Jason Kerepesi & Paul Ghiglieri discuss every aspect of Pearl Jam's music and the bands and communities they inspire. New episodes every Tuesday!
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Jason Kerepesi & Paul Ghiglieri discuss every aspect of Pearl Jam's music and the bands and communities they inspire. New episodes every Tuesday!
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Jason and Paul welcome King Ultramega founder and bassist Mark Menghi to the show to discuss the supergroup that honors Chris Cornell and all of his bands. Mark tells us why the project took five years to get off the ground, which amazing musicians are involved and what we can expect over the next year.
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Jason and Paul celebrate 35 years of Mother Love Bone's Apple with a difficult task -- distilling it from an LP to an EP! See which songs make the cut. Paul also ask Jason about his recent trip to Seattle to celebrate Chris Cornell on the weekend of what would have been his 61st birthday. Jason recalls a cavalcade of events including a very memorable trip to London Bridge Studio where Louder Than Love, Temple of the Dog, Ten, and so many more records were produced.
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Jason and Paul ease back into some of the normal Pearl Jam related fare with a mailbag full of questions from listeners, viewers, and patrons. Then the guys debate the most overrated...and underrated tracks off Dark Matter. Plus the Lyric and Live Cut of the Week - Scared of Fear.
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Jason and Paul are joined by I Am No Guide author Brian "Stip" Stipelman and Concertpants aka Sheehan Perera to pay tribute to drummer Matt Cameron as he leaves Pearl Jam. The news shocked the rock world and saddened the dedicated Pearl Jam community. So how do we cope...and what's next for Matt and the band? The guys discuss Matt's amazing career with the band and look forward to what might be.
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Jason and Paul celebrate and reminisce on 30 years since Pearl Jam totally messed with Jeremy and created a new masterpiece, No Jeremy. So, with that in mind, they pick three other Pearl Jam songs they think would be great if rearranged. The guys also reflect on the 25th anniversary of the Roskilde tragedy and how it's affected the band's legacy. There's also a spirited discussion in the Lyric of the Week segment for the song Won't Tell.
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Jason and Paul welcome Sheehan aka Concerpants and Anita from 90 The Original back to the show to renew a fun series called Superlatives. It's been 33 years since the 'Singles' movie soundtrack was released so why not celebrate it with this fun game?
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Jason and Paul return to their Playlist series with the ongoing protests around America as the context. Pearl Jam have always been champions of the oppressed, activists with a catalog to match...so which songs compiled would make the best EP for standing one's ground?
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Jason and Paul return to their Retro Reviews series...but not with a Pearl Jam album (sort of). Instead, the guys analyze and rate Neil Young's album Mirror Ball ahead of its 30th birthday.
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Jason and Paul welcome Sheehan Perera from Concertpants back to the show to discuss all the great guest appearances over the years at Pearl Jam shows. There have been many -- but which have been the most impactful, cathartic and/or entertaining?
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Jason and Paul welcome famed grunge era photographer Karen Mason Blair to the show to discuss her career photographing some our favorite bands of the 90s. Karen illustrates how supportive the whole community was, how her personal connections with said bands made her photos great, and what she thinks about the ubiquity of high quality cellphone cameras at today's concerts. All that and much more.
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Jason and Paul welcome artist, activist, and Dead Pioneers vocalist Gregg Deal to the show to discuss how his punk band operates at the intersection of indigenous activism and punk rock. Gregg unapologetically details the blind spots many white Americans have about U.S. history, how the band came together, and what its intentions are on their latest record, Po$t American. Gregg also details how he met and befriended Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament and his experience opening for them this spring.
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Jason rides solo this week and chats with Chris Buck and Tom Hollister from the brilliant Welsh band Cardinal Black about their journey from wedding band to exceptionally soulful original rock band...and their new album Midnight at the Valencia. They discuss how the band takes advantage of and navigates Chris's online notoriety as he's an excellent guitar player. Tom tells us how he overcame a near death accident and how the band wrote an ode to Chris's late father. That and so much more.
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Jason and Paul celebrate 25 years of Binaural by reviewing it...retroactively. The guys analyze the music, lyrics, and production of Pearl Jam's sixth studio record and apply a lens of hindsight as well as explore the themes and performances from a contemporary perspective.
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Jason is joined by Sheehan Perera live in Nashville ahead of Pearl Jam's second night at Bridgestone Arena. This audio comes from a live in-person podcast at the Wishlist Foundation's Pre-Party and was originally streamed on YouTube. Jason and Sheehan talk the tour thus far, what's been played, what's been missing and predict what they'd hear that evening. There's an even a man-on-the-street remote with many fans waiting in the merch line earlier that day. Plus trivia!
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Jason and Paul celebrate 19 years of Pearl Jam's self-titled record by returning to their Superlatives series. Joining them are author and show regular Brian "Stip" Stipelman, and graphic artist, and former in-house Pearl Jam art director, Brad Klausen. Best Song Live, Most Introspective, and many more...
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Jason and Paul go live on Youtube to preview Pearl Jam's 11-date run through the American south and midwest. Sheehan Perera from Concertpants, Jon Andrews, and PJ Radio's Rob Bleetstein join them to debate and predict what the band will play. This is the audio from that livestream.
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Jason and Paul revisit Pearl Jam's Dark Matter...one year later. The guys go track by track analyzing the music and lyrics and give their current ratings. Records tend to settle in after time...and the honeymoon period for Dark Matter was strong...so how did time affect the gents' affectations for the record? It's all herein.
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Jason and Paul welcome the two James (Joseph and Biss) from the great Welsh band James and the Cold Gun to the show to catch up and talk about their new record Face In the Mirror. It was recorded between their home in Cardiff and in Seattle at Stone Gossard's Studio Litho. Jospeh and Biss discuss sharing lyric writing, what themes are inspiring them on the new record and how the drum parts go from Logic to drummer Jack Wrench. Plus the guys gush on bassist Gabby Elise's contributions and James Biss's addition as co-lead vocalist.
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Jason and Paul celebrate five years of Gigaton by shrinking it!...from an LP to an EP. Which songs make the cut if you had to reduce the album to under-30 minutes? Then the guys react to their Patrons' thoughts on this week's Lyrics to Live By song -- Grievance.
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Jason and Paul welcome technical engineer Sony Felberg and producer Brett Eliason to the show to discuss 1995's Above record. Both gentlemen had worked with Pearl Jam for years and were asked to record what they thought were just some demos by Mike McCready, Layne Staley, John "Baker" Saunders, and Barrett Martin...and then it became something more. Watch as Brett and Sony detail how the record was made, stories from the studio, and so much more.
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