Pearl Jam: The Trials And Success Of The Grunge Titans (Full Documentary) | Amplified
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- Since bursting out of Seattle with 1991's multi-platinum selling Ten, Pearl Jam have become one of the finest rock bands in the world today. Eddie Vedder Co. set about reconstructing their sound while campaigning against the more unjust aspects of the music industry. After 20 years Pearl Jam refuse to rest on their laurels, constantly exploring new musical directions while remaining as fiercely loyal to their fans as ever. Interviews with the band, contributions from their closest allies and from the finest rock writers, rare and classic performance footage, and many other features make this the finest documentary in existence on this most iconic of rock acts.
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So proud I was the engineer on this record along with the genius of Rick Parashar’s production and Tim Plamer as the mixer. What an amazing time.
Well shit Dave…thanks for contributing to a piece of my upbringing sir✊🏼 I was a teenager in the 90’s and I can’t listen to any song on Pearl Jam’s debut album and not feel the deepest sense of nostalgia every time✊🏼
Nice
WOW! Ten and Vs are two of my fav albums ever. Nice work
We’re not worthy
Keep dreaming Dave
Saw them live in 2003. They performed for almost 4 hours. One of the best concerts I have ever seen.
i saw them on the first tour.... vedder pulled security off me after i staged dived and was crowd surfing..
Was this the State College, PA show?? I bought the CD for that show. Killer set list. I saw them play the last show at The Spectrum in Philly. 41 songs.
I saw the okc show in 2003. And I bought the state college cd. It's one of the most amazing performance ever
Minus Layne Staley(who is my favorite front man of all time)Alice n Chains is still putting out albums as well as Jerry Cantrell doing solo stuff.
I grew up loving steppenwolf and the doors. My parents influence. When I heard pearl jam at 15 for the first time. I found my own music for the first time. Their music spoke to me and still does. The most interesting thing is my parents also really dig them. My dad was a big fan of my music choices as a kid (except for rap and death metal lol) and to this day one of my mom's most favorite songs is wishlist. To this day they're still my favorite band.
I get why your folks can relate to them because to my ancient 58 yr old ears their sound has more in common with Hard Rock acts like Steppenwolf or BTO or Ian Gillan Band or Rainbow than punk or metal or thrash or punk metal hybrids from after the mid 80s ! 👍
@@newforestpixie5297 In some songs their sound is a throwback to the 60-70s. BTW, your ears are not ancient - They are the ears of acquired music wisdom.
Your comment is proof that they were a rock band. Not a grunge band. Green River was a grunge band
I’ve sang with Steppenwolf’s Goldy McJohn
People should stop saying that Kurt commited suicide. He has beem murdered.
I worked on some Skateboard Wheels design for Jeff Ament years ago, he Thanked us by sending us
4 Tickets and Back Stage Passes for A Detroit show in 2014. we were very humbled by his Genorisity. We were treated like Friends in a Room decorated with Detroit Redwing Hockey history. THANKS AGAIN! It was very personal and fun.
I saw Pearl Jam in Maui for the last show of their tour of the Ten album. I think it was 92. It was in the high school gym in Kahului, if I remember correctly. Eddie was climbing all over the place. Toward the end of the show he asked the crowd to show the security guys how great we were by asking us to carry him overhead to the back of the gym and and then back to the stage. He went right over me! I grabbed his calf and helped heave him along! At the end of the show Eddie said, "See you all at the beach!". This documentary is great. I really like the last statement. "Pearl Jam proved you don't have to burn out and you don't have to fade away." This band has indeed been my rock for all these years. Their integrity, creativity, sensitivity, and power is always amazing.
Thank you for sharing 💓
Glad I scrolled
many blessings
Not Fade Away...actually a Grateful Dead tune.
@jeremysmith1823. Wow you are so lucky.I can't even...just WOW
PJ got me through my most difficult times. GTF, Unthought Known, Dissident, Corduroy, Yellow Ledbetter and their version of "Its Ok." Eddie being the empath he is, feels yhe crowd and writes the set list based on what he Feels from the crowd. No band that Im aware of have tackled so many human rights issues thru their music. Eddie and the guys are some of the best human beings on the planet. TY PJ for being there for me.
