1. A guitar like that with Bono on it saying ''Love and Peace or else''.
    Great guitar on that note!
  2. Stuck in Lauderdale Airport...flight delayed,weather in NY is very bad....time to bust out the Mac,and the iPod....listening to Hamilton,Ottawa and Halifax Matt since Friday...I downloaded these 3 gigs to the iPod before I left....these shows are really great....played them nonstop as I hung on the beach with my wife....I will review Montreal tomorrow Matt..that is,if my flight ever leaves from Lauderdale..lol

    I attended 2 Met games in Miami (sat and sun).the new stadium in Downtown Miami is beautiful,and has a roof,which is good,since the weather here in Florida is always changing......the sunday game the Mets lost ,on a walk off GRAND
    SLAM !!!!....lol..can make it up....too bad EV hurt his arm....he would have most deff been on the waves this weekend,water was very rough...
  3. I listened to Montreal yesterday and the day before...doing Quebec City today and tomorrow....then Halifax and Vancouver.

    After that I might take a 2005 break and do the LA and Philly 2009 gigs.

    Have a safe flight.
  4. Where are you at on the new Pearl Jam record?

    Right now, we’re in the middle of it. We’ve got eleven or twelve songs in their infant stages. We’re working on making them a little bit tighter and making them the best they can possibly be. We’re all doing our different things this year. Matt is doing some touring with Soundgarden. Ed is doing some of his solo touring. Stone’s doing BRAD, and I’m doing a little Flight to Mars. It’s not going to be out this year. We’re about halfway done, so it’ll probably be out next year.

    Backspacer was a masterpiece. It’s exciting to hear what you do next.

    I think you’ll be excited about this. It’s moving to a progression. It’s different. I’m pretty stoked about this record.


    Mikey
  5. Jeff pays tribute to Duck Dunn, the recently passed-away bassist of Booker T. and the MGs (and Blues Brothers Band)

    Five years ago, I made a list of my favorite and most influential bassists, and after much editing, decided to put their names on the back of my new favorite bass at the time and the first name on the neck is Duck Dunn. In 1993, the band was lucky enough to open a bunch of shows in the US and Europe for Neil and his band of Booker T., Steve Cropper, Jim Keltner and Duck. Our band watched every minute of this all-star band and lessons were delivered nightly. I learned more about how to “play songs” in a band than my previous 12 years of playing. Duck played deeper and with more economy than most and profoundly effected how I play with PJ.

    Thanks for the education, I’ll miss you, DD.

    Love, Jeff


    other names on the bass Dee Dee Ramone .. John Entwistle .. John Paul Jones and Mike Watt
  6. I was wondernig who "Ox" was - and surprised The Who's bassist didn't get represented.

    Now it all makes sense.
  7. Mikey is in mood to chat lately hehe

    SM: I saw the Temple of the Dog stuff that happened around the Pearl Jam 20 shows. Any chance of that happening again?
    Mike McCready: I’d love it. I’d love to do another record. If it happens organically and everyone’s into it, it’d be awesome. We were all around the same place the first time. And that’d have to happen again. And it was a different cause, for sure. But I’m up for it. I’d play with those guys any time.

    link


    Chris is often playing Hunger Strike, Say Hello 2 Heaven, Call Me A Dog, Wooden Jesus in his solo tour ... maybe he will pick the call
  8. Another band that you’ve been a part of that once included the late Layne Staley is Mad Season. Is there any leftover material that didn’t make the debut album? If so, is there a chance that any of that will see the light of day?

    Fantastic question! Funny you should mention that because we are working on that right now. There was another record that we did that, unfortunately, Layne (Stanley) and (Mark) Lanegan didn’t show up for – we did do music for it. There are a total of 11-12 unreleased songs that need a little bit of editing here and there. We’re looking at putting together those songs with singers who are the late Layne Staley’s caliber, if we can find them. I’d also like to find out if we can remaster and then re-release Above. I also came across some live tapes of a live show we did at the Crocodile. I was at our warehouse and found some two-inch tape of the show. I’d love to release all of this by the end of this year – that’s what we’re shooting for. I probably shouldn’t be telling you any of this, but that’s the plan as of the last two days.


    quite hard to find a late Layne Staley’s caliber singer uh?! hehe
    if those songs were sung by Mark an amaziiiinnnngggg stuff would have come out ... same if he does it now .. sort of half Screaming Trees reunion ... i guess it's quite impossible but you never know from that man hehehe
  9. I couldn't find my iPod for my morning jog...I "borrowed" my oldest daughters iTouch...I scroll over to PJ,and I find an extended studio version of Lukin,called Lukin extended edit...clocking in at 1min 35 sec...the last 25 seconds are hard jamming and Ed screaming,...WTF ?........is this from RVM the best of maybe ?....I never bought that,cause I obviously have all the tunes..where did she find this version ??? .Matt ?..Ron ?...
  10. no Lukin is not in Rearviewmirror in any form .. now this needs a research hehe ..
    in any holiday singles? could it be?

    EDIT: no it's not
  11. probably solved the mystery hehehe
    i've found this post on a forum

    we were talkin about songs that are too short on another board yesterday and i remembered how lukin is annoyingly short, so i did an extended edit in fruity. did some mastering/eq/and such to it as well. i think it turned out pretty cool. not a dance mix or anything, just added another chorus, a few bars of guitar, a combined 'some fucking freak..' and '..the freak was purchasing a fucking gun', c/p'd the intro fill to lead into the final hit, then a reverse of the hit. also made the intro mono and may've added a little verb, can't remember lol

    and there's a mediafire link .. so something fan made