Yield is a monster. Given To Fly is a live staple and is an anthem for Pearl Jam. Check out Faithfull, No Way or All Those Yesterdays from this album. Jack Irons was Pearl Jam's best drummer. No Code and Yield are some of his finest work. As well as this band as a whole.
@@THEDavidHeretic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ruaPAqVW010.html I really like this homemade video, studio version...some killer live versions I'll send too later. Thanks bro
Yesssssss, so glad you got to Given to Fly! Thank you for namechecking me, too! First, Mike's main guitar part is in DADGAD tuning, so good ear on that being in D! Jack Irons (Formerly of RHCP) is the drummer on this album, his last before Matt F*ckin' Cameron took over due to Jack's health keeping him from touring. My favorite part of the song (I played guitar for darn near 30 years before fibro/arthritis made me retire last year) is during the "And he still gives his love he just gives it away" part, Stone's (right channel) octave slide DOO-DOOT-duh-DOO-DUH-chukchukchuk-DOO-DOOT-duh-DOO-DUH. I was never a lead player, always a rhythm player, so Stone's my dude, and I love his touches on stuff like this. Thanks again, David! Can't wait for more, and REALLY looking forward to the patreon poll coming to fruition!
Great job on the 1k subs! The story behind this song is that Mike McCready was snowed in his home and was toying around on his guitar and came up with that opening guitar line knew it was good but didn't know where to take it. So he called Stone Gossard and played it to him. Stone then hummed to him how he thought the bridge and chorus should sound like. Essentially writing a song together over the phone. This would've been around the 2000s before skype and zoom Just amazing stuff..
@@jamjar5525 Yeah man, Pearl Jam did a documentary called 20. In honour of their 20 years being together and Mike tells that story. I guess you haven't watched it. You should try to find it's pretty awesome!
@@jamjar5525 I watched it a few times too. I loved how they dealt with their problems like the band touring in a private jet and Eddie driving in a van doing a radio show. I'm pretty sure it's there, near the end... I want to watch it again too now lol!
I used some lyrics from this to tell friends of my mom’s passing. Six weeks later to the day, I saw them do this live. No sad tears, just BEAMING … I still love this tune.
i'm watching this reaction twice now...not only because of your appreciation to the song, mostly due to the song its so uplifting and gave me positive vibe to start the day...the magic of music
Yield. My favorite album ever. Jack irons on the drums brought such an amazing psychedelic vibe to the band. This was his last album with them before Matt took over. Need to listen to more from this album, the album versions. So many different sounds through the headphones in this whole album.
I’m sure it isn’t on purpose but you’re progressing through pj songs almost chronological. Lots of stuff from ten early on moving on to vs and Vitalogy. Now you’re getting into the later 90’s stuff. This is good. Jumping straight into the mid to late chronology wouldn’t have set your ear up very well. Later pj music is harder to appreciate for the non pj ears. Just my two cents. Congrats on the milestone
In the “single vídeo theory” documentary film, the good Mike explains that he feel this song like as a wave growing til exploding into the chorus. Love the analogy.
Jack Irons bring a lot of good and experimental beats to the Jam. Sadly, his wrists can’t made it with an Eddie Vedder who want always play for 3 or more hours. That’s why Matt Cameron came
Yes, the drummer!! Irons was simply the best, just check the intro to “In my tree”, amazing,... for some reason his style reminds me of John Densmore, slight jazzy fusion or some sh*t, lol.
Also, for Jack Irons, check out In My Tree. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wvYVLfFZmEg.html The title comes from Strawberry Fields Forever (no one i think is in my tree, it must be high or low)
Awesome choice, in my tree is another showcase of Jack Irons drumming and what a wonderful lyrics by Eddie. Cmon David, you know already which album will won the polling, the comment on this thread sum it up already 😉
Great reaction. One of my favorite pearl jam songs. Ironically this was the only pearl jam album jack irons played on but it was jack irons who gave the stone gossard demo to his surfer buddy Eddie vedder years before so without jack irons there literally would be no pearl jam or at least not with Eddie vedder as their singer. Congrats on 1000! C'mon everyone let's keep spreading the word and try to hit 2000 to start 2021!!