I want to hear their music and not human rights issues.
I graduated high school in 92’ so the grunge era stuff was the music of my youth. I got to see Nirvana and Pearl Jam live back in 91! Great video! Could have featured more of the other grunge bands but still great stuff! The Melvins deserve tons of credit for the grunge scene.
totally agree & can relate.
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Same, graduated 92. This band is a huge part of me. This music at large is part of my heart.
@@thegingergyrl455 Did you get to see em live too? It was an awesome time for music
Dude Green River deserves all the credit
I did. In L.A. in 91 with Pearl Jam and RHCP. So good
1:13:48 - No code is an incredible album. Very underrated
Black & Yellow LedBetter............ Two undeniable classics!
Good Rockumentary. "Vitalogy" is still my favorite Pearl Jam album. I will always love them.
My first wife worked at a local record store in small town Oklahoma and she got me this album the day it came out. VS is still my favorite Ten and Vitalogy are right there. Ive seen them twice, 98' KC and 13' in OKC
I love Pearl Jam. It was always my favorite band from the grunge scene. I liked Nirvana, Screaming Trees and Soundgarden, but I always identified more with Pearl Jam’s sound, and boy, is a beautiful thing that they still together!
Screaming trees!👍✌
Too much focus on Eddie Vedder.
Right in the start the one guy says pearl jam is the only one of the 4 he mentioned as still around
Alice in Chains never stopped either and their last 3 albums were kick ass
AIC was on an indefinite hiatus for 9 years. Two of them with Layne still alive. Black Gives Way To Blue is an amazing album. So glad Jerry was able to return with the other guys.
Love this band so much!!! I loved them as Green River, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam!! Eddie Vetter is one of a kind, he's a special kind of person.
*Vedder
@@rferguson3 I like Vetter better lmao
Was lucky to get to see them live in 1992 at Lallapoloza when I was 20. They played an incredible show. EV was born to be on stage. I still listen to them on XM radio daily. Their music stands the test of time.
There are album fans, song fans, lite fans etc, but strong fans of an artist/band, appreciate their journey, their trials and tribulations and the directions that they go in, and the musical contributions that the band makes. They find and hear the greatness in every story and release, and the truth is that the No Code album has some amazing songs on it and is a great contribution as well.
@Ray Kay~ thank you very much!! 😊💓✌️🤘
No Code is my personal favorite.
Absolutely!
I'm thankful for EVERY album but each have a mood now. Any given day
Personally I'd say there's no doubt No Code is great, and stands way above definitely Riot Act and possible one or two others. They've grown on me in a strange way over the years, with various songs I never used to like becoming favorites. Habit is a good example - a song I actually used to skip but which I now love as I gave it a chance, and a great sudden contrast on the album. A similar thing happened with Soundgarden's Fresh Tendrils. Digressing ha whatever.
Awesome doc about an awesome band on what has become my favorite music documentary channel on UA-cam.
I agree with everything you said!
Definitely check out Trash Theory, the documentaries that guy produces are amazing, especially the new British canon series. But all his documentaries are really insightful music docs.
@@MrMarketingGuy Good call, that’s a great channel too. I also like Professor of Rock’s channel for his interviews.
At the end the guy in the leather coat tells you "There are no other bands from the 90's out there today....zero" ummm 🤔 tell that to the still very relevant Alice In Chains and their post Layne work is amazing. Jerry Cantrell is a beast. All everyone talks about is Kurt, Chris Cornell Layne, or Eddie. Jerry is the heart and soul of AIC and still very actively making music that is killing it.
Exactly right!!! I love Pearl Jam but AIC is my favorite band of all time and they are still getting it done today. I recently saw Jerry in Boston on his solo project and he’s still absolutely killing it! AIC with William came around a few months after. I’d love to know what the heck that Seattle biographer was talking about when he said Pearl Jam’s the only ones still around. Pretty weak observation IMO.
