Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:If you want me to expand: Soundgarden seemed as though they were gearing up for a busy new album cycle when Chris died, so I expect the Pearl Jam guys had planned on most of 2018 (even 2019) being pretty low-key, perhaps made family plans or whatever. Obviously things changed and Matt is suddenly available but, given they probably map this stuff out months to years in advance, they may not have songs written, be able to move their lives around at short notice, etc. On top of that, with AC/DC suddenly bringing back their fired/retired members into the fold and hitting the studio with Brendan, their preferred producer is also tied up with other projects.

Look, I said it was half-baked.

MM: Has your relationship as collaborators changed over the years?
AMENT: Yeah, it’s weakened. All bands must weaken. The best you can do is try to preserve the basic union. Most of the guys have wives and children. I have a dog and a home. I’m not going anywhere. Ed lives in Hawaii and a few members of the group live in Seattle. There’s no time. There’s no way to collaborate. It’ll never be like the times when someone would say, “This song sucks, but I do like that bridge, so what if I play this?” That is collaboration. Nobody criticizes Ed now because he bring the majority of the possible songs to the table. Everybody acts like Ed's work is untouchable, but I don’t particularly care for that. I want people to have strong opinions because [if they don’t], when I have strong opinions it makes me feel that I’m being unfair and that I have to have kid gloves. Stone never had kid gloves with me. I miss him very much.

theplatypus wrote:

MM: Has your relationship as collaborators changed over the years?
AMENT: Yeah, it’s weakened. All bands must weaken. The best you can do is try to preserve the basic union. Most of the guys have wives and children. I have a dog and a home. I’m not going anywhere. Ed lives in Hawaii and a few members of the group live in Seattle. There’s no time. There’s no way to collaborate. It’ll never be like the times when someone would say, “This song sucks, but I do like that bridge, so what if I play this?” That is collaboration. Nobody criticizes Ed now because he bring the majority of the possible songs to the table. Everybody acts like Ed's work is untouchable, but I don’t particularly care for that. I want people to have strong opinions because [if they don’t], when I have strong opinions it makes me feel that I’m being unfair and that I have to have kid gloves. Stone never had kid gloves with me. I miss him very much.

theplatypus wrote:

MM: Has your relationship as collaborators changed over the years?
AMENT: Yeah, it’s weakened. All bands must weaken. The best you can do is try to preserve the basic union. Most of the guys have wives and children. I have a dog and a home. I’m not going anywhere. Ed lives in Hawaii and a few members of the group live in Seattle. There’s no time. There’s no way to collaborate. It’ll never be like the times when someone would say, “This song sucks, but I do like that bridge, so what if I play this?” That is collaboration. Nobody criticizes Ed now because he bring the majority of the possible songs to the table. Everybody acts like Ed's work is untouchable, but I don’t particularly care for that. I want people to have strong opinions because [if they don’t], when I have strong opinions it makes me feel that I’m being unfair and that I have to have kid gloves. Stone never had kid gloves with me. I miss him very much.

theplatypus wrote:It is real

E.H. Ruddock wrote:The new record is just a bunch of AC/DC covers