Showing posts with label Pearl Jam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearl Jam. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Pearl Jam 9th Album

Pearl Jam has teamed up with producer Brendan O'Brien to release their newest studio album. O'Brien has produced Vitalogy, Mirror Ball, and Yield, all by Pearl Jam, as well as albums by Limp Bizit, Bruce Springsteen, Incubus, The Offspring, The Pink Spiders, Train, and Augustana.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Top 10 Music Acts Going Green

1. Jack Johnson
2. Willie Nelson
3. Mana
4. Dave Matthews Band
5. KT Tunstall
6. Pearl Jam
7. Serj Tankien
8. Radiohead
9. Missy Higgins
10. The Roots

more here.

Monday, April 21, 2008

All Along the Watchtower

"I think Dylan wrote one of the timeless songs of all time when he wrote that song, and it's one of those songs that can be interpreted so many ways.." -Warren Haynes

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan. Dylan performed this very song more often at any concert than any of his other compositions. At the end of 2007, it was estimated that he had sung the song 1,748 times on stage.

Dylan, recovering from a motorcycle accident which marked his career shift, had begun to read the Bible on a daily basis. The Book of Isiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9, contains the words is where Dylan found inspiration for the song.

The song has been covered an uncountable number of artists, including Jimi Hendrix Experience and U2.

The Jimi Hendrix Expierence began to record their cover when Hendrix had been given a copy of Dylan's recording. To the Hendrix cover, Dylan replyed by saying, ""It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."

U2 covered the song, and then performed the song on tour years later with an additional verse added by Bono. The performance can be seen in their documentary, "Rattle and Hum."

The Dave Matthews version of the song maintains Dylan's three chord structure and key signature, but differs in style. Dave Matthews typically starts the song slow with just vocals and guitar and the rest of the band joins him at the line "the hour is getting late" and the song tempo increasingly picks up.

Other artists to cover the song include Prince, Pearl Jam, Elton John, Eric Clapton, DMC, The Fratellis, Howie Day, The Indigo Girls, John Mellencamp, Lenny Kravitz, Phish, Tori Amos, and Widespread Panic.

Andrew Stockdale, front man of Wolfmother, has stated that the characteristics of their song "Joker and the Thief" came from Dylan's original song, which he has adored for years.

Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix Expierence
Dave Matthews Band
Pearl Jam
Eric Clapton/Lenny Kravitz
The Fratellis
John Mellencamp
Widespread Panic
Wolfmother- "Joker and the Thief"