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" I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. "

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" I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions. "

" I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times. "

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" 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. "

" I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. "

" I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's. "

" In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians. "

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" I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons. "

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