Name: パール・ジャムについて誰も教えてくれなかったこと (What Nobody Told You About Pearl Jam)
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Putting the music first but standing up for their rights when necessary, Pearl Jam has

raged both inside and outside of the machine for three decades, and its members have a

Here's a look into the legendary and untold truth of Pearl Jam.

The core of Pearl Jam, the instrumental duo that gives the band its sound and soul, is

the one-two punch of guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament.

Before forming one of the biggest rock bands the world has ever seen, they'd already been

playing together for years… first in the proto-grunge Seattle band Green River, and

then in Mother Love Bone with charismatic lead singer Andrew Wood.

Mother Love Bone was poised to become one of the biggest bands of the '90s… but sadly,

Wood overdosed on heroin just months before the release of their first album.

However, Ament and Gossard didn't want to quit making music with one another, so they

laid down some demo tracks for a new band.

They needed a drummer for the project, and they sent their tape to their friend Jack

Irons, who'd recently left his gig behind the kit for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Irons wasn't interested in drumming for the Seattle combo at least, not right away but

he passed the tape along to a guy that he played basketball with, an aspiring singer

"How did you guys know that it would work out?"

"We didn't know it was going to work out.

It just felt very good from the time we started."

Irons also gave the band one of its biggest breaks: He asked the Red Hot Chili Peppers

to let this new group open for the band on its 1991 concert tour, and they agreed.

Following Andrew Wood's tragic death, his friend and former roommate Chris Cornell of

Soundgarden formed a supergroup to pay tribute to the man.

Members included Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, drummer Matt Cameron, guitarist Mike McCready,

"The name came from a line in a song that was a Mother Love Bone song where the lyrics

The self-titled debut record hit record stores in spring 1991 and spawned the hit "Hunger

It sold 70,000 copies or so in its initial weeks, and pre-dated the August 1991 release

"I remember when [Temple of the Dog] was coming out, we had just picked our name, and we said

[to A&M Records], 'Can you put Pearl Jam on the sticker because it'll be a good thing

We didn't want it to say Mother Love Bone, and they refused."

Pearl Jam is arguably one of the best band names in rock history but it wasn't the band's

The group improbably used to go by the name Mookie Blaylock, named after an NBA player

who joined the league in 1989 right around the same time Eddie Vedder joined forces with

But later, they wisely decided upon Pearl Jam… a name with slightly scandalous origins.

"My great-grandpa was an Indian and totally into hallucinogenics and peyote.

Great-grandma Pearl used to make this hallucinogenic preserve that there's total stories about.

Seeing as it's a rather short leap from "Pearl's preserve" to "Pearl Jam," Vedder's story was

But then, he admitted to Rolling Stone in in 2006,

Vedder did have a great-grandmother named Pearl that much is true.

But how the band got their name is a different story.

The bandmates reportedly sat around a Seattle restaurant and tried to come up with a name

Bassist Jeff Ament thought something with "pearl" in the name would sound nice.

And then the band got inspired after checking out a three-hour Neil Young concert.

"Every song was like a fifteen-or twenty-minute jam.

So that's how 'jam' got added on to the name.

You'll have to decide for yourself whether or not to believe him.

With its punk-inspired, DIY ethos, the Seattle grunge scene was in many ways the opposite

of the excessive, bloated, hair metal bands that preceded it.

Motley Crue's Vince Neil was clearly displeased by this development:

And it wasn't long before the music industry wanted a piece of the action.

"We had about 15 labels come to see us in Seattle.

By the end of the process, [Mother Love Bone] was being offered $400,000.

We'd spent maybe $2000 on Green River and suddenly we were being told we could spend

$250,000 on our first Mother Love Bone record, and we were thinking 'How is that possible?'"

Ament says that when it came to Pearl Jam's Ten,

"I think we spent about $25,000 making the record and about three times that mixing it,

but it was still a third of the money that we'd spent making the Mother Love Bone record.

We didn't expect the record to be a huge deal."

But of course, it was a big deal a straightforward rock record that managed to go platinum 13

That's not to say it was an easy album to record.

In fact, the band had a really hard time re-creating its demo version of "Alive" in a recording

They ultimately decided to use the original demo, adding in a new guitar solo from Mike

As for "Even Flow," McCready estimates that the band recorded the song as many as 70 times.

"We played that thing over and over until we hated each other."

And now for a surprise pop quiz: What was Pearl Jam's biggest hit?

While those are certainly some of the band's most memorable songs, Pearl Jam's most successful

It's the only Pearl Jam song to ever reach the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 pop

It's a bit of an outlier for Pearl Jam, as it's a slightly tongue-in-cheek cover of a