Red Mosquito

broken iris wrote:

hailroad wrote: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..."

liebzz wrote: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.

Strat wrote: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.]

dprival78 wrote:pearl jam inc. doesn't see that approach as being profitable enough. not nearly as profitable as a handful of PJ20+ stadium shows.

harmless wrote:

liebzz wrote: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.

Mike McCready wrote: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

Charlie wrote:

harmless wrote:

liebzz wrote: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...

nightmareblack0206 wrote: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

Blenheim Augustine wrote: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.

gardenparty wrote:let's stick a fork in it folks.

shows over

EJ wrote:

gardenparty wrote: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.

Strat wrote:RIP Pearl Jam

durdencommatyler wrote:Here's the thing...