While the "Daughter" single was released commercially to international markets in 1993, the commercial single was not released in the United States until Jand was only available as a more expensive import version beforehand. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. The song ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down-so that the neighbors can't see what happens next. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehavior, as just outright rebelliousness. The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. Live, I kind of mix the two approaches together. It actually brought out a whole new dimension of the song for me, and it felt really fresh to me to play it like that. At first I was like, "Well.okay." so I set up a 26" kick, a snare, and an 18" floor tom, and we just used the room mic's and went for it. That was a trip, because we'd already been playing that song for half a year, and I was kind of used to what I was doing. But when we went in to record it, Brendan suggested trying something different, to just use the kick and snare. When we were originally working on "Daughter", I did a lot more stuff on the toms. Guitarist Mike McCready said, "That's one of the few solos I really had to sit down and work out." Drummer Dave Abbruzzese on his drumming on "Daughter": Bassist Jeff Amentplays upright bass on the song. Guitarist Stone Gossard used a Guild wide-body acoustic guitar to write the music for "Daughter".
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