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November 11, 2019: W.M.A. (Read on SPT Episode 115)

Hi Brad and Brad, I thoroughly enjoyed the review of the live performance of Vs.  The song that stuck out to me the most was W.M.A.  It's a song that I have a tough time enjoying as much as the recorded version, because it was apparent that song can only be delivered in its original form with Dave A.  It's not a shot at Matt, but more of a constant reinforcement that each of the drummers have distinct styles and there are songs that best suit each one of them.  I also feel this way about In My Tree, but that may be a different email for a different time. When I logged into Livefootsteps I found that out of the 17 times (not counting tags) it's been played in its entirety, only 5 times was it played by Dave A. live.  They played it 3 times with Jack and then didn't play it again until 2008.  If you listen to one of the 2008 performances, you get something very different than a strong dose of base and drums.  It's mostly rhythm and lead driving the son

November 5, 2019: Jack White and Pearl Jam (Read on the Porch, Episode 35)

Hi Jessi and Kate, I wanted to follow up from the last email I sent regarding Jack White and find some crossover between him and Pearl Jam.     I found a handful of things, ones that you may have already heard of.  I was going around on the Ten Club message boards and found a quote from Mike in 2008 before their show at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee regarding who he would like to jam with: "I'd love to have Jack White up. I just, I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player and I'd love to see him play up close. I've seen The White Stripes in Europe, but it was kind of far away. But I'd love to have him up there and jam because he's got a killer voice and he's a great lead player too. So that would be exciting to me." I'm not sure if there was an instance before this, but Mike got his wish 10 years later in Portugal at the NOS Alive Festival, where Jack joined the guys on stage for "Rockin in the Free World.&q