If you were growing up during the 90's chances are you loved Pearl Jam!
I was in my late 30's (more or less grown up) and loved PJ! Still do!!
@@hurdygurdyguy1 me too man I was 27 when I heard GO' in the shower and was instantly blown away,
Affirmative. Jeremy was released as a single when I was 16, a month after a friend of mine took his life
@@TisTheDamnStickSeason wow.. yeah I've lost quite a few friends back then.. one hung himself. Others were drug and alcohol related.. the music for me almost brings them back to life.. for a little bit anyway.
I am the odd man out on this one. May catch some heat for saying this, but I actually hated em when they came out. It wasn’t till many years later, that I finally came to appreciate em.
I grew up in the grunge era and it’s crazy to realize that the feeling I got as a child jamming to it still hits my soul the same way 😊
The part about Eddie had never fronted a band before PJ isn't true. He was in a band called Bad Radio. That's how him and Jack Irons met. Eddie was very much involved in the San Diego music scene. I think that should have been mentioned.
I saw the Time magazine cover show with Neil. Love their integrity and longetivity. Great to see them happy and fulfilled.
Favorite Band of all time, Favorite Voice of all time...Aged 14, in 1991, heard Ten and was hooked.... soundtrack to my life since.
Eddie was the frontman of the band Bad Radio, he also wrote some songs, Eddie wrote Betterman when he was in highschool and sang it in Bad Radio, and then when he joined Pearl Jam it took him a few years to introduce Betterman to the band. 😊💓✌️🤘
Didn't know that
I love their song Homeless
I sincerely and seriously adore Eddie Vedder. I mean it. I love his voice, and I love what I know of him as a person.
One of the best live shows that I ever saw was PJ at the Concert Hall in Toronto(aka The Masonic Temple) with Scottish band Eleven in the support slot. PJ were just awesome. I had just gotten their first album, Ten, a few weeks before, and was lucky enough to have a friend who knew Jeff Ament from when she lived in Victoria, BC. She had moved to Toronto a few weeks before and got me a ticket and after show pass, so got to hang with the band for a little while. Still ranks as one of my best shows ever. I then used the pass to get into their Vancouver show. Was great to see them at that time when they were still basically a new band.
My favorite venue. I remember that show like it was yesterday!
@@FreeAssRecordsHi Dave A. Hope you are well. You were on a different thread once and thanked me for my comment. I was in awe.😮❤
Love this video! Pearl Jam somehow endured, evaded and overcome the usual downfalls of the era they were spawned from. The band is a living documentary of how bands can evolve, bloom and mature musically. I, like so many musicians, have gained much from this band! 😉👍
I wouldn't say they endured. Their treatment of abbruzese shows how toxic they (particularly eddie) are and the quality of the albums put out between 94 to 2006 and then the more recent albums show how little effort they're willing to put in to their art they're happy to profit off
This is completely false.@@sampats89
I was around in the 90's in Seattle, Queen Anne, First Avenue. Bars sounded like this. It was awesome.
Seen them 7 times. They're great live.
Yup, I was born in 1992 and saw them live earlier this year. Best show I've ever been to (I live REALLY close to Sweden Rock Festival so yeah, I have plenty to compare to)
I actually attended a GREEN RIVER Show at The Ditto after I became friends with Jeff. We worked together at Tower Video before I moved to Records in a Regional Administrative role. Hence, I saw MLB multiple times as well as their Showcase at the Central during the Major Label frenzy.
Missed out that part where they collaborated with Cornell's on that sweet tune and album Temple of the Dogs???!!!??? 🤬🤯🎵👹
When has "labeling" music ever made it sound better? Ten is one of my favorite albums. It is timeless and I can't stand when critics say it's grundge or not. Stupid
Personal I was in my early teens growing up in the 90s and hated HATED the term grudge, as far as I'm concerned that was a label given to the scene/sound by mass media.,,fake news.. Lol
This era was such a great and magical time for music
I saw Pearl Jam at The Ventura Theater in California, about 1,500 seating around when 10 was released. I was 32, oldest guy in the room, the kids thought I was a cop. Great show encored with Rockin' In The Free World. I still have the shirt with a Rhino on it.
