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After practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. 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. Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. Īment and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Mother Love Bone's debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, four months after Wood died of a heroin overdose. In 19, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and found the support of the PolyGram record label, which signed the band in early 1989. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing withMalfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood, eventually organizing the band Mother Love Bone.

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. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. History Formation and early years (1984–1990)

1.5 Binaural and the Roskilde tragedy (2000–2001).

2.5 Binaural and the Roskilde tragedy (2000–2001).

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s." Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. To date, the band has sold more than 31.5 million records in the U.S, and an estimated 60 million worldwide.

In 2006, Rolling Stonedescribed the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame."

One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, over the course of the band's career, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos or give interviews and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron (also of Soundgarden), who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar (piano) has also been a session/touring member with the band since 2002.įormed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass). Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.