Random Pearl Jam References

[broken iris]

Sorry if this is a repeat, but:



Pretty cool fan boy shit right there.

[OmegaprimeVKM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4vNjLiXjzc

Will Ferrell interview on Letterman, I think I hear a PJ track just before the adverts.

[Norah]

Yeah they use Pearl Jam a lot in and out of breaks on the Late show. Hail Hail is a common one there.

[Kaius]

Sorry if this is a repeat, but:



Pretty cool fan boy shit right there.

That's great. Those last 5 were impressive!

[Norah]

[Birds in Hell]

This whole thing is brilliant.

The AV Club: Melvins' Buzz Osborne picks songs by "bands that were good, but blew it".

The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)

The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. The Who Sell Out is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time. That record would be weird even now. Even with all the stuff that’s happened since then, it would still be odd. It was super well crafted, well thought out, unbelievable, and they were like that right up until the Who’s Next album. After that, they drifted off.

I imagine drugs destroyed them. Then Keith Moon died and they replaced him with Kenney Jones. That’s when I saw The Who and it was relatively limp. The songs were good and that helped carry it, but I thought the obvious replacement for him should have been Rat Scabies from The Damned, or Clem Burke from Blondie.

But “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” that’s one of my favorite songs. It’s everything that big arena-rock bands try to do in one song and can’t even come close to. I don’t care who they are—U2 can’t do it and Pearl Jam can’t do it. The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is one of the greatest rock songs ever written. So, to have to try and force yourself to listen to the Who Are You? album a matter of years later is a trial.

AVC: What do you think of bands reuniting now? It feels so easy to break up now because in five years, you can get back together, do a reunion tour, and make more money.

BO: What were you doing for five years?

AVC: I don’t know. Being a dad? That kind of stuff.

BO: Okay, being a dad. That’s all well and good and stuff as long as someone else is footing the bill. I never had a big, fat daddy at home writing the checks for me. So I don’t know what that’s like. I also don’t have another career outside of music, which makes it even weirder for bands like The Cows and Isis that were doing better than ever to just be done. Maybe they have outside sources of income. Not to my knowledge, because I’m pretty good friends with Aaron Harris from Isis and with Cliff [Meyer] and Jeff [Caxide] and I know those guys don’t come from money. And I know The Cows certainly didn’t. I just don’t think people know how good they have it when they’re in the middle of something.

If you take a band, any band—like if Eddie Vedder were to put together another band, it’s not going to be as big as Pearl Jam. It rarely happens, and it’s tough to do. So people are like, “I’ll just break up and do this on my own,” and it doesn’t work. It’s hard to get all those ducks in line and all those planets aligned to have it just work out again as great as it is now with this combination of things.

The Melvins have been through a ton of that kind of stuff and it’s never easy and I don’t like it, but I refuse to quit. I think that we’re better than ever and we’re not afraid of change. I don’t take the success that we have lightly and I think these bands did.

While I'm at it, I'll just leave this here:

AVC: So, your big advice coming out of all of this is don’t quit, and challenge yourself.

BO: Challenge yourself and realize what’s good about you from the beginning. Why was this good? Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. I’m not into people repeating what they do, but like I said with Tom Waits, he’s not repeating what he did, but he hasn’t lost what he did. I think that’s important. But you can’t also continue like the Stones have and be horrible. You have to work on this shit.

Also, I think they get wrapped up in this idea, like The Who and all these other bands that play in arenas, at some point they have to know or understand that if they’re out there playing non-venues or venues designed for things other than music is a mistake. It’s a great way for them to make a ton of money, but they already have a ton of money.

What they should do—and this goes back to the thing about them working harder than anyone else—they should now work harder by trying to provide people with an amazing place to see music like a theater or something smaller than a basketball gymnasium. I’m so not into it. “They’re playing at the Staples Center! Great! I can’t wait to go down and see a band play in the exact same place as where they play hockey!”

AVC: And play $120 to sit in the 500s.