Love the band, loved the video. Thank you.
Best Doc ever
A documentary on the entire oeuvre of Pearl Jam without a single reference to Røskilde. Amazing.
I really like this Pearl Jam doc, maybe not every single detail correct but Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands on this planet, and Eddie is one of my favorite human beings on this earth. Thank you for sharing 😊💓🤘✌️ I love all their albums!!
There last few albums were meh. We all get old.
@@travzimmerman1340 hard to deny, however Gigaton was solid. They are at their best when experimenting with new styles.
Not a lot of love for their post-“Vitalogy” albums, but “Yield”, “Binaural” and “Riot Act” are actually my faves.
Nothing man.....
Dude yes, Do The Evolution, Brain of J, Breakerfall, Love Boat Captain... There's some of my favorite songs of theirs on those albums.
Hummus is my favourite Pearl Jam song.
Pearl jam is my sickest band ever in my life, love the voice love the muzic🫶🏻🇳🇵
21:28
He achieved perfection.
If you actually interested in the band, incl other members, you may be disappointed, but if you are extremely curious why EV did what he did and what critics think he was thinking about, you will enjoy it a great deal.
I miss the days when you listened to a full album, because we had invested what felt like serious money in it, at the time. These bands gave incredible value, and changed many of our lives. You lived on plain pasta, to afford a ticket to a gig. Music was life.
You're absolutely correct. They were great because they weren't fake.
@@miguelmurill1 well you gotta remember.. It wasn't the younger generations who changed music, it was the music industry... They're the ones who wanted to make streaming big while concentrating only on singles while ALSO teaming up with ticket master to monopolize ticket sales so if you DO want to see a band or go to a festival they're your ONLY option in buying tickets. And then they act as their own scalpers and price gouge! That's why they're supposedly "being watched" after the Taylor Swift/Bruce Springsteen bullshit. Charging 5,000 a ticket.. So greedy and corrupt. I'll believe they're being watched and will do differently when I actually see it.
I love them so much
Good stuff. Thank you, subscribed.
i love how theres a quote by jeff ament in reference to him wanting to hit it big while others like mark didnt want to....he said that he would like to be able to make a good living out of it and that he was the only one without a trust fund so he had to make it work he had nothing to fall back on
That's bullshit. If Mark Arm had a trust fund, why the hell is he still working at sub pops warehouse? It don't make sense
One of the best live bands ever!!!!
Holy mother of an ad every 4 minutes… even television in the ‘90s didn’t do this.
Great Band with a Great Singer!!! Saw them live in Seattle back in the 90's
Ament and Gossard got lucky with vocalists. Ironically, Eddie Vedder was the worst. Mark Arm and Andrew Wood were better
Love this & Pearl Jam rocks✌🏻
My favorite band....love all they song...
3:08 love that even flow knock off riff
Yea I noticed it too he definitely brought that riff into pearl jam
a brilliant time to be alive musically.!
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I remember ten landing. Im a Brit. Jeremy cut through like a knife .it was clever and very real. They were also dark as the pits of hell. They could have been from Manchester or Sheffield. None of your feel good rock. Breathtaking.
CRAP
Your video is wrong
AlC still around and kicking ass
Thanks!
48:49
The Ice Bowl!
Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy Wisconsin.
10/8/2000
I was there freezing my ass off in a T-Shirt asking why the Hell they didn't come here over the summer like they always do! 🤣
Pearl Jam!!!!!!!!! Sub gained, dude!
Tremor Christ... underrated song forever.
"Ten" was a cracking album... Jeremy, Even Flow, I'm Still Alive e.t.c.
