They quickly teamed up with local guitarist Mike McCready as well as Soundgarden members Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron to form Temple of the Dog, but that was never going to last as Soundgarden was would soon be on its own path to superstardom. After the month-long decompression, it became clear that the duo wanted to continue making music. Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard were beside themselves, and they took several months off to grieve. The band members were stunned, and Mother Love Bone was no more. Unfortunately, however, tragedy struck, and unique and energetic frontman Andrew Wood overdosed on heroin, passing away at the young age of 24. After recording their first record, Apple, the band sensed its pending success. After two years of gigging locally, MLB was ready to release their debut album and tour the country. The music being played was in stark contrast to what was currently popular on the radio at the time, and it was an exciting era to be a fan of underground rock, to say the least. In late 1988, a band called Mother Love Bone ruled Seattle’s underground music scene. After a decade’s worth of synths, drum machines, and digital studio effects throughout the 1980s, Pearl Jam was a well-received breath of fresh air when Ten was released in August 1991, and the album propelled Eddie Vedder and company towards being one of the biggest and most influential bands of their generation. The band injected a large amount of excitement and unpredictability to the world of rock and roll during the height of the highly-commercialized MTV era of American pop music, and acted as a bridge between the mainstream and Seattle’s blossoming alternative music scene at the time. The album, released via Epic Records, is filled with songs that are now considered classics in rock circles, and many of them now transcend the grunge genre to be considered “classic rock”.
Within a year, 13x platinum-selling debut Ten was stacked high on record store shelves.Released on this day in 1991, debut Pearl Jam album Ten still hails as one of the top grunge-era rock albums of the decade, and is certainly worthy of its placement the upper echelon of debut albums from across the musical spectrum. Andrew’s death from a heroin overdose in early 1990 rattled bonds and drove Stone’s writing into darker, heavier territory, but the introduction of second six-stringer Mike McCready, and an inspired response to their five-track demo from Illinois-born, San Diego-based singer Eddie Vedder (who’d written lyrics for Alive, Once and Footsteps while out surfing) saw the band take shape. Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament joined proto-grungers Green River in the mid-’80s, before forming Mother Love Bone with vocalist Andrew Wood towards the decade’s close. Perhaps the tribulations and inspirations of their coming-together prepared them for that.
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Their first three LPs, of course – spanning the pomp of the grunge scene, and full of its revolutionary excitement – still hold a special place in listeners’ hearts, but rather than trying to cling to past glories or fading into irrelevance, their eight albums (and countless other releases) since have solidified one of the most innovative, important reputations in all of rock.
They have always been an outfit interested in everything they do. Compared to the vast majority of their platinum-rated rock contemporaries, Pearl Jam’s back catalogue does not easily stack into a defined hierarchy of hit singles, ‘underrated’ fan-favourites and forgotten album tracks.
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