There was something about that felt like it maybe wasn't right for this particular record." "Most of the songs are about bigger kinds of things. "The record overall has such a universal feel to it, much more so than some of our other records," he said. "It won't offend him / just me / because he's dead." The cut features only Vedder on vocals and guitar.īecause of its pointed lyrics and highly personal content, the track was ruled out for potential inclusion on Pearl Jam's 2002 album Riot Act, according to Gossard. "So sing just like him, f***ers," Vedder sings. In the song, Vedder lashes out at the singers of unnamed bands copying the style of Staley, who died after battling drug addiction for years. "He stayed in there, didn't work on anything else, and worked this song up." Added guitarist Mike McCready, "he wrote it in the ukulele tuning, so it had this weird vibe to it, and it was sad." "It was a real personal song wrote the night we all found out died," Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard told last year. 11 by Epic, the same day as the concert DVD Live at the Garden. The track, dubbed "4/20/02," is not listed on the album but can be found several minutes after "Bee Girl," the last song on the set's second disc. NEW YORK (Billboard) - A song Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder wrote about Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley on the day of his death will be released on Lost Dogs, the group's upcoming double-disc rarities collection. Welcome to the LOUDEST DOT COM ON THE PLANET!Įddie Vedder To Release Layne Staley Tribute Song on New AlbumĪs reported by : Vedder's Staley Tribute No Longer 'Lost'
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