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Article: PEARL JAM WANTS TO BE LOVED AGAIN AFTER A DECADE OF LYING LOW, THE BAND RETURNS TO ITS ROCK ROOTS WITH `RIOT ACT'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2002
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NEW YORK - For the past decade, Pearl Jam seemed to try as hard as
possible to stay in the shadows - not an easy thing for multi-
platinum artists to do.
They didn't disappear. But these Seattle survivors, who managed to
escape the tragedies that felled former peers Nirvana and Alice in
Chains, embarked on an increasingly experimental, and persistently
anti-industry, path.
The members refused to make MTV-style videos. They tried to
circumvent Ticketmaster and play nontraditional concert venues. They
sometimes put out singles with little commercial appeal, such as the
puzzling "Who You Are" in 1996 ("We tried to throw the market off-
base with that one," says singer Eddie Vedder in a ...