How Eddie Vedder Told Pearl Jam Producer Andrew Watt: ‘F––– You, Back Off!’
Eddie Vedder suggested producer Andrew Watt should helm Pearl Jam’s latest album Dark Matter after the pair worked together on the singer’s solo album Earthling. And while everyone involved with the follow-up to Gigaton is happy with the results, Vedder himself admitted that, on occasion, the process didn’t always go smoothly. “Andrew would, to be honest, he’d start to piss me off a little bit,” he told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “And then I’d try to do something really good, just to say like, ‘Fuck you. Back off.’” He continued: “There was one day I said, ‘Look, I need tonight off… I need to ...