Pearl Jam - Alive (1º demo - 1990)

[@Nikki-rb8iq]

You can’t help but think what the hell went through Stone and Jeff’s minds when hearing this for the first time.

[@darkalman]

Imagine not having any lyrics for this song you wrote and getting this from a stranger in the mail... This has got to be one the best blind auditions ever...

[@davebouy9821]

so true, yes gossard genius for the riff....but can you imagine you come up with this rift and you know it needs words and singer to complte it and then this comes in the MAIL.....fucking legend!

[@wanderlngdays]

Not just lyrics, the melody too

[@mike8610]

Absolutely mind blowing. I can’t imagine Jeff and Stone’s reaction.

[@pridden76]

Mike McCready said that when he heard this tape for the first time, he thought: is this a real guy?

[@lehnsvier1971]

Holy cow. It’s perfect already. They didn’t even need to change much about it except for the “I, I’m still alive” into “I, oh, I’m still alive”.

[@guigafeliz]

Imagine you get a tape back and hear this lol

[@JohnnyLREACTS]

I can't believe this is the demo. It's basically the song already. Wow.

[@TD7PMRS]

Record labels fuck up the original sound of a good band, for what they think sounds Good.

[@DulcileneAparecida-m5k]

Meu Deus tanto tempo essa fita de música faz um século más a voz do Eddie continua a mesma 1994 eu e meu irmão giba eo professor Marcos curtimos muito hoje eu ouço as músicas 2024 mais muito lindo kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk mais muito louco

[@elenaevenflow8294]

La voz de Eddie me rompe el corazón.... No hay nadie como él.

[@pablofelixmedellin]

sea mamila

[@Redfiregtag]

I can't explain how excited I got when I heard those first few chords and how rough and raw it was. Awsome!!

[@Redfiregtag]

Its crazy their best songs were made before they were officially a band. I guess really its that way with alot of bands, their best stuff is in the beginning before the industry gets involved.

[@a.iansteward2610]

This is fucking amazing

[@monkface]

no lie. this tape was created in my house. the vocals anyway. the band sent him the tape and he recorded the vocals on my roommate's 4 track if I'm not mistaken. I used to posess the actual tape but foolishly lent it to a co-worker!

[@lowjamz828]

Cool freakin story so lucky dude. Sorry bout the tape.

[@sarahmonk8273]

Wow!

[@stevenresendes2250]

monkface this may be the greatest demo ever .. imagine being the band and hearing this for the first time with vocals from some dude they never heard of ... goosebumps

[@jpai4144]

Wow that's amazing bro

[@goo83]

so, you knew pre-PJ Eddie?

[@TheSlashfan85]

The sound of fucking greatness right here!

[@OgroMarciano]

Eddie já entregava absolutamente tudo nos vocais..

[@rachel102]

Amazing track and a fantastic voice... Wow

[@77Reylagarto]

Awesome! the demo is practically perfe!

[@TheShitfobrains]

so this is the tape eddie recorded and sent back to seattle

[@prodigygr]

Son, she said Have I got a little story for you What you thought was your daddy Was nothin' but a While you were sittin' Home alone at age thirteen Your real daddy was dyin' Sorry you didn't see him But I'm glad we talked Oh, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive, hey, oh While she walks slowly Across a young man's room She said I'm ready, for you Why I can't remember anything To this very day 'Cept the look, the look Oh, you know where Now I can't see, I just stare I, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive, yeah Is something wrong? She said Of course there is You're still alive She said Oh, do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so Who answers? Who answers? I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I Oh, I'm still alive Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, yeah oh, ooh oh, yeah, oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[@Ranger03Mike86]

It is "Alive" dude. Although technically the name of the instrumental piece that was sent to Eddie was called "Dollar short"

[@cherrygarcia1845]

so cool. I got to see them on lollapalooza at riverbend. high octane performance. ament running all over the place. Eddie jumping off support pillars. ministry was so damn loud!

