“That’s me pretending to be Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a feeble attempt at that,” McCready admitted. Stone Gossard wrote the lead riff for "Even Flow," but McCready was tasked with playing it. MCCREADY BELIEVES HE RIPPED OFF DIFFERENT MUSICIANS. "So it's a bit about this kid named Jeremy and it's also a bit about a kid named Brian that I knew," Vedder said. In addition to that incident, he also had an old junior high school classmate who shot up an oceanography room in mind. Vedder wrote "Jeremy" the night that 16-year-old Jeremy Wade Delle fatally shot himself in front of his classmates in Richardson, Texas.
"JEREMY" WAS BASED ON TWO DIFFERENT REAL-LIFE EVENTS. "We played that thing over and over until we hated each other." 3. "I swear to God it was a nightmare," he said. "Not sure why we didn't use that one from the demo as well, but I know it felt better." McCready estimated that they recorded the song 50 to 70 times.
"Even Flow," in particular, proved to be a tough song to record. But it wasn't all smooth sailing for the musicians. The band began recording Ten with producer Rick Parashar on Maat Seattle's London Bridge Studios, and completed the album within a month. "EVEN FLOW" PROVED PROBLEMATIC IN THE STUDIO. "Footsteps," which would eventually be a "Jeremy" B side in the United Kingdom, is when he gets executed.
Vedder would go on to say that in the opening track "Once," the son in "Alive" becomes a serial killer. All he knows is 'I'm still alive'-those three words, that's totally out of burden." He's still dealing with love, he's still dealing with the death of his father. He's still dealing, he's still growing up. He doesn't know what the fu*k is going on. How could you ever get him back? But the son. You know how it is, first loves and stuff. His father's dead, and now this confusion, his mother, his love, how does he love her, how does she love him? In fact, the mother, even though she marries somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than the father. The son grows up to be the father, the person that she lost. It's an intense thing because the son looks just like the father. "The story of the song is that a mother is with a father, and the father dies. In 1993, Vedder told Cameron Crowe what "Alive" was about for him: It was a "mini opera" he titled Mamasan featuring "Alive," "Once," and "Footsteps." Vedder raced back to his apartment and taped himself singing over three of the songs. I was literally writing some of these words as I was going up against a wave.” I was really getting focused on this one thing, and I had this music in my mind at the same time. "I went surfing in that sleep-deprived state and totally started dealing with a few things that I hadn’t dealt with. “When you haven’t slept for days, you get so sensitive that it feels like every nerve is directly exposed," Vedder later explained. In September 1990, while working the graveyard shift at a Chevron tank farm in San Diego, former Bad Radio frontman Eddie Vedder heard the instrumental demos made by Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, and drummer Matt Cameron for the first time (he got the tape from former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons). Here are some facts about one of the best-selling rock albums of all-time. Vocalist Eddie Vedder famously heard instrumental demos of what would become worldwide hits and came up with the famous lyrics while riding some San Diego waves. The album was a collaboration between former Mother Love Bone guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament who, after the tragic death of their singer, Andrew Wood, regrouped and started playing again-this time with guitarist Mike McCready and eventually drummer Dave Krusen. It would take a couple of hit singles and over a year for Ten to reach number two on the Billboard chart, but it did, and eventually sold more than 10 million copies. Ten, Pearl Jam's debut studio album, was released on August 27, 1991-at the tail end of the summer before the term "grunge" would enter the popular lexicon.