HISTORY MAKERS:

First starting out being known as Mookie Baylock, the band did it's first
performance in 1990 as a warm-up for Alice in Chains at a club in Seattle.
The crowd didn?t respond well to the bands style of playing. The only luck
Mookie Baylock got was that an old friend of Jeff and Stone?s asked them
to be on a sound track to a movie he was making, called Singles. The result
of Mookie Baylock's work were the two songs called State of Love and Trust
and Breathe, but by the time the sound track came out in 1991, the two songs
were titled by Pearl Jam, because the band had used the period of waiting to
come up with a new name.
The name Pearl Jam had been decided on an old rumor that Eddie's brothers
used to tell. Eddie's aunt, Pearl, supposedly knew how to make a hallucinogenic
jam, which his brother's called "Pearl?s jam". This of course was just a fairy tale
but it did result in giving the band the name Pearl Jam.




Soon after, in late 1991, the band released their first album, Ten,
which immediately got them noticed. Dave Krusen couldn't take the
sudden heat, and he left the band as they were preparing to leave on
their first tour. A drummer was drastically needed so Matt Chamberlain
was found as a temporary replacement.
The first single released from the album was the song Jeremy. Within
one week of it?s release it climbed to number one on the charts, and
soon after the singles Alive, Even Flow and Oceans made it into
top 10 as well. Jeremy was the most stunning song of all though. Eddie
revealed in one of his interviews with MTV that he wrote the song about
a boy by the name of Jeremy Wade Delle who shot himself in front of his
class, using his dad's hunting rifle.

PEARL JAM IS:

Eddie Vedder-Lead Vocal, guitar
     Born-December 23, Evanston Illinois
     Member of Temple Of the Dog
     Formally in the band Bad Radio
     Digs basketball
     Good at card tricks
  
Mike McCready-Lead Guitar, backup vocal
    Born-April 5, Pensacola, Florida
    Member of Temple of the Dog
    Formally in the band Shadow
    Side Projects are Mad Season and the Rockfords
      
Stone Gossard-Rythm Guitar, backup vocal
    Born-July 20, Seattle, Washington
    Member of Temple of the Dog
    Formally in the band March of Crimes
    Side projects is Brad
    Artist of Paintings
  
Jeff Ament-Bass Guitar, backup vocal
    Born-March 10, Big Sandy, Montana
    Member of Temple of the Dog
    Does Pearl Jam artwork
    Band Biographer
    Digs basketball
  
Matt Camaron-Drums
   Born-November 8, San Diego
   Member of Temple of the Dog
   Former Drummer of Soundgarden
   Drummer on Stone Gossard Demos

After the Ten tour Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike
McCready and Jeff Ament found themselves without a
drummer once again. Matt Chamberlain had only been
temporary and he went to pursue a career as the drummer
in the Saturday Night Live band. But Matt didn't leave
them empty handed, he instead introduced them to his
friend Dave Abbruzzese, who had just stopped playing
drums for the Texas band Dr. Tongue.
Dave Abbruzzese soon joined Pearl Jam and played with the
band on the albums, Vs. and Vitalogy. Even though they
couldn?t be compared to the major successful album Ten
both of them included a few number one hits.




Pearl Jam has always played an inspirational type music, with
many messages woven into there songs. That is what makes
them so unique in the world of grunge rock. Expressed in their
own words, their goal is to influence their fans in a positive way.
During the recent years Pearl Jam has continued releasing one
great album after another. With No Code in 1996 and Yield
in 1998 they are surely living up to their full potential.