Tuesday, August 9, 2011
UNCUT ARTIST INTERVIEW: PEARL JAM'S EDDIE VEDDER
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder attracts curiously obsessive fans. Uncut’s mailbag for this Audience With…feature far outstrips any other we’ve done, and not all of them in the “When are you next playing Portugal?” category.
“Why didn’t you turn up to our wedding last year?” asks one slightly hurt fan from Ohio. “And would you and the band like to come and play at our first anniversary?” There are other invitations to weddings in Colombia, christenings in Denmark, safaris in South Africa and surfing holidays in Western Australia.
Here, though, Eddie Vedder answers your questions! For the full article, and to see if your question was answered, see theSeptember issue of Uncut magazine, in shops now.
Pearl Jam Interview
Eddie Vedder in concert, Barcelona, Spain, May 25, 2000Photo © Pearl Jam and Liz
Pearl Jam has had the misfortune of being in the media spotlight, as of late, for all the wrong reasons. Most recently, nine fans lost their lives during the band’s concert at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, June 30, 2000, when the crowd surged toward the stage. July 26, 2000, Pearl Jam released a statement concerning the tragedies and investigation. They released another statement August 2, 2000.
Pearl Jam
Biography
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band’s line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998.
Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard’s previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album Ten. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was criticized early on—most notably by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain—as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. However, 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 and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame.”
Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard’s previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album Ten. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was criticized early on—most notably by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain—as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. However, 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 and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame.”
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