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As a follow-up to my earlier post about Esteban playing Pachelbel's Canon on his infomercial, I decided to look up guitar tab and see what level of skill it might take to play it.  My own level of skill is that I know a lot of chords and scales but it still takes me a lot of concentration to play anything, and I usually end up sounding like your roommate playing the Indigo Girls.

The only guitar tab I can find plays it in D, but you have to use drop-D tuning, which makes it possible to play a low D, but makes it hard to play a low F#, so it's hard for me to find good reliable hand positions for a lot of this stuff.

I could slog through it on a text editor and see if I can make it work as well in standard tuning, switching the low D's out for middle D's.  I wonder if that would be any easier to play.

All my favorite Pearl Jam songs are really Stone Temple Pilots songs.

I remember in the 90's, people used to accuse STP of ripping off PJ's sound, but I think it's just because the vocalists had a similar timber to their voice, with that gruff quality made popular by the grunge movement. But Pearl Jam's music just seems, for the most part, muddy and jarring, with all the elements that made grunge novel at first, but annoying in retrospect. Scott Weiland was what Eddie Vedder would have sounded like if he didn't overact so much and pronounced more consonants.

So whenever I try to think of a good Pearl Jam song, I think of "Plush" or "Interstate Love Song".

I wonder if I ever really liked Pearl Jam; I think I just bought "Ten" in the 90's because it was constantly on the radio, "Alive" was kind of catchy, or I was too young to be picky. I do remember later hearing "Glorified G" on the radio and recognizing it as horrendous, which is why I didn't buy their second album, nor learn its name. With luck, I got the song name wrong too.