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About Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone to become the
most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s. After vocalist
Andrew Wood overdosed on heroin in 1990, guitarist Stone Gossard and
bassist Jeff Ament assembled a new band, bringing in Mike McCready on
lead guitar and recording a demo with Soundgarden's Matt Cameron on
drums. Thanks to future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons, the demo found
its way to a 25-year-old San Diego surfer named Eddie Vedder, who
overdubbed vocals and original lyrics and was subsequently invited to
join the band (then christened Mookie Blaylock after the NBA player).
Dave Krusen was hired as the full-time Pearl Jam drummer shortly
thereafter, completing the original lineup.
Renaming themselves Pearl Jam, the band recorded their debut album,
Ten, in the beginning of 1991, although it wasn't released until
August; in the meantime, the majority of the band appeared on the
Andrew Wood tribute project Temple of the Dog. Ten didn't begin
selling in significant numbers until early 1992, after Nirvana made
mainstream rock radio receptive to alternative rock acts. Soon, Pearl
Jam outsold Nirvana, which wasn't surprising -- Pearl Jam fused the
riff-heavy stadium rock of the '70s with the grit and anger of '80s
post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses; "Jeremy," "Evenflow,"
and "Alive" fit perfectly onto album rock radio stations looking for
new blood.
Krusen left Pearl Jam shortly after the release of Ten; he was
replaced by Dave Abbruzzese. Pearl Jam's audience continued to grow
during 1992, thanks to a series of radio and MTV hits, as well as
successful appearances on the second Lollapalooza tour and the Singles
soundtrack (Stone Gossard also embarked on a side project called Brad,
which released the album Shame in early 1993). Despite their status as
rock & roll superstars, the band refused to succumb to the accepted
conventions of the music industry. Pearl Jam refused to release any
videos or singles from their second album, 1993's Vs. Nevertheless, it
was another multi-platinum success, debuting at number one and selling
nearly a million copies in its first week of release. On their spring
1994 American tour, the band decided not to play the conventional
stadiums, choosing to play smaller arenas, including several shows on
college campuses. Pearl Jam cancelled their 1994 summer tour, claiming
they could not keep ticket prices below 20 dollars because
Ticketmaster was pressuring promoters to charge a higher price. Pearl
Jam took Ticketmaster to the Justice Department for unfair business
practices; while fighting Ticketmaster, they recorded a new album
during the spring and summer of 1994. After the record was completed,
the group fired Dave Abbruzzese, replacing him with former Red Hot
Chili Peppers and Eleven drummer Jack Irons.
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Vitalogy, Pearl Jam 's third album, appeared at the end of 1994.
For the first two weeks, the album was only available as a limited
vinyl release, but the record charted in the Top 60. Once Vitalogy was
available on CD and cassette, the album shot to the top of the charts
and quickly went multi-platinum. Pearl Jam continued to battle
Ticketmaster in 1995, but the Justice Department eventually ruled in
favor of the ticket agency. In early 1995, the band recorded an album
with Neil Young.
Meanwhile, Vedder toured with his wife Beth's experimental band
Hovercraft in the spring of 1994 as Stone Gossard founded an
independent record company; Mad Season, Mike McCready's side project
with Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, released their first album,
Above, in the spring of 1995. Comprised entirely of Neil Young songs,
Mirror Ball appeared in the summer under Young's name; although the
individual members of the band were credited, the name Pearl Jam did
not appear on the cover due to legal complications. Pearl Jam released
a single culled from the sessions, titled Merkin Ball and featuring
the songs "I Got Id" and "Long Road," in the fall of 1995.
In late summer of 1996, Pearl Jam released their fourth album, No
Code. Although the album was greeted with fairly positive reviews and
debuted at number one, its weird amalgam of rock, world beat, and
experimentalism dissatisfied a large portion of their fan base, and it
quickly fell down the charts. The record's performance was also hurt
by Pearl Jam's inability to launch a full-scale tour, due both to
their battle with Ticketmaster and a reluctance to spend months on the
road. Pearl Jam spent most of 1997 out of the spotlight, working on
new material; Gossard also released a second album with his side
project Brad, titled Interiors.
By the end of the year, Pearl Jam had completed a new, harder-rocking
record entitled Yield. The album was greeted with enthusiastic reviews
upon its February 1998 release, but its commercial fortunes weren't
quite as clear cut. While their sizable cult embraced the album,
sending it to number two its first week of release, Yield quickly
slipped down the charts. Pearl Jam supported the record with a
full-scale arena tour in the summer of 1998, issuing the concert LP
Live on Two Legs at the end of the year; Jack Irons did not
participate due to poor health, and was replaced by ex-Soundgarden
drummer Matt Cameron. In 1999, Pearl Jam scored an unlikely pop radio
smash with their cover of the J. Frank Wilson oldie "Last Kiss,"
originally released as the seventh in a series of fan-club-only
singles which had also featured several incongruous covers in the
past. Demand from fans and radio programmers resulted in the
nationwide release of "Last Kiss," and it eventually became Pearl
Jam?s highest-charting pop hit to date, peaking at number two and
going gold. The group returned in 2000 with the Tchad Blake-produced
Binaural. In order to circumvent bootleggers, their subsequent
European and American tours were recorded in full and released in an
unprecedented series of double-CD sets, each of the 72 volumes
featuring a complete concert.
Pearl Jam Tickets
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that are in high demand. We can help you gain access to tickets for
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