In 2016 he walked us through some of classic albums he has played on.<\/p>\n
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Green River – Come On Down (Homestead, 1985)<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s funny because people look back at this record as this rough, raw, punk sound, but we actually demoed these songs maybe three times before we went in to do this session, which is a lot considering that back then we were all washing dishes and doing whatever just to pay for the studio time. I\u2019d actually forgotten this myself, but just recently a guy down in Portland at Jackpot Records who Steve Turner is friends with found some demos we\u2019d made right before Stone [Gossard] joined the band and they\u2019re much more raw and rough, because we\u2019d only been a band for a few weeks.<\/p>\n Article continues below <\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cFor Come On Down we went to a studio called Crow in Wallingford, where The U-Men had made a record which we thought sounded really good, and for Seattle it was expensive, maybe three times as expensive as Reciprocal say. We were in for three or four days, with a twelve hour slot each day, and we used every minute of it. The downside of that record though was that it was supposed to come out before this tour we had booked across the Mid-West and East Coast \u2013 a tour I booked by phoning people like Steve Albini and Chuck Dukowski from Black Flag and Corey Rusk from Touch and Go – but we ended up having to do the whole tour without it being out, and that was a real bummer.<\/p>\n \u201cWe played gigs with Samhain and Big Black and Das Damen, maybe only seven shows in three weeks, but it seemed epic, because it was the first time any of us had been to New York or Boston or Detroit. So getting copies of the EP after the tour seemed anti-climactic. When we got back together again a few years ago to play a handful of shows I really loved playing New God and Swallow My Pride, so they\u2019re probably the two songs that I look back upon most fondly.\u201d<\/p>\n Mother Love Bone – Apple (Stardog\/Mercury, 1990)<\/p>\n \u201cThe Mother Love Bone<\/a> buzz really kicked in when I sent a tape out to some people on the West Coast because we wanted to do some shows . One went to Dale Gloria who booked shows in Los Angeles and she passed the tape along to a lady who at the time was working for Slash, but got a job at Geffen within a matter of weeks. So within six weeks of the band playing music together we had a demo deal from Geffen, and from there we had about 15 labels come to see us in Seattle. At the start they were talking $150,000 deals and then it went crazy and by the end of the process we were being offered $400,000\u2026at a time when we were maybe making $500 a month at a restaurant.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d spent maybe $2000 on Green River and suddenly we were being told we could spend $250,000 on our first Mother Love Bone record, and we were thinking, \u2018How is that possible?\u2019 We soon found out, by making demos with all kinds of producers in expensive studios! By the time we made the record with Terry Date those songs were already almost two and a half years old, and we\u2019d lost a bit of the fire that we had initially and we\u2019d built up a lot of pressure within ourselves.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then we finished it and were all psyched up and then Andy [Wood, MLB vocalist] passed away and that was that, it was over. The success we enjoyed afterwards with Pearl Jam was a little bit bittersweet because our friend didn\u2019t get to come along.\u201d<\/p>\n Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog (A&M, 1991)<\/p>\n \u201cI knew the Soundgarden<\/a> guys, as our bands played together, but we lived in different neighbourhoods so it wasn\u2019t like we were best friends. But after Andy [Wood] died I started hanging out with Chris [Cornell] a lot, as we were both kinda trying to make sense of what had happened. We\u2019d go out on our mountain bikes and ride through Discovery Park, or down to the beach, and we\u2019d make a fire on the beach and sit there with a mickey of cognac or whiskey and sometimes we\u2019d end up talking about Andy, and we became buddies.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a couple of songs, and he gave me a tape of them, which I listened to with Stone and we were like, \u2018Oh my God, these songs are amazing.\u2019 Chris called us and said, \u2018Hey, would you want to record these songs with me?\u2019 and we said we\u2019d be honoured to, but I said, I don\u2019t really know how much we need to add, because these demos are beautiful. By the time we went into the studio he had a couple more songs, and we had a couple of riffs, and over the course of a week we just knocked this record out, with zero pressure and no expectations and and no-one telling anyone else what to play.<\/p>\n What to read next<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a cathartic exercise in us trying to understand our friend\u2019s death, and I still think it\u2019s one of the listenable records that I\u2019ve ever played on, and Stone would probably say the same thing. I also think it showed Chris that he could write songs in different ways with different people, and in some ways it was a crossroads for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n Temple Of The Dog – Hunger Strike – YouTube Watch On <\/a> \u201cIn some ways Stone and I are the most unlikely couple to have made our way together through all these groups, but I think we share a musical language and we can both facilitate the other\u2019s ideas. We got our demo to Eddie [Vedder] and he and I would speak on the phone every day about music we liked and books that we liked and when he sent the demo back to my apartment I listened to it and thought \u2018This is the guy I\u2019ve wanted to be in a band with my whole life.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cWhen he came up to Seattle we just hit it hard, knocking out eight or nine songs in the studio and playing a show, and it just felt like this band had something. Obviously by then we had some experience of making records so we went to Sony and said \u2018This is how we\u2019re going to make the record and this is how we\u2019re going to spend our money\u2019, and they said, \u2018Okay.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI think we spent about $25,000 making the record and about three times that mixing it, but it was still a third of the money that we\u2019d spent making the Mother Love Bone record. We didn\u2019t expect the record to be a huge deal. But I guess it kinda became one.\u201d<\/p>\n Pearl Jam – Even Flow (Official Video) – YouTube Watch On <\/a>
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\nPearl Jam – Ten (Epic, 1991)<\/p>\n
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\nNeil Young – Mirrorball (Reprise\/Epic, 1995)<\/p>\n