Then Krusen bowed out to address the alcohol problem that his band couldn’t ignore. The band played several club shows around the city, signed with Sony’s Epic Records, toured the West Coast, and contributed to Cameron Crowe’s film Singles-all in the span of a pregnancy. I just remember Eddie had papers laying all over the place and was constantly scratching down lyric ideas.” The breakneck stride is reflected in the drummer’s crashing snares and cymbals between the warming fade-up and hard gallop of “Once,” the first song on Pearl Jam’s inaugural album, Ten. “It was so quick, and ideas were flowing so fast. “It was the fastest, most creative thing I’ve ever been a part of,” Krusen recalled in the 2011 book Pearl Jam Twenty. In under a week, the band then known as Mookie Blaylock wrote and recorded enough songs for an album. Vedder arrived shortly after Krusen was hired, and the quintet hit it off. “I jumped at the chance to jam with Jeff and Stone,” Krusen told Seattle Weekly. As it was passed from former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons to vocalist Vedder, then in California, the band auditioned Krusen, who had seen Gossard and Ament play in Mother Love Bone around Seattle. Their instrumental demo was recorded with Cameron, who was then a member of Soundgarden, filling in on drums. The Rock Hall itself didn’t deem all of Pearl Jam’s percussionists worthy, which is why only founding member Dave Krusen and current drummer Matt Cameron will be inducted, along with frontman Eddie Vedder, bassist Jeff Ament, and guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready.Īment, Gossard and McCready needed a drummer and a vocalist for their fledgling band. Had just one of them joined or left at any other time, Pearl Jam might not be headed to eternal acclaim as a still-relevant act.
But PJ’s legend is different, in that each drummer helped shape the band’s trajectory, if not its sound. Pearl Jam, which will join Grohl’s former band in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, fits the formula, with five drummers in its 27 years. See Pete Best, Keith Moon, and the four guys who preceded Dave Grohl in Nirvana. Fairly or not, history supports this perception. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s.Rock and roll lore, stoked decades ago by Spinal Tap, would have you believe that the drummer’s stool is a literal musical chair-that percussionists are easily replaced, their work robotic at best and forgettable at worst. 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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