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« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2008, 03:00:41 PM » |
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Dan:
Cameron Crowe followed PJ for a year while they toured and recorded Vs. It was a cool article, but there's no real notoriety. My reference to it as "THAT one" was just me pretending that everyone else also vividly remembers a sixteen year old article.
BUT if you want to talk Rolling Stone notoriety, RS got pissed that Vedder snubbed them when No Code was coming out in '96 so they ran an expose called "Who Are You." From what I remember, the article pointed to his membership in high school drama club and former friends that said he was a pleasure to be around as proof that this guy was not sad and mopey all the time, which I guess was supposed to be the nail in the coffin for a grunge rock singer's career. It was the 1990s, things were different then.
Dobbin:
A non-live, alternate studio version of Ledbetter? Doesn't ring a bell, I'll check my itunezzz.
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« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2008, 03:02:13 PM » |
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Totally! Ohhhh, that takes me back. |
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« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2008, 03:05:20 PM » |
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Yeah, it's one helluva time machine.
' "I don't even have MTV," [Vedder] says with a shrug. "I don't know why I'm commenting. People stop me in the streets and tell me about this band Stone Temple Pilots. I don't even know who they are. I'm buying a sandwich, and they go, 'What's going on with the Stone Temple Pilots?'"
"You haven't seen the video?" asks Ament. "You have to have seen it."
"I haven't," he says. "I don't have MTV."
Ament tells Vedder about the "Plush" video, with the singer's uncanny appropriation of Vedder's mannerisms. Vedder's heard it before. In fact, he hears it daily. From fans, from friends, even from a French musician who complimented him on the song and his new short orange hair. (Vedder's hair is still longish and brown.)
"Apparently, it's something that the guy is dealing with, too," Vedder suggests. "It's like, am I supposed to feel sympathy? Get your own trip, man. I don't think I was copping anybody's trip. I wasn't copping Andy Wood's trip. I wasn't copping Kurt Cobain's trip, even though Kurt Cobain's one of the best trips I could ever cop. But Beth and I were part of the San Diego scene. We knew everything that was going on, and it was small enough to know. Those guys came from there? I never heard of 'em." End of subject. '
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Dan
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« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2008, 03:14:38 PM » |
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Josh:
I have heard an alternate studio version of Yellow Ledbetter, but it was years ago. I had a friend who did nothing but see PJ shows and buy PJ bootlegs, the type who has a story for every single song on every single album, and he played me an alternate studio version one time. According to him, Eddie Vedder took a bunch of acid before he recorded the vocal track, and it sounds like it, so we may be talking about two different versions. The one I heard sounds pretty much the same except Vedder is pretty much just mumbling through the whole thing.
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« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2008, 03:17:09 PM » |
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Someday, when we all meet up in real life, I will make a point of copping each and every one of your trips.
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2008, 03:45:53 PM » |
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Pre-orders are up: https://www.pearljam.comI'm surprised they didn't send an email out about this. |
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« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2008, 03:46:54 PM » |
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Josh:
I have heard an alternate studio version of Yellow Ledbetter, but it was years ago. I had a friend who did nothing but see PJ shows and buy PJ bootlegs, the type who has a story for every single song on every single album, and he played me an alternate studio version one time. According to him, Eddie Vedder took a bunch of acid before he recorded the vocal track, and it sounds like it, so we may be talking about two different versions. The one I heard sounds pretty much the same except Vedder is pretty much just mumbling through the whole thing. This one had different lyrics in spots... I THINK it was a studio version, but it could have been a really, really good recording, I guess. But there were no live-performance intros or crowd-noises, nor was there any mid-song jamming, so I assumed it was just an alternate, unreleased but out-there-somehow studio session. |
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« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2008, 06:07:49 PM » |
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What the fuck? This shit doesn't come out until March. Which proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Nirvana is better.
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« Reply #24 on: December 10, 2008, 06:18:17 PM » |
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Muh-muh-muh-Mookie? muh-muh-muh-Mojo? Did I watch too watch Craig Kilborn SportsCenter, because I think I did. |
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« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2008, 08:48:01 PM » |
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Josh:
I have heard an alternate studio version of Yellow Ledbetter, but it was years ago. I had a friend who did nothing but see PJ shows and buy PJ bootlegs, the type who has a story for every single song on every single album, and he played me an alternate studio version one time. According to him, Eddie Vedder took a bunch of acid before he recorded the vocal track, and it sounds like it, so we may be talking about two different versions. The one I heard sounds pretty much the same except Vedder is pretty much just mumbling through the whole thing. This one had different lyrics in spots... I THINK it was a studio version, but it could have been a really, really good recording, I guess. But there were no live-performance intros or crowd-noises, nor was there any mid-song jamming, so I assumed it was just an alternate, unreleased but out-there-somehow studio session. It's listed on most bootlegs as "Improv". It's the very first studio recording of Ledbetter and is sometimes hard to find because of the purists who only list it as "Improv" from "Early '90 Recordings" or something. Mine's on an old hard drive around here. . . I'll let you know when I find it. |
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« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2008, 08:49:07 PM » |
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I'm kidding. I thought you were a fan. My baby is teething, so I'm running on no sleep. |
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Keith
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« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2008, 08:49:56 PM » |
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Keith you'll have to join and and Fart-with-a-beard when they play So Cal again. We've seem them here at Bridge School, the Who Rock Honors and Vedder's solo show at the Wiltern all in the last two years. I'm totally down. Just let me know the time and the date and I'm there. |
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« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2008, 08:59:24 PM » |
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Keith you'll have to join and and Fart-with-a-beard when they play So Cal again. We've seem them here at Bridge School, the Who Rock Honors and Vedder's solo show at the Wiltern all in the last two years. I'm totally down. Just let me know the time and the date and I'm there. If it's a Pearl Jam concert, I'm guessing, it will be at 7:30 in 1996. And then when the concert is over you can all go to Caldor and get some sweet cassettes. |
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