Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
Whenever I’m in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn’t do what they did. They were too good.
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I’m so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
I don’t dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the ’80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it’s all about status and bling now, and it doesn’t say anything to me.
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I’m not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, ‘God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?’ I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.
Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we’ll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
I’m an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.
I play guitar quite a bit, because I’m always in search of something. I don’t play to jam, but because I’m fishing. I’m looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I’m afraid I won’t have a need to do this any more.
I feel it’s quite important to have a band but what’s more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there’s not a bond there, you won’t be able to jam. Apart from that, it’s also vital to have the same vibe.
I don’t much like things to go by somebody’s name, like the ‘Bob Jones Group Jam Band.’
Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I’ve seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
I think the best time to approach a woman is actually after her workout. When you’re working out, you’re playing your jam, you’re in the groove, and you don’t want to be interrupted. So guys, wait until she’s done getting her sweat on.
When you’re on the road, you’ve got to have your four-track – or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.
After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. ‘Given To Fly’ came out of that, and so did ‘Faithful’ – those were on ‘Yield,’ which came after Mad Season.
When I first came to Def Jam, in ’06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.
A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just want to have the opportunity to be able to bring that to some young people.
I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love such passionate songs as ‘Not for You,’ ‘Wishlist,’ and ‘Long Road.’
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you’ll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
In the ’90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn’t pick it up any more.
We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.
Well, I was doing platinum albums back-to-back with Jive when they were the hottest hip-hop label. There was a time when Jive made a lot more money than Def Jam. They had KRS-One, Too $hort, E-40, Mystikal, UGK and Keith Murray. They had Will Smith when he was still the Fresh Prince.
I was busy in making a film called ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’ and it consumed two and half years.
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin’s studio. We improvise and have a great time.
I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs – boiled or fried – a few bananas and a glass of milk.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
I live an hour from NASA’s HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.
I realize that I’ve had Ian Van Dahl: ‘Castles in the Sky,’ the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then ‘Castles in the Sky’ will just happen. Maybe that’s some sort of indication that it’s actually my favorite song of all time.
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston’s ‘Don’t Walk Away.’ It was like my jam.
Pearl Jam doesn’t just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
‘Black Radio’ was pretty much a jam session.
As I grew up, I wasn’t a great buyer of albums, but I really liked ‘The Jam.’ I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That’s sort of his jam. I had no idea.
I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.
I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
Wherever you interact with people, you have the opportunity to influence people. This isn’t something you necessarily jam down somebody’s throat, but it is something you can – gently and over time – begin to cultivate wherever you are.
A lot of my friends loved Pearl Jam, so whenever I’d hang out with them, that was usually what CD – not album – back then, it was what CD, maybe even tape, but what CD was playing.
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I’m going to play, man. Let’s jam. I don’t care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.
I’m looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn’t satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
I’d heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a ’60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.
I’m the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
Comic-Con is my jam!
I have endorsed every hair product in my career. Looks have been my bread, butter, jam. Looks are important in our society.
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