[@a.iansteward2610]

Ed left his name on the bottom. Awesome

[@JordyFern]

in the movie Twenty they show the tape and its black!

[@laurawatters914]

AMAZING!!!!!!!

[@LucasPenido]

…and music was never the same!

[@ferabra8939]

How did this happen? did the band record the song, the whole arrangement, but they didn't have a melody or lyrics? then sent the tape to Eddie and he wrote the lyrics and melody on the spot and overdubbed it? remarkable

[@serkev]

thats exactly what happened.

[@sebastianconte119]

Fer Abra Not exactly to Eddie. Jeff and Stone have the melody, and in the search of a singer, i think was Jack irons, who knows Eddie and give to him the tape, and this happend

[@monkface]

@@serkev well he spent a few days writing lyrics and working on recording. I only sound like an authority because I was there. kzbin.info/www/bejne/boHGY614bMufj8U

[@andrewbazar3302]

@@monkface Did Eddie actually come up with the melody of the vocals or only the actual words? And if only the words what melody was he working off? A guitar playing the vocal melody?

[@monkface]

@@andrewbazar3302 well let me clarify that when I say I was there I meant I was living in the same house when this all happened. I'm not 100% certain in that I didn't follow the whole process but I'm reasonably certain that he received the tape (which I used to own and foolishly loaned away only to never see it again), but it just had the music/arrangement and he came up with the words and the melody. I remember backing my car out of the driveway and he came out and asked if I was going to be home because he was going to be doing a little recording later and I informed him I was going to work so no problem. I of course had no idea that he was recording the songs that ended up on that tape. None of us really knew quite what was going on really just that he was auditioning for Morher Love Bone essentially!

[@eastrome2010]

story of rock and roll

[@PrimePhilosophy]

Fricken goosebumps!

[@leinonibishop9480]

This is a copy of the original demo tape made by stone, jeff, and mike that they used to find a vocalist and a permanent drummer. They asked Matt Cameron to drum on it for them and then they sent it around to other musicians like Jack Irons as an example of their music. It was just instrumentals with no vocals. Eddie Vedder wrote lyrics and melody and recorded his vocals over the instrumentals and sent it back to them for his audition to join the band. This particular tape in the photo is the cassette you got with the rerelease of Ten in the limited edition deluxe collectors box set. Whether it’s a faithful copy of how the original cassette looked I don’t know. The tape they show in the PJ20 movie looks totally different. I would imagine the band made several copies of the tape they got back from Eddie for working copies as they rehearsed. Also the tape Ed got from them with just instrumentals would’ve looked differently than the tape he recorded and sent back to them.

[@loud_laughter]

That’s a good point. It probably was a different tape that was sent back to them in order to maintain the instrumental, copy, or have a safe copy. But it was pretty common at the time for musicians, especially vocalist to have a Four track recorder that Eddie would have used to record directly onto the original tape And easily add a little reverb or chorus to his voice. I had one of these devices back in 1992 that my friends and I would mess around with. Very simple to use. So I think you’re probably right that a person like Eddie Vedder would have enough foresight to not use the original Cassette that he received from Jack irons, but he would’ve had to dub a second tape in order to record his vocals on top of it, and that’s just another annoying step that most musicians probably would not take. They just would’ve Recorded onto the original cassette by popping it into the deck and pressing record, and, like I said, turn a couple of knobs to make the voice blend better.

[@loud_laughter]

I’m not sure Siri translated everything. I just spoke correctly, I didn’t bother reading it. So sorry for any typos. I will add this: a friend of mine met Eddie Vedder at his home in 1996 in Seattle. Eddie carved his initials into my friends guitar, and it was in the same handwriting stylings as what is on the image of this tape. Sad for my friend that the guitar was later, stolen from him, but it goes to show that Eddie was artistic in every way, and he would certainly communicate back to Stone and Jeff in an artistic way, using a sharpie and white out and using nice handwriting is the sort of minimalist creativity that matches my friends experience. And do we have images of the tape that was shown by Cameron Crowe in the documentary? And if so, would each side look significantly different? And lastly, does anybody know the four songs that were on that tape? I get different reports all the time. Was it alive, oceans, foootsteps, why go?

