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Rob Laing

Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam are close to finishing a new album with "hardcore fan" Andrew Watt producing: "He can play all of our songs and all Soundgarden's songs back at us"

Andrew Watt joins Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam onstage during the 2021 Ohana Music Festival on September 26, 2021 in Dana Point, California.

In addition to being a multi-Grammy-winning producer who has worked with Dua Lipa, Post Malone and Justin Bieber, Andrew Watt is a serious Pearl Jam fan. A fan club member who has seen them 50 times kind of fanatic. Now he's in the surreal position of producing his idols' next album.

We first encountered Watt as the guitarist in California Breed with Jason Bonham and there's no doubt he brought serious chops to the table when he worked with Ozzy Osbourne and Eddie Vedder before – he produced the latter's 2022 solo album Earthlings and played in his touring band. Now Stone Gossard has revealed he's brought his skills to Pearl Jam. And they're loving it. 

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