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[brrrrr2]

Pourquoi? A New York c'etait terrible!

[froggy bunnyman]

"Just breathe" ?? Faudra voir les paroles...

il faut que tu respires, et ça c'est rien de le dire

[masterofmullets]

Pourquoi? A New York c'etait terrible!

Les concerts 2008 ne sont pas géniaux j'ai entendu plus de fausses notes sur un concert de 2008 que sur tous les boots officiels depuis 2000, de plus j'avais rarement entendu Ed aussi mal chanter et c'est pas sa prestation sur Got some qui m'a rassuré

[XWayne]

Pourquoi? A New York c'etait terrible!

Les concerts 2008 ne sont pas géniaux j'ai entendu plus de fausses notes sur un concert de 2008 que sur tous les boots officiels depuis 2000, de plus j'avais rarement entendu Ed aussi mal chanter et c'est pas sa prestation sur Got some qui m'a rassuré

N'écoute pas les boots australiens 2003, une vraie cata par moments...

[dvi2702]

http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=104672

Stone to be on Q101 in Chicago this PM

Stone will be on around 4:30 CT.(23h30)

http://www.q101.com/other/stream/stream.html

[XWayne]

Première info: Stone fait l'interview en sous-vêtements...

[dvi2702]

Première info: Stone fait l'interview en sous-vêtements...

En même temps, il est chez lui.
Vu comme il faut chaud par ici, moi aussi je l'écoute en sous-vêtements.

[dvi2702]

Backspacer= "heavier stuff .. lighter stuff in the middle .. joyous pop .. into the wild type ballads ..", ça se confirme

[XWayne]

On n'a pas appris grand chose, mais maintenant, on peut jouer à "mais de quel live vient le Even Flow en train de passer ?"

[dvi2702]

On n'a pas appris grand chose, mais maintenant, on peut jouer à "mais de quel live vient le Even Flow en train de passer ?"

Quoi ? Even Flow ? merde, j'avais coupé... c'est pas fini ?

[XWayne]

On n'a pas appris grand chose, mais maintenant, on peut jouer à "mais de quel live vient le Even Flow en train de passer ?"

Quoi ? Even Flow ? merde, j'avais coupé... c'est pas fini ?

Stone a raccroché, il est parti mettre un pantalon.

[dvi2702]

Stone a raccroché, il est parti mettre un pantalon.

et moi je vais me coucher, sinon c'était Even Flow du Live on 2 Legs



ça fait du bien !

[dvi2702]

Une autre Stone interview ici, un peu plus intéressante, sur l'artwork et sur l'aspect "pop":
Stone interview with 104.5 in philly

http://www.radio1045.com/cc-common/medi ... CK=gossard

[Oceans]

Que veut dire pop, pourquoi pop, quel type de pop, etc...
Finalement, que l'album soit rock, pop ou "Into the wild style" ou un peu des trois m'importe peu, j'aime ces trois styles et le principal reste la qualité des chansons.
En plus, ici chacun de nous aime bien les trois...
Quel que soit leur parti pris sur ce Lp, y'aura toujours des déçus...
Je mise donc sur un bon album, varié si possible et tant pis si ce n'est pas un chef d'oeuvre qui bouleversera l'Histoire de la musique populaire...

[Olikatie]

traduction en anglais d'un interview de Mike

Saudosista, Pearl Jam busca leveza
3 August 2009
Folha de São Paulo
FOLHA


Nostalgic, Pearl Jam seeks lightness

On Backspace, the group leaves politics aside and invest on short songs that reflect looking at the past, says guitarrist

"It's an optimistic, energetic and agressive album", says Stone Gossard; group completes 20 years of existence in 2010

BRUNO YUTAKA SAITO

ENVIADO ESPECIAL A SEATTLE

The walls are filled with gold records, from a time when the recording industry lived less tense days.

"Ten" (1991), "Vs." (1993) and "Vitalogy" (1994) are just a few of Pearl Jam albuns that are there, hanging like trophies, on a room of the band's headquarters in Seattle. A group of journalists from around the world, including Folha [name of the newspaper], listened. first hand, the new album, Backspacer, that arrives in stores on Sept 21st.

These noble decorations on the wall are also a portrait of an era that had its apex and decline, on the days of the grunge, in the early 1990's.

The main remaining group of this musical scene, that had Nirvana as another main exponent, Pearl Jam doesn't want, however, to become museum relic. They'll complete 2 decades of existence in 2010 and the band members are in their 40's. Maybe they don't even remember the band's underground beginnings, when singer Eddie Vedder, was just a gas stattion attendant.

Today they are a big rock corporation with veteran status: selling out stadiuns around the world and getting involved in humanitarian causes, like U2. On the Gerogetow neighborhood, in Seattle, it's the spacious band headquarters, that also serves as rehearsal space. Pearl Jam doesn't try to disguise that it's a big company.