[@leinonibishop9480]

@@loud_laughter I believe it was alive, once, footsteps (because Eddie wrote those as a trilogy) and black, which was called ‘E Ballad’ at the time. Eddie has said in an interview that he wrote the trilogy and sent it back and then on the plane ride to Seattle he wrote the lyrics to Black. Also having Eddie’s hand writing on this tape doesn’t mean it’s the original tape. He could’ve written on one specifically to be copied and used for the rereleased deluxe box set. Him and Jeff are all over the artwork of all their albums and I don’t know why the box set would be any different.

[@denisefreitas6727]

How amazing! Trully epic!

[@pridden76]

GOOSEBOMBS .. He had sand on his feet after surfing, while recording this.

[@prpwnage9296]

what is a goosebomb?

[@pridden76]

@@prpwnage9296 lol I thought that was the name of it. I meant goose bumps. This was 8 years ago

[@prpwnage9296]

pridden76 wow surreal haha. You can edit it you know. Joke lol

[@andrewbazar3302]

@@prpwnage9296 Screw that, Goosebombs is way better :)

[@Edgar_Allan_Joe]

Total goosebombs listening to this guys :)

[@ihateobamagurl]

His voice. In my headphones, blaring.

[@999MadMark]

Now there is about 3 dislikes... No.

[@MotorsportRevolution]

@metalhead930430 The original mix tap that Jack gave to Eddie had 5 songs on it, and Eddie recorded vocals for 3 of the 5. That was this cassette. I got the story mixed up a bit.

[@a.iansteward2610]

petefaders actually this is Matt Cameron drumming on this demo because they didn't have an official drummer yet

[@SnakesGaming2016]

must be because the beat is boring

[@galihgori]

Perfectly fit

[@metalhead930430]

@MotorsportRevolution Its the Momma -Son Trilogy. Once, Alive, and footsteps.

[@lawsondog3554]

❤

[@supersticion]

excelente!!

[@slimturnpike]

always heard about this tape, great to finally listen.

[@JordyFern]

their is an earlier version. if you watch the movie Twenty they talk about the tape and play a part of it. you see a copy of the tape.

[@josecano9210]

I want to hear the Andy Wood version of it, Stone and Jeff recorded it with Bruce, Greg and Andrew when they were still Mother Love Bone but it was lost

[@kingandrews]

What da hell, this is fucking amazing.

[@bonsummers2657]

Article on Danny Kwock got me to look this up. Some kid named Eddie gave him a tape to use on the next Kelly Slater vid.

[@gislainebatista5555]

😍😍😍😍

[@gerlinooo]

unbelievable

[@SHNBGB]

epico!

[@shadowboxkiss]

asi es, es matt cameron, que luego Dave K grabo el Ten, pero en el demo estaba Matt. Luego Matt siguió otro proyecto con Chris Cornell, bueno esa historia ya la saben

[@josecano9210]

Crei que era Greg Gilmore el batería de MLB

[@petefaders]

Look, Eddie must have wrote "For Stone and Jeff" ..notice he left the title of a song called " A friend in California" ..he was in cali when he sang on this, they were in Seattle..how funny.

[@loud_laughter]

Which were the other 2-3 songs on the original cassette? And daaaaang, no offense to Andrew Wood, I woulda wanted to hear Eddie in MLB!

[@pridden76]

I thought it was all the mamasan songs (Alive, Once and Footsteps) McCready was talking about and not specifically Footsteps?

