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Post by banet2001 on Apr 7, 2005 17:30:44 GMT -5
Pearl Jam Halfway Home On New Album Pearl Jam is progressing on its eighth studio album in Seattle. Guitarist Mike McCready tells Billboard.com the band has "about 20-25" songs in the hopper, comprising "some ballads and some pretty harder stuff, and some Who-ish type-stuff." In addition, McCready says Pearl Jam is approaching the project from a new angle. "How we're recording it is a first," he says. "We've been recording for awhile, and then we'll sit down and listen to the songs and then take a couple of weeks off, come back and re-record them and add stuff. We generally just go in, do some demos and record." McCready is hoping the as-yet-untitled album will be out before the end of the year, with a tour to follow. The set will be Pearl Jam's first for J Records/BMG, following the dissolution of its career-long relationship with Epic. However, the guitarist says Pearl Jam is "not anywhere close to being done. We're about halfway there. It's going to be a really awesome record, and I'm not just saying that like every band member says it. It's been really exciting." The opportunity to revisit and potentially add to songs has been a welcome one, the guitarist says. "I've woken up a few times and had a riff going in my head that I really liked, say, of [bassist] Jeff [Ament]'s or something," he offers. "It's like, OK, cool. That one is sticking in my head. I want to keep doing that. Let's do that. Whereas before, you'd just do it and it'd be done." Last month during a benefit at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, the band unveiled a fast, punky song co-written by McCready with guitarist Stone Gossard, tentatively titled "Crapshoot Rapture." "I'm certainly by no means a punk rocker at all," McCready says with a laugh. "But, the guys in my band are. Jeff and Stone and Ed have that in them, and those guys bring that out of me. We have this joke that my punk is more Dio-like." As previously reported, McCready will lead the U.F.O. tribute band Flight To Mars at a benefit tomorrow (April 8) at Seattle's Showbox for the Northwest chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Earlier in the day, he will serve as the featured speaker at a CCFA luncheon at Seattle's Westin. www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000873977
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Post by superunknown on Apr 8, 2005 20:31:02 GMT -5
wow, i used to love pearl jam
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Post by banet2001 on Nov 12, 2005 10:32:07 GMT -5
Pearl Jam Feeling 'Aggressive' On New AlbumAs it prepares for its maiden tour of South America, which begins Nov. 22 in Santiago, Chile, Pearl Jam continues to work on its new studio album, which is due next spring via J Records. "It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," frontman Eddie Vedder said earlier this week during a Brazilian radio interview. "It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud." The band has been working on and off throughout the year on the as-yet-untitled set, but Vedder admitted, "It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down [in South America]. I'm bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something." For now, Pearl Jam is not planning to unveil any new songs in a live setting. "We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out," Vedder said. But he added he had been mulling an album title that was a play on Soundgarden's "Superunknown": "I was thinking of the word 'un-owned' -- not owned by anybody," he said. "The sky is un-owned. The moon is un-owned. We're un-owned. We want to remain un-owned. The title was 'Superun-owned.'" Continuing a new initiative launched during Pearl Jam's recent fall North American tour, the South American shows will be available for paid download from the band's Web site within hours of their completion. 199.249.170.183/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001477891
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Post by reception on Mar 2, 2006 14:57:12 GMT -5
Pearl Jam releasing new studio albumSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle rock band Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that it will release its eighth studio album - and first since 2002 - in early May. The self-titled CD is also its first release on its new label, J Records. The album's first single, World Wide Suicide, will be made available to radio stations March 8, and the same day the song will be available as a free download from the band's website, www.pearljam.com. Tour dates in support of Pearl Jam will be announced later this month, the band said in a news release. Pearl Jam was formed in 1991 and rose to prominence during the Northwest's early 1990s grunge movement. The band has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide.
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Post by Damage on Mar 2, 2006 19:37:44 GMT -5
I wonder how it will sound...world wide suicide (from the clip that i heard) could be good or bad...
