Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:I think I'm least attached to this song, Even though knowing full well this is everyone I, we, they need from Pearl Jam and the complete anchor of the album....


Lost myself. What?

Oh, yea - I don't know the words quite well at all. This is the one that his vocals are just mixed a bit back so I not hear random phrases here and there.

Also, I'm afraid this song is everything and im not ready

Strat wrote:Also, I'm afraid this song is everything and im not ready

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I can’t place my finger on why but this song sounds more No Code/Yield to me. Except that outright outro is basically Parting Ways

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

It sounds like the riff is just as much Eddie's as it is Watt's

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

It sounds like the riff is just as much Eddie's as it is Watt's

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

Ehh, sounds like some post hoc fudging to me.

In any event, it was undeniably sparked from Wotman's musical idea.

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

It sounds like the riff is just as much Eddie's as it is Watt's

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

Ehh, sounds like some post hoc fudging to me.

In any event, it was undeniably sparked from Wotman's musical idea.

which inspired Ed to finally make a song out of that riff he's had for years and years

Strat wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

It sounds like the riff is just as much Eddie's as it is Watt's

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

Ehh, sounds like some post hoc fudging to me.

In any event, it was undeniably sparked from Wotman's musical idea.

which inspired Ed to finally make a song out of that riff he's had for years and years

Yea, weird hang up Spenno but i get it. Pearl jam is a very...fragile thing to us all and that feels like a stranger entering our domain.

Regardless, it sounds and feels very pearl jam. And who knows what that original idea sounded like....

wease wrote:

Strat wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm not sure I'll ever be able to move beyond this song being built on Wotman riff (not Stone, not Jeff, etc.)

It sounds like the riff is just as much Eddie's as it is Watt's

We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea. Check it out. He says, that is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar.

Ehh, sounds like some post hoc fudging to me.

In any event, it was undeniably sparked from Wotman's musical idea.

which inspired Ed to finally make a song out of that riff he's had for years and years

Yea, weird hang up Spenno but i get it. Pearl jam is a very...fragile thing to us all and that feels like a stranger entering our domain.

Regardless, it sounds and feels very pearl jam. And who knows what that original idea sounded like....

Like the chorus to I Got Shit/Cinnamon Girl. Those first two chords are directly from that. Then the third chord ventures off and it becomes its own entity.

And the thing is, we don’t have any idea how many tunes off this record had their beginnings with a Wotman riff or idea. And we probably wouldn’t like the answer if we did.