Did Brendan O'Brien destroy Pearl Jam's Analog Master tapes?

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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,673
    He's been an incredibly important member of the band, but I think they need fresh blood. 
    Good luck with that. At this point BOB may be the only one who CAN get them together to record. Chris Cornell’s death hit them all hard. Add on the inevitable touring that follows, plus being on the road and away from home, and it’s no wonder they are in no hurry to record a new album. Every year with no album means they can pick when and where they want to play.

    It’s a nice spot they have now, and they’ve earned it. I wish  there were great new songs to talk about, and Pearl Jam were coming to everyone’s city and people were all happy, but it is what it is. 
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  • verceman
    verceman Posts: 701
    DewieCox said:
    Why do we assume BOB is responsible for those decisions? Ultimately the buck stops with the band. Though, to be clear, I don't think any of those songs have egregious issues
    Exactly...the band tells him how they want to approach the album. The Fixer demo blows and the changes to the final version were all Ed anyway if I remember right. and the SoS demo is just exactly that, a demo. Finished product isn't great, but that has more to do with the feel of the song than anything else. SBM was a folky song before PJ got ahold of it and Future Days and Sirens are cheesy from the get go.
    Sirens music video version where they are playing straight up live sounds so much better than the album version, which sounds like November Rain
  • BK5403
    BK5403 Posts: 50
    DewieCox said:
    Why do we assume BOB is responsible for those decisions? Ultimately the buck stops with the band. Though, to be clear, I don't think any of those songs have egregious issues
    Exactly...the band tells him how they want to approach the album. The Fixer demo blows and the changes to the final version were all Ed anyway if I remember right. and the SoS demo is just exactly that, a demo. Finished product isn't great, but that has more to do with the feel of the song than anything else. SBM was a folky song before PJ got ahold of it and Future Days and Sirens are cheesy from the get go.
    Buck does stop with the band, but I think BoB has assumed a role in this band where he plays a big part in arranging the music and pushing/nudging the guys to go a certain way on things. Because of the band's democratic style of writing music, a "non-partisan" producer can play a pretty big role in pushing things one way or another if he knows how to be influential without being dictatorial. On that Lightning Bolt Q&A thing PJ did where fans were flown to Seattle to ask the band questions (and BoB moderated), it sounded like BoB definitely arranged Sirens and pushes the band and Eddie all the time. A good producer can do this. And BoB has done some great work ... but I think PJ needs to get out of their comfort zones a bit more the next time around and some new blood may be a good thing. I actually wish they didn't feel so reliant on the machine of BIG TOURING. They employ A LOT of people and probably feel responsible for those folks and those jobs ... but they seem to write with big arenas and "moderate fans" in mind and the newer music sometimes feels like it was written for the lowest common denominator. I do think that's on the band and not BoB. 

    Then there's the whole "poorly" mixed, crushed dynamics, recording digitally at bit/sample rates that are too low stuff that BoB plays a role in as well. But that's another story. 
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