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"1 For the Ages" by Vic Garbarini

[Snippet from the intro]

In a project that started almost 5 years ago (hence the inclusion of the legend George Harrison, and Joey Ramone), we began asking many of the most influential guitarists in rock, blues and metal one deceptively simple question: " If you had to put one of your songs in a time capsule to be opened sometime in the future, which would you choose, and why?" As you'll see on the following pages, their answers are revealing and often suprising.

Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam)
"Nothingman"
Vitology (1994)

The way this song came together, the way it sounds, the simplicity of it and the intention behind how it came about are all connected. It was a period of time when everybody in the band was a little frustrated. All of us had been writing, and I knew Jeff [Ament, bass] was in the studio with this song he had been working on. So I dropped by to see if I could add some stuf - and within 20 minutes we had that song worked out. With that song, everybody in the band really took some steps toward each other, and something beautiful came out of it.