Pearl Jam - C or D?

Who was the first to cut their hair?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, July 7, 2013 9:55 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's sad that I know this, but: Stone!

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/archive-pearl_jam-431x300.jpg

hard to say for sure since Jeff has hidden his hairline under all sorts of headgear over the years, though.

hmmm the hair is the least of their problems in that photo

Yeah, talk about stuck between stations.

stone totally did cut his hair first, and sort of signalled in interviews that he was more into funk and hip-hop at that point than rock. jeff's hairline and the hats... it's weird. He's sort of stopped wearing them in recent years and seems to have a fine head of hair. maybe its plugs? i remember kim gordon and julie cafritz ragging on him for being bald circa the first free kitten record. but maybe he was never balding and just liked wearing hats.

I more I read about the Sonic Youth folks, the more and more they sound like big assholes.

For the longest time people thought Neil Peart was dying just because he liked wearing a hat.

its hard to stay humble when you have the ability to kill people with your big fucking dick xpost

not people, christgau

i had a 'jeff hat' that I wore through senior high school and my first year of uni

I own a pair of Target shorts a lot like Gossard's.

I have Dave Abbrusseze's shrunken skull in a jar on my bedside cabinet.

In case you were wondering whatever happened to him.

does the hair keep growing

only the soul patch, bizarrely enough

lmao this thread

Ditching Dave was sort of an early mistake on purpose. This band really needed a great drummer, and didn't get one again until Matt. Iirc correctly, Dave was fired for being too good, basically. Like these dudes weren't already a bunch of mega-musos.

I think Dave was fired for not really fitting in with the band, in terms of their beliefs and personalities. Glorified g was partly inspired by Dave's offhand comment that he owned a gun and thought nothing of it, which shocked Vedder.

Also, in terms of 'mistakes', I think Jack Irons was a great drummer, and his work on No Code in particular is fine.

will not take this Jack Irons slander

*air drums to "in my tree"* *literally can't*

loool i'm sure *Dave* said he was fired for being too good

Jack Irons on No Code unfuckwithable

Abruzzese has some amazing performances on Vs/Vitalogy but his rototoms and splash cymbals and stuff really were a little too flashy and cheesy for the band's sound, he coulda been in the Spin Doctors or something.

i've been meaning to make playlists of, like, the top 10 PJ songs from each of the 4 major drummers (Kruzen, Abruzzese, Irons and Cameron), i really feel like they were a different band in each of those lineups. loved Vedder's comment in the doc about how each drummer change was like a heart transplant.

I thought the breaking point with Dave, as reported, was when he consented to an interview with a drum mag without the band's permission.

Jack Irons is a plodder. Which perhaps suited the group, but not as well as, say, Matt Cameron or Edie Brickel's drummer.

'plodder' isn't really right but he certainly had the right feel for some of their most Neil Young-like tracks (plus their album backing Neil himself, who had nice things to say about Irons)

this Spin interview has most of the band, incl Dave, agreeing that it was his lack of ideological sympatico with the band that saw him leave http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/spin801.shtml

jack irons a plodder? that's unpossible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYVLfFZmEg

That's cool, but Dave does the exact same thing but groovier on "W.M.A."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3t32wlItI

if you love dave so much why dont you marry him

Yesterday it was "they should have made an Automatic For The People" today it's "they should have kept Dave." Excited for tomorrow.

Look at the photos again.

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"In My Tree" is so much more awesome than "W.M.A." it's almost funny

what's everyone's least favorite? Binaural is mine. It might be better than what I thought at the time, but in summer 2000 I was not at all in a PJ head space.

Yea i didnt dig Binaural either

I like a lot of Binaural.

I think I'd go

Vitalogy > Yield > No Code > s/t > Binaural > Backspacer > Ten > Vs. > Riot Act

Riot Act for me, Binaural close second

Vitalogy > No Code > Ten > Yield > Vs. > Binaural > Backspacer > Riot Act > s/t

"In My Tree" is such a jam, if we polled these guys my #1 easy, & the drumming is the main reason why: he doesn't ride the cymbals so they hit harder, and I make a rock face every time they pop

Riot Act just has kind of a bad vibe feel. Love Boat Captain is the only reprieve for me

yeah 'in my tree' is rad

Can anything really challenge "Bushleaguer" as their worst song ever?

why so beleaguered?

ugh Bushleaguer :(

Dudes, I never said they should have kept Dave. Just that I think they do better with a more expressive drummer.

I also never said they should have made an album like "Automatic." I just think they might have made more interesting albums if they weren't always in rock mode. Though of course there are plenty of cool non-rock things scattered throughout the catalog.

Like, I am at best a casual fan, but I have always been intrigued enough by the band and its potential - and actual accomplishments - to follow along.

I never saw Dave as expressive so much as he liked to hit things hard

some patches of his playing had soul

he had soul but he wasn't a soldier

i've probably yelled about this here before but they left the best songs off of binaural. "sad" is probably my favorite pj song

i love riot act bc it's so dark and weird and cameron seems more fused to the band but yeah it's waaaay too long