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Article: Powerful Pearl Jam, full of righteous rage.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Byline: Dan DeLuca
Pearl Jam has always been built to last.
Created out of Mother Love Bone, the Seattle band whose singer Andrew Wood died of a 1990 heroin overdose, the rockers had already gotten the self-destructive behavior out of their system by the time San Diego surfer Eddie Vedder came to lead the clenched-fist charge.
If Nirvana stared into the void with pop songs that exploded in punk noise, Pearl Jam _ named after NBA hoopster Duane "Pearl" Washington _ was always a classic rock band in disguise, harking back to The Who and the Doors. They shouted a life-affirming message in stentorian, heroic tones that pushed their 1991 debut, ...