Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard were beside themselves, and they took several months off to grieve. After the month-long decompression, it became clear that the duo wanted to continue making music. 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.
Vedder proved to be an electric addition to the group, adding poetic, introspective lyrics reminiscent of Neil Young , and he showcased a unique singing style that came to define the entire grunge culture. Here are some facts about one of the best-selling rock albums of all-time. I was really getting focused on this one thing, and I had this music in my mind at the same time.
I was literally writing some of these words as I was going up against a wave. Vedder raced back to his apartment and taped himself singing over three of the songs. It was a "mini opera" he titled Mamasan featuring "Alive," "Once," and "Footsteps. In , Vedder told Cameron Crowe what "Alive" was about for him:. It's an intense thing because the son looks just like the father. The son grows up to be the father, the person that she lost.
His father's dead, and now this confusion, his mother, his love, how does he love her, how does she love him? In fact, the mother, even though she marries somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than the father.
You know how it is, first loves and stuff. And the guy dies. After toiling for several years in Seattle bands like Green River and Mother Love Bone , bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard could have taken a step back from playing after the death of Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood in , but instead the pair were invited by Soundgarden 's Chris Cornell to pay homage to Wood in a project called Temple of the Dog.
And also during this period, they gathered their bearings and decided to push on by forming a new band, one that would eventually become Pearl Jam. Rounding out this new group were guitarist Mike McCready , drummer Dave Krusen and a singer named Eddie Vedder from San Diego who was given a Stone Gossard demo tape by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons and decided he liked what he heard and felt like writing some lyrics and singing over the track.
Included on the demo tape was a song called "Dollar Short" that fans would eventually come to know as " Alive. Vedder had the idea that three of the songs told a story like a mini rock opera that could be tied together. He told Rolling Stone , "[It's] based on things that had happened, and some I imagined. Of those instrumentals, the first would become "Alive," a track penned by Vedder loosely based on the fact that he learned the man who was his stepfather wasn't his real father and that his biological father had passed on.
But 'Alive' is … it's torture, which is why it's fed up for me. Why I should probably learn how to sing another way. It would be easier. It's too much. The other two songs in the mini-opera derived from Gossard's demos were " Once ," a track detailing how the son couldn't deal with the betrayal and became a serial killer, and " Footsteps ," a track about his eventual execution. Not long after Vedder wrote the songs and recorded over the demo, the tape made its way back to Gossard and Ament, who were blown away by what they heard.
Vedder was invited to Seattle and by the time he arrived in town, he also had the song "Black" that would become a future Pearl Jam favorite, as well. The songs were flowing and shortly after Vedder's arrival in Seattle, the band signed a record deal with Epic and entered London Bridge Studio to record their debut disc with producer Rick Parasher.
Even before they hit the studio, a majority of the record was already written. Me and Eddie were along for the ride at that time.
Though the album was good to go, there was still one more obstacle to address before they went on to monster success. Drummer Dave Krusen entered rehab shortly after recording was complete, revealing that liquor had gotten the better of him.
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