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Pearl Jam
Second only to Nirvana as icons of the early ‘90s “Seattle sound,” Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of the glam-metal outfit Mother Love Bone. In 1989, fresh out of the more garage outfit Green River, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament formed a new band with outrageous singer Andrew Wood. The group recorded its debut album, Apple, for Polydor Records, and was preparing for a tour when Wood died of a heroin overdose. Gossard and Ament regrouped, and enlisted guitarist Mike McCready, drummer Dave Krusen, and a Californian and fellow basketball fan, singer Eddie Vedder. Calling themselves Pearl Jam, the quintet recorded its debut album, Ten, in 1991. The record’s melodic hard rock and impassioned vocals took nearly a year to catch on, but once it did, Pearl Jam became ubiquitous on radio and MTV. Krusen left, replaced by Dave Abruzzese, the first in what became a series of drummers. Pearl Jam used its popularity to subvert some traditional music-industry procedures: the band’s second album, Vs., was released without singles or videos; on a subsequent tour, it eschewed arenas for more intimate venues, and later initiated a lawsuit against the concert-ticket conglomerate Ticketmaster. Meanwhile, recording for the third Pearl Jam record, Vitalogy, got underway. As soon as the album was finished, the band replaced Abruzzese with former Red Hot Chili Pepper drummer Jack Irons. Secure in their multi-platinum status, the band members spent 1994 working on side projects: Gossard launched his own record label, Loosegroove; McCready released an album with the Seattle supergroup Mad Season, which included Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. The group also recorded an album with Neil Young, 1995’s Mirrorball. Late the next year, the experimentally minded No Code appeared, and it proved to be the band’s least popular record; sales were also thwarted by Ticketmaster’s victory in the lawsuit, resulting in difficulties with touring. Pearl Jam returned to more straightforward hard rock on 1998’s Yield, and recorded the ensuing tour for the album Live on Two Legs. At this point, former Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron had replaced Irons, whose health prohibited extended time on the road. Appearing in 2000 was the band’s sixth studio album, Binaural as well as 25 double-discs from their 2000 European tour.


Pearl Jam	Crown Of Thorns (Live)	MP3	Alternative, Rock
Vedder & Co. offer up a live-in-Vegas cover of a Mother Love Bone tune. In the immortal words of Casey Kasem, it's really effin' ponderous!
Pearl Jam	Grievance (Live)	MP3	Alternative, Rock
Pearl Jam and David Letterman -- together at last! Check out this preview of Binaural, live from the Big Apple!