BO: Fuck that. It’s just a rip-off. I’d rather pay $200 to see them play at the Fonda. I’d have a much better time and the audience would, but these people don’t care and that’s why they blow it. “We could make more money at the Staples Center!” Well, surely. So then it’s all about money. You already have a ton of money so you need more money? What’s the problem?

Some of it probably comes down to the fact that bands like the Stones and Metallica and The Who will spend $40,000 or $400,000 the way you or me will spend $400. They’re blowing through their money so fast that they’re like, “Oh, we need to go out for this amount of time and play all these horseshit venues.” No, no, no. What you need to do is go out and work harder at a smaller venue. Try doing that, millionaire. For those of us that are thousandaires, we’ll enjoy it more. I would be much more likely to give you my hard earned dollars that way than I would at the Enormo-dome on the edge of town so that you can pay your wife alimony, or your ex-wife. Fuck. Off.

Stuff like that doesn’t exist for me. I learned those lessons early on. One of the things that attracted me so much to punk rock was the intimacy of it. That was very exciting. Here were these bands that were playing this amazing music up close. There’s nothing like being right up close.

AVC: But if The Rolling Stones don’t have fireworks, you’ll notice that they’re 75-years-old.

BO: That never bothered guys like John Lee Hooker. He managed to tour for the better part of his life. Stuff like that is for egos, but if you have to hide behind smoke and mirrors to cover up the fact that your band fucking sucks, then no amount of that is going to fool me. I just don’t like that kind of stuff. I go to a few of those once in a while and all I can think about is how much more I would enjoy this if it was somewhere else. But there’s millions of reasons bands do stuff like that. And I’m not impressed. Like I said, I think millionaires should work harder than anybody else. I don’t see anything wrong with a band coming in and playing a 3,000-seat show as opposed to one show in a 20,000-seater.

It’s ridiculous. I don’t get it. You play guitar for a living, it’s not that hard to do. Take it from me. Playing guitar in a rock band is not the hardest thing you’re ever going to do in your life, that’s for sure. It’s not easy, but not as hard as some guy who works at a skyscraper or some other horseshit job like factory work or farm work. I’d like to think those people put that perspective into place, but they never do. Get back to the basics and figure out what made you good to begin with. And I have never lost sight of that. That’s why I appreciate things like that so much when they actually happen.

[McParadigm]

[stupidmop]

Someone email that last part to the band. Pls. They're already closer to rolling stones territory than is safe.

[BurtReynolds]

Someone email that last part to the band. Pls. They're already closer to rolling stones territory than is safe.

it's far too late for that I'm afraid.

[BurtReynolds]

Stip disagrees with that interview in 5,4,3,2...

[stupidmop]

Someone email that last part to the band. Pls. They're already closer to rolling stones territory than is safe.

it's far too late for that I'm afraid.

They can pull it back

THERES STILL TIME



Whichever one of em it is (I can't remember who, probably Jeff or eddie) that's always talking out of his ass about doing smaller shows or acoustic shows or Neil young needs to throw a bitchfit and make it happen.

[stip]

Stip disagrees with that interview in 5,4,3,2...

I wonder if right now on a Melvin's message board fans are bitching about how they aren't as good as they used to be.

[stip]

the experience of being in the who or the rolling stones (or pearl jam or U2) is, I suspect, fundamentally different from the experience of being in the Melvins.

[BurtReynolds]

Stip disagrees with that interview in 5,4,3,2...

I wonder if right now on a Melvin's message board fans are bitching about how they aren't as good as they used to be.

I should check. they always seemed too sludgy for me, but they've been scratching an itch for me lately.

[stip]

i don't know a single Melvins song, I don't think.

[bodysnatcher]

i just emailed that to the 10c


Membership revoked in 5, 4, 3....

[BurtReynolds]

i don't know a single Melvins song, I don't think.

You should start with disliking A Senile Animal before moving on to disliking some of the others.

[hlniv]

Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

[BurtReynolds]

Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

[Anders]

Sorry if this is a repeat, but:



Pretty cool fan boy shit right there.

That was incredible.