Pearl Jam From Seattle
Posted on January 19, 2010 - Filed Under Music, Travel
Pearl Jam is just one of the major bands that was originally formed in Seattle, Washington. It, along with the quintessential grunge band Nirvana, was part of the development and propagation of this movement in the early 1990s. At that time guests staying in the hotels Seattle found this new style of music and band appearance to be a novelty they encountered on the streets and in the clubs of the city. No one at the time new that Pearl Jam would rise to the heights of music superstardom that it has.
Four of the original members of the band are still performing with it today and include Eddie Vedder, who plays the guitar and sings lead vocals, Stone Gossard, who plays the rhythm guitar, Mike McCready, who plays lead guitar and Jeff Ament, who plays the bass guitar. Matt Cameron is the band’s drummer and joined them in 1998 and also plays for Soundgarden, which was also formed in Seattle. The members of Pearl Jam first came together after Gossard and Ament’s previous group Mother Love Bone broke up. Pearl Jam burst onto the mainstream with their first album titled Ten. However, the band received initial criticism, and some of it came from other musicians such as Kurt Cobain who claimed that Pearl Jam was simply cashing in on the explosion of alternative-rock.
However, Pear Jam remained strong and stable throughout the chaos and their rise to superstardom, which is unlikely to have happened without great talent and dedication to the music. They have performed across the world and have sold over 30,000 million records in the United States alone. This number doubles when taken into consideration of world sales. It outlasted most of the other grunge bands rising at the time and is frequently considered to be the most influential band of the 1990s. They were labeled by Allmusic to be the most popular band of that decade.
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