Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:This quote from Neil Young made me wonder how Pj can sound so relatively experimental here, and yet always seem to either go for the things that sound like themselves or hammer things like these into songs that sound like themselves..it's pertinent though

Do you ever worry about how your albums will be received or what people will think of them?

“I just keep doing what I want to do. I don’t spend much time trying to figure that out. It really doesn’t help, because then all you’d try to do is just spend all this time trying to figure out how to do the same thing again. As soon as you do it again, you’re pretty well finished. I’d rather do something else and make something happen.”

http://online.wsj.com/articles/neil-you ... 8?mod=e2fb

Birds in Hell wrote:
I certainly don't agree that Vedder is more hands-off now than in years past. The whole dynamic of the band seems to revolve around Ed's decisions. The band have said many times that only songs Ed's excited about will end up progressing further, which is somewhat understandable, making him effectively in more or less total control of the band's direction at any given time. I don't have any issue with that, I think good bands frequently need a benevolent dictator, I just think he sometimes makes baffling decisions.

theplatypus wrote:Someone said something to the effect of "Life Wasted-- now with bongos".

LetMeSleep wrote:Guitarists out there. Are you sure Mike is playing on 10 Billion Years. Because I'm not convinced it's Matt behind the kit. This could have been a Stone demo done with his other buddies.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Mine wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:I dont think Ed needs to go I just think the band needs to drop the idea of what pearl jam is supposed to be. Maybe that takes gettig a new producer.

I never thought they lost the capabliity of writing good music, it just seems their idea of what a pj record should be is hindering them

Great solo by mike on 10 billion years

Totally agree.

Also, maybe the rest of the band should stick up for themselves more, instead of just deferring to Ed automatically all the time. If that's in fact what's going on. I don't know if it is. But it sure seems like it lately.

It's the other way around according to them. They keep on saying that Ed's far easier to work with and does what they want him to do - as oposed to how Vitalogy and No Code were written. I remember one quote where Ed described Mike explaining him to re-do a song because he failed to see it trough 3D glasses. Stone said he likes raising the key of the songs - Severed Hand here is noticeably lower than the final version. Speed Of Sound is a noticeably different than the demo version and does't really sound like anything Ed did with or without the band. Just mentioning this examples to show how one could see it the opposite way.

Severed Hand is in exactly the same key as the released version here. I haven't done a direct comparison but I'm fairly sure these are the exact same instrumenal takes as the finished record (they just sound much, much better).

I certainly don't agree that Vedder is more hands-off now than in years past. The whole dynamic of the band seems to revolve around Ed's decisions. The band have said many times that only songs Ed's excited about will end up progressing further, which is somewhat understandable, making him effectively in more or less total control of the band's direction at any given time. I don't have any issue with that, I think good bands frequently need a benevolent dictator, I just think he sometimes makes baffling decisions.

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theplatypus wrote:Wait, I missed this

stip wrote:Interesting that he seems to have the vocal melody before the lyrics. I'd have thought the lyrics would come first

You actually thought "you're always saying that there's something wrong / I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along" are lines you build a song around?

dimejinky99 wrote:This quote from Neil Young made me wonder how Pj can sound so relatively experimental here, and yet always seem to either go for the things that sound like themselves or hammer things like these into songs that sound like themselves..it's pertinent though

Do you ever worry about how your albums will be received or what people will think of them?

“I just keep doing what I want to do. I don’t spend much time trying to figure that out. It really doesn’t help, because then all you’d try to do is just spend all this time trying to figure out how to do the same thing again. As soon as you do it again, you’re pretty well finished. I’d rather do something else and make something happen.”

http://online.wsj.com/articles/neil-you ... 8?mod=e2fb