Red Mosquito

As a counterpoint, I saw them in 1997 with a hostile festival crowd and the band were great and Ed responded really well to all kinds of missiles being thrown at them (every band on the bill was being pelted by stuff, it wasn't unique to Live).

I'd also add that the back story to why Ed is the only original member left in the band is super interesting and dramatic- there's a great article about it on something like Rolling Stone. Sorry I dont have the link but worth checking out as it's so wild and ridiculous.

Dammit, now I want to know! Find that link!

liebzz wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:How about that cat that played for Live. I always liked him. Sweet groove and nice chops. He could fit into PJ’s repertoire fairly easily, I would think. Is Live still around?

This goes back a good handful of years … I saw Live open for - must have been Counting Crows - and for a band whose music I really do enjoy, Ed Kowalcyk ranks very very high on my persoanal list of least favorite (live) performers. Great songs. Super weird on stage.

I saw them in 1998. They were not very good live.

Some buddies saw them that year, too. That was their assessment, as well.

igotworms wrote:I'd also add that the back story to why Ed is the only original member left in the band is super interesting and dramatic- there's a great article about it on something like Rolling Stone. Sorry I dont have the link but worth checking out as it's so wild and ridiculous.

Yeah i read that. They also interviewed a replacement so get they had i think?

igotworms wrote:I'd also add that the back story to why Ed is the only original member left in the band is super interesting and dramatic- there's a great article about it on something like Rolling Stone. Sorry I dont have the link but worth checking out as it's so wild and ridiculous.

I found it. Yeah, they’d never get this guy. He’s got way too much baggage. Plus, he’s MAGA.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234677011/

Yeah here let me subscribe to Rolling Stone real quick so I can read this

Bammer wrote:Yeah here let me subscribe to Rolling Stone real quick so I can read this

I didn’t have to subscribe

Saw Live in some smallish theater in Pittsburgh for the Secret Samahdi tour. Seemed like a good show, but I was only 16. In any case, there are a bunch of Live songs that I love.

that was a wild ride of an article.

“Chad told me he hung himself outside a balcony and nearly jumped when we were on tour in New Zealand,” Gracey says. “He’s always been very dramatic about stuff, so I don’t know if it even happened.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 235514367/

Vedder dodged the question of whether the band has already found a new drummer, in a manner that may raise fans’ eyebrows. “ If I were to say anything,” he said, “I think we’d wanna have a band discussion about what we’d wanna say or who would be the messenger or whatever.”

But Vedder did make it clear that he and the other members of Pearl Jam are currently playing together, and feeling open to evolution, baby. “We’re in the lab, we’re woodshedding, excited,” he said. “It’s cool to think of change. As much as we’d like to have done it the way we did it forever — and we’ll still be able to do that thing — I think we’re all just excited for the future.”

Interesting just a Vedder interview out of nowhere published today.

Any main theme, like to plug EB research?

Im guessing they have already have a new drummer.

Also, im watching that doc today.

article text, hopefully this works:
It's been seven months since drummer Matt Cameron left Pearl Jam, so what's going on with the band? In a Zoom interview with Rolling Stone that was otherwise focused on his moving new documentary Matter of Time, about his charity work to support medical research, frontman Eddie Vedder said he recently read a description of the group's current state that rang true. "The quote was, I think, 'Pearl Jam is in between eras at the moment,'" he said. "And I thought that was actually pretty concise."
Vedder dodged the question of whether the band has already found a new drummer, in a manner that may raise fans' eyebrows. "If I were to say anything," he said, "I think we'd wanna have a band discussion about what we'd wanna say or who would be the messenger or whatever."
But Vedder did make it clear that he and the other members of Pearl Jam are currently playing together, and feeling open to evolution, baby. "We're in the lab, we're woodshedding, excited," he said. "It's cool to think of change. As much as we'd like to have done it the way we did it forever - and we'll still be able to do that thing - I think we're all just excited for the future.!"
Cameron, who first came to prominence as a member of Soundgarden, joined Pearl Jam in 1998 after the other band's initial breakup and played on every Pearl Jam studio album from Binaural through last year's Dark Matter. He announced his departure on Instagram in July, shortly after the band wrapped a spring arena tour. Cameron did confirm he's "still an active musician" and is currently at work on a new Soundgarden album using vocals Chris Cornell recorded before his death. Pearl Jam has cycled through five drummers since their founding in 1990, but

Bammer wrote:Interesting just a Vedder interview out of nowhere published today.

Any main theme, like to plug EB research?

Yeah there was as separate article about his EB doc a day or two ago and I'm guessing this was just a leftover part from that interview.

Pearl Jam by rule is required to be cryptic in revealing any information.

Interviewer: Eddie, what color is that shirt?

Eddie: Well, uh, I could tell you the color, and we could agree that’s the color, but I worry this will impact how others perceive the shirt, so I am just gonna let everyone decide for themselves the color of my shirt. And, uh, this question reminds me of this time I was engaging with my senses (*chuckle*) and I spent a summer eating only green food, but under that green food was brown - the dirt - so you see color is beyond what we see in front of us. This next song is called Leatherman.

liebzz wrote:Pearl Jam by rule is required to be cryptic in revealing any information.

Interviewer: Eddie, what color is that shirt?

Eddie: Well, uh, I could tell you the color, and we could agree that’s the color, but I worry this will impact how others perceive the shirt, so I am just gonna let everyone decide for themselves the color of my shirt. And, uh, this question reminds me of this time I was engaging with my senses (*chuckle*) and I spent a summer eating only green food, but under that green food was brown - the dirt - so you see color is beyond what we see in front of us. This next song is called Leatherman.

Now that is one hell of an RM post

they prob don’t have a dedicated drummer

and prob need a new album in order to be able to tour again

so will write the album

then find some wino to sit in on drums on the tour

What did REM do when their drummer quit?

wease wrote:What did REM do when their drummer quit?

Used programmed drums for Up then hired hands thereafter.