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Article: Powerful Pearl Jam, full of righteous rage

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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, "Ten," to sell

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