Ok I have been talking to a lot of people about my love of Pearl Jam and I love talking, explaining, sharing about my love of this. Pearl jam has had the biggest influence on me as a person and of course on my music tastes, though I have always had preference to heavy guitary drummy vocally lyrically stuff - I started on rock music from the tender age of 4. At 4 I was into a band called Signal.
Many people say they see Ten and Vs as the real Pearl Jam and after that they haven’t found they really like anything. Well everything that Pearl Jam have created after Ten sounds very very different. I argue that Ten is really not Pearl Jam, not yet. Ten is a lot of Mother Love Bone.
Pearl jam are not just music, voice and sound. If you are a music person as not a music with lyrics person – don’t expect to ever like it the things that followed after Ten and Vs – about 7 other albums. If you are a music, lyric and existential philosophy person with some awareness of personal growth and self actualisation – you are so going to get Pear Jam, but then you have to like rock music!
So it’s not about music only – hope you get this. I call this phenomenon – modern time poetry…
I wouldn’t be able to explain the philosophy behind every song but you can learn that directly from the band themselves – they did the Storytellers.
You can see the storytellers on You tube – everything has a meaning – and that meaning changes…
That’s my favourite story by Eddie Vedder:
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The new album –
Backspacer is the happiest album I have ever listened to. If you are following Pearl Jam – you would understand why and you will embrace it with equal joy!
If you haven’t followed Pearl Jam I would recommend you to watch Iconoclasts on the Sundance channel, Series 2. Eddie Vedder is paired with Laird Hamilton. You can hear some really good stories about Lairds passion of surfing and Eddie’s passion of music.
There is a moment when Laird talks about creativity and how we do things – as younger people from a not that positive place – fuelled with a lot of anger and then there is this transition (or people usually die) when the source of creativity changes – it comes from a different place and the more you have grown and evolved the more creative you can be, happy and creative, not angry and creative!
Hence I totally disagree with the concept of the tortured artist…There is a really good article by David Lynch on that – I hope I can find a link to it. I accept that tortured artist happen, they do and I have been inspired and influenced by many such, but I know that there will be a time, once we create our sustainable lives, when creativity will come from a good place, happy place. The tortured artist happens because we don’t grow up happy, we grow angry. We can change all that… it’s what we believe that really has to change.
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