Congrats on hitting 1k Brother!!! This is one of my favorite PJ songs. The tattoo on my back is in reference to this song, I’m sure you’ve seen it before. I’ve also requested of Alicia and the kids that it be played at my funeral whenever that happens. Oh and this was off Yield the 5th album and Matt Cameron’s first album with the band.
You’re right my bad, Matt joined during the Yield tour. My bad. I just remember Matt drumming during that tour because it was the first time seeing them live.
Wow, I had forgotten because I don't like it. (long story) but the one tattoo I have so far has "Given to Fly" at the bottom which is the only redeeming part.💕
Solid review.. yup, like everyone else said, that's Jeremy Irons. He's awesome. Unfortunately, he had some bad arthritis and couldn't do a full tour. 🤙
jack irons was the drummer on No Code and Yield....but Matt Cameron (recently free from the Soundgarden breakup) did the touring for Yield because (this is what i heard and could be wrong) didn't want to go on a huge tour because he had back problems
An amazing song live!!! "Well, f*ckers, he still stands". Outstanding and inspiring when you see it. Once again great review. The OG Jack Irons was drumming.😁
Love Matt but OMG I miss Jack Irons being behind the kit. He made Pearl Jam so much more interesting and I’m saying this as a guy who considers PJ his favorite band of all time.
When this was new, a friend said it reminded them of Zeppelin, for some reason they couldn't explain. Took a while for me to understand where they were coming from, but when it sank in, I couldn't unhear it as a post-grunge, baritone “Going to California”, minus the paranoid bridge.
Yes, finally it's time Jack Irons got his credit from you, I think this is the first song that you react with him on the drums. Oh wait you react to blood live in 95 where he is drumming. Jack is also band member who save pearl jam twice. First when he pass on the stone Gossard demo to Eddie, and 2nd Jack is also the guy who tied pearl jam when they almost break up during the vitalogy era. Jack is also my favorite PJ drummer, his style is very unique, the tribal pattern was his original style but he is also good on straight ahead tune with his hard hitting drumming. If you want to check out some cool Jack Irons stuff, listen to his solo album where he cover Pink Floyd 'Shine on you crazy Diamond' with Eddie Vedder on vocals and Les Claypol on Bass! You never think that Eddie and Les is even a combination ? I will give you the link below.
Jack irons original drummer from the red hot chili peppers he had a really cool sound but my favorite will always be Dave the original Pearl Jam drummer
David, loved the reaction as always. If I’ve ever had a Pearl Jam request, this is the one. Song called “Leash”of the Vs. album. Talk about melt your face off. My all time favorite Pearl Jam song.
It's not a coincidence that whenever you do songs from the albums Yield or No Code you've noticed the drummer. Jack Irons was the drummer for those two albums and hes my personal favorite for Pearl Jam. Not to mention the best chemistry Jeff Ament had with any of the Pearl Jam drummers in my opinion. Chemistry between bassist and drummer isn't talked about enough and those two had it, shame hes not with the band anymore he just couldn't keep up with their insane touring schedule.
Someday Dave...it’ll come out that you were an only child haha... I’ll be honest with you, at first some of your (for the lack of a better word) “Are you ready?” sort of grated on me... but in reality, it makes me smile every time I hear you say it.. thank you.
Like I always say at the end of every video, "If I was able to put a smile on your face and brighten your day, then I did my job and I'm so glad I could do it."
I've heard people criticize this song by saying that the vocal line is similar to Led Zeppelin's "Going To California" but I don't see any problem with that. Hell, I once heard a recording of Pearl Jam covering that song live with Robert Plant and Eddie Vedder even joked that he was happy to play that song with Plant since he had stolen the melody for one of their songs.
Hey David, I know you’ve done the Eddie vedder masters of war from 92 but you should check out masters of war from Pearl Jam wrigley field 2018 I believe if not it is 2016
As much as I would love to do that, I wouldn't be able to do a genuine honest reaction to it. I know I've seen that performance, if I remember correctly I saw it live on MTV. Since I've already seen it, it wouldn't be honest of me to pretend like I've never seen it before. I did do a reaction to Pearl Jam performing that song, I believe it was from PinkPop'92. Here's a link to the reaction: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1wAcy8An5mw.html