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Post by Krypton46 on Mar 6, 2006 14:04:14 GMT -5
Pearl Jam Announce Track Listing For New Album Pearl Jam has revealed more details about their forthcoming, self-titled release. The entire 13-song tracklisting has been posted on PearlJam.com, and the album art is being slowly revealed, as the "wrapper" on the cover is being "torn away." In a brief interview posted on the site, singer Eddie Vedder says that the new record has "all the instruments going full force, yet coexisting. It's like we took our aggressions and shaped something positive from them in a very direct manner. Though I'd qualify most of the record as hard-driving, the two quiet ones ("Parachutes" and "Come Back") could be our best attempts yet at pulling the disguises off of loss of life, and even love." He adds that after 15 years together, Pearl Jam "is like an old car, and this record is our new engine." As previously reported, the first single, "World Wide Suicide," will be sent to radio this Wednesday (March 8), and will also be available as a free download via PearlJam.com for two days."World Wide Suicide" will then be available to purchase digitally as of March 14, which is its add date at radio as well. Pearl Jam tracklisting: "Life Wasted" "World Wide Suicide" "Comatose" "Severed Hand" "Marker In The Sand" "Parachutes" "Unemployable" "Big Wave" "Gone" "Wasted Reprise" "Army Reserve" "Come Back" "Inside Job" www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=182999
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Post by GiggaWho on Mar 6, 2006 14:25:16 GMT -5
I wonder how it will sound...world wide suicide (from the clip that i heard) could be good or bad... I thought the same thing when I heard the clip. I haven't bought a Pearl Jam album in awhile, but I used to love them. I guess I'll have to download it on Wednesday and see. Since it's free, it's OK if it sucks.
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Post by banet2001 on Mar 7, 2006 15:40:37 GMT -5
Pearl Jam Reveals First Leg Of Summer TourPearl Jam will return to the road May 9 in Toronto, a week after the release of its eighth studio album. As previously reported, the self-titled set will be the band's first for J Records. First single "World Wide Suicide" is available for free download from Pearl Jam's official Web site. At deadline, only the first leg of the tour has been confirmed, with dates running through a June 1 and 3 stand in East Rutherford, N.J. Acclaimed rock act My Morning Jacket will support on this portion of the outing. The rest of the band's 2006 touring plans will be announced in the coming weeks. "World Wide Suicide" is off to a blazing start at U.S. rock radio outlets, clocking in as the track with the largest total audience at the format in the past 24 hours, according to Broadcast Data Systems. Here are Pearl Jam's tour dates: May 9-10: Toronto (Air Canada Centre) May 12: Albany, N.Y. (Pepsi Arena) May 13: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Arena) May 16: Chicago (United Center) May 19: Grand Rapids, Mich. (Van Andel Arena) May 20: Cleveland (Quicken Loans Arena) May 22: Auburn Hills, Mich. (Palace of Auburn Hills) May 24: Boston (TD Banknorth Garden) May 27: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center) May 30: Washington, D.C. (MCI Center) June 1, 3: East Rutherford, N.J. (Continental Airlines Arena) www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002117335
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Post by Damage on Mar 7, 2006 16:00:19 GMT -5
eh, worldwide suicide is okay.
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Post by MusicJunkie on Mar 14, 2006 18:17:17 GMT -5
Worldwide Suicide is growing on me. At first I was like... meh, it's okay. Now it's on repeat and I like it. I'm gonna end up loving it! I hope the album's really good.
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Post by GiggaWho on Mar 14, 2006 18:26:20 GMT -5
My initial reaction was that it was like "Do The Evolution", only not as good. We'll see if it grows on me too.
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Post by reception on Mar 20, 2006 16:23:11 GMT -5
Pearl Jam are all set to commit "Worldwide Suicide," the lead single from their upcoming self-titled album, to radio. The CD, which will hit stores on May 2 and is their eighth album, will be the band's first studio release in almost four years and first one on J. The project was produced and mixed by Adam Kasper and Pearl Jam at Studio X in Seattle. Look for the band to kick off their world tour on May 9 in Toronto, with the first leg wrapping up June 3 in New York. My Morning Jacket will be the featured opening act for the first leg of the tour.
