Why does everyone hate on Matt?

I believe most people like Dave Abbruzzese because they think he is on Ten and was there from the beginning. There is always confusion between Dave Abbruzzese and Dave Krusen.

Matt Cameron is the original drummer of Pearl Jam. Matt is the drummer on the tapes with Jeff and Stone. The tapes that had the music that inspired Eddie Vedder from which he wrote and sung the lyrics for Alive, Black, Once and Footsteps.

Matt Cameron is the drummer on Temple of the Dog.

Dave Krusen is the drummer on the Ten record.

Matt Chamberlain had a short stint with the band before they found Dave Abbruzzese.

I read in one the books on Pearl Jam that Dave Abbruzzese did not like Ed and actually asked Stone and Jeff to get rid of Ed, they could get another singer. Now I know it takes two and Ed wasn't easy on Dave A. either.

So it could have been Ed being the one asked to leave the band, and us having a thread that Ed was the best singer Pearl Jam ever had.

But I'd take Matt Cameron any day over any other drummer. And what is telling is that other bands and muscians would choose Matt Cameron.


So why do people hate on Matt, I think it's because they feel some kind of loyalty for Dave Abbruzzese thinking he was there from the beginning.

Matt is freakin awesome

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Me too. Is the thread starter being sarcastic maybe?

People rag on Matt's (awesome) songs all the time. Evacuation anyone?

evenkat wrote:

Matt Cameron is the original drummer of Pearl Jam. Matt is the drummer on the tapes with Jeff and Stone. The tapes that had the music that inspired Eddie Vedder from which he wrote and sung the lyrics for Alive, Black, Once and Footsteps.

Chris Friel is also on those tapes.

I'm dead serious. I recall I also read that Dave A also questioned how come Ed got a bigger percentage off the sale of the records and shit like that. Dave A.'s a funny guy.

It is too bad that he and Ed couldn't get along. One of them had to go. And in the end they came full circle back to Matt Cameron.

I also loved Jack...the Whale Song is one of my favorite all time Pearl Jam songs. In My Tree...

PJAMEDVED wrote:

Ya right. Are you being serious? I'm sure if Dave did ask them to off Ed, they told him to go fuck himself. That would be like someone in the Stones saying " Lets get rid of this Jagger character, okay guys" or a Led Zep member sayin " Plant's gotta go, he's worthless". Get rid of Vedder, funny stuff man, funny stuff.


Also comparing Dave to Matt is a tad bit asinine. Matt is kind of a legend folks.



PS - I'm sure Dave A. comes on this board and reads this message board all the time. I'm sure his response to us would go something like this:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=94508351&albumID=0&imageID=15476162



Dave's new band photo here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=94508351&albumID=0&imageID=15476173



lol.

Dave rock, I have no prob with him at all.

I think as far as song writing and studio, Jack's got it. No other PJ drummer touches Matt on the tight live drumming though, in fact, not many drummers in the world touch matt on the live show. Granted, No Code and Yield were far better produced than anything that Matt Cameron has played on...Somebody said it on here before...O'brien+Cameron=Cream Dream.

share wrote:

Now Mike, he just plain sucks.

As far as I'm concerned he was the original Pearl Jam drummer because he was with Temple of the Dog. There's nothing wrong with him at all and he's with PJ to stay, so bad luck to all those who can't go past Dave and Jack, they didn't have the longevity that Matt has.

pjamaholic wrote:

As far as I'm concerned he was the original Pearl Jam drummer because he was with Temple of the Dog.

I guess that makes Chris Cornell Pearl Jam's original vocalist. (just kidding)