Glorified G

Infobox Song
Name = Glorified G


Artist = Pearl Jam
Album = Vs.
Background = lightsteelblue
Released = October 19, 1993
track_no = Track 4
Recorded = March 1993 – May 1993 at The Site, Nicasio, California
Genre = Grunge
Length = 3:26
Label = Epic
Producer = Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Writer = Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder
Chart position =
prev = "Daughter"
prev_no = Track 3
next = "Dissident"
next_no = Track 5"Glorified G" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. The song is the fourth track on the band's second studio album, "Vs." (1993). Despite not being released as a single, the song managed to reach number 39 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Origin and recording

Bassist Jeff Ament plays upright bass on the song. [cite web| url=http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/rumorpit/pit32.html |title=Pearl Jam Rumor Pit Issue #32 |publisher=sonymusic.com |accessdate=2008-07-28] Guitarist Stone Gossard on the song:

"Glorified G" was one that went through a series of changes, and barely held together the whole time. We all knew there were melodies and riffs in it we liked. But even listening to the song right up to the mixing stage I was going, "Does this work at all?!" Here was Mike playing a very up, country guitar line while I'm playing this choppy down riff on the opposite end of the groove spectrum. Meanwhile, Jeff's got this totally other bass line going that's not really steady, and he's going off in a melodic direction, too. So there's not really anybody holding it down, and Dave's got to decide either to play it more the country way or play it the funky way. There was this precarious balance, and then suddenly the bridge comes in from out of the blue, which, if Eddie doesn't sing it just right, sounds sort of foreign. Finally, it never goes back to the chorus at the end, it turns into something else.Garbarini, Vic. [http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gw0295.shtml "Spit Fire"] . "Guitar World". February 1995.]

Guitarist Mike McCready on the song:

I wrote part of that one. I had this Gretsch Country Gentleman and I started jamming on this little thing in D (sings riff); the riff just came out of that. Stone came up with his weird part. There are all these strange, disjointed parts that kind of turned into a song. Stone's doing something weird, Jeff's doing something weird and offbeat, but for some reason it works, I really don't know why.Gilbert, Jeff. [http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gs0595.shtml "Prime Cuts: Mike McCready - The Best of Pearl Jam!"] "Guitar School". May 1995.]

Composition

The song's music is made up of a combination of a country-influenced guitar riff written by McCready and a discordant guitar riff written by Gossard.

Lyrics

"Glorified G" is an anti-gun song with lyrics mocking gun enthusiasts. The song was inspired by an incident in which drummer Dave Abbruzzese told the band he had just bought two guns which sparked a conversation about guns within the band. Frontman Eddie Vedder about "Glorified G":

I didn't actually write that song...I was at a band rehearsal and just started writing down these things the guys were talking about. The band were having this conversation and I just took down the dialogue. One of the band members had just bought a gun. It was the drummer, actually. Ask him about it.Jones, Allan. " [http://www.korat.co.il/pearljam/Ibook/Vs/glorifiedg.html Pearl Jam - The Illustrated Story, A Melody Maker Book] ". Hal Leonard Corp, 1995. ISBN 0793540356]

Abbruzzese about "Glorified G":

I told our manager that I just bought a coupla guns and he told Jeff, and at rehearsal Jeff kinda blurted it out. And Eddie went, 'Whaaaat, you bought a GUN?' And I said, 'In fact, I bought two,' which ended up as the opening line of the song. I think it's fair to say Eddie was pretty outraged.Jones, Allan. " [http://www.korat.co.il/pearljam/Ibook/Vs/glorifiedg.html Pearl Jam - The Illustrated Story, A Melody Maker Book] ". Hal Leonard Corp, 1995. ISBN 0793540356]

Reception

Without being released as a single, the song peaked at number 39 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1994.

Live performances

The song was premiered live at the band's June 16, 1993 concert in Missoula, Montana. [http://pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=GlorifiedG "Pearl Jam Songs: "Glorified G""] . pearljam.com.] The song was played live from its debut in 1993 up until 1996 when it was dropped. The song made a return appearance at the band's 2003 show in West Palm Beach, Florida. The song has since returned to Pearl Jam set lists. A live performance of the song appears on the "Dissident"/"Live in Atlanta" box set.

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References

External links

* [http://pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=GlorifiedG Lyrics]