“I still can’t listen to Pearl Jam”: Spin Doctors frontman reveals he still struggles to listen to grunge icons over their ’90s label rivalry
More than three decades after Spin Doctors broke through with their merry, good-time hit Two Princes, frontman Chris Barron still has some unresolved beef with former labelmates Pearl Jam.
READ MORE: “Ace started to indulge in things that went up his nose”: Gene Simmons on the “rebellious” nature of Ace Frehley in Kiss’s early days
Speaking in the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Barron admits he still struggles to listen to Pearl Jam songs, citing lingering resentment from their early days as labelmates on Epic Records.
According to Barron, Epic had favoured Eddie Vedder and co. over Spin Doctors before their debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite even started selling.
“I still can’t listen to Pearl Jam,” he says. “No offence to anybody who likes Pearl Jam, but I just can’t do it… You’d go to the record store, it’d be a big Pearl Jam display and one copy of our record. It was maddening.”
Also in the chat, Barron reveals that the band’s biggest hit Two Princes actually came from a phone call when he was 19.
“I got a phone call at work from a young woman who I’d had a crush on,” says the singer. “I ran into the big brother of a guy I grew up with… I was like, ‘I just got a phone call at work from this chick I like.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, just go ahead now.’ And I was like, ‘But I think she might be mad at me.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, well just go ahead now.’”
“He just kept saying ‘go ahead now, go ahead with it.’ And I just went home and I was like, ‘go ahead now,’ and that was it. And now I’ll never have to work a normal job again!”
Meanwhile, Spin Doctors recently released their first album in 12 years, Face Full of Cake. Noting how the album was recorded in Phish bassist Mike Gordon’s studio, Barron says, “Mike is like, ‘you guys have, like, 350 million plays on Spotify – that’s crazy,’” the singer recalls. “And we’re like, ‘You guys do 13 nights at Madison Square Garden!’”
The post “I still can’t listen to Pearl Jam”: Spin Doctors frontman reveals he still struggles to listen to grunge icons over their ’90s label rivalry appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
Source: www.guitar-bass.net
