“Ten was largely Stone and Jeff at the time myself and Eddie were along for the ride,” McCready stated. In March 1991, Pearl Jam visited Seattle’s London Bridge Studios to make their debut album, Ten. Their songs “Alive” and “Even Flow” are well-known. Since 2002, Boom Gaspar (piano) has been a session/tour member with the band. Matt Cameron has been a member of the band since 1998 (also of Soundgarden). Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Jeff Ament (bass) have been members of the band since its formation. I did however stumble upon a video earlier today that made me feel as if I glimpsed a hint of the truth.Pearl Jam is a Seattle, Washington-based American rock band that formed in 1990. That maybe I’ll never be able to put words to it. I’ve started to think that maybe I’ll never know. It makes me doubly sad that I can’t put my finger on exactly why it is that Pearl Jam’s actual music doesn’t work for me. God knows I fuc*king love Alice In Chains. It’s like if someone grabbed all the ingredients of your favourite dish, but then they mixed ‘em up and cooked them in some strange, backwards way that meant the final result came out … strange.

But when they’re put together in the way they are, I’m just not into it. I don’t know why! I don’t know what it is.

In real life, I don’t think I’ve ever been able to finish listening to a single Pearl Jam song and certainly not to an album. In fact, I really love it-though, again, just in theory. Well, their actual music as it turns out.ĭon’t get me wrong: I don’t hate it. I’ve never been able to come down on one side of the fence or the other on this one).īut I mean, slight uncertainty over name aside, what’s not to love?! A heavily classic rock-influenced, riffy, progressive, socially conscious, anti-Ticketmaster grunge group-with a bloke named Eddie in it (always a bonus!)- and a good band name to boot (I think. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the band that we now sometimes think of as the last remaining grunge band.īecause you see, I love the idea of Pearl Jam.

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