Obsessed

4. KLOL Interview (First Part)

This interview is very long to read. So, you can listen to it here but I think it's not in full:

"Okay, let's go. A few questions here. Although Pearl Jam is a new band and Ten is your first album, you, Stone and Jeff Ament have been together for about seven years and various bands. Can you just give us a quick history of the bands you've been in that led up to Pearl Jam where we are now?"

"Green River was the very first band, which was started by basically Jeff and Mark Arm and Steve Turner, who are now in Mudhoney. And we put out, I guess, three records on Sub Pop plus a couple of compilation kind of things. And I'm I guess that band broke up in 86, 87 and..." Stone Gossard replies.

"Had a lot of Green River T-shirts out there and people that say that they're the greatest band ever, but at the time that you were in the band, no one really liked them." Eddie adds.

"We weren't really huge necessarily. Kind of huge in Seattle. Semi-huge, but we were sell out too."Also Gossard adds.

 David Sadof: What were you doing when Green River was around? 

Eddie Vedder: Listening to them.

Stone Gossard: No you weren't. He never even heard of Green River before.

David Sadof: Did you have a T-shirt?

Eddie Vedder: Actually, no. I did listen to Green River.

Stone Gossard: Did you?

Eddie Vedder: I didn't really listen to Mother Love Bone that much. And I still wasn't intimidated. I knew their history.

Stone Gossard: And then right after that, me and Jeff kind of hooked up with Andy Wood, who was the singer for Mother Love Bone and Bruce Fairweather, who was already in Green River at that time, who was the replacement guitar player for Steve joined, too. And we kind of...and Greg Gilmore...so Mother Love Bone was a band was a band for whatever like two and a half years or so before Andy Wood died of a heroin overdose. And after that, we just decided that it was time to to do something new and fresh. And we just went in and made a demo tape and ended up sending it out to people. And Eddie Vedder was one of the first people who got it. [from] Jack Irons, the old drummer for the Chili Peppers. And we've been working together ever since really...we shan't work together again though (laughs).

Eddie Vedder: We, um. Yeah, we...actually I owe a lot...I think we all owe a lot to Jack Irons.

Stone Gossard: We do.

Eddie Vedder: The symmetry is really intense. I mean he was also in a band who, the reason he left, I think, was what had happened to Hillel, in the passing of Hillel Slovak and in the fact that we're playing with the Chili Peppers now.

Eddie Vedder: I mean the symmetry really pretty intense.

Stone Gossard: Synchronicity really.

David Sadof: On one of the promo singles you, you in the riding's you know, you mentioned the Stone faction and the Jeff faction. The two of you all have been through a lot together.

Stone Gossard: Yeah. There's an interesting, we have an interesting dynamic in our relationship. It's...for some reason we work together pretty well I think.