[@Casherr93]

the final solo is really diferent

[@bluebuilding]

sometimes I impress even myself...are you telling me in 1990, 30 years ago...I was able put these lyrics together over the instrumental? Did Stone and Jeff jump up and down and break everything in there fucking house when they heard this? I mean, they must of been going in sane with happenings with what they heard and thinking about their bands, ugh,...Future days :)

[@dr.edwardvedder1992]

That's exactly what we were thinking.

[@Elmonje]

Mat cameron??

[@donkukis]

el batero es Matt Cameron , no?

[@luisvedder8602]

Es Jack Irons

[@claudioestaymascayano8120]

donkukis es Matt Cameron. Dave Krusen entró después a la banda.

[@claudioestaymascayano8120]

Luis Vedder es Matt Cameron.

[@jewulo]

Is this a demo tape made by the band for a studio?

[@leinonibishop9480]

This is a copy of the original demo tape made by stone, jeff, and mike that they used to find a vocalist and a permanent drummer. They asked Matt Cameron to drum on it for them and then they sent it around to other musicians like Jack Irons as an example of their music. It was just instrumentals with no vocals. Eddie Vedder wrote lyrics and melody and recorded his vocals over the instrumentals and sent it back to them for his audition to join the band. This particular tape in the photo is the cassette you got with the rerelease of Ten in the limited edition deluxe collectors box set. Whether it’s a faithful copy of how the original cassette looked I don’t know. The tape they show in the PJ20 movie looks totally different. I would imagine the band made several copies of the tape they got back from Eddie for working copies as they rehearsed. Also the tape Ed got from them with just instrumentals would’ve looked differently than the tape he recorded and sent back to them.

[@MotorsportRevolution]

Wasn't an early version of Black on that cassette as well?

[@danluvgtr1]

Ha! Man you gotta have a special place in your heart for cassette tapes. Remember mixing songs on "high speed dub" with slow songs to give to your GF...or someone who would hopefully screw you?! I did this same white out trick with a few myself. None that would go on to be relics of a fucking masterpiece though. Love this band.

[@AlexFebreroM]

Puedes subir las restantes por favor?, saludos!!!.

[@Ranger03Mike86]

This was never called "Footsteps"

[@FelipeRock]

La wea buena wn epico csm

[@art6hur549]

algum br ai

[@KraftGarde]

@french22toast and Jack Irons.

[@Area1-m2d]

I heard the original,

[@elgabox19]

no hay la de once ?

[@mendes5493]

[@petefaders]

so weird..dave K copies Matt from here making the record, Dave A. improves it, then Matt returns years later to TRASH IT. lol.

[@liiliiliiliil]

petefaders exactly

[@samuelbasye3508]

petefaders yepp. Pretty much.

[@Kardaszpm]

what do you mean matt trashed it?

[@FressMir]

K KALETAZAAA !!!!!!!

[@MiltonFigueroa]

pronto, once y footsteps

[@jeremyleff]

I believe this is Jack Irons on drums, no?

[@FernandoMartinez-dq5bf]

No, is Matt Cameron

[@grm3789]

Terrible drums

[@thinkforyourself5672]

Dave was by far their best drummer. Hate to say it but Cameron has never once impressed me as a drummer.

[@nicolhaidi]

No, Dave Krusen.

[@alexslavinzki42069]

The song 'Dollar Short' will always be more superior.

[@animegamingdude]

wrong dollar short is a great instrumental but eddies vocals and lyrics make it even better

[@amigodejesus6141]

ADerença

[@alvarcap8141]

I imagine PJ listening to this demo and being amused by how great/corny this "singer" was. As great as Eddie is, we have to admit the guy during that time had all that family shit going on deep inside that turn him into a very cheesy writer. Like he needed to take that out in order to become a better songwriter. Ironically, his best songs were written during that time. Music has no logic at times

[@bridg_2283]

I always thought this was cheesy too but he’s so good i love them

[@MiltonFigueroa]

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[@Mr.SirMan]

3 fuks dislike this, today.. first time hearimg gud music, must have scared em off

[@MiltonFigueroa]

@darkcreed18 visiten mi canal ;)