How 1 Sleepless Night Led Singer To WRITING 5 LEGENDARY Songs | Professor of Rock

The story of Pearl Jam’s breakthrough classic 90s song Alive form their Multi-platinum album TEN. Eddie Vedder was brought in after Mother Love Bone’s singer Andrew Wood tragically died. Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament forged on and changed their name to Pearl Jam and their new singer Eddie Vedder recorded a personal song about finding out who his real father, was having been lied to for years...

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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long term success. Previoius episodes have included The Joker by The Steve Miller Band, Boys Don’t Cry by The Cure, and Name by The Goo Goo Dolls. Today we are tracing the Seattle’s musical lineage back into the 1980s and diving deep into the inception of Pearl Jam’s ground-breaking smash Alive.

The roots of Pearl Jam stretch deep into the Seattle subterranean rock culture of the early 1980s. Before grunge became a mainstream stereotype, a musical ethos was growing around bands like Malfunkshun, Soundgarden, Green River, Skin Yard, the Melvins and the U-Men who all contributed to a 1986 compilation album called Deep Six. This cluster of bands were the rumblings of the tsunami that flooded the Seattle musical landscape in the early 90s.

In 1987 Malfunkshun front man Andrew Wood joined Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard from Green River and Greg Gilmore from Skin Yard to form Lords of the Wasteland. The name of which references the lyrics of God of Thunder from Kiss’s 1976 album Destroyer. Lords was a short-lived cover experiment that evolved into Mother Love Bone. Andy Wood, a beloved icon in Seattle, believed he was born to be a rockstar. He overflowed with natural charisma, talent and showmanship and he spellbound audiences across the Pacific Northwest. Those who saw him perform sensed that there they were witnessing the origin story of a Seattle superhero. One of these days I will do a a who just on Andrew Wood, who is one of my favorite frontmen.

In 1988 Mother Love Bone signed with PolyGram Records and released the 6 song EP Shine. The record sold well and their notoriety increased. They were one of Seattle’s most promising bands. In late 1989 they returned to the studio to work on their debut album, Apple. However, in March 1990, just days before its release, Wood overdosed on heroin. Found face down in bed with a used needle close by, he was rushed to a nearby hospital and placed on life support. The doctors declared him braindead and when it was clear he wasn’t going to recover they let him go. Andy Wood was only 24.