Jeff Ament From Pearl Jam & Andrew Watt caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly and Rania Aniftos on the 2025 GRAMMYs red carpet.
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00:00We're here with Andrew Wadden, Jeff from Pearl Jam, what an honor, I mean you guys are here
00:05nominated together, Best Rock Album, I mean the hits don't stop for you or for you, huh?
00:11Well it's amazing, we were just talking about how our band's been doing this for 34 years
00:16and Andrew's 34, so it feels like a match made in heaven.
00:23I love that, or a physical representation of the years.
00:27This is what 34 years of Pearl Jam looks like.
00:31We love that, and how was it in the studio kind of mixing those two different generations?
00:37Well I mean, Andrew knows our music better than we do in some ways, and so it was amazing,
00:45I mean it's like, the energy that was happening in the studio comes across on the record and
00:52it's why we're so proud of the record, it's because for a bunch of 60 year old guys it's
00:57pretty high energy, it's a pretty 28, 30 year old record.
01:02I mean yeah, and obviously it was received so well, I mean you're back again at the Grammys,
01:08and you Andrew have always expressed how much you love the real greats of music, I mean
01:13what was it like when you're like, okay I'm going to work with Pearl Jam today?
01:18I mean they are without question the greatest live band in music, they have been for a very
01:23very long time, no one does what they do, every single night they play a different setlist,
01:28they work on, they could be playing a song they haven't played in 20 years in a moment's
01:32notice, it's just a different level of dedication to their music, so the idea was just to get
01:38in the studio and press record, listen to them play live, it's a true live album played
01:43by live musicians.
01:44Letting the magic happen on its own.
01:45And you're going to be working with a very different legend soon, well the Muses Combination
01:49might have already worked on it, Mayhem, Gaga, so talk to me about that project, everybody's
01:52so pumped for it.
01:53I can't really say anything about that, I gotta, just uh, you'll hear some good stuff.
01:58I can tell you what he's told me.
01:59Okay, okay.
02:00I'm ready to hear first from Jeff specifically.
02:03Alright and then from the Grammys to the Oscars, what's this feel like?
02:08You know it's going to be great, it's awesome that Elton got, Elton and Brandy got nominated
02:14and it's going to be awesome for them, hopefully they can nab that one, that'll be Elton's
02:18third original song.