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Article: Pearl Jam finally ready to embrace popularity
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2006
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"We're gonna play the game now."
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready doesn't pause when he says it.
He doesn't chuckle, and he's not pulling your leg.
McCready is dead earnest when he proclaims that his band - which
used to avoid talk of success and fame like it was feverish - is
ready to head out of the rock wilderness and enjoy some mainstream
sunlight. Pearl Jam is going to play the game now.
Yes, that Pearl Jam. The one whose lead singer infamously accepted
a Grammy in 1996 by mumbling to a theater full of music bigwigs,
"Thanks, I guess." The one that quit making videos after 1991, that
avoided the media for years, that stubbornly released albums of
increasing weirdness while moving ...