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I saw Alice In Chains open for Ozzy and GnR open for Aerosmith. What stories do you have?

I posted in yesterday’s Speak, See, Remember post an excerpt from an interview with Stephen during the release of Mirror Traffic that the Jicks had recently been playing that song since Pavement never could. At this point we’ve pretty well established that all the Pavement/Jicks songs are all just Malkmus minus some minor contributions sporadically, and I’ve seen plenty of comments from him about Pavement being limited in setlist selection because of the band’s inability to perform certain songs. We know he felt handcuffed by many aspects of Pavement, and I realize he found more competent players in the Jicks, but where was the weak link in Pavement? It doesn’t appear to be Mark to me, and I don’t think anything was expected of Bob. SM always worked most closely with Westie which makes me think that part was working, even if Westie Cannot Drum. Was it just a combination of Scott’s lack of ability and the absence of a competent keyboard player? That was what he apparently found in Mike Jick and also Rebecca.