[Wikipedia] April 22: Pearl Jam

  Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington 
  in 1990.  Since its inception, the band's line-up has consisted of 
  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 nevertheless 
  criticized early on as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative 
  rock explosion.  However, its members became noted for their refusal to 
  adhere to traditional music industry practices as their career 
  progressed, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a 
  much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster.  Rolling Stone described the 
  band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing 
  apart their own fame." Since its inception, the band has sold 30 
  million records in the U.S., and an estimated 60 million albums 
  worldwide.  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, and "the most popular 
  American rock band of the 1990s".  

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