tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234278848695866265.post3455898657884489447..comments2023-09-09T06:05:43.509-05:00Comments on Dedicated Ears Music Blog: "Real Fan?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137109025502304235noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234278848695866265.post-31744479061704825532009-09-08T16:24:50.407-05:002009-09-08T16:24:50.407-05:00Thanks John. Truer words could not be spoken. I l...Thanks John. Truer words could not be spoken. I look forward to interviewing you here and doing a review of the new stuff. Then maybe a review of the first album shortly thereafter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00137109025502304235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234278848695866265.post-16496843997948296142009-09-02T01:43:53.097-05:002009-09-02T01:43:53.097-05:00What I meant to say in the beginning was, Music fi...What I meant to say in the beginning was, Music finds us at certain times in OUR lives.John Joneshttp://www.reverbnation.com/johnjonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234278848695866265.post-7140209231152286522009-09-02T01:42:24.317-05:002009-09-02T01:42:24.317-05:00This is the kind of post I can sink my teeth into....This is the kind of post I can sink my teeth into. I'm a firm believer that music finds US at certain times in my life. There are things I loved as a teenager that I cannot listen to now, and there are things I used to find uninteresting that I now love. Pearl Jam is a case of the latter.<br /><br />I worked at Crow's Nest, the only cool record store in Joliet, when I was a freshman in college. At that point I was into pop, R&B and jazz...laugh if you will, but I still love a lot of Amy Grant's music to this day. So when Nirvana and Pearl Jam came around, I didn't get it. At all. Co-workers would play those CDs at the store EVERY DAY, and if I had to pick one, it would've been Pearl Jam. But it wasn't the kind of thing I'd buy at the time.<br /><br />Fast forward 10 years. By the early 2000's I was DEEP into classic rock and singer/songwriter stuff...and a lot of the artists I liked (Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Vonda Shepard) were being produced by Mitchell Froom, sometimes with Tchad Blake. I liked their sound so much, that when I saw Tchad Blake produced the Pearl Jam album Binaural, I had to give it a try. I thought their songwriting had really matured - I cover "Light Years" in my shows every chance I get. So I loved the album so much I started working backwards in their catalog. I really liked Yield, especially the insane "Do the Evolution" and the catchy "Pilate." So when I kept moving backwards towards their earliest stuff, I was ready for more noise. I know the grungier, younger sounding rock was their core sound, but for my ears their catalog worked in reverse. I am a huge fan now.<br /><br />Riot Act was pretty good, but I REALLY loved the self-titled album (avocado on the cover). I'm really excited about their new album but I have a feeling I won't listen to it much for a few weeks as I'll be ears deep in Beatles remasters. Oh yeah, and there's that album of my own I really want to finish...John Joneshttp://www.reverbnation.com/johnjonesnoreply@blogger.com