RE: PJ covers PTSun Dec 7 13:22:25 PST 1997

[Michael Hanley <mhanley@microsoft.com>]

I always felt there Better Man was inspired by The English Beat's Save
It For Later, which we know is a personal favourite of Pete's. 

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>From: 	James Marshall Boswell[SMTP:jboswel@emory.edu]
>Sent: 	Monday, March 25, 1996 2:29 PM
>To: 	DANwhoIEL@aol.com
>Cc: 	Justin.M.Cober@cc.gettysburg.edu; thewho@mpath.com
>Subject: 	Re: PJ covers PT
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>On Sun, 24 Mar 1996 DANwhoIEL@aol.com wrote:
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>> I read a review of a Pearl Jam concert they did in SF about a year and
>>a half
>> ago, and the review stated they did covers of "My Generation" and "The Real
>> Me" during the show.  Is anyone else aware of this?  Does anyone have the
>> inside story about that band's apparent love of our beloved Who?  
>
>Well, you can hear it in the sound, of course, particularly in the
>ballads.  "Nothing Man" and "Better Man" from the last PJ album sound
>to
>me like outtakes from "By Numbers," for instance.  I've also seen a PJ
>bootleg album whose cover pays direct homage to "Live At Leeds," which
>Eddie Vedder has gone on record as being his favorite album, or one of
>them anyway.  And their new cover of "Leavin' Here" is really a cover
>of
>The Who's cover of "Leavin' Here," as other listservers have already
>pointed out.  One last interesting note: if you look at the cryptic,
>hard-to-read lyric sheets from the last two PJ albums, you'll note that
>whenever the pronoun "who"  turns up, Vedder (or somebody) has added a
>tell-tale arrow to the terminal "o." 
>
>I also see PJ trying to match The Who's early Seventies seriousness and
>
>sense of integrity or whatever.  The TicketMaster thing is indicative
>of 
>this.  Unfortunately, methinks they doth protest too much.  Good
>records, 
>those PJ things, but personally I'm a bit exhausted with all this
>moaning 
>and angst from the Vedder Camp.  
>
>Marshall
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