'Grunge-riff rockery' like...?

Er yeah, I'm going to make a few assumptions about someone I don't know, based on shifty subjective "evidence", about things that no one bar the band members and/or their friends and relatives would know. Stellar guesswork!

OMG - WE ARE SO PWNED. I WISH I COULD USE QUOTATION MARKS AND EMOTICONS LIKE YOU.

Er yeah, I'm going to make a few assumptions about someone I don't know, based on shifty subjective "evidence", about things that no one bar the band members and/or their friends and relatives would know. Stellar guesswork!

I will admit that the only reason I made this thread was because I saw Romancing the Stone was on TV and it made me giggle.

I will admit that the only reason I made this thread was because I saw Romancing the Stone was on TV and it made me giggle.

During the shows I saw on the 2010 US tour Stone was stuck out to me more than any other band member. He was more animated and into than I've seen him in years, and sounded great.

This is the nature of bands, and as fans I think it's more than fine to speculate. How the band members relate to each other has everything to do with how the music comes out. We hear the music, see the writing credits, and we speculate, cause it all plays into the music, which we are the consumers of. I personally see a gaping hole in the collaborative relationship between Stone and Ed. I think it's a perfectly valid subject matter, and it's not addressed enough. I consider Hard to Imagine and In Hiding to be classics of the Ed/Stone relationship. It takes the best of what they both do and puts it altogether, something that can only come from the 2 of them and no one else. I don't expect a repeat, but I do want to know, as a fan, where that relationship is cause I don't see it progressing in the music.

'Grunge-riff rockery' like...?

Release
Black
Garden
Footsteps
Hard to Imagine
Daughter
Dissident
Who You Are
No Way
All Those Yesterdays
Strangest Tribe
Fatal
Thin Air
Of the Girl
Anchors
Unhand Me
Sunburn
Parachutes
All or None

Yup - plausible theory...

Personally, I think it more came from the fact that they were creating a lot more as a band for Vs. through No Code, as opposed to working from initial demos (I believe the band has said a good chunk of Vs., Vitalogy and No Code came out of impromptu jams).

but of all the people on stage during the temple sets, he seemed to be enjoying himself more than anyone else.

Agreed. But it's also hard to deny that the bands sound and approach to song writing changed after Ten. The hard rock aesthetic survived through Vs and Vitalogy and remained the backbone to their records, but the grungey, pentatonic riffs that defined Ten never really resurfaced (for better or worse).

Tuolumne, would you support the implementation of an Ed/Stone-centered reality program on which the ups and downs of their relationship can be documented in full detail before a prime time audience?

I will admit that the only reason I made this thread was because I saw Romancing the Stone was on TV and it made me giggle.

To a degree, I’d agree with that, although again I think that had to do with them creating more as a band than this concisious need to take the reins from the Gossard/Vedder combo. I think it was all much more instinctual than that. Also, Eddie having a larger musical voice had to do with it. I think a lot of it also had to do with the songwriters just evolving from that period of time. I mean, a year after Porch, Ed was writing Reaverviewmirror, a year after Ten Stone was writing Daughter. I think they just weren’t being static.