Mike interview in Portugese, can someone translate?

brandon10 wrote:

troubledsoulsuniteblog wrote:

According to Google Translate, the English version looks like this

Nostalgic, Pearl Jam search light
3 August 2009
Folha de São Paulo
SHEET

In "Backspace", group policy leaves aside and invests in music that reflect short look at the past, says guitarist

"It's a disc optimistic, energetic and aggressive," said Stone Gossard of; group completes 20 years of existence in 2010

BRUNO Yutaka SAITO

Special Envoy for SEATTLE

The walls are full of tables with certificates of disk of gold, yet the times in which the music industry lived days less tense.

"Ten" (1991), "Vs" (1993) and "Vitalogy" (1994) are just some of Pearl Jam's albums are there, hanging like a trophy in the band room office in Seattle. A group of journalists from around the world, including Film, heard at first hand the work of the new band, "Backspace" which arrives in stores on Sept. 21.

These fine wall decorations are also a portrait of an era that had its heyday and decline, the days of grunge in the early 1990s.

Principal balance of the music scene, which was another great exponent as Nirvana, Pearl Jam did not want to, however, turn the relic museum. They complete two decades of existence in 2010 and the members are in their 40s. Maybe not remember most of their early days of underground band, when the singer, Eddie Vedder, was a former gas station in frentista.

Today they are a rock outfit with the status of veterans: fill stadiums around the world and are involved in humanitarian causes, the fashion of U2. In the Georgetown neighborhood in Seattle, is the spacious office of the group, which also serves as a place of testing. The Pearl Jam is no disguising that large company.

"What motivates me now? First, I am musician, artist and I always create new things and move forward," says guitarist Mike McCready, 43. "But we also have to remember that the band is a business. There is a motivation for me to keep house and not just my family, but the officials who work here." Still, they try to do music bureaucratic.

"Backspace" is a short and thick disk, with just over 30 minutes and 11 songs. The urgent tone, rock, the disc guide. "Gonna See My Friend" and "Supersonic" to remind us that not only the rock "classic" by Neil Young, but also of the Ramones punk, is a source of inspiration. "We wanted to go straight to the point," explains the guitarist Stone Gossard also, 43. "We had a tendency in the past to make music long. It's fun to go in the opposite direction now, to make concise songs, pop." Gossard says the noise may be emergency related to the euphoria of the election of Barack Obama, the Pearl Jam did not attack the administration tired of George W. Bush. "But this is not a political disk. The letters are personal stories about the world and existence," says Gossard.

McCready says the title of the disc. "Backspace" key is a reference to the old typewriter. It is about coming back, look back and see your life in retrospect. " The two guitarists say it is inevitable not remember the past. "Any person, at 40, begins to think more on family, childhood and old friends," says Gossard. "We are still in the same state of mind before, not thinking much about what we're doing."

And now, about to turn 20 years of band, what they think about the "grunge"? Seattle, finally, is no longer the epicenter of pop music on the planet, and it is rare to find someone on the streets of the city wearing flannel shirts and listening to Alice in Chains playing in bars. "Grunge" is a good word. We did not know who did what grunge was. This is the exact word to describe the sound of Mudhoney [banda de Seattle] and helped people to understand what this music was dirty, smelly, which supplied tribute to amateurism. But it was only a manifestation of the spirit punk, "says Gossard. In the spirit of mild disc, McCready summarizes: "No matter the definition, is all rock."

That reads like an article from Sarah Palin.