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The band also backed Neil Young on "Rockin' in the Free World" at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards and developed an enduring father-son relationship with him. Vedder filled in for Jim Morrison at the Doors reunion for the 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies he also took part in concerts honoring Bob Dylan and Pete Townshend around this time. Vedder's intense, clenched-teeth delivery gave life to his personal travails ("Alive," "Black"), while songs like "Jeremy" and "Why Go" were easy rallying cries for teenagers seeking music they could call their own.Īlthough Pearl Jam was originally marketed as an "alternative" band, their connection to classic rock of the Sixties and Seventies soon became apparent. By the end of 1992, Pearl Jam was among the biggest bands in the world. Vedder, Gossard and Ament took time out to play Matt Dillon's backing band, Citizen Dick, in the 1992 Seattle-based movieSingles. They headlined the 1992 Lollapalooza Tour and opened for Keith Richards on New Year's Eve 1992. The band toured extensively, headlining small halls and opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and U2. Krusen left the band after the sessions for Ten he was replaced by Matt Chamberlain on tour, with Dave Abbruzzese filling the drum chair in the fall of 1991. On the strength of its Mother Love Bone connections and a growing national interest in the Seattle scene, Pearl Jam was signed by Epic Records in early 1991. The band did not forget Blaylock: Their debut album, Ten , was named for his uniform number.
(Vedder finally admitted the story was bogus in 2006.) They called themselves Mookie Blaylock, in honor of the basketball player, but changed the name to Pearl Jam, purportedly after a psychedelic confection made by Vedder's half-Native American great-grandmother, Pearl. With the addition of Vedder and drummer Dave Krusen, the new band was complete.
Irons was involved with his own band, Eleven, but passed the demo on to a singer he knew in San Diego, Eddie Vedder, who immediately wrote lyrics to the songs and mailed back a tape that included his vocals he was invited up to Seattle and the rest was history.Ĭoncurrently, Gossard, Ament, and McCready, along with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron, recorded Temple of the Dog (Number Five, 1992), a memorial to Wood, in 1990, with Vedder trading verses with Cornell on the rock radio smash "Hunger Strike."
They asked former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons to join, giving him a copy of the tape. Mercury Records wanted Gossard and Ament (with Bruce Fairweather on guitar and drummer Greg Gilmore) to record with a new singer, but the band declined.Īfterward, Gossard and Ament, along with Seattle veteran Mike McCready, started work on a demo tape in late 1990. One of the earliest Seattle bands to sign with a major label, Mother Love Bone seemed on the verge of breaking big when Wood died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Half the band formed Mudhoney, while Gossard and Ament joined singer Andrew Wood in Mother Love Bone.
Pearl Jam's roots in the Seattle scene go deep: In the mid-Eighties, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard were members of the seminal Seattle band Green River, which split in 1987. Leaping from obscurity to superstardom, the band sold more than 15 million copies of its first two albums, and after a couple of years during which they got mired in high-profile controversies, Pearl Jam recovered and were still filling arenas at the close of the 2000s. But the band became an American rock institution by broadening their heavy, Led Zeppelin-influenced sound while maintaining the emotional depth that made their songs so resonant in the first place. Lightning Bolt debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart as well as #1 on iTunes in over 50 countries and is available now at, via iTunes and all major retailers.Īlong with Nirvana, Pearl Jam were initially known for popularizing grunge, the Seattle sound that exploded nationwide in the early Nineties. Pearl Jam released their much-anticipated tenth studio album, Lightning Bolt, through Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records on October 15, 2013.
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