"What motivates me today? On one hand, I'm a musician, an artist and and always want to create new things and go ahead", says guitarrist Mike McCready, 43. "But I have also to remember that the band is a business. There's a motivation for me to keep my house and family, and not just mine, mas also the people who work here." Still, they don't try to make bureacratic music.

Backspacer is a short and straight to the point album, a little over 30 min and with 11 songs. The urgent, rocker tone guides the record. Gonna See My Friend and Supersonic makes us remember that not only Neil Young's "classic" rock is an inspiration, but also the punk of the Ramones. "We wanted to go straight to the point", explain guitarrist Stone Gossard, 43. "We've had a tendency, in the past, of making long songs. It's fun to go on the apposite direction now, making concise, pop songs." Gossard says that the urgency of the sound might be related to the euphoria of Barack Obama's election - Pearl Jam never got tired of attacking George W. Bush's admnistration. "But this is not a political record. The lyrics are about personal stories, the planet and the existence", says Gossard.

McCready explains the album title, Backspacer, is a reference to an old typewriter key. It has to do with going back, looking back and seeing your life in retrospective." Both guitarrists say that is unavoidable to not remember the past. "Any person, at 40, start to think more about their family, their childhood, their old friends," says Gossard. "But we still are in the same state of spirit as before, of not thinking much about what we are doing."

And now, about to complete 20 years of existence, what do they think about the "grunge"? Seattle, after all, is not the planet's epicenter of pop music anymore, and it's rare to find anyone on the city streets wearing flannel shirts or listen to Alice in Chains being played at bars. "Grunge is a good word, we didn't know that what we did was grunge. It's the exact word to describe Mudhoney's music and helped people to understand this dirty, stinky music, that paid homage to amateurism. But it was all just a manifestation of the punk spirit," says Gossard. In the concise spirit of the album, McCready summarizes: "It doesn't matter the definition, it's all rock."

[Olikatie]

autre article (déjà posté?):

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 21,00.html

Grunge legends Pearl Jam back with new album, tour

THIS year, Pearl Jam are hitting the road again with a new album that echoes the band's unmistakable sound.

The US city of Seattle is the key to unlocking the band members' teenage years. It represents a place where angsty rockers put adolescent hormones to good use, pouring them into a revolutionary new sound. It stood for the music of the early '90s. It stood for grunge.

Grunge was the soundtrack to my coming of age, and I wear my fan status with pride: I slept in the mud for two days to be sure I was front row at concerts; I layered my walls with posters from Smash Hits and Rolling Stone; and I spent nights in candlelit rooms dissecting lyrics while chugging West Coast Cooler. I was Gen-X emo.

Over the years, I've matured, as have my musical tastes, but one band's songs still strike a chord: Pearl Jam. One riff from Alive, the breakthrough hit that set them on their path to stardom - not to mention 60 million worldwide sales - and I'm right back in the mud, singing my heart out.

Wandering around the sun-filled streets of Seattle, I find little to explain why this became the hub for a groundswell that defined a decade. It's like many other US cities, yet this was the birthplace of seminal bands Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. I'm told I've caught the city in a moment of good weather and that a few more days in town would guarantee me a glimpse of its true nature.

"Two hundred and twenty days of the year, it's nasty. There are a lot of guys in basements sinking beers and making music," says Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. "There were a few different schools of music (back then) and, kind of unbeknownst, it exploded like a volcano."

In anticipation of a new album release - the eighth since their 1991 debut, Ten, one of the top-selling rock albums of all time - the band has allowed me rare access into Pearl Jam HQ. Sitting at the end of a dirt road, it appears no different to the other nondescript warehouses, apart from the high security - boom gates, unmarked entrance and necessary escort.

It's been three years since the Jammers' last (self-titled) release, which was met with a lukewarm response, as was Riot Act before that. But they've returned to form with an album that sounds like their first six. Their newest baby, Backspacer, harks back to the good old days of Even Flow, Better Man and all those songs even my mum knows.

Guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready are the perfect hosts. Their comfortable jibes are sarcastic and endearing. Gossard, a lean, greying, bespectacled version of the portraits I had on my walls, interrogates me for my opinion on the album. McCready, transformed from the lanky, greasy-haired guitarist into a middle-aged dad-type, is happy to chat about Aussie beaches and Perth, where he's dying to surf. More than anything, both men are obviously pleased to be back in the saddle.

"It's great," says Gossard, 43. "It's still the same group of guys and we all still have an idiosyncratic way of relating and playing."

Still, they're keen to point out that this album is something new.

"If you've liked the band in the past, you'll hear it's the new model," says Vedder, 44. "It's had a new paint job, the engine has a little more power but, at the same time, we're getting better mileage."

