Article: Guitarist Gossard serves Brad with Jam.(VARIETY)

There must be some unwritten code in Seattle: If you're in a blockbuster band, then you must join a side group, too.

Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament has Three Fish. Alice in Chains' Layne Staley and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready have Mad Season. Screaming Trees' Barrett Martin has Tuatara (with R.E.M.'s Peter Buck.) And Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard has Brad.

One day last month, Gossard spent his afternoon on the phone with reporters promoting Brad's first tour, and then spent the night in the studio working on Pearl Jam's forthcoming album.

First, a Pearl Jam update: Seven songs were recorded, with "some amazing Jeff Ament songs having been the focal ...

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