"Rivals" (which opens with the growling of Blake's dog, Dakota) is a vengeful, ominous song that begins with the words, "All my rivals will see what I have in store."
"I just came up with the riff and we played with that for a while," Gossard said. "I kind of saw it as a cartoon exploration of competition and paranoia and people's perspective on who's out to get them. I thought of relating that to how nations deal with each other and sort of push each other around.
"And then while we were working on the album the whole Columbine High School tragedy happened and it started reflecting some of that stuff, too. So it just kind of has a weird mishmash of influences."
“Supposed to be what the Columbine Killers were thinking the night before.”
(Talking about the Binaural Head Mic) And the dog too, the dog barking right before Rival. It sounds like it's being panned back and forth really hardcore, that's just Tchad. He has a hold of the head, and he's shaking the head in front of his dog.
Jeff O: That was Tchad's dog?
Jeff A: Yeah.
Jeff O: What's the dog's name?
Jeff A: Dakota.
Jeff O: Dakota. Dakota got a credit actually.
Jeff A: Yeah, he did.
"Rivals" (which opens with the growling of Blake's dog, Dakota) is a vengeful, ominous song that begins with the words, "All my rivals will see what I have in store."
"I just came up with the riff and we played with that for a while," Gossard said. "I kind of saw it as a cartoon exploration of competition and paranoia and people's perspective on who's out to get them. I thought of relating that to how nations deal with each other and sort of push each other around.
"And then while we were working on the album the whole Columbine High School tragedy happened and it started reflecting some of that stuff, too. So it just kind of has a weird mishmash of influences."
“Supposed to be what the Columbine Killers were thinking the night before.”
(Talking about the Binaural Head Mic) And the dog too, the dog barking right before Rival. It sounds like it's being panned back and forth really hardcore, that's just Tchad. He has a hold of the head, and he's shaking the head in front of his dog. Jeff O: That was Tchad's dog? Jeff A: Yeah. Jeff O: What's the dog's name? Jeff A: Dakota. Jeff O: Dakota. Dakota got a credit actually. Jeff A: Yeah, he did.