I've been led up to Vedder's office-cum-bunker, where I find him playing a track from Backspacer on an acoustic guitar. With a warm smile that reaches his blue eyes, he shakes my hand and welcomes me into his world. He says recording this album had been a bit of a blur, having come on the back of his first solo project - the score for Sean Penn's film Into the Wild.

"But we've heard good things about the album, although I have a healthy sense of distrust."

In the early days, Vedder made a name for himself as a tricky character. I've been warned not to dwell on the past or his personal life. But he's in the mood to elaborate today, saying it's mostly because he is his least favourite subject.

"I read interviews with musicians I appreciate and, half the time, I wish they'd shut up. I don't need to fulfil my ego. I've had enough. I had more than enough 15 years ago."

It's hard not to be drawn in by his gentle manner and whispery baritone - at odds with his raging stage persona. Having spent a lot of time Down Under, both on and off tour ("I had an apartment on Bondi Beach for a while in 2000"), he's pleased to say they'll be back to tour before Christmas.

"We've been treated very well in your neck of the woods," he says.

As one of their biggest markets outside the US, the Australian public has left an impression on the band.

"Apparently, the penal colonies have a firm love for Pearl Jam," Gossard says. "And, per capita, we sell more records in Australia. We've been given a few things from there, but when we got surfboards with our faces on them, we were like, 'Oh my God!'" (Later, I spot the boards mounted next to the original Pearl Jam sign that graced the cover of Ten.) The PJ posse, including original bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron (formerly of Soundgarden), are keen to be back on the road flaunting their wares, but it's different now they're in their early 40s and most of them have young children.

Coincidentally, both Gossard and McCready became first-time dads on April 12, 2007.

Vedder, who has a four-year-old daughter, has made his peace with combining a rock lifestyle with parenthood.

"I don't want to become some sort of pussy dad who writes slow songs on the porch," he begins, explaining that Green River, the band founded by Gossard and Ament, plays tonight and he'd love to go.

"But, to be honest, after you've read your child a couple of stories, you look at your wife and think ... maybe I'll just read a book and see those guys later."

It's a cute picture of his private life, which Vedder happily says isn't often intruded upon. That hasn't always been the case. The idea that he's adored by millions is an honour he's still trying to earn. He tells me he's not really a singer and wishes he could construct the perfect song, a la Nick Cave's God is in the House ("That song is untouchable; it has its own place in the stars").

He goes on to insist he can't play the guitar properly: "But I can figure out how to make a sound - strangle it until a song comes out."

Strangle is not the word I'd use, but there's nothing fake about his modesty. And even when he's had problems dealing with fame in the past, he has a way of explaining it that makes you wonder if you'd do any different in his place.

"I think I've only ever been rude to three people, but one time I was having an argument in Toronto Airport with the woman I was dating," admits Vedder. "Right then, this doe-eyed young girl said, 'Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you', and I said, 'Well, don't!' She froze and I watched one Disney tear roll slowly down her cheek. I turned to the woman and said, 'Are you happy now?' It was 16 years ago and I still think about it."

I hope that doe-eyed girl reads this and understands how bad Vedder feels. Because it's a big risk to meet your heroes. They could accidentally shout at you. Or worse, they could be a huge disappointment. I made this trip with trepidation, prepared to be met by middle-aged rockers who'd started believing their own hype.

Instead, what I found was a bunch of dads who are humble about their role in shaping a generation and focused on moving forward. Not bad for a band with a lead singer who can't sing or play guitar.

[Oceans]

"Gossard says that the urgency of the sound might be related to the euphoria of Barack Obama's election"

La politique va se nicher partout...

[Denis]

"Gossard says that the urgency of the sound might be related to the euphoria of Barack Obama's election"

La politique va se nicher partout...

Pearl Jam ne changera pas, pour ça. Puis, The Fixer = Obama.

[dranx]

Backspacer is a short and straight to the point album, a little over 30 min and with 11 songs. The urgent, rocker tone guides the record. Gonna See My Friend and Supersonic makes us remember that not only Neil Young's "classic" rock is an inspiration, but also the punk of the Ramones. "We wanted to go straight to the point", explain guitarrist Stone Gossard, 43. "We've had a tendency, in the past, of making long songs. It's fun to go on the apposite direction now, making concise, pop songs." Gossard says that the urgency of the sound might be related to the euphoria of Barack Obama's election - Pearl Jam never got tired of attacking George W. Bush's admnistration. "But this is not a political record. The lyrics are about personal stories, the planet and the existence", says Gossard.


Merci pour les articles !! Du coup ces titres "Gonna see my friend" et "Supersonic" m'intriguent vraiment..Y aura du lourd et ça, c'est bien cool.. "Got Some" me botte déja bien, hâte de la découvrir studio

[Olikatie]

Q Magazine Pearl Jam Feature

http://www.twofeetthick.com/2009/08/q-m ... m-feature/