Is it me, or is that not a playful dog sound? You know how dogs play tug of war with you and they playfully growl. That "angry" dog sound is probobly just one of Ed's dogs tugging on his sock.

They have the dogs name in the booklet. I think its Matts dog.

Actually, it's Tchad Blake's (producer on Binaural) dog.


"Jeff O: …from BINAURAL. An interesting album title, and when I spoke with Jeff Ament, I mentioned that.

Jeff A: Well, in the recording process, when we were working with Tchad Blake, the producer, one of the techniques that he likes to use is a binaural head - which is a foam facsimile of a human head that has a microphone in each, the left and right, ear. So, supposedly its picking up music the way that a human would pick up music. And he would do all sorts of crazy stuff, like put giant plastic PVC tubes, pipes, over the ears to make it like a tunnel effect. I think the song that you can really hear it on is Soon Forget, which is just the ukulele song at the end that Ed sings. I think it's all binaural head. He's singing through a PA in the room, and you can really hear just the stereo effect of it. And the dog too, the dog barking right before Rival. It sounds like it's being panned back and forth really hardcore, that's just Tchad. He has a hold of the head, and he's shaking the head in front of his dog.

Jeff O: That was Tchad's dog?

Jeff A: Yeah.

Jeff O: What's the dog's name?

Jeff A: Dakota.

Jeff O: Dakota. Dakota got a credit actually.

Jeff A: Yeah, he did."


From http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJ ... oes11.html


Thanks to the guy who pasted this here a little while ago, that's where I found it....