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Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam has played before sold out audiences and sold tens of millions of records. To this day Pearl Jam tickets are among the hardest to find as they play according to their own rules, including the famous boycott of Ticketmaster. The Alternative rock super group was born out of the tragedy of that led to the end of the band Mother Love Bone. The tragic drug-related death of Mother Love Bone's lead singer Andrew Wood left the group's rhythm guitarist (Stone Gossard) and bassist (Jeff Ament) without a band.
Gossard and Ament went their separate ways, but eventually reconnected at the behest of Mike McCready and the group sent out a demo to recruit a singer and drummer. The demo landed them Eddie Vedder and drummer Dave Krusen. Originally the group was called Mookie Blaylock, in homage to the All Star NBA point guard, but was forced to change the name to Pearl Jam after pressure from Epic Records executives.
Pearl Jam released their first album, Ten, in August 1991. The album went on to have incredible record sales and spurned a tour that saw rock and roll fans buying tickets to one of the first big grunge acts of the decade. The album also found the band cycling through drummers. Krusen left to enter rehab, his replacement Matt Chamberlain left to join the Saturday Night Live band, and finally settled on Dave Abruzzese for the remainder of the tour.
The band's success did not protect them from criticism. Kurt Cobain made an early lob against the group that went platinum 12 times with their first record. Cobain accused the group of commercially selling out, which, given Pearl Jam's history, proved anything but true. Cobain would befriend Vedder later before his death. The group started to refuse to make videos for their songs wanting to be remembered for their music and not their music videos. The group also boycotted Ticketmaster in 1994 after it discovered that fans purchasing tickets for the show in Chicago were charged a service fee. The boycott caused a rift with Abruzzese, who left the band and was replaced with Jack Irons
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Artist Biography - Pearl Jam
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 Despite Pearl Jam's best attempts to sabotage their music career, their albums went platinum several times over and everybody wanted Pearl Jam tickets whenever they went on tour. By the late ‘90s the group had released five platinum albums. Record sales had slipped though and conflicts arose on tour that saw Irons leave the band. He was replaced by Matt Cameron, who would become longest tenured drummer for the group.
The 21st century has been a rough ride for Pearl Jam and their fans. The group nearly retired after nine fans were overrun and by a crowd rushing the stage at a show at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The group has continued to sell tickets for their tours, but have had increasingly disappointing sales. Pearl Jam left Epic Records in 2004 and released for two years without a label. Eventually, in 206, the group signed with J Records.
Pearl Jam has recently begun working on its ninth studio album and at re-establishing themselves as live act. The group's actions may have negatively affected the sale of Pearl Jam tickets, but the group is coming back as one of the few grunge groups to survive the turn of the century.
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