A while back I talked about some of my favorite 80's hard rock bands - yeah the hair bands. So now I thought I would look at some of my favorite 90's bands.One of my favorite bands from the early 90's, was Pearl Jam - a band that I still really like. The band was actually formed from the ashes of another Seattle group, Mother Love Bone- the band that Bassist Jeff Ament & guitarist Stone Gossard were in before Pearl Jam. Mother Love Bone fell apart after the death of it's lead singer Andrew Wood.
Stone and Jeff began working on another band and their demo wound up in the hands of California surfer Eddie Vedder - who was playing with the band Bad Radio at the time. Two of the songs on that demo eventually became "Alive" and "Once".
Pearl Jam took off with the release of their first album "Ten" in 1991, which included "Alive", "Once", the mega-hit "Jeremy", and the haunting ballad "Black". But they weren't ready for the media blitz that followed and Vedder fought super-stardom as much as he could- preferring a more private life - and even refused to do a video for "Black". Pearl Jam also fought to get ticket prices lowered battling against Ticketmaster, claiming they were inflating prices with their service charges - and even boycotted their venues for awhile.
Despite all their antics the band released a number of albums in the 90's including "Vs." & "Vitalogy" - spawning the hits "Daughter" & "Better Man" - and has just released their 9th studio album "Backspacer".
I saw the band live when their second album came out in the mid 90's and I must say, they are a great live band - a very basic stage show - you won't see pyro, lasers, and explosions - just a great rock show, and that's what Pearl Jam has always been about.
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