Obviously, he likes Pete Townshend, but then we started talking about the guys he had on his albums in the ’80s who went on to be in Big Country. But doing this record with him, we talked a lot about it. “I always think of him as liking The Who and then Minutemen and Fugazi and stuff like that. “I didn’t know until doing this album with Eddie how much he was into music from that period in the mid-to-late ’80s,” he remarks.

He opted to toss tambourines into the crowd instead.įor Klinghoffer, learning this crazy array of covers proved to be a master class in music appreciation with a man who has guided his tastes since he was a kid. A bunch of Pearl Jam songs, you name it.”Īt NJPAC, Eddie and the boys gave the crowd, “Wishlist,” the early fan favorite “Dirty Frank” and an unglued run-through the longtime PJ concert staple “Porch,” which found Vedder prowling around the stage looking for something to climb up like he used to do 30 years ago. “We have a revolving door of covers,” explains Smith, on the phone from his home in Los Angeles before heading to New York for the Earthlings’ two-night stand at The Beacon Theatre.

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