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Post by singingsparrow on Mar 20, 2006 19:20:27 GMT -5
Pearl Jam are all set to commit "Worldwide Suicide," the lead single from their upcoming self-titled album, to radio. The CD, which will hit stores on May 2 and is their eighth album, will be the band's first studio release in almost four years and first one on J. The project was produced and mixed by Adam Kasper and Pearl Jam at Studio X in Seattle. Look for the band to kick off their world tour on May 9 in Toronto, with the first leg wrapping up June 3 in New York. My Morning Jacket will be the featured opening act for the first leg of the tour. So much for being "all set to commit" Worldwide Suicide to radio. It's already a #1 smash at Alternative (their first #1 in eight years) Sincerely, Noah Eaton
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Post by JCMF3 on Mar 20, 2006 22:16:48 GMT -5
I'm not seeing any Atlanta tour dates up there.
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Post by banet2001 on Mar 21, 2006 13:20:09 GMT -5
I'm not seeing any Atlanta tour dates up there. I am sure Pearl Jam will visit Atlanta on their second leg of their US tour this summer, although I was surprised to see Atlanta skipped in the unofficial "rumored" second leg. Certainly they will play their in their winter/spring 2007 US tour, although that is a while to wait. >:(
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Post by Damage on Apr 3, 2006 21:38:30 GMT -5
Pearl Jam will be on SNL on April 15th
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Post by Damage on Apr 14, 2006 22:56:07 GMT -5
This leaked - haven't heard it yet though. I kind of lost interest after worldwide suicide.
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Post by Damage on Apr 15, 2006 23:30:01 GMT -5
They did worldwide suicide on SNL tonight and I thought it sounded wayyy better live.
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Post by Damage on Apr 19, 2006 16:10:36 GMT -5
Pearl Jam Presale Tickets
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA Sat, Jul 22, 2006 07:00 PM & Sun, Jul 23, 2006 07:00 PM
Presale: Start:Thu, 04/20/06 10:00 AM PDT End:Fri, 04/21/06 05:00 PM PDT
Presale Password Special Offer Code: worldwide
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Post by banet2001 on Apr 19, 2006 16:48:18 GMT -5
Pearl Jam will be co-headlining with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI on June 29th and June 30th. Unfortunately, I will be out of town on those days. :(
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Post by reception on May 2, 2006 15:16:43 GMT -5
CBS Webcasts Pearl JamConcert will follow 'Late Show' taping May 1 2006 Pearl Jam will probably perform one song during its appearance on "The Late Show" this week. But fans of the band will get to see a whole lot more of them that day, even if they're not in the Ed Sullivan Theater. The band and CBS are teaming up for a live webcast concert following the taping of their appearance Thursday on David Letterman's show. The show will stream on "The Late Show" web site ( CBS.com/latenight/lateshow) at 5:55 p.m. ET Thursday. Pearl Jam is appearing on Letterman's show to promote their new, self-titled album, which hits stores this week. The playlist for the webcast is expected to include tracks from the new record as well as some older material. CBS says the concert will mark the first time that "The Late Show" has turned the Ed Sullivan Theater into a concert venue; members of Pearl Jam's fan club, the Ten Club, will get to see the performance in person. It's also new ground for the network in offering extra content from a "Late Show" taping. Letterman's web site on CBS.com does have an extensive video library of clips from past shows and "The Tony Mendez Show," in which cameras follow the "Late Show" cue-card man. Pearl Jam's appearance on "The Late Show," along with actress Julia Roberts, will air on CBS at 11:35 p.m. Thursday.
