10th album rumors and speculation

[darth_vedder]

It's either Stone or Ed holding this up. My guess would be Ed. Mike and Jeff have both alluded to there being somebody holding things up.

"2013?!? LOL, that Mike. The shit that comes out of him..."

[Monkey_Driven]

There is no way this thing comes out in 2013. I'm saying late spring 2014 at the earliest.

[liebzz]

They keep talking about 7 finished songs and going back to a bunch of other ideas. At this point, since it has been apparently 2 years since those songs were completed, doesn't it make sense to release them as an EP to hold fans over and then get together and cook up a full album potentially for release in early 2014? This would both give them something to tour in the fall and tide a hungry fan base over for a little while. Not that I run the show, but it just seems to make sense since anything they write and work on now probably won't have that same mindset.

[dprival78]

pearl jam inc. doesn't see that approach as being profitable enough. not nearly as profitable as a handful of PJ20+ stadium shows.

[harmless]

They keep talking about 7 finished songs and going back to a bunch of other ideas. At this point, since it has been apparently 2 years since those songs were completed, doesn't it make sense to release them as an EP to hold fans over and then get together and cook up a full album potentially for release in early 2014? This would both give them something to tour in the fall and tide a hungry fan base over for a little while. Not that I run the show, but it just seems to make sense since anything they write and work on now probably won't have that same mindset.

This would make far too much sense.

[Blenheim Augustine]

Geezes. WTF is going on with this band??

I know Pearl Jam is currently working on the new album. What you can say about it right now?
Well, we’re gearing up to finish the second part of the record that we started about two years ago. We all decided to pull back a little bit after we had done about seven songs, which I think are going to be on the next record. I’m not really sure. It all depends upon how this next session goes. I have a feeling that we’ll have something out this year. We are all very prolific in bringing in ideas and we’re all in conversation and are starting to rehearse in about a month. I feel like we’ll have something by this year. I don’t know that everyone in the band feels that way, but I’m going to do my damndest to move it along if I can have any kind of say in it. I would really like to get it out this year because we would really like to do some touring and things like that.

I’m curious to know, when you guys are recording and are all bringing in new material, do you personally write fully fleshed out songs in your off time, or do you bring in ideas and all kind of all collaborate together?
It’s all of those things. Specifically for myself, I will demo ideas in my studio and try to make them as good as possible and if Matt [Cameron] isn’t around I will use a local drummer friend of mine to help me get an idea down. So I’ll bring fully realized demos to the equation and then it all kind of changes from there because everybody kind of goes, ‘Well why don’t you take out this part or put this in here or move this over here or do half of that?’ Stone [Gossard] and Jeff [Ament] are great editors so once you have your demo you bring it in and people scrutinize it and they either like it or they don’t. If they do then I just go, ‘Dude, if you have any ideas, just go for it.’ I also want to be able to add to people’s songs in the way that I do and I think I’m kind of the coloring on top of a lot of ideas and melodies at times. I feel like if Ed [Vedder] brings in a song, I want to be able to do a solo that’s cool for it. He may not have any ideas for what that is yet until I do it right there on the spot. Sometimes Jeff will bring in a couple of riffs and we’ll just jam on that. Matt will bring in parts of stuff. That being said, everyone brings in fully realized demos, too. It’s like everything; we have a lot of stuff. We don’t have any outside songwriters. [Laughs.]

I honestly read that thinking that you were imitating one of the band members in a rather good parody. It wasn't till I reached the end that this was actually a real interview. FFS. What a joke.

[broken iris]

pearl jam inc. doesn't see that approach as being profitable enough. not nearly as profitable as a handful of PJ20+ stadium shows.

Are albums at all profitable anymore? I thought the artist's cut from digital distro was so low that unless they were Taylor Swift or Rhianna they lost money on studio work.

[Charlie]

They keep talking about 7 finished songs and going back to a bunch of other ideas. At this point, since it has been apparently 2 years since those songs were completed, doesn't it make sense to release them as an EP to hold fans over and then get together and cook up a full album potentially for release in early 2014? This would both give them something to tour in the fall and tide a hungry fan base over for a little while. Not that I run the show, but it just seems to make sense since anything they write and work on now probably won't have that same mindset.

This would make far too much sense.

also used the word "fan" in there way too much...

[bodysnatcher]

We’re gearing up to finish the second part of the record that we started about two years ago. We all decided to pull back a little bit after we had done about seven songs...We are all very prolific

[liebzz]

They keep talking about 7 finished songs and going back to a bunch of other ideas. At this point, since it has been apparently 2 years since those songs were completed, doesn't it make sense to release them as an EP to hold fans over and then get together and cook up a full album potentially for release in early 2014? This would both give them something to tour in the fall and tide a hungry fan base over for a little while. Not that I run the show, but it just seems to make sense since anything they write and work on now probably won't have that same mindset.

This would make far too much sense.

also used the word "fan" in there way too much...

Twice.

[nightmareblack0206]

Relax. ..they will be in studio April/May and we'll have a new album November-ish

Doesn't matter anyway. These guys lost it. They can't rock no where near as they used to. They are pushing 50yo and are OLD. Eddies voice is BEYOND shot. ....BACKSPACER PART 2 and IMO will be their last album

Shame they never did a double album

[Strat]

RIP Pearl Jam

[liebzz]

Relax. ..they will be in studio April/May and we'll have a new album November-ish

Doesn't matter anyway. These guys lost it. They can't rock no where near as they used to. They are pushing 50yo and are OLD. Eddies voice is BEYOND shot. ....BACKSPACER PART 2 and IMO will be their last album

Shame they never did a double album

Despite my frustration over the long wait, I think it's a litle early to make this proclamation. Backspacer may not have been all many of us wanted from them, and there seems to be a lot of dislike over Avocado around here (I loved this album), but they haven't exactly gone Pearl Starship. I think they still have a few excellent albums in them, and I am hoping the time they are taking will ignite a spark to carry them over the next few years/albums. Hey, Bruce went through a period of awful in the early 90s only to return to an extreme high level. It's not without precedent. And Backspacer isn't even awful IMO. It's a good album from a band we've just come to expect great from.

[Chris_H_2]

I honestly read that thinking that you were imitating one of the band members in a rather good parody. It wasn't till I reached the end that this was actually a real interview. FFS. What a joke.

Ha ha. Me too.

[epilogue]

Here's the thing...

[gardenparty]

let's stick a fork in it folks.

shows over

[EJ]

let's stick a fork in it folks.

shows over

Not yet. We haven't heard Boom's outlook on the new album's progress.

[bodysnatcher]

let's stick a fork in it folks.

shows over

Not yet. We haven't heard Boom's outlook on the new album's progress.

I'll be in Hawaii next week. I'll ask him

[WtOB?]

RIP Pearl Jam

See ya.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Here's the thing...

Yeah