Do Pearl Jam use session-guitarists?

Jackieboy
Jackieboy Posts: 78
edited December 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
The title says it all! Personally I'm very much against using session-guitarists...
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    no they use Stone, Jeff, Mike and maybe Ed?
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Yes, Ed plays his tracks.
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    And Matt...he played on You Are for the Riot Act album.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Ask Ian.
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  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Didnt Brendan Obrien add some keys when he worked with them.

    A session guitarist wouldnt be that bad a thing if for some reason there was a guy that was really proficient at a certain style.

    For instance, John Paul Jones could play piano, but Boogie with Stu was played and inspired by Rolling Stones studio manager Ian Stewart, who was a boogie-woogie piano virtuoso. I dont think somethin like that is a big deal really. Somethin like that is much less likely to happen with guitar though.
  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,413
    I think brendan o'brien did some guitar tracks on No Code...present tense I believe was one
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  • YkantItouchit
    YkantItouchit Posts: 54
    IIRC, Brenden O'Brien played "surf guitar" on Gremmie Out Of Control.
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Jackieboy wrote:
    The title says it all! Personally I'm very much against using session-guitarists...
    why are you against session guitarists?
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    I recorded a tune with them in "96, so I guess the answer is yup.
    Doesn't mean anything though - tons of people use session players for this or that.
    It doesn't mean that the artist using a session artist can't play.
    Maybe the artist just wants a different sound, feeling, or perspective.
    Maybe they just want someone with fresh ears to hit the tune.
    Or maybe they want to do a live room recording, and need another pair of hands to get the sound they want.
    And it doesn't mean that they won't be able to play it live later on (like on tour).
    Think about all the sounds you hear on albums that aren't there live - a lot of little things aren't there.
    It's really rare to span 8 albums and not hear something done by someone other than a band member.

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  • MichaelMcKevin
    MichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    I recorded a tune with them in "96, so I guess the answer is yup.
    Doesn't mean anything though - tons of people use session players for this or that.
    It doesn't mean that the artist using a session artist can't play.
    Maybe the artist just wants a different sound, feeling, or perspective.
    Maybe they just want someone with fresh ears to hit the tune.
    Or maybe they want to do a live room recording, and need another pair of hands to get the sound they want.
    And it doesn't mean that they won't be able to play it live later on (like on tour).
    Think about all the sounds you hear on albums that aren't there live - a lot of little things aren't there.
    It's really rare to span 8 albums and not hear something done by someone other than a band member.

    - Ian

    Hey Ian,

    Just wondering what song it was.
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  • elstongunn
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    GivenToCarve wrote:
    Hey Ian,

    Just wondering what song it was.
    yea you got my interest too
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  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    ianvomsaal wrote:

    Maybe the artist just wants a different sound, feeling, or perspective.
    Maybe they just want someone with fresh ears to hit the tune.
    Or maybe they want to do a live room recording, and need another pair of hands to get the sound they want.

    - Ian

    Or maybe they were always too wasted and facing a recording deadline
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  • amit
    amit Posts: 73
    did i just hear that right? You recorded with pearl jam?
  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    GivenToCarve wrote:
    Hey Ian,
    Just wondering what song it was.
    elstongunn wrote:
    yea you got my interest too
    amit wrote:
    did i just hear that right? You recorded with pearl jam?
    Okay, I've been in the studio all day, and I'm tired (it's 4:45am). Soo, instead of going over this
    again and again I'll just give you a link to where I answered the same question (for the ? time).
    I think it's #10 http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=250409
    Cheers . . .

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  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    Okay, I've been in the studio all day, and I'm tired (it's 4:45am). Soo, instead of going over this
    again and again I'll just give you a link to where I answered the same question (for the ? time).
    I think it's #10 http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=250409
    Cheers . . .

    - Ian C.T. vom Saal

    that's nuts!!

    i'd love to hear the entire in-depth story, but i'm sure you are sick of telling it. but besides, brendon obrien on present tense, i don't think they used seession guitarists during any studio albums. and the obrien thing was more of a "guest" guitar, because mike, stone, and ed still played, just with the addition of brendon.
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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    DiRtyFranK38 wrote:
    that's nuts!!
    i'd love to hear the entire in-depth story, but i'm sure you are sick of telling it. but besides, brendon obrien on present tense, i don't think they used seession guitarists during any studio albums. and the obrien thing was more of a "guest" guitar, because mike, stone, and ed still played, just with the addition of brendon.
    I still don't think I have all of their albums, so I couldn't tell you. Maybe that's something I should get around to
    (they all played in our session), though I think Mike was a bit wasted at the time - he kinda looked like crap, and
    he didn't really seem like he was completely with us (disconnected) - or maybe he was just going through some shit.

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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    or maybe it was just some odd tune that they never released - don't know.
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  • elstongunn
    elstongunn Posts: 285
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    Okay, I've been in the studio all day, and I'm tired (it's 4:45am). Soo, instead of going over this
    again and again I'll just give you a link to where I answered the same question (for the ? time).
    I think it's #10 http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=250409
    Cheers . . .

    - Ian C.T. vom Saal
    this is like a riddle.. the link gives a partial story and then suggests "searching" for the rest. lol

    cheers
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    EVACUATION!!
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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    elstongunn wrote:
    this is like a riddle.. the link gives a partial story and then suggests "searching" for the rest. lol
    cheers
    Sorry, don't mean it to be a riddle.
    I've just recounted my experience a bunch of times already, and I'm tired of re-typing it over and over every time it gets brought up.

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  • Guitarhero27
    Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    has it been asked what gear you actually used when you did record? and what gear they were using? If so, you don't have to answer, I will search, if not, would you mind recounting just the gear part of it?

    Thanks :)

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