harmless wrote:Did they do this when they were awesome? Remain so poker-faced and business-like about everything for the press?stupidmop wrote:So does Jeff! I'm pretty sure he said he hates it and wish they'd record more.Mike wrote:6 weeks making a record but probably 50 weeks of touring. I wish it was the other way round.
I'm sure a large part of this has to do with how awful everyone is at interviews. We'd never really know if they were super excited/inspired because they mostly give the same interview.harmless wrote:I think the "fixing" of songs, yet still being friends, can be explained by the fact that they just don't have time in the studio to jam and cook the songs. That's for young people. They just have ideas, and BO'B says "That one, that one, that one", and puts them into an electrical gadget then says "Play!" The word "Efficiency" was used a lot during Backspacer. Do other bands use words like that? Or do they go in and jam it out till it's done? Jamming *may* be for young people, but it's also for people with divergent styles who want to make a unified, consistent showcase of a band's best music.
Yes they did. Stuff didn't come out until right around an album dropped. But pearl jam had to start this 3 months out because of the tour announcement, and lets be honest, there's probably not 3 months of press you can do. Not sure why BoB was doing stuff, and we have a few mike interviews, but we know an epk (a 10 minute movie talking about the record) was made, we'll get more interviews, and in the meantime we've had those little vignettes, two videos, the listening party, the album artwork launch.
that's actually WAY more than I think we've gotten in the past.
How far out from the album was WWS released, after all. Remember when the big pre launch event was 5 seconds of the chorus played on the radio?
The tricky thing is that we're basically expecting big stuff to happen every day because we gather here every day to talk about it. And nothing will match that pace or those expectations. This week was sirens. Next week I bet we get some more interviews or the EPK. We'll have a dozen interviews when the album is out.
The 4 years thing is a bit discouraging, but it is also a bit deceptive. The first year is the backspacer tour and time off. Fine. The next year is pearl jam 20, the film, the book, the box set. It's really after PJ 20 that the clock starts for Lightning Bolt. And in that time soundgarden gets back together. Eddie fucks up his shoulder and has to cancel a tour. Then he has to make it up. And Soundgarden has to tour. And everyone goes off and does side projects. Plus Ole and the Vs. boxset at some point. And a couple of small tours.
Obviously pearl jam is not as much of a priority to them as it once was. And that's a shame. But they really just spent two years since they started working on a record. They had two recording sessions because they didn't want to just release the stuff they did from the first one. Maybe that speaks to a lack of inspiration, but it also speaks to a commitment to do it right. They've had people writing the songs and bringing them in since Yield. That's nothing new.
And the songs we've gotten are a good group of songs. They might be a great group of songs. And BoB is doing what producers do. It's just that we don't usually hear producers talking about it, and BoB has a bit of an ego.
Though i don't like the new songs as much as you, or most of em at all...
