Obsessed

6. KLOL Interview(Last Part)

David Sadof: Yeah, right. Is he really? (Eddie makes sound like he is joking) Yeah. You know, I called Doug to see if he'd like to do this interview, but he never called me back.

Eddie Vedder: Oh, he's not actually...we talked to him this morning. He hasn't been feeling very well. He's in the middle of making a record, so I think making a record is like carrying the world on your shoulder like "Fitzcarraldo."

David Sadof: Because a few weeks ago I was interviewing Follow for Now and I told him about that and he was like coming up with all these great questions that I never would have even known about. And I was like, man, you should. So, you know, I thought maybe you'd like to get involved in this.

Eddie Vedder: He just has the weight of the world.

Stone Gossard: We understand that feeling now, when you make a record, you become a different person. Like I'm possessed.

Eddie Vedder: It's the mad scientist.

Stone Gossard: Evil, you become evil. But good, evil.

Eddie Vedder: Yeah, good, evil.

David Sadof: When I heard the Temple of the Dog song "Reach Down" to me, that I mean, it sounded like like something I could hear King's X doing, you know.

David Sadof: Over the past several years, the Seattle music scene has received a lot of attention and many of the bands from Seattle have earned national recognition. In what ways has the Seattle music scene contributed to the success of these artists?

Stone Gossard: Well, we're moving, so it doesn't really matter. We're not we're moving to Omaha, Nebraska, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

David Sadof: You're tired of the question aren't you?

Stone Gossard: Well it's one of those things that you don't. Again, I think in terms of like how we deal with that, we don't really think about the scene that we're in. And like I mean, we have really good friends that are the same, like bands like Alice in Chains, then our friends that we would totally respect as musicians and we love their music. But when you're talking about the scene, it kind of degrades the individual bands. I think it's not anything up there other than the individuals that make the music great. And I think any time you start fantasizing about the scenes right there and there's this great thing going on up there, it's like it takes away, I think, from what is really happening. And it's a bunch of people are really have their priorities together and they're great musicians that are making good music.

Eddie Vedder: Yeah, on that side of the coin, it's really niceto have a fucking awesome posse.

Stone Gossard: My homies are up there. My homie Kim Thayil, he'll back me up too.

David Sadof: My real reason for wanting to ask that is to to see how you feel about that. And if if it really is a scene or if it really is just the fact that there have a lot of good bands there. Exactly.

Stone Gossard: What is a scene really (says in British accent)? I think it's a great musical community right now because people haven't like got too caught up in the fact that it's a scene. You know, it's like people are friends.

Eddie Vedder: It's really low key.

David Sadof: And there's a bond between the bands. But I mean, it's the impression I get.

Eddie Vedder: Certainly a few of them. I hung out with Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains in New Orleans last night. It was actually very nice to see him outside of Seattle.