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Post by reception on May 2, 2006 16:54:25 GMT -5
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Post by MusicJunkie on May 2, 2006 18:14:15 GMT -5
Rolling Stone review: 4 stars out of 5Wartime, for everything else that's wrong with it, brings out the best in Pearl Jam: the power-chord brawn, contrary righteousness and metallic-KO songwriting sense. The band's second and third albums, 1993's bluntly titled Vs. and 1994's Vitalogy, are as good as modern rock-in-opposition gets: shotgun guitars, incendiary bass and drums, and Eddie Vedder's scalded-dog howl, all discharged in backs-to-the-wall fury and union.This album, Pearl Jam's first studio release in four years and their best in ten, is more of that top electric combat. With a difference. The Pearl Jam on Pearl Jam is not the band that famously responded to overnight platinum by going to war with the world. Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron are now fully at war in the world, unrepentant veterans of the campaign trail (the Vote for Change Tour) and right-wing crucifixion (the "Bushleaguer" uproar) who have made the most overtly partisan -- and hopeful -- record of their lives. For Vedder, the 2004 election was not a total loss. "Why swim the channel just to get this far?/Halfway there, why would you turn around?" he demands in the first song, "Life Wasted," in a ragged, run-on bark. And it's all forward ho from there. As immediate and despairing as breaking news from Baghdad -- "World Wide Suicide" opens with a newspaper casualty report -- Pearl Jam is also as big and brash in fuzz and backbone as Led Zeppelin's Presence. That's not just rock-critic shorthand. However you define grunge music, Pearl Jam didn't play it. They were, from jump street, a classic rock band, building their bawl with iron-guitar bones and an arena-vocal lust that came right from Zeppelin, early-Seventies Who and mid-Eighties U2 (with distortion instead of the Edge's glass-guitar harmonics). But Pearl Jam have not been this consistently dirty and determined in the studio since they subbed for Crazy Horse on Neil Young's 1995 Mirror Ball. I own two complete tours' worth of Pearl Jam's official-bootleg concert CDs, and this record's five-song blastoff ("Life Wasted," "World Wide Suicide," "Comatose," "Severed Hand" and "Marker in the Sand") is right up there in punch and crust with my favorite nights in that live series (Seattle, 11/6/00, and New Orleans, 4/8/03, to name two). And whenever the guitars take over, which is a lot -- Gossard and McCready's slugging AC/DC-like intro to "Life Wasted"; McCready's wild wah-wah ride in "Big Wave"; the way he cracks Vedder's gloom in "Parachutes" like heat lightning -- it reminds me that Gossard and McCready deserved to be on our 2003 "Greatest Guitarists" list. Permit me to admit it here: I screwed up. That's more confession than you'll ever hear in the Bush White House. But talk-show pit bulls will be disappointed to find that Vedder doesn't waste his breath naming names here, except for a glancing reference to "the president" in "World Wide Suicide." There is blame, but it's spread all around. "Now you got both sides/Claiming killing in God's name/But God is nowhere to be found, conveniently," Vedder sings in "Marker in the Sand," from inside Gossard and McCready's crossfire and the saturation bombing of Ament and Cameron. There is dread too -- lots of it. "Army Reserve" is a midtempo elegy for the real Army Reserve, the wives and children who serve in worry, behind the lines. (The dark harmonies crowding Vedder's low, grainy vocal feel like ghosts in waiting.) And "Unemployable" is just half a story, with a soaring-melancholy chorus. The song ends before the guy with the pink slip can find a new job. But Vedder's opening scene -- the fist with the ring that says jesus saves, flying with helpless anger into a metal locker -- is lesson enough. In multinational capitalism run riot, the bottom line doesn't care about religion or party line. We're all expendable. And we're all accountable. The politics on Pearl Jam are not those of right or left but of engagement and responsibility. In "Life Wasted," Vedder at least partly mocks his old self, the one that wore success and the leverage that came with it like sackcloth: "Darkness comes in waves, tell me/Why invite it to stay?" But there is only determined optimism in Pearl Jam's superb finish, "Inside Job." The song starts quietly, then climbs and peaks like a combination of "Stairway to Heaven" and the Who's "The Song Is Over" -- a mirror image of Vedder's stumble through each line from night into light. "I will not lose my faith," he promises under thunderclap guitars, with such assurance that even if you don't agree with anything else on this record, you believe him.
