Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory (1998 Video)

Stone Gossard: Self - Pearl Jam

Quotes 

• Eddie Vedder : Stone wrote a real pretty great melody... listen to it all the time... didn't know what to do with it... people keep saying, 'Do you have one for this? Do you have something for that'... Yeah... just workin' on it

  Stone Gossard : I had recorded that riff on my little microcassette recorder... that was probably the first one I went, 'This is one I really want to concentrate on' and try to get the band to fall in love with and keep playing every time there was a rehearsal... just kind of 'What'd think?'

• Stone Gossard : It really means more than just slow down because someone else has the right-of-way

  Eddie Vedder : It's really give way to... uh... nature... it's what I've been thinkin'

• Stone Gossard : I don't write... um... a lot of lyrics, so usually it's just kinda coming up with riffs and ideas that I like. I still think that the same riff I would have liked 8 years ago I probably would still like now. I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool way.

• Eddie Vedder : You might wanna give an E bow a try on that thing... I mean it's just such the sound.

  Stone Gossard : I can't, I can't get to an E bow... if you wanna to do it...

  Eddie Vedder : If I wanna do it... I can get to an E bow easier than... what do you, what do you... easier than you can get to an E bow?

  Stone Gossard : Well, I can't get to an E bow out of, coming out of a finger-picking part... cause the first note is like on the one.

  Eddie Vedder : Can you get to an E bow?

  [Laughing] 

  Mike McCready : Um... I might be able to ge to an E bow... possibly.

  Stone Gossard : It probably wouldn't... I mean... I... my... whatever.

  Eddie Vedder : I understand.

• Stone Gossard : I think that's one thing about this record... is just... everyone got individual efforts on this record. Everybody got to be part of this one in a new kind of way... um... which is... a nice evolution... everyone learned a lot from that process of kind of letting go... and and... um... and thinking, 'You gotta just kinda trust the band and let it kinda do what it... you know... it's naturally going to do'.

• Eddie Vedder : Um... so at the end, someone needs to, do you want to the...

  Stone Gossard : Where do you want it at the end?

  Eddie Vedder : What's that?

  Stone Gossard : Where at the end?

  Eddie Vedder : Oh, um... coming out of the um... the uh... last verse... the ver... uh... the last chorus, the last realy chorus

  Stone Gossard : Do you know where that is? Do you know where he wants it?

  Mike McCready : At the end.

  [Laughing] 

  Stone Gossard : You gotta explain yourself a little better.

  Eddie Vedder : Oh, I'm sure I do, yeah.

  Stone Gossard : Oh yeah, at the end. Sure, I'll be there for you baby.