

And subsequently was invited to join Pearl Jam. He was invited to join Temple Of The Dog in 1990. Vedder became the lead singer for a funk rock band in San Diego called Bad Radio in 1988. Eddie Jerome Vedder was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1964. In 1990 he was invited to join Temple Of The Dog, and later that year Pearl Jam. He was in a few cover bands during high school. He got his first guitar when he was eleven. His family moved to Seattle when he was two years old.

Michael David McCready was also born in 1966, in Pensacola, Florida. Gossard also was a member of Mother Love Bone and Temple Of The Dog, before joining Pearl Jam from its inception in 1990. By 1984 he was invited to join Green River. He was briefly in a band called March of Crimes from around 1982. The “Jam” came from attending a Neil Young concert where the musician had extended “jams” of different songs on stage.īorn in Seattle in 1966, Stone Carpenter Gossard learned to play guitar in his teens. Concurrently, Jeff Ament cofounded Pearl Jam. In 1990, Ament cofounded grunge band Temple Of The Dog, featuring Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell. The band was recording their debut album in 1990, but the lead singer died of a heroin overdose, and the band split up. In 1988 he formed a band called Mother Love Bone. In 1984 Ament was asked to join the Seattle grunge band Green River. In the early 80s he had a band called Deranged Diction. Jeffrey Allen Ament was born in 1963 and grew up in a village in northern Montana.
