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Somehow I had a feeling SBM was Brendan O'Brien's idea.
for the least they could possibly do
i have wondered this also, but we know for sure that he had nothing to do with it from 2000-2006, pretty good years. i do know, that BoB has had A LOT to do with many records outside of pearl jam that he has worked on. for example, playing all the guitar solo's, and most of the bass parts on the Black Crows record he did. However i dont see PJ letting him get quite that involved. but he plays the keys parts.. so.... who knows.
That being said, if that's what it takes to make a great record then I'm all in! I'm ready for the Lightning to strike!
I think binaural is some of the best stuff they've ever done, and b/s was a stunted sugar fest. Avocado was somewhere in between, the creativity was there, but the production blew. But I would take it over b/s any day
I mean- really- backspacer was significant and outgoing? C'mon.
"The pros are, when they’re ready to do something a little more outgoing, significant – whatever you want to call it, that’s what I call it, I can’t help myself! – they call me again.
You said what I was thinking in a much nicer way...so thanks. With that said, I wish BoB would just disappear off the face of the earth...just go far far away where the band couldn't find him.
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"The pros are, when they’re ready to do something a little more outgoing, significant.......they call me again"
I'd hardly call Backspacer more significant than any of the prior 3 albums. And I mentioned to my wife just the other day that it was probably his suggestion to use SBM. I don't care how good it sounds that was just a stupid, stupid move. I feel bad for the band if they are somehow feeling the need to keep using this guy to produce records. Regardless of how good he thinks he is...this isn't 1993 anymore.
I've only heard that he supplied the outro solo for Hard to Handle on the Crowes first album.
I can't really fault BOb much for PJ's recent shortcomings. He makes recommendations and its up to the band whether to follow them or not. I'm guessing that PJ met with him and told them what they are going for and he helped nudge them in the direction that he understood they wanted to go.
He's produced and engineered some pretty awesome albums and you know who I give most of the credit for those? The bands that made them.
I think you guys are blowing one little comment way out of proportion.
BOOOO BOB, BOOO
THIS
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I have a feeling that if they go with someone else after Lightning Bolt, there will be people starting threads with unofficial petitions to bring Brendan O'Brien back. You can't please everyone. I think the band (and Brendan) are just trying to make the best album they can. You can blame O'Biren for wanting Sleeping by Myself in there, but in the end it's up to the band. I don't agree with that choice either, but the band obviously thougth differently. Fatal was Tchad Blake's favorite song from the Binaural sessions and that song ended up being left off.
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of course he will be proud of his work, and looking back at what he has done for this band he has every reason to be.
The band were immensely proud of BS, it was a commercial hit, a number one, and reached a massive audience for them, what is there for them not to be happy about? a number of people on a message board dissenting about it 4 years later? Im sure they can live with that.
I can certainly see why they invited him back and why they have a lot of faith in him and his judgement, he has played a huge part in getting them to where they are.
I only have respect for the guy. I certainly wont get upset about a few remarks, which are perhaps being quoted our of context throw clever text grabbing, and want the guy 'off this earth' :shock:
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
That said, the more I read about SBM (and I leave the whole controversy on the side a bit) the more I get the feeling that this decision has more to do with the flow of the album than anything else. It seems that Pendelum is a dark song, Yellow Moon is a dark song, right in the middle is Let The Records Play that is considered to be fun. It may well be that they choose to rework SBM, and give it a different twist, to go from a fast "happy" (for the lack of better wording) to a slow "happy" song before they dive into the abyss again. (And it also give some notice to a song, as BoB indicates, that may not have had the airplay or the notice it deserves.) What I read is that the band version of SBM doesn't have the lonliness that the Uke version has, but more the acceptance (and even irony?) of "Sleeping by Yourself". In this way it reminds me of the two versions of You out there. The b-side that is a more happy note on a relationship and the so-called "negative" version (Lost Dogs), where the "You", and even the pronounciation of "you", in the song itself, is more about shifting blame. These are subtle differences and it shows, and I applaud the band for this, how you can change the meaning of the song not by changing the wording, but by using different emphasis of the same wording.
In short: I make a decision when I hear it.
I remember when Binaural, RA and ST came out that everyone was not happy with the "new" producers and how excited everyone was when BoB was back on board. This has shifted dramatically. BS may have it faults, but to put RA, ST on a pedestal, well, that is the other end of the extreme.
Ps: I read the article again, after reading all the comments - which I recommend everyone to do - and I do think that his comments here are taken out of context and proportion. I think what he is saying, is that when PJ wants a specific sound, they come to him. That is not miraclious (sp?) really. Producers are known for a specific sound. So I take everything with a grain of salt.
Bands absolutely go to specific producers for specific sounds, Binaural being a super-obvious example of that. So when they went back to BO'B for Backspacer, they wanted what works for them. All the people crying about his production might want to listen to albums 2-5 again, same dude. As far as i'm concerned, No Code is my favorite "produced" record ever. Riot Act and Avacado are not the best examples of how this band sounds on record, not by far. Go back and read your PJ20 book, this is the same guy who kept them from giving freaking Betterman away, never recording it for themselves. Trust the dude a bit. I think Brendan is not alone amongst music elite (Bono has said it before) in thinking that PJ has an undeniable, all-time #1 classic rock album in them still, one that forever is remembered in the same conversation as Pink Floyd, The Clash, Zep. But it's one they haven't made yet, and it sure ain't Riot Act. So he want's them to be busy, and he wants to push. That's my take. They should push, imo. Now's the time, they're almost 50.
And Ed was the one who was quoted as saying he wanted the songs for BS short and concise, for optimal live use. Relax peeps!!
Agreed.
Personally, I think they need to get rid of O'Brien if they make another album.
I don't think that Vs-Yield or even the stuff that is remixed by BOb on Binaural have similar sounds for the most part. I compare it to Zeppelin's run, where the producer was basically the engineer, so the band had a lot of say in the sonic signature.
I do think it's ridiculous to blame BOb for anything. I think PJ was doing fine work without him, but they were obviously going for something different with BS and from the talk about the material on LB they are trying to balance the straight forward approach with something a little more creative. From the sound of it, we might still be waiting a year or 2 if he wasn't pushing PJ to get into the studio.
Even though its not my favorite album, there is not a better produced PJ album than Riot Act. It would be flat out amazing sounding if Ed would've recut some of his vocals.
Not trying to sound pessimistic about the new material but PJ made their all time albums 20 years ago. Can they have some sort of late career resurgence? Sure, but almost every bit of rock history tells me otherwise, and I highly doubt it's gonna be mentioned along with Ten, even if its really successful for them.
i was goingto make a quip about his ego having an erection or something along those lines, but this do!
what a homer. hope they are done with him after ightning bolt.
That's what I got from it, too. When they want something more widely accessible, which is what he pushes for (Betterman).
I totally agree.
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At the end of the day its the band's choice. I respect that.