The band is also noteworthy for having loads and loads and loads of "Official Bootlegs," both to discourage piracy and also to reward completionist collectors with superior quality live recordings. They also backed Neil Young on his 1995 album Mirror Ball. 2017 - A Remaster of the Self-Titled Album.2009 - Pearl Jam Twenty, aka Ten Legacy Edition note 3-disk, first disc with original album mixes, second with all songs remixed and bonus songs, third a DVD of their MTV unplugged performance.With Boom Gaspar (keyboards, touring member) since 2003.Matt Cameron (drums), also a member of Soundgarden.Pearl Jam continues to tour constantly to give fans an opportunity to see them live. Their following two albums, Backspacer (2009) and Lightning Bolt (2013), were domestically distributed through Pearl Jam's own label, Monkeywrench Records, with Lightning Bolt briefly holding the record as the best selling vinyl release in North America. They have since made a return to their hard rock origins with their Self-Titled Album, released in 2006 note Known to some as the "Avocado Album". McCready was struggling with addiction as Vedder went through a divorce, and a tragic incident at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark left nine fans of the band trampled to death, leading some in the band to consider quitting music for good. While not commercially well-received, Pearl Jam's material through the mid- to late- '90s was critically lauded before the band hit a period of stagnation at the Turn of the Millennium. Pearl Jam then decided to move away from their Arena Rock roots (for the most part) to more experimental sounds in Alternative Rock on later albums Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield. Because of the boycott and lawsuit, the pool of venues available to the band for touring at the time shrunk drastically, much to the chagrin of their audience.
Since then, the band has rebelled against their fame and stardom, first by boycotting and later suing the mega-corporation Ticketmaster, which would raise consumer ticket prices at band shows. note As of 2006 Cameron has drummed in the group longer than all of his predecessors combined, and as of 2019 he's been drumming in Pearl Jam longer than he ever did for Soundgarden. The four core members have nevertheless remained intact since the band's inception. This led to Creator Backlash from Vedder, who decided to erase any pretense of commercialism from the band's music, which led to some tension between the band members they had a Spinal Tap-esque Revolving Door Band of drummers around this time due to internal differences before eventually settling on Matt Cameron of the aforementioned Soundgarden. This led to some backlash from purist Seattle rock groups, especially Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who even alleged that the band had sold out to the mainstream. Vs., the second, reached #1 on the charts the week it came out, outselling the other nine albums on the top 10 combined. The rest is rock history their first album, Ten, sold over 13 million copies, with the singles "Alive" and "Jeremy" becoming massively successful.
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