The most embarrassing thing from PJ’s career - RESULTS

[oneway23]

I was pretty obsessed with Dave as a drummer from the time I was about 13 until I graduated high school. There were even a few times after Cameron joined that I wished I could hear Dave on a few post-Vitalogy songs, but, honestly...he was a stand-out drummer in an era of great drummers. He has killer chops and a unique flair, no doubt, but...that's pretty much where it ends.

The deification is borderline ridiculous. He's not Tony Williams or fucking Bill Bruford.

An endless array of spectacular drummers who played on epoch-defining records aren't in the RRHOF..Who cares?

[daft twat]

I honestly wasn't sure about this, so I crunched some numbers:

Dave A was in the band from August 1991 to August 1994, that is, for 3 years and approximately 300 shows (give or take).

Boom has been with the band since November of 2002 (probably not "in the band," even though he's been credited on every album since then, I'm pretty sure), which is 21+ years, and he's “played” about 520 shows.

[Birds in Hell]

I honestly wasn't sure about this, so I crunched some numbers:

Dave A was in the band from August 1991 to August 1994, that is, for 3 years and approximately 300 shows (give or take).

Boom has been with the band since November of 2002 (probably not "in the band," even though he's been credited on every album since then, I'm pretty sure), which is 21+ years, and he's played about 520 shows.

did Boom get inducted? If not, WTF?

Boom isn’t credited on Backspacer or Gigaton (and maybe not Dark Matter).

In any event, Darryl Jones has played bass for The Rolling Stones since 1993 but nobody is going to suggest his contributions are comparable to those of Mick Taylor (five years in the band) or Brian Jones (seven years).

[warehouse]

people still making a big deal about the drummers is more embarrassing than anything pearl jam has done, aside from the target commercial

[96583UP]

Boom was not inducted

and Ed did make a reference to it in his HOF speech, which was along the lines of 'he has been with us for X years, why havent you included him'

but that is the level of protest contemporary PJ engages in at this point

arriving to accept the award knowing that a key member has been excluded

dropping a one-liner and walking away with your prize

[oneway23]

In any event, Darryl Jones has played bass for The Rolling Stones since 1993 but nobody is going to suggest his contributions are comparable to those of Mick Taylor (five years in the band) or Brian Jones (seven years).

These kinds of arguments are so silly, though. They're like the kinds of college freshman stoner arguments you'd spend hours in the dorm going back and forth on.

You can frame them in any way you'd care to in order to make a point, because it's such an arbitrary, nonsensical honor. It's like being upset at who is and isn't in the WWE Hall of Fame. (The Midnight Express & Demolition should both be in, FWIW).

Both Nirvana and GN'R had, essentially, three albums in their prime, and both got in because the organizers had an ulterior motive; in Nirvana's case, they wanted to try to grab headlines with a mini-reunion and guest performers, and, in the case of Guns, they thought they'd be clever in trying to induce a reunion. We see how that turned out.

Maiden has had a four decade career and 17 albums and aren't in. Slayer has 12. Motorhead 23....Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, on and on and on....These bands defined and codified entire sub-genres.

Dave A. didn't get in despite having played with Pearl Jam for three years? Boo hoo.

[96583UP]

as the criteria for this award was fame

and he was the drummer in their most famous era

and on two of their most famous albums

his inclusion was logical

[oneway23]

as the criteria for this award was fame

and he was the drummer in their most famous era

and on two of their most famous albums

his inclusion was logical

What's the criteria? Who can say? The organization began as a man and his hard-on.

[96583UP]

as the criteria for this award was fame

and he was the drummer in their most famous era

and on two of their most famous albums

his inclusion was logical

What's the criteria? Who can say? The organization began as a man and his hard-on.

indeed the fact that PJ arrived to accept an arbitrary award about being famous may in fact be the single most embarrassing thing from PJ's career

[oneway23]

as the criteria for this award was fame

and he was the drummer in their most famous era

and on two of their most famous albums

his inclusion was logical

What's the criteria? Who can say? The organization began as a man and his hard-on.

indeed the fact that PJ arrived to accept an arbitrary award about being famous may in fact be the single most embarrassing thing from PJ's career

We shall agree to meet in the middle here. The band is trash

[96583UP]

as the criteria for this award was fame

and he was the drummer in their most famous era

and on two of their most famous albums

his inclusion was logical

What's the criteria? Who can say? The organization began as a man and his hard-on.

indeed the fact that PJ arrived to accept an arbitrary award about being famous may in fact be the single most embarrassing thing from PJ's career

We shall agree to meet in the middle here. The band is trash

[Bammer]

I really wanted the Dave A. details in the PJ20 movie.

Of course they gave us nothing.

What makes this suck extra hard is that they used “Go” to open the film.

[oneway23]

I really wanted the Dave A. details in the PJ20 movie.

Of course they gave us nothing.

What makes this suck extra hard is that they used “Go” to open the film.

I'm with everyone who brings up the movie..The Spinal Tap gag was weak.

[Ms Harmless]

the whole PJ20 time was weird, that was when it became clearest that they were just pretending the middle records didn't exist

[Kevin Davis]

He's not Tony Williams

A man after my own heart

[oneway23]

He's not Tony Williams

A man after my own heart

Not to get too far off-topic, but, unequivocally, my absolute favorite drummer of all-time....along with Billy Cobham, Neil Peart, Bill Bruford, Max Roach, Bonzo, Moon, and dozens of others, but, I digress...

Have I ever told you I have a memorial booklet from Max Roach's funeral? No, I did not attend, but, I knew someone, at one point, who did. Not my intention to be morbid, it's a rather nice booklet.

We do really need a jazz thread around here...

[oneway23]

the whole PJ20 time was weird, that was when it became clearest that they were just pretending the middle records didn't exist

Right...as if they were simply wandering through the wilderness for a spell, until the world summoned them back.
Not quite a fugue state, but, definitely an odd disassociation there, to a degree

[Ms Harmless]

the whole PJ20 time was weird, that was when it became clearest that they were just pretending the middle records didn't exist

Right...as if they were simply wandering through the wilderness for a spell, until the world summoned them back.
Not quite a fugue state, but, definitely an odd disassociation there, to a degree

and the whole "oops, suddenly mainstream all-American rock Gods on the level of Springsteen" thing; it's easy enough to allow them the notion that they'd worked for it, but it *felt* unearned while they were only really promoting the first three records

[Ms Harmless]

the whole PJ20 time was weird, that was when it became clearest that they were just pretending the middle records didn't exist

Right...as if they were simply wandering through the wilderness for a spell, until the world summoned them back.
Not quite a fugue state, but, definitely an odd disassociation there, to a degree

and the whole "oops, suddenly mainstream all-American rock Gods on the level of Springsteen" thing; it's easy enough to allow them the notion that they'd worked for it, but it *felt* unearned while they were only really promoting the first three records

I would have been SO much more impressed had they gone forward with "no, Binaural, Riot Act and No Code are good actually"

[BurtReynolds]

All the PJ20 stuff was a big turn off for me. It was really the last straw for me.