
Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament presents RNDM
Before Pearl Jam return to work on their tenth album this month, bassist Jeff Ament explains why he felt the need to get RNDM
Feature by Dave Kerr.
It’s “just another mid-winter, foggy and rainy morning in Seattle,” reports Jeff Ament when our phone call connects. Throughout his three decades in the emerald city, the prolific bassist has made the most of its indigenous bad weather. From his formative days with proto-grunge forerunners Green River and Mother Love Bone, to his long-term stint with Pearl Jam ever since, Ament has played a vital part in the Pacific Northwest’s staggering musical history. But it's not quite enough; while frontman Eddie Vedder was off on a solo tour, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard entrenched in a myriad of projects both new and familiar, and drummer Matt Cameron re-engaged with Soundgarden, Ament fell into his own extra-curricular activity.
Formed last spring, RNDM [pronounced R-N-D-M] reconnects Ament with an old acquaintance who’d helped drag him out of the doldrums when the sudden, tragic loss of Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood cast Ament's future as a musician into doubt, way back in 1990. “When Andy died I spent that summer not really playing music and just trying to figure out what I was going to do,” he recalls. “I was about halfway through college, so I had the idea that I might go back and get my art degree. Then I ran into Richard’s [Stuverud, now RNDM’s drummer] bandmate Tommy at a party and he said they needed a bass player, so I started playing with them – a band called War Babies, they had a record deal and some studio time booked. I went along and had a great time, mostly just playing with Richard, every day we’d show up an hour early for practice and we’d just work on rhythm section stuff; I’d bring a tape with a couple of songs that we’d just jam and play along with – like Prince and The Clash. We had so much fun that it made me reassess things.”
Of course, the rest is history, but Stuverud has remained a perpetual feature in Ament’s numerous side projects throughout the intervening years – from slowcore forerunners Three Fish to heavy blues unit Tres Mits. The new variable in their alliance is the addition of Ohioan songwriter Joseph Arthur – whose earthy vocals and stylistic divergence marries well with this dextrous rhythm section. Yet Ament suggests that the fact they became a band in any conventional sense, let alone recorded an album, was a bit of a happy accident.
“Richard comes out once or twice a year; we demo each other’s songs,” he says of RNDM's genesis. “I’ve known Joe for around 12 years now – whenever he came through town I’d go see him play. The last time, I just casually mentioned ‘hey, we should get together and write some songs.’ It was about having a bit of fun with other musicians, not that we’d intended to form a band and make a record. We had a great first night – Joe brought in a song called What You Can’t Control, which came together pretty quick. Listening back the next day, it sounded better than we’d thought, so we just volleyed songs back and forth over four and a half days.”
“All of our experiences outside the band only make the Pearl Jam thing better” – Jeff Ament
Whirlwind recording sessions are nothing new to Ament; with Pearl Jam’s backing, Neil Young’s Mirror Ball was written on the fly and recorded in just four days back in 1995. It’s a touchstone that RNDM looked back on as exemplary to their cause when recording their debut (eventually titled Acts), although Ament acknowledges the trade-off to working at such a pace. “There’s things about the Mirror Ball record I wish that we could re-do,” he chuckles. But we spoke about that particular record a lot when we were recording RNDM.”
RNDM are supported by Pearl Jam’s unique infrastructure as a band-turned-independent business, including their own in-house label (Monkeywrench). “We have 30 employees who are on salary, get health insurance and rely on us to be creative enough to put out records and go on tours,” says Ament of the responsibility. “That part’s probably the thing that I’m most proud of – we go down to our building and have what we consider to be this pretty cool little business going. It’s a great space and it makes you want to work hard for something beyond yourself and the band. It’s a cool thing. Sure, we need to be involved in some of the things that record companies take care of, but I think in the long-term it will keep us in the game.”
With a four-year interval since Backspacer – his other band's last recorded appearance, conversation inevitably turns to Pearl Jam's current status. Whereas Mike McCready has recently floated the idea of an experimental sequel, Ament offers a more guarded update: “There’s talk of us getting together in March – hopefully that’ll quickly turn into going in the studio. We have tonnes of instrumental ideas and partial songs – things that are in that in-between state. It’s just going to take us getting into a room together for a week to ten days and knocking through these arrangements to figure it all out. Hopefully by the end of that period in March we will be ready to do something. I try not to get too hung-up on what-ifs – we still need to have twelve really good songs before we can go ahead to the next step. When we got together and demoed last year it was super creative – I don’t think anybody’s sitting on their laurels.”
Having freed themselves of major label constraints since departing Epic in 2003, Ament attributes the autonomy that Pearl Jam’s constituent parts now have to the band’s longevity. “We’ve always supported each other’s side projects and I think we all know that Pearl Jam takes precedence over all the other things,” he says. “I think that even when Matt started talking about Soundgarden again, just as fans and friends of all the other guys in that band we were excited that they were going to get back together. We supported that fully – I mean, they’re playing here next week and we all want to go and see the show! All of our experiences outside the band only make the Pearl Jam thing better. Sometimes, just creatively, you hit a new spot in terms of how you write songs – you bring that back to the band and it’ll help us naturally evolve.”
RNDM, meanwhile, already have the makings of their next LP, which Arthur suggests will take a turn into psych-rock territory. “There’s a whole bunch of songs,” Ament confirms. “We’ve been going through mixing that stuff this week, messing around with sequences to see how it feels, talking to the people who run our little record label here and see what the feasibility of it is. RNDM’s not going away. It’s a good creative space for all of us. It’s a lot of laughs, and around this point of my life it's definitely where I’m at."
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
- RNDM tour
- new RNDM record
- new Fistful Of Mercy record
- The Ballad Of Boogie Christ
http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=181326&start=30#p4387626
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
2) RNDM record
3) RNDM tour
RNDM continues to have a beef with these 5 sweet audio bootlegs!!
RNDM - 2012-11-08 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY - MP3.zip
http://we.tl/lLuYpBaWwi
RNDM - 2012-11-10 Commons Theatre, Ottawa, ON - MP3.zip
http://we.tl/VsTiVQvT87
RNDM - 2012-11-11 Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON - MP3.zip
http://we.tl/Q6YAIso1k4
RNDM - 2012-11-16 The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS - MP3.zip
http://we.tl/WRcQNA5Jus
RNDM - 2012-11-21 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA - MP3 (radio).zip
http://we.tl/eBMOQV1bG1
http://www.billgeneralphotos.com/rndm.php
Me too. I've been listening to the cd quite a bit lately.
RNDM feat. Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, Joseph Arthur and Richard Stuverud
featuring TBA
Sunday, May 05, 2013 9:00 PM PDT
Tractor, Seattle, WA
21 years and over
https://www.facebook.com/events/3546658 ... /?fref=tck
Price:
$20.00
www.cluthelee.com
www.cluthe.com
2013: Seattle WA (RNDM), Portland OR, Spokane WA, Seattle WA
2016: Miami FL, Tampa FL, NYC, Boston MA
2018: Boston MA