Podcast interview: Dave Abbruzzese on drumming for Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, joining Guns N Roses

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  • njhaley1
    njhaley1 Valley of the Sun Posts: 875
    Merkin Baller said:
    Dave posted this podcast to the Pearl Jam Ireland group this week, which, after 30 years is incredibly sad. I can understand why this would be a tough thing for him to get over, but man... get some therapy or something. 
    He religiously posts on the reddit sub using brand new user names because they all get banned after posting things like that. 

    Creepy ex sums it up perfectly. 
  • Tremorman
    Tremorman Posts: 390
    His recap of how he got the initial phone call from Matt Chamberlain was really compelling where he just barely paid off his phonebill in person and returned home to a ringing phone, crazy!   The personality conflicts I bet everyone wish they had handled differently, but don't we all have that at points in our lives?  This just happened to be high profile. Hope he's found peace and contentment in his life.  And I felt like there seemed to be a slight hint that he might write a book or something ?  At  about 1:02:10 he mentions "there are some other things that will come out in time about things that have happened in my life..." but who knows what he meant by that, we'll see.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,587
    edited March 2024
    https://youtu.be/4gNgvqboNBA?si=R0qgeYLCwq01ADMN
    This is still my favorite Pearl Jam faze! 
    There might be a better video of this it seems like there’s something wrong with it! 
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  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,548
    Niko80 said:
    As I understand it, he is not saying he would have made the album better. He says that the mix and sound of Vitalogy were different on a cassette he got before he was let go. He calls this mix a more "soulful VS sound". He probably still has it. 
    I would love to hear this mix! 

    I think some people here give Dave a harder time than he deserves. As far as I can tell, the dude just wanted to play (even with broken fingers). Knocking him for enjoying the success of the band he gave everything for is a bit silly. I understand not liking the guy, but come on.  
    That he was canned for enjoying the success is a myth that Dave is happy to perpetuate. He got let go because he didn’t want to have Ed be the band leader and he also wasn’t compatible with the direction the band was going artistically. 
  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,002
    I think Eddie did pretty well as the band leader. Just sayin . 
  • Kwieneke
    Kwieneke Indiana Posts: 2,106
    THEBIBLEISTEN said:
    I think Eddie did pretty well as the band leader. Just sayin . 
    seems to have worked out
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  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    THEBIBLEISTEN said:
    I think Eddie did pretty well as the band leader. Just sayin . 
    Absolutely! 
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,769
    Go Beavers said:
    Niko80 said:
    As I understand it, he is not saying he would have made the album better. He says that the mix and sound of Vitalogy were different on a cassette he got before he was let go. He calls this mix a more "soulful VS sound". He probably still has it. 
    I would love to hear this mix! 

    I think some people here give Dave a harder time than he deserves. As far as I can tell, the dude just wanted to play (even with broken fingers). Knocking him for enjoying the success of the band he gave everything for is a bit silly. I understand not liking the guy, but come on.  
    That he was canned for enjoying the success is a myth that Dave is happy to perpetuate. He got let go because he didn’t want to have Ed be the band leader and he also wasn’t compatible with the direction the band was going artistically. 
    Bingo.
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,820
    He was always the fish out of water with the other 4

    he played a bad hand from what I’ve heard over the years, didn’t read the room correctly …. Sometimes you gotta stfu, hard for some…..
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    I always find it hard !


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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,470
    CROJAM95 said:
    He was always the fish out of water with the other 4.
    How do you know that
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  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,820
    lastexitlondon said:
    I always find it hard !
    Every group/ pairing/ organization/ team has a power dynamic

    if you wanna survive, you best figure it out. Wasn’t him, someone should drop him a post it/ memo

    Wasn’t  even an original member… it’s not that hard. I wasn’t there/ neither was anyone else here … so you have to look at it in those terms as the rule not some exception to it 

    I understand people like his style the best, greater talents in music/sports etc  have been let go for whatever… maybe people get sick of looking @ your mug is all it takes 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    I mean i find it hard to shut up sometimes. Gotta keep trying 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -

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