<P> That's me pretending to be Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a feeble attempt at that . Stone (Gossard, Pearl Jam guitarist) wrote the riff and song; I think it's a D tuning . I just followed him in a regular pattern . I tried to steal everything I know from Stevie Ray Vaughan and put it into that song . A blatant rip - off . A tribute rip - off, if you will! </P> <P> The vocal line that appears in the main verse begins with a very prominent tritone interval . </P> <P> The stark lyrics by Vedder for "Even Flow" describe the experience of being a homeless man . The subject sleeps "on a pillow made of concrete" and panhandles passersby for spare change . In addition to being illiterate, he may also be mentally ill, as he "looks insane" when he smiles and struggles to keep coherent thoughts ("Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies / Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away"). </P> <P> At Pearl Jam's March 28, 1994 concert at the Bayfront Amphitheater in Miami, Florida, Vedder introduced the song by saying, "I thought I'd throw in a bit of street education while you still have an open mind...Right across the street there's a little homeless community that lives under the bridge . You should just know that those people ain't all crazy and sometimes it's not their fault . This song is called' Even Flow' ." </P>

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