““Manic, crazy and angry”, murmurs Stone Gossard, running his hands through his closely cropped hair. He's talking about early Pearl Jam gigs, and how their first tour felt. We're sitting in the back of the band's tour bus on a cool desert night in Phoenix, where the band has just
finished another musically and emotionally compelling show. "It's weird” he muses, 'we're getting more comfortable playing live, and we're playing more consistently every night. Yet sometimes it's more difficult to get in that state of mind where you can Just lose yourself to the music.
It's clear that Gossard and the rest of Pearl Jam no longer want to rely... anger and craziness to drive the band. “On the first tour we might have lost ourselves that way, and it could have sounded like a wall of shit to some people. Now we're finding a new way to groove, through
getting more confident as a band. We're looking for a new balance between losing ourselves and locking in, while still being conscious of the song.”
(Guitar Worid - March, 1994)
O significado da palavra “weird”, sublinhada no texto é.