There's a lot of terrific music in ''Pearl Jam Twenty,'' Cameron Crowe's documentary about the Seattle band Pearl Jam, honoring its two-decade career. And excellent concert footage. But before viewers learn this venerable ensemble's story, much less see its members rock out on screen, they are subjected to Mr. Crowe's voice-over account of his own...
LIKE everybody else, Eddie Vedder was shocked by what the ukulele could do. It was the late 1990s and Mr. Vedder was in Hawaii, decompressing after a tour with his band, Pearl Jam, when one of those modest, four-stringed instruments caught his eye in an out-of-the-way drugstore. He bought it, sat down on a nearby case of beer, and picked out a few...
Pearl Jam began its first encore at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night with a portrait of ailment, fraught with emotion. Eddie Vedder, the band's lead singer, returned alone to the stage, where a string quartet had assembled. ''This is one of the sadder songs we know,'' he said, referring to ''The End,'' from ''Backspacer'' (Monkeywrench),...
Pearl Jam er et amerikansk grunge-band, dannet i 1990 i Seattle, Washington, USA.
Gruppen består af Eddie Vedder (forsanger), Jeff Ament (bassist), Mike McCready (guitarist), Stone Gossard (guitarist (rytmeguitar)) & Matt Cameron (trommeslager, siden 1998).
Gruppen opstod samtidig med Nirvana, Soundgarden, Dave Matthews Band og Alice In Chains og var med til at grundlægge hardrock-stilen (Grunge) i de tidlige 1990'ere.
Gruppen har i alt haft 5 trommeslagere, de øvrige medlemmer har været de samme gennem hele karrieren.
Pearl Jam spillede på Roskilde Festival i 2000, det endte i en tragedie, hvor 9 mennesker blev mast ihjel foran Orange Scene. Tragedien medførte offentlig debat om ansvaret, hvor såvel festivalen og Pearl Jam blev anklaget for at have medvirket til ulykken. Det blev senere afgjort og understreget, at Pearl Jam ikke kunne holdes ansvarlige for i ulykken, mens festivalen siden har truffet en række sikkerhedsforanstaltninger for at sikre at ulykken ikke gentages. Tragedien påvirkede bandmedlemmerne dybt, og truede selve bandets eksistens, men de besluttede sig siden for at fortsætte. Fold ud