Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:

Bammer wrote:"...including newly written material..."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/busin ... hing-group

I assumed that just meant any new music moving forward rather than they have new music int he pipeline ready to release.

RIP pj

A little under a year ago, the three members of RNDM - Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud - got together to began sketching out ideas for their new LP, Ghost Riding (out March 4th), a follow-up to their 2012 debut Acts. "We said to each other, 'What is the spirit album for this record?'" says Ament. "We started throwing out experimental albums back and forth that we love, like Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees and Gone to Earth, some of the most experimental Bowie albums, Bauhaus and the first couple of Peter Gabriel records."
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Acts was recorded in about a week, but this new way of working required a much greater time commitment. After three weeks in Montana, they moved shop to Stone Gossard's Seattle studio for another few weeks. Mixing took three months. "I don't think I've ever spend that much time on a record in my entire career," says Gossard. "I think it was because we didn't know what it was. We kept throwing paint on the canvas and paint on the canvas and at some point, we had to start actually taking some paint off the canvas or starting over."

tragabigzanda wrote:

evenslow wrote:From a Rolling Stone article about RNDM:

A little under a year ago, the three members of RNDM - Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud - got together to began sketching out ideas for their new LP, Ghost Riding (out March 4th), a follow-up to their 2012 debut Acts. "We said to each other, 'What is the spirit album for this record?'" says Ament. "We started throwing out experimental albums back and forth that we love, like Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees and Gone to Earth, some of the most experimental Bowie albums, Bauhaus and the first couple of Peter Gabriel records."
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Acts was recorded in about a week, but this new way of working required a much greater time commitment. After three weeks in Montana, they moved shop to Stone Gossard's Seattle studio for another few weeks. Mixing took three months. "I don't think I've ever spend that much time on a record in my entire career," says Gossard. "I think it was because we didn't know what it was. We kept throwing paint on the canvas and paint on the canvas and at some point, we had to start actually taking some paint off the canvas or starting over."

Would be nice if this sense of experimentation and commitment followed through to album 11.

Seriously -- I'm a little shocked at Stone's involvement, given his apparent boredom with PJ, and the more direct approach his recent solo music has taken. Good to know that at least 2 of the 5 guys in PJ still enjoy tinkering in the studio with no real endgame in mind.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:The only thing I am hoping for out of these guys is that PJ and Cypress Hill get into the R&R Hof the same year and at the ceremony the play "The Real Thing".

Strat wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:The only thing I am hoping for out of these guys is that PJ and Cypress Hill get into the R&R Hof the same year and at the ceremony the play "The Real Thing".

I dont believe that is the only thing you are hoping for with pj.

Strat wrote:They probabyl actually enjoy making music. They just have this idea of what PJ needs to be and apparently need BOB to help shape that. Get over it, PJ. Be the unicorn you actually desire to be.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:They probabyl actually enjoy making music. They just have this idea of what PJ needs to be and apparently need BOB to help shape that. Get over it, PJ. Be the unicorn you actually desire to be.

I wonder how much this is driven by Vedder, I get the sense that both he and BOB seem to place a high value on "working fast" and I think that flows through to the lightweight substance of the last two records.

What's the status of the next Pearl Jam record?

I don't know. I think there's talk of getting together and throwing some ideas together. There's no plan of making a record yet. When we got together in South America [late last year] there was lots of talk of how we wanted to do it and in what ways we wanted it to be different, what things we liked about the last record. It's just in the planning stages and everyone deciding when the time is. Usually it just takes somebody to call somebody else and be like, "Hey, do you want to go into the studio next month?" And that just hasn't happened yet.

Wrapping up, I want to get back to the next record. Do you think you'll begin in later this year? Next year? Any idea on the timeline?

I don't. I mean, we're kind of busy through the summer. We haven't really talked about it since South America. The conversations down there were just sort of like, "Man, it would be cool if we did this or tried it this way." It was just throwing ideas back and forth. There was no dates or anything in mind. I think because everybody's got families and stuff, it just gets trickier and trickier trying to nail people down. But I honestly feel that if somebody just called and said, "Hey, let's go in the studio in October or whatever," we would. It would be done. I think it's just gonna take that.

digster wrote:New RS interview from Jeff, specifically pertaining to PJ. There's some talk of full-album shows, R&R Hall of Fame, and here's some new album stuff:

What's the status of the next Pearl Jam record?

I don't know. I think there's talk of getting together and throwing some ideas together. There's no plan of making a record yet. When we got together in South America [late last year] there was lots of talk of how we wanted to do it and in what ways we wanted it to be different, what things we liked about the last record. It's just in the planning stages and everyone deciding when the time is. Usually it just takes somebody to call somebody else and be like, "Hey, do you want to go into the studio next month?" And that just hasn't happened yet.

Wrapping up, I want to get back to the next record. Do you think you'll begin in later this year? Next year? Any idea on the timeline?

I don't. I mean, we're kind of busy through the summer. We haven't really talked about it since South America. The conversations down there were just sort of like, "Man, it would be cool if we did this or tried it this way." It was just throwing ideas back and forth. There was no dates or anything in mind. I think because everybody's got families and stuff, it just gets trickier and trickier trying to nail people down. But I honestly feel that if somebody just called and said, "Hey, let's go in the studio in October or whatever," we would. It would be done. I think it's just gonna take that.

tragabigzanda wrote:
Ed: "Great, then it's decided. The next record will be completely adventurous. We'll return to a place of real depth and experimentation, and give the fans something completely new."

Brett wrote:I just read that Jeff interview, and he mentions that Matt's been in the band for almost 20 years. That's a weird thing to realize. They had four different drummers in an eight year span, and then just the one for the last seventeen. It seems really skewed when you think about the fact that Matt's only recorded with them for four of their ten albums.