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Post by singingsparrow on May 3, 2006 11:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by reception on May 15, 2006 13:49:52 GMT -5
1. "10,000 Days," Tool 2. "Pearl Jam," Pearl Jam3. "Blood Money," Mobb Deep 4. "Kamahiwa," Keali'i Reichel 5. "Ekolu Music," Ekolu 6. "A Girl Like Me," Rihanna 7. "v. 6 Island Roots," various artists 8. "Curious George: Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies," Jack Johnson 9. "King," T.I. 10. "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," Jewel Hawai'i source: Tower Records Honolulu (5/12/2006)
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Post by reception on May 21, 2006 12:31:20 GMT -5
May 21, 12:51 PM EDT New Pearl Jam HQ Could Face Demolition SEATTLE (AP) -- Pearl Jam's new headquarters could face demolition because of the city's plans to build a dump. "We hadn't even finished unpacking and moving into our new space when we heard about the city's waste management site," spokeswoman Nicole Vandenberg said Saturday in an e-mail to The Associated Press from Cleveland, where the band was on tour. "We were surprised and saddened by the news on many levels."
Now, area residents - many of whom have worked for years to spruce up the area - are hoping their high-profile neighbors will help fight the plan.
"Eddie Vedder's for the little guy, and Pearl Jam would have a lot of clout," neighbor John Bennett told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for a front-page story Saturday.
Vandenberg did not comment on whether the band would take a side in the fight. She said the band moved into the warehouse in December and learned of the plans in late January. Pearl Jam expects to spend most of this year touring in support of their new self-titled album. Seattle Public Utilities would like to build a $70 million transfer station on the site, which is near the King County Regional Airport. It was the preferred site out of 1,000 considered.
The plan has not yet been approved by the city council.
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Post by GiggaWho on May 21, 2006 18:25:32 GMT -5
I got a promo copy of this at work. I was the third person to get the CD. The first two who got it didn't like it and passed it on. To be honest, I really didn't like it either. But no one else at work wants it, so I guess I'm stuck with it. I much prefer the other albums of theirs I have: Ten, Vs., Live On Two Legs.
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Post by reception on Jun 16, 2006 14:36:05 GMT -5
Pearl Jam: Life after 'Suicide'By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY War, corruption, ecological ruin and a variety of global downers were consuming Eddie Vedder until he committed World Wide Suicide, first to paper, then to tape. The process of recording the issue-driven songs on Pearl Jam, the band's eighth album, "let me clear my head," the singer says. "I feel like my brain gets to be reseeded. We were in a cave, and we're finally seeing daylight." Fans also seem relieved to see the band reclaim the spotlight it abandoned in the mid-'90s. Pearl Jam has sold 516,000 copies after entering Billboard in May at No. 2 with 279,000. It's a far cry from the record-setting opener of 950,000 for 1993's Vs. but a step up from Riot Act's debut at No. 5 with 166,000 in 2002. Its tour is a box-office sizzler, and anti-war Suicide is the fastest-charting single of the band's career. "I feel lucky we stuck it out long enough to have a song played on radio again," bassist Jeff Ament says. After the Vote for Change tour, Pearl Jam entered the studio in November 2004 armed with manic energy, moral indignation and not a single composition. "That's not very economical," Vedder concedes. "We wrote in the studio. Everyone chipped away at a big rock that went from an airplane to a mermaid to someone we all recognized." They channeled frustrations over the Iraq war and John Kerry's defeat into a confrontational storybook riding on classic-rock thunder and grace. In addition to expressing open contempt for Bush administration policies, Jam spins tales about unsettled lives in post-9/11 America. "I feel our country is being driven down a dangerous road," Vedder says. "How do we get our hands on the wheel and our feet on the brakes?" His 21-month-old daughter provided as much inspiration as his steady diet of dire headlines. "The whole world changes the day you drive her home from the hospital," he says. "You experience the fragility of life beaming out of your newborn and it projects out into your anger at