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"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.
The song was premiered live at the band's June 16, 1993 concert in Missoula, Montana at the University of Montana-Missoula's University Theatre. 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 April 11, 2003 show in West Palm Beach, Florida at the Sound Advice Amphitheatre. 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.
Eddie tells Jones about 'Glorified G':
' I didn't actually write that song,' he told me.
'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.'
I did, and this is what he had to say:
'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.
But like I told him, where I come from in Texas people have a very different
attitude towards guns than they do in California, where he's from.
Same with Jeff. He's from Montana. And that's where you have a gun on the back of the pick-up truck with a bullet in it, ready to go. Like Jeff's dad
says, 'The best way to be safe with a gun is to allways keep it loaded.'
'In Texas, people have guns to defend their land. Hell, I've had guns in my stomach a buncha times. But in California, because there's so much violence with guns and there are all these gangs, it's a completely different trip. I giggle my ass off when we play it live.'
'That's because you're a country freak asshole.' said Stone.
'That song is a borderline nutso,' said Mike McCready. 'That song is a borderline not working at all,' said Stone. 'It's very Eddie.
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