| Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard's previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album Ten.Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame."American rock band of the 1990s".Pearl Jam continues to generate hit albums, tour successfully, and garner critical acclaim into the 21st century.Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987 due to a stylistic division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner.In 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and found the support of the PolyGram record label, which signed the band in early 1989.Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone.After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band Shadow had broken up; McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament.Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his basketball buddy, San Diego singer Eddie Vedder.Vedder was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio, and worked part time at a gas station.He sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were so impressed that they had Vedder fly to Seattle.Within a week, Vedder had joined the band.However, concerns about trademark issues necessitated a name change; the band's name became "Pearl Jam".Pearl Jam entered Seattle's London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album Ten.After playing only a handful of shows, one of which was filmed for the "Alive" video, Chamberlain left to join the Saturday Night Live band.Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the Ten album.Ten's musical style, influenced by classic rock, combined an "expansive harmonic vocabulary" with an anthemic sound.With the success of Ten, Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion, along with Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden.The band was criticized in the music press; British music magazine NME said that Pearl Jam was "trying to steal money from young alternative kids' pockets".Cobain later reconciled with Vedder, and they reportedly became friends before Cobain's death in 1994.Pearl Jam toured relentlessly in support of Ten.In 1992, Pearl Jam made television appearances on Saturday Night Live and MTV Unplugged and took a slot on that summer's Lollapalooza tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Ministry, among others.Ament, Gossard and Vedder appeared in Singles under the name "Citizen Dick"; their parts were filmed when Pearl Jam was known as Mookie Blaylock.Singer Eddie Vedder appeared on the cover of the October 25, 1993 issue of Time, as part of the feature article discussing the rising popularity of the grunge movement.Vedder had declined to participate, and was upset with the magazine about the cover.The band members grew uncomfortable with their success, with much of the burden of Pearl Jam's popularity falling on frontman Vedder.While Pearl Jam received four awards at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards for its video for "Jeremy", including Video of the Year and Best Group Video, the band refused to make a video for "Black" in spite of pressure by the label."Ten years from now," Ament said, "I don't want people to remember our songs as videos."Released on October 19, 1993, Pearl Jam's second album Vs.The band decided, beginning with the release of Vs.The members declined to produce any more music videos after the massive success of "Jeremy" and opted to give fewer interviews and make fewer television appearances.Industry insiders compared Pearl Jam's tour that year to the touring habits of Led Zeppelin, in that the band "ignored the press and took its music directly to the fans."By 1994, Pearl Jam was "fighting on all fronts", as its manager described the band at the time.Pearl Jam was outraged when, after it played a pair of shows in Chicago, it discovered that ticket vendor Ticketmaster had added a service charge to the tickets.The United States Department of Justice was investigating the company's practices at the time and asked the band to create a memorandum of its experiences with the company.The band eventually canceled its 1994 summer tour in protest.After the Justice Department dropped the case, Pearl Jam continued to boycott Ticketmaster, refusing to play venues that had contracts with the company.Music critic Jim DeRogatis noted that along with the Ticketmaster debacle, "the band has refused to release singles or make videos; it has demanded that its albums be released on vinyl; and it wants to be more like its '60s heroes, The Who, releasing two or three albums a year."After Pearl Jam finished the recording of Vitalogy, drummer Dave Abbruzzese was fired.The band cited political differences between Abbruzzese and the other members; for example, Abbruzzese disagreed with the Ticketmaster boycott.Pollution satellite radio broadcast.The song "Spin the Black Circle", a homage to vinyl records, won a Grammy Award in 1996 for Best Hard Rock Performance.Considered a "blatantly great pop song" by producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and had initially rejected it from Vs.Ticketmaster venues effectively, with a few exceptions, prevented it from playing shows in the United States for the next three years.In the same year Pearl Jam backed Neil Young, whom the band had noted as an influence, on his album Mirror Ball.Contractual obligations prevented the use of the band's name anywhere on the album, but the members were all credited individually in the album's liner notes.Two songs from the sessions were left off Mirror Ball: "I Got Id" and "Long Road".These two tracks were released separately by Pearl Jam in the form of the EP Merkin Ball.It stood out with its emphasis on subtle harmony ("Off He Goes"), Eastern influences ("Who You Are"), and spoken word ("I'm Open").On February 3, 1998, Pearl Jam released its fifth album, Yield.Billboard charts since Ten in 1991.No Code soon began dropping down the charts.Yield, Single Video Theory, was released on DVD later that year.In June 1998, Pearl Jam once again changed drummers.Ticketmaster had proven to be unsuccessful and hindered live tours.For this tour and future tours, Pearl Jam once again began using Ticketmaster in order to "better accommodate concertgoers."In 1998, Pearl Jam recorded "Last Kiss", a cover of a 1960s ballad made famous by J.It was recorded during a soundcheck and released on the band's 1998 fan club single.The following year, the cover was put into heavy rotation across the country.By popular demand, the cover was released to the general public as a single in 1999, with all of the proceeds going to the aid of refugees of the Kosovo War.On May 16, 2000 Pearl Jam released its sixth studio album, Binaural.The album sold just over 700,000 copies and became the first Pearl Jam studio album to fail to reach platinum status.Pearl Jam decided to record every show on its 2000 Binaural Tour professionally, after noting the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended and the popularity of illegal bootleg recordings.Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through its fan club.It released 72 live albums in 2000 and 2001, and set a record for most albums to debut in the Billboard Top 200 at the same time.Pearl Jam's 2000 European tour ended in tragedy on June 30, with an accident at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.Pearl Jam was initially blamed for the accident, but the band was later cleared of responsibility.On October 22, the band played the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first live performance as a band.The song "Alive" was purposely omitted from all shows on this tour until the final night in Seattle.The band performed that night for over three hours, playing most of its hits along with covers such as "The Kids Are Alright" and "Baba O'Riley" by The Who.After concluding the Binaural Tour, the band released Touring Band 2000 the following year.The DVD featured select performances from the North American legs of the tour.Pearl Jam released its seventh album, Riot Act on November 12, 2002.It included the singles "I Am Mine" and "Save You".The track entitled "Arc" was recorded as a vocal tribute to the nine people who died at the Roskilde Festival in June 2000.Vedder only performed this song nine times on the 2003 tour, and the band left the track off all released bootlegs.In 2003, the band embarked on its Riot Act Tour, which included tours of Australia and North America.The band continued its official bootleg program, making every concert from the tour available in CD form through its website.Perth, Tokyo, State College, Pennsylvania, two shows from Madison Square Garden, and Mansfield, Massachusetts.Bush, with a rubber mask of Bush, wearing it at the beginning of the song and then typically hanging it on a mike stand to allow him to sing.In June 2003, Pearl Jam announced it was officially leaving Epic Records following the end of its contract with the label.The band stated it had "no interest" in signing with another label.The band's first release without a label was the single for "Man of the Hour", in partnership with Amazon.Director Tim Burton approached Pearl Jam to request an original song for the soundtrack of his new film, Big Fish.After screening an early print of the film, Pearl Jam recorded the song "Man of the Hour" for Burton.Pearl Jam licensed a song for usage in a television show; a snippet of the song "Yellow Ledbetter" was used in the final episode of the television series Friends.Later that year, Epic released Rearviewmirror, a Pearl Jam greatest hits collection spanning 1991 to 2003.This release marked the end of Pearl Jam's contractual agreement with Epic Records.Pearl Jam played a show at Easy Street Records in Seattle in April 2005; recordings from the show were compiled for the Live at Easy Street album and released exclusively to independent record stores in June 2006.After touring Canada, Pearl Jam proceeded to open a Rolling Stones concert in Pittsburgh, then played two shows at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before closing the tour with a concert in Philadelphia.The official bootlegs for the band's 2005 shows were distributed via Pearl Jam's website in MP3 form.Pearl Jam also played a benefit concert to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief on October 5, 2005, at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois.On November 22, 2005 Pearl Jam began its first Latin American tour.Frontman Eddie Vedder in Pistoia, Italy on September 20, 2006.Clive Davis announced in February 2006 that Pearl Jam had signed with his label, J Records, which like Epic, is part of the Sony BMG group.The band's eighth studio album, Pearl Jam, was released on May 2, 2006."World Wide Suicide", a song criticizing the Iraq War and U.To support Pearl Jam, the band embarked on its 2006 world tour.It toured North America, Australia and notably Europe; Pearl Jam had not toured the continent for six years.The band served as the headliners for the Leeds and Reading festivals, despite having vowed to never play at a festival again after Roskilde.Vedder started both concerts with an emotional plea to the crowd to look after each other.In 2007, Pearl Jam recorded a cover of The Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me" for the Mike Binder film, Reign Over Me; it was later made available as a music download on the iTunes Music Store.Pearl Jam has "no set date" for returning to the studio.Since December 2006, band members have been demoing material on their own while remaining in contact via email.In an interview with Billboard.Pearl Jam has cited many punk rock and classic rock bands as influences, including The Who, Neil Young, and the Ramones.Pearl Jam has broadened its musical range with subsequent releases.The songs on the album featured elements of garage rock, worldbeat, and experimentalism.When the band started, Gossard and McCready were clearly designated as rhythm and lead guitarists, respectively.The dynamic began to change when Vedder started to play more rhythm guitar during the Vitalogy era.Ed will do a power chord thing, and I fit into all that."Legacy
While Nirvana had brought grunge to the mainstream in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam quickly outsold them and became not only the most popular alternative rock band, but the most popular American rock band of the decade."Alive" and "Even Flow" just melodic enough to get moshers singing along."The band inspired and influenced a number of bands, ranging from Silverchair to Puddle of Mudd and even The Strokes.Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries in the grunge scene like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, and even bands it has influenced such as Creed.Pearl Jam has been praised for its rejection of rock star excess and its insistence on backing causes it believes in.In a 2005 USA Today reader's poll, Pearl Jam was voted the greatest American rock band of all time.In April 2006, Pearl Jam was awarded an Esky for "Best Live Act" in Esquire's Esky Music Awards.The blurb called Pearl Jam "the rare superstars who still play as though each show could be their last."Vedder acts as the band's spokesman on these issues.Vedder has advocated for the release of the West Memphis 3 for years and Damien Echols, a member of the three, shares a writing credit for the song "Army Reserve" (from Pearl Jam).Choice USA and Voters for Choice.As members of Rock the Vote and Vote for Change, the band has encouraged voter registration and participation in United States elections.Pearl Jam played a series of concerts on the Vote for Change tour in October 2004, supporting the candidacy of John Kerry for U.In a Rolling Stone feature showcasing the Vote for Change tour's performers, Vedder told the magazine, "I supported Ralph Nader in 2000, but it's a time of crisis.We have to get a new administration in.""World Wide Suicide", are openly critical of the Bush administration.In the beginning of the second encore Vedder invited Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, the subject of the upcoming documentary Body of War, onto the stage to urge an end to the war.Young in turn introduced Ben Harper, who contributed vocals to "No More" and "Rockin' in the Free World".Pearl Jam has performed numerous benefit concerts in aid of charities.For example, the band headlined a Seattle concert in 2001 to support the United Nations' efforts to combat world hunger.Studio albums
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