Red Mosquito

I don't mind if Ed's playing an acoustic guitar, occasionally. But he absolutely has not a clue how to play the heavy distorted riffs on electric guitar. I wish he'd just focused on playing acoustic guitar and left the electric guitars to Mike and Stone (Josh).

Fair to say Pearl jam are a lot more experimental and interesting in the studio and songwriting than Ed lets them be in the final pick. Not sure that’s an unpopular opinion though.

Time for Ed to bust out a new, weird instrument.

Ukulele, accordion, audio looper, ... what else ya' got?

He’d sound amazing with one of those line 6 pedals where you can layer and loop over and over

*shit. He did that already with Arc


Get him a vocoder or daft punk helmet maybe.

Just not a pump organ again.

He could've learn to play the bagpipes, tho.

B wrote:Time for Ed to bust out a new, weird instrument.

Ukulele, accordion, audio looper, ... what else ya' got?

Pan flute like Zamfir!

B wrote:Time for Ed to bust out a new, weird instrument.

Ukulele, accordion, audio looper, ... what else ya' got?

He literally should play more cowbell, imo.

I don’t know if it’s unpopular or not but I don’t think Boom added anything or value to the band.

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I don’t know if it’s unpopular or not but I don’t think Boom added anything or value to the band.

I'll never forgive him for not playing the piano on live versions of In Hiding. Lazy bastard.

tommy wrote:

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I don’t know if it’s unpopular or not but I don’t think Boom added anything or value to the band.

I'll never forgive him for not playing the piano on live versions of In Hiding. Lazy bastard.

Yeah, that seems like a missed opportunity.

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I don’t know if it’s unpopular or not but I don’t think Boom added anything or value to the band.

Not a fan of Love Boat Captain or Crazy Mary live, I take it.

RockPusher wrote:

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I don’t know if it’s unpopular or not but I don’t think Boom added anything or value to the band.

Not a fan of Love Boat Captain or Crazy Mary live, I take it.

Neither one does much for me, I’m afraid.

I love LBC but I agree that they didn’t do anything else with him specially live

VinylGuy wrote:I love LBC but I agree that they didn’t do anything else with him specially live

I’ve gotten to appreciate LBC a little bit more over time. At first I really disliked it and thought it was a momentum killer on the album. Now it’s just meh. But I totally get that it was an interesting change of pace.

Boom gets his moments on Crazy Mary.

Of the earth is wildly overrated on this board.

dimejinky99 wrote:Of the earth is wildly overrated on this board.

Absolutely.

They have waaaay better unreleased songs.

I don’t buy the notion the b-side U is different from the Lost Dogs version. I just listened to both back-to-back and other than the mastering, they sound exactly alike. I also don’t agree that Matt is on the Lost Dogs version and not the b-side. The drums are exactly the same. I actually don’t think Matt is on it at all. The fills sound much more like Jack fills than Matt fills and the whole groove of the tune swings more like Jack than Matt.