Runin Down - Fired For Walking
                                Fired For Walking (Self Released)
You know the whispers in the back of the room when people talk about this track are usually about Pearl Jam so screw that we're just going to come on out and do it. Remember back before Eddie Vedder cut his locks and suddenly became a prime target for defrizzing hair product and he was all "THOUGHTS ARRIVE LIKE BUTTERFLIES?!" Yeah well at some point he became all save the surfers or something, and look at me I'm playing drums in Hovercraft how edgy an ooh laa laa, and we've got all these acoustic guitars and we clearly, from the photos in the center spread, hunkered down in some sort of log cabin to record this next one, so it has a lot of introspection, like we invented Bon Iver before he even existed.

Yeah forget about that crap. We're talking about Ten here. It's not that "Runin Down" is some sort of grandma's preserves copy of the songs on that record (though there certainly are welcome parallels in the guitar approach), it's more the spirit, the fire, the attitude. Like we totally expect when they're playing this that Joel is going to take this opportunity to swing like a crazy person from the rafters during the guitar solo instead of swinging some douchebag political banner off a bridge because someone indigenous canoe race is threatening the majestic wonders of Puget Sound. Ripping! (ADR, The Skyline Network 18 December 2008)