UnquietDreams
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Day 11: A song about waiting
I worked concerts and shows when I was younger. Occasionally at the Colosseum, for big bands, usually running a follow spot biger than my car, but most often smaller shows. I was a light tech, and sound reinforcement engineer (aka The Sound Guy), but most often I was a roadie. Running cable, micing drums, fixing lights, adjusting monitor positions. It is hard work, no one thanks you (well, Kurt Cobain was very polite to us), and if it goes wrong it is your fault and if it doesn't no one notices. But honestly? I got paid to watch a lot of bands, and it was an amazing time to be working clubs in the PNW.
One of my favorites to work with was Mookie Blaylock, named after the Seattle Supersonics point guard. They came out of the ashes of Mother Love Bone, which fell apart when Andrew Wood died of an OD. The resulting band was a lot darker and more intense than what they were before, probably dealing with Wood's death. When they signed a major label contract, they realized that Mookie had trademarked his name, so they became Pearl Jam. You may have heard of them. And they made some brilliant music as well.
This is "I Got Id," also known by its original title, "I Got Shit." (The label didn't like that one.) It is a wistful song of longing and waiting for someone the writer doesn't think will come back since he hit rock bottom.
"An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions, don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me"
"I Got Id," Pearl Jam
I worked concerts and shows when I was younger. Occasionally at the Colosseum, for big bands, usually running a follow spot biger than my car, but most often smaller shows. I was a light tech, and sound reinforcement engineer (aka The Sound Guy), but most often I was a roadie. Running cable, micing drums, fixing lights, adjusting monitor positions. It is hard work, no one thanks you (well, Kurt Cobain was very polite to us), and if it goes wrong it is your fault and if it doesn't no one notices. But honestly? I got paid to watch a lot of bands, and it was an amazing time to be working clubs in the PNW.
One of my favorites to work with was Mookie Blaylock, named after the Seattle Supersonics point guard. They came out of the ashes of Mother Love Bone, which fell apart when Andrew Wood died of an OD. The resulting band was a lot darker and more intense than what they were before, probably dealing with Wood's death. When they signed a major label contract, they realized that Mookie had trademarked his name, so they became Pearl Jam. You may have heard of them. And they made some brilliant music as well.
This is "I Got Id," also known by its original title, "I Got Shit." (The label didn't like that one.) It is a wistful song of longing and waiting for someone the writer doesn't think will come back since he hit rock bottom.
"An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions, don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me"
"I Got Id," Pearl Jam
