Stone Gossard: “This is everything we could have ever hoped for!”
Why has “Got to Give” only made it on one setlist? Stone may know.
Founding member Stone Gossard opens up on Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter world
tour, 30 years of Vitalogy and his group Painted Shield’s brilliant new
album…
Out of curiosity, you’ve played every song on Dark Matter live multiple times except Got To Give, which has only been aired once. That track, co-incidentally, only has a partial portion of its full lyrics reproduced in the album sleeve, with a big chunk of them omitted. It all makes it seem like there’s a special aura about it…
“A mystery! I love that. Let’s go with that! There’s something special about that song, whenever we play it, the universe is gonna crack open and then light will come streaming in…”
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“Literally, the whole record is fun – and that’s different for me. Normally, we try to play everything off a new record and there are some songs that we haven’t learned to play live – something doesn’t quite feel right. But all of the songs from Dark Matter are working. That’s all about the work that we put in writing them and arranging them. Wreckage feels great to play.”