the way the world is run. Globalization and the love of the bottom line is the religion in corporate boardrooms, and greed puts this whole planet in danger. Now that I see it as my daughter's planet, I'm even more (angry)." Activism is nothing new to the Seattle force that lost a protracted battle against Ticketmaster and supports Artists for a Hate-Free America, Doctors Without Borders, PETA and 44 other groups touted on its website. Pearl Jam has been less aggressive promoting Pearl Jam. Never at ease with star trappings and standard marketing practices, the band at its peak stopped making videos, declined sponsorships and retreated into experimental records. "It's an undeniable fact that it was our goal to stifle record sales and pull back to a place where we could live our lives in a human fashion, which meant outside of fashion," Vedder says. "But at some point, you realize that to keep the music and live shows vital, you need to raise your hand in class." Still, some winced when the rebel rock act, which includes drummer Matt Cameron and guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, signed to Clive Davis' pop-centric J Records. Davis "wanted to know how we ran our business and how we saw ourselves down the line," Ament says, noting that J honchos "seemed comfortable with how hands-on we are. They put their two bits in a couple times, but it wasn't that different from our 13 years with (Epic)." Hipper label Epitaph also courted the band, which opted for wider distribution. That aim contradicts an early impulse to recoil from the masses. Now Vedder regards the band's rise during the grunge explosion as traumatic but enriching. "It seems that time was not so long ago," he says. "You can almost still feel the hangover. It was such a magical time. Too bad we weren't able to enjoy it. By the time things started settling down, Kurt (Cobain) was gone. "We had a strong instinct for self-preservation. We wondered how we'd sound 10 years later, and we imagined what kind of record we'd make after a few chances to fail and mature." Ament adds: "We have yet to make our best record. We went from being not very good players but wearing the punk-rock emotion on our sleeves to pushing boundaries and experimenting. If we can bring all that and write a good pop song with a strong hook, that'll be our best. It has to do with being ready." Its credibility, creativity and commercial viability remain intact. Will the chemistry hold up? "It's an ongoing exercise in democracy," Vedder says. "One reason this record took so long is that democracy is hard. There's a little dictator in each of us. But we have a strong constitution."
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Post by reception on Jul 12, 2006 15:27:35 GMT -5
Pearl Jam donates green for environment Updated 7/11/2006 10:57 PM ET
SEATTLE (AP) - Pearl Jam has promised to donate $100,000 to several groups that focus on climate change, renewable energy and other environmental causes as part of an effort to offset carbon emissions the band churns out on tour.
"Our Carbon Portfolio Strategy is the newest component of our ongoing efforts to advance clean renewable energy and carbon mitigation," the Seattle-based band said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday.
Guitarist Stone Gossard said the group has been tracking its carbon emissions from vehicles used on tour and energy used in concert venues and hotels to estimate the band's contribution to global warming.
"We can get a really relatively accurate picture of what that looks like over a year, and it's a considerable amount of carbon," Gossard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a backstage interview at a concert in Los Angeles. "We emitted about 5,000 tons of carbon on our last tour."
Cascade Land Conservancy and EarthCorps, which work to protect and replenish Puget Sound-area forests, are among nine organizations Pearl Jam picked to receive donations.
One of the donations, to IslandWood, an environmental education center, will provide scholarships for children who can't afford tuition, spokeswoman Marla Saperstein said.
The largest share of the group's donations will go to Conservation International, which does work does work in more than 40 countries.
Pearl Jam has aided other green causes in the past, including donating money to preserve a Madagascar rain forest to atone for environmental damage wrought by its last tour.
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Post by Damage on Jul 12, 2006 19:41:29 GMT -5
That's cool!
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