There was this precarious balance, and then suddenly the bridge comes in from out of the blue, which, if Eddie doesn't sing it just right, sounds sort of foreign. So there's not really anybody holding it down, and Dave's (Abbruzzese, drummer) got to decide either to play it more the country way or play it the funky way. Meanwhile, Jeff's (Ament, bass player) got this totally other bass line going that's not really steady, and he's going off in a melodic direction, too. But even listening to the song right up to the mixing stage I was going, 'Does this work at all?' Here was Mike (McCready, lead guitarist) playing a very up, country guitar line while I'm playing this choppy down riff on the opposite end of the groove spectrum.

We all knew there were melodies and riffs in it we liked.

This anti-gun song, which peaked at #29 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, almost didn't come together at all, as Gossard told Guitar World magazine in 1995: ''Glorified G' was one that went through a series of changes, and barely held together the whole time.

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