Producer Andrew Watt on recording Pearl Jam's new album 'Dark Matter' and the secret to Eddie Vedder's set lists.
entered the world at practically the same exact moment. The 33-year-old producer was born Oct. 20, 1990, the same week that Eddie Vedder traveled to Seattle from San Diego to meet his future bandmates for the first time. “They’ve said to me they were probably writing ‘Release’ while my mom was giving birth to me,” Watt says. “And then they played their first concert two days after that at the Off Ramp cafe. I don’t want to get too biblical about it, but it’s very, very strange.
Each show is so incredibly unique and different. There aren’t many major groups besides jam bands like Phish that approach concerts in that way. I was very high, and I wrote a long letter for her to give him. I also left that guitar for the lady to give him even though I didn’t even know her. I was just hoping that Eddie Vedder would read it. At the bottom I wrote, “By the way, it’s my birthday today. Here’s my number.”
So literally in the middle of his album, he was like, “Guys, you’ve got to come down here. I’m having the time of my life. I’m so inspired. We’ve got to make some music with Andrew.” And so right in the middle ofA few of the songs were made in my basement studio. Everyone was face to face right there. Four or five of the songs were made in those first eight or nine days.Yeah. I just think everyone had a good time.
The first time any song was presented to anyone, Ed would be on mic. He would come up with things right away. The guys would morph what they were doing around it. It was truly collaborative from every single member. You take one of those guys out of any of sessions, you’re not getting the albumHow many bands that are still around are as good as Pearl Jam right now? They’re the greatest live band in the world.
“Wreckage” is more stripped-down. I love that line, “Rivers overflowing/drowning all of our yesterdays.” We went deep on that one. I love that song. There’s that amazing Stone riff. It took off from there. Matt’s drumming on that song was just out of control. The band is firing on all cylinders on every one of these songs on the album. What I’m most proud of on this album is you can close your eyes at any point and focus on any members of Pearl Jam, and they’re up front and center.
This is the first record they made since Josh Klinghoffer unofficially/officially became pat of the band. How did he help shape the songs?
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