Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169

    Long Road Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation By: Steven Hyden Narrated by: Ron Hippe Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins





  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169
    Canada .. https://www.audible.ca/pd/Long-Road-Audiobook/B0B23K1FPC
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169
    Still 50% off!


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169

    Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
    by Steven Hyden

    Once upon a time ago, Lara and I went to Jekyll Brewing in Alpharetta, GA. The guy working the bar had a tattoo on his arm that said, “I am myself, like you somehow.”

    I said, “wow, is that a Pearl Jam lyric?” He was impressed that I noticed that because hardly anyone ever does. Lara was too. Who the hell notices the kind of details that I do? Who recalls such an obscure lyric from a relatively obscure song from an album that is (now) over 30 years old? *raises hand and looks around nervously*

    It’s from “Release” a not-very radio-friendly track from their first album (the last track). A deep cut that someone would only choose as inspiration for a tattoo for some deeply personal reasons and I didn’t think I knew him well enough to pry. I had already opened up the conversation and if he wanted to divulge more, he would’ve.

    Fast forward to today and I’m finishing this book and stumble upon a quote from Eddie Vedder regarding this song just before he played it at a Pennsylvania show on my birthday (the coincidences abound!) in 2016:

    “[Vedder] dedicated ‘Release’ to the brothers of Colin McGovern, a twenty-four-year-old Pennsylvanian who had been stabbed to death just two months prior.

    “‘It’s not going to lessen the blow of any kind of tragedy,’ he says, ‘but in loud volumes or alone or with a lot of other people sometimes it just helps you get through, because you can’t get around it, you don’t get under it, you can’t get over it . . . you got to get through it.’”

    When Vedder wrote this song, he was thinking of his biological father. But pain is pain. Grief is grief. So I listened to the song again. The lines that get me the most are “I’ll wait up in the dark / For you to speak to me / I’ll open up / Release me”

    Who should read this book? I dunno. Any Pearl Jam fan, I guess. Or if this band was never really your jam (ba-dum-tss) and you just want to understand the grunge and alternative-rock of the 90s, you might enjoy it.

    #pearljam #longroad #releaseme



  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Read this one over the past couple weeks.  I enjoyed it for the most part.  Giving Backspacer, Lightning Bolt and Gigaton only a page or 2 each seemed like Hyden was just rushing to finish the book.  But still very cool to read from the perspective of a lifelong PJ fan who is a hell of a writer.
  • demetrios
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,169
    Signed copies still available over @ https://premierecollectibles.com/longroad





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