With our
5th round pick, 95th overall, in the first annual (?) Calgarypuck music draft team
AliceLoveGarden is proud to select in the category of Western US, from Seattle, Washington....out of the ashes of MotherLoveBone with a little help from Temple of the Dog, the one and only
Pearl Jam!
Jeff Ament is from Big Sandy, Montana and still resides in Missoula. Montana rocks.
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), and
Mike McCready (lead guitar). The band's current drummer is
Matt Cameron, formerly of
Soundgarden, 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."
[1]
Since its inception, the band has sold 30 million records in the U.S.,
[2] and an estimated 60 million albums worldwide.
[3][4] Pearl Jam has outlasted 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,
[5] and "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s".
[6]
Some personal favorites...I could post 20.
Love Boat Captain
Corduroy
Immortality
Nothing as it Seems (written by Jeff Ament)
Of The Girl
And still my favorite, Black