Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard discussed Eddie Vedder refusing to record “Better Man” for Ten in a new Strombo Show interview on Apple Music. Eddie Vedder just dropped a Ten sequel album bombshell.
“So none of us had any say in that. That that was Ed’s thing. His ability to think that way has really been an important part, huge part of our long-term success, because I just think that our fans have gotten used to the… There’s sort of the variety of our experiments and our… So we’re not waiting around for everything to line up perfectly.
We’re kind of doing a lot of different things, and some of it works and some of it doesn’t. But Better Man is… I don’t know that I even heard the song that much before Ed said, “We’re not going to do this.” I think maybe it was like he played a demo for Brendan, and maybe we heard it once or twice and thought, “That sounds good.” And then it came on the next record.”
Eddie Vedder just joined Foo Fighters for a sad show. Gossard also discussed Pearl Jam’s 1992 MTV Unplugged performance, “I remember being nervous, but we also had played a lot, so we were pretty comfortable with our songs. I think we were still at a phase where we were I lost confidence a little bit for a few years where I just wasn’t sure whether we were deserving of all this stuff. I just went inside.
I think I was still at a time where I was believing, really believing. I remember it came off good. I remember that we felt that it was pretty good, but we had played very little acoustically. We relied a lot on the noise and the wildness of our shows to generate energy.”
