Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips: "If you’re lucky you gravitate towards people who go about their day the same way you do. Vedder's lyrics spoke to pain and anger but offered a way out there was a hopefulness to them.Touring with Pearl Jam allowed me to see how diminishing and stifling it is to close yourself off to new experiences. What I discovered was that Pearl Jam's music was soaring. I'm still a big fan, but back then we were over the edge.Some of those songs I just really, really loved, and seeing them play just really transported me back to what made me love music in the first place."Ĭarrie Brownstein, Sleater Kinney: "And for the best of these performers, among whom I count Eddie Vedder, there is no holding back, no wasted moment.
Jim James, My Morning Jacket: "I was insanely, crazily a fan. When I was first playing guitar when I was 12 and writing my own songs, I was doing an Eddie Vedder impression." I was just completely obsessed with Pearl Jam. I saw the video for 'Jeremy' - that would have been fourth grade, and then it was like, OK, I know what I want to do. Vincent: "When I was 10, Pearl Jam Ten came out the first time I heard it I remember being at my friend’s house and MTV was on. Poster from the Robert and Margo Roth Collection of Handbills, Postcards, and PostersĪnnie Clark, St. Poster - Pearl Jam at Cleveland State University Convocation Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994 Moving images from the Curatorial Affairs Division Records Collection. This collection includes posters and promotional displays for Pearl Jam albums Twenty, Vs., and Vitalogy.Ī tour contract for the 1998 Iggy Pop and Pearl Jam tour from the Art Collins Papers Collection.ġ991 poster from the Jeff Gold Collection. Sony Music Entertainment Collection (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Collection), 2011 This collection includes two bootleg concert recordings of Pearl Jam, one from 1995 at the Henry Adams Fieldhouse in Missoula, Montana, and the other from Toledo, Ohio in 2004. Boros Audio Recordings Collection, 1995-2004 This collection includes materials related to Pearl Jam including promotional materials, press and backstage passes, and a concert poster for the Pearl Jam and Iggy Pop Yield Tour at Blossom Music Center in 1998.įrederick S. Rock critic for the Plain Dealer from 1952-2002. Listed below are notable collections and items of interest. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s.All archival materials related to Pearl Jam can be found here. 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 Stone described 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, giving interviews and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.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 Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), and Eddie Vedder (vocals).
Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.
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