From the get go of 10 I was a fan!! True to consumer form I wanted the next albums to sound just like 10 and was a bit disappointed because, of course, they didn't but I never lost my enthusiasm and respect and eventually came around to liking them all! I've never been to a live show and have had to be satisfied with videos (thank you UA-cam uploaders!!!), but who knows... (I build cigar box guitars and have been adapting some tunes to 3 strings, fun stuff... it would be a dream come true to give Eddie a cigar box ukulele!!)
My favorite tunes? Evenflow and The Fixer...
50:38 .. best parody? Tiktok video, "Pizza Rolls" (aka Evenflow)..
54:36 ... Grunge clothing became fashion...and that's the quickest way to kill an "alt" trend.. I remember as a kid in the late '60's and early '70's "psychedelia" was seen as dangerous to mainstream parents but marketing people saw a goldmine in it and the emergence of chain "psychedelic" stores like The INshop in shopping malls made it more palatable and "safe"...
54:33 ... grunge fashion...then why show a photo featuring the design of Christian Francis Roth from the '70's? That's as far from grunge as anything!
And no word about Dave Grohl (I know, there are a lot of Grohl haters) coming out from the death of Nirvana to front the Foo Fighters and still recording and playing!
1:19:15 ... and here it is 2 years later, PJ announces a new tour aaaaand ticket prices are priced out of my range even for the nosebleed seats!! 🤬
Who could possibly hate Dave?? People are weird, eh? Dave always comes across as so generous and kind, and he’s got to be one of the best front men of any rock band. Doesn’t take himself too seriously and loves putting on a show for his fans that they’ll remember. How can anyone hate that?
I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan ....thing is,...I associate many of their songs to dark times in my life..... So I kinda fell off the bandwagon....but "Jeremy"video was passionate!!!... Eddie Vedder is a passionate singer!!!.... All the local bands wanted to get that melodic sound!!!!......anyway I'll be buried with a copy of "ten" on c.d........
I'm not familiar with sound garden, or Alice in chains. I mean I heard a couple songs but at the time I didn't know who it was. When I got interested in pj I got to know Chris Cornells voice and thought he was awesome too. I wondered why he wasn't huge like pj. Or was he? I was in the military when the grunge time started and all they played on base was country music which I only knew of Kenny Rogers. I basically got a 4 year course on country music from Hank Williams to today's sound so I very rarely heard any other music. When I got out, I went back to the radio and that's when I heard pj's ten. I went out and bought it right away. I think I would've bought Sound Gardens cd's and Alice &Chains if they played them more on the radio. Now with the internet and UA-cam I can listen to everyone of their songs and I got a new found respect for their music. Idk, love pj but now 30 years later, I love all of those grunge bands.
beautiful.
Pearl Jam will always be my most favorite band of all time even though I love so many others across all genres. They were the band of my youth and the years of finding myself, and I even stayed with them when so many others left them.....and I'm enjoying their new music now as they have aged along with their fans. #GivenTooFly
Great doc, thanks Amplified. For me Pearl Jam have to be one of the greatest all time bands due to the sheer amount of amazing music they've released. Particularly for those first 5 albums (yes Joe Levy, No Code is deffo in my top 5)
Even if their later stuff isn't quite as good, they're still guaranteed to have at least 3 or 4 great songs on there, whereas a lot of other bands could release a good later album but with no 'great' songs on it.
No code has aged a lot better than some of the others
RIP 1990's
Awsome!!!
I read a comment a few years back and it said "We need to bubble wrap Vedder" it was after Chris Cornell died.
Sorry if this is redundant in these comments, but I love No Code. Hands down, my favorite Pearl Jam album.
They say No Code has a couple of good songs on it and then show the tracklisting and EVERY song is great.
I'm right there with you brother. Yield is close second. Still listen to them often. In My Tree is one of my all time favorite songs from any band.
Köszönjük!
Welcome! 🤘
People act like Alice doesn’t exist anymore. Crazy. Love stone Jeff Eddie Matt especially Mike. But damn
You can call it grunge or whatever you want " its all rock and roll music ! 🎵
No Code is one of my favorite albums from them.
Great band!
St. John's, NL you guys rocked it.
PJ awesome!
