PEARL JAM guitarist Stone Gossard has said that he doesn’t share the same opinion as his band’s singer, Eddie Vedder, when it comes to MÖTLEY CRÜE and other groups of the 80’s era.
On Tuesday (February 14), Stone sat down for a talk with Revolver where he addressed the MÖTLEY CRÜE/PJ situation, stating that he and fellow PEARL JAM members Jeff Ament (bass) and Mike McCready (guitar) have always enjoyed that particular style of hard rock.
Stone says: “For sure, Jeff and Mike and I loved hard rock, like went through it all. I bought the first Motley Crue – Leathur records. I thought it was, at the time, it was punk-like.”
He continues, “It had the same — it’s like Motorhead, there were things about it that I was discovering about British hard rock at that time that also felt rebellious or against the norm or something that made me interested in it. And I always liked heavy — Sabbath and Zeppelin. And then like N.W.A and moving into industrial sort of heavy. But it always had to have a song.”
This whole thing stems from a comment that PEARL JAM singer Eddie Vedder made in a January 31 interview with The New York Times where he said that he “despised” most hair metal of the 1980s, singling out MÖTLEY CRÜE and their 1987 song “Girls, Girls, Girls”.
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s Nikki Sixx replied via his Twitter on February 5, calling PEARL JAM “one of the most boring bands in history” which led to PEARL JAM replying with a tweet on February 6 that said, “We [love] our bored fans”, which included a video of excited PJ concertgoers.
You can watch the interview with Stone Gossard below.