Iam a new fan of pj..they hit me right ..in the anger and frustration.
We need a video about Dolores O'Riordan or The Cranberries
Weird there was no mention of Alice in Chains taking Mookey Baylock on the road with them as their support act for their first national tour
Wasn’t that The Red Hot Chili Peppers? Plus didn’t they have to change that name due to copyright infringement? That’s why they named the first album 💿’Ten’ as a nod to Blaylocks jersey number? I could be wrong.
This whole thing downplays and neglects the depth of their connections with the whole seattle community. Mad Season, the fact they named a song after Matt Lukin, relationships with Soundgarden and Alice...
Who cares. This is a documentary about Pearl Jam not AIC.
@@SaintMartins you cared enough to comment.
That sure was nice of AIC to do that, especially since Mother Love Bone let AIC open for them the year before.
Implying that Pearl Jam’s success is due to AIC taking them on tour is pretty silly.
37:12
"Still saw that as a viable way..'
Such a shitty thing to say. I was never a Nirvana fan yet even I can see that Kurt cared about making videos because he was an exceptionally creative artist.
I’d love to see a part 2 to this going into the present tense. (See what I did there) lol
Great Documentary! Where can I purchase this soundtrack? AAAAAAAAAAGH!
I love classic rock..even hippie 60’s stuff..and Dio Metallica kinda metal in the 80’s as well as G&R…plus blues…didn’t like glam metal..I wasn’t really wanting to try anything new. I was in college..like 91 or 92…a friend of mine forced me to listen to Alive….I begrudgingly bought the album…next thing I know I’m getting into all the Seattle stuff..I couldn’t get enough of it.
Sad that Pearl Jam is last of an era not that long ago. Many were lost too soon.
This doc tastes so MTV 🤧
Do any of these people know a little band called Alice In Chains????????
✋ well I do
'89 a jean jacket w/a Slayer back patch. Mid-'90 a flannel tied on my waist.
Born in '75 exactly the right age for grunge. (w/a Slayer t-shirt)
I learned good phrasing learning"alive" on guitar!!!!.... I always had shady phrasing,and it's important to land on "certain" notes right on time!!....
Vitalogy is definitely my favorite album of their's.
I have the cassette that has 5 against one
Printed on it before the change.
Did college radio 90 miles south of Seattle in 90 -91 what time
Facts: Guns n Roses, "Appetite", exposed and placed the kill shot into the gut of the label-bloated and spent 80s pop-metal genre. It then did a slow death roll and died at the feet of the "Teen Spirit" video/song (in that order), which was the North Star that showed us what was next and where things were headed.
"Ten" was perfect, and energized my entire life my Junior year of highschool.
They are better than ever RIGHT NOW. Good documentary but I agree with some of the other comments about the later records. The run from ten through binaural is as good as any band ever. 60 shows and cannot wait for the next one.
Pearl Jam to me got" the Rolling Stones" status of my generation.......( Talkin bout my generation 🎵🎶....)....🤗
It's like a fun puzzle that you can never finish!!!!!...... And everyone has there own brand........
Does anyone remember Mia Zapata?💔 Thanks for the vid🙏🤘
Yep the Gits. The band itself was marginal but it's a shame what happend to her. She became famous as a murder victim and that sucks
Can't believe Eddie is the last frontman left from the Seattle scene when Ozzy and Robert plant and Roger Daughtry are still walking around. Even Lannegan is gone now.
Mike Mcready is an awesome awesome guitarist....yeah hands down!!!... Innovating the blues ...alot of his sounds are him experimenting with effects,!!!... Pushing them to there limits!!!..... I mean..."Mad Season"..... That album alone nevermind Pearl Jam's whole catalog....made me want to tinker with a guitar!!!... To this day as a jobless 45 year old bum...I'm grateful I always had my guitar...in prison....it keeps my brain sharp!!... Just playing with intervals!!!... Yellow bed wetter(yellow Leadbelly/better)... Jimi Hendrix influence!!!!.....;Mike Mcready..."hail..haIL"..."HAIL "!!!!!!