The final mix of РІР‚СљOceansРІР‚Сњ features some very unusual percussion instruments. So as I was doing that, I thought, fuck it, I might as well write something.РІР‚Сњ 5. When I heard a break, IРІР‚в„ўd start pounding on the door РІР‚В¦ trying to get out of the rain. I wasnРІР‚в„ўt even listening to hear the song at first. All I could hear was the bass coming through the wall, this window that was boarded up. I had a scrap of paper and a pen in my pocket, and they were playing this song. It was drizzling and I wasnРІР‚в„ўt dressed for an outing in the rain. РІР‚СљI went and did that and then I came back and was locked out. РІР‚СљSomeone asked me to put change in the parking meter for them,РІР‚Сњ Vedder recalled to Seattle Sound in 2009. РІР‚СљOceansРІР‚Сњ is a perfect example, penned while the singer was accidentally locked out of the bandРІР‚в„ўs rehearsal space during a rainstorm. Throughout the creation of Ten, Eddie Vedder repeatedly impressed his bandmates with his ability to come up with lyrics for entire songs on the spur of the moment. Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics to РІР‚СљOceansРІР‚Сњ while locked out of the bandРІР‚в„ўs rehearsal space. I thought about it like, IРІР‚в„ўm going to approach this like Ace did on РІР‚ВShe.РІР‚в„ў And I remember the chord pattern that Stone wrote lent it to that kind of a descending pattern. My lead for РІР‚ВAliveРІР‚в„ўР’В is based on РІР‚ВShe,РІР‚в„ў and thatРІР‚в„ўs based on РІР‚ВFive to OneРІР‚в„ўР’В by the Doors. РІР‚СљHeРІР‚в„ўs what took them over the top with the feel he put into his leads. РІР‚СљAce was their firecracker, their dynamite,РІР‚Сњ McCready wrote in Rolling Stone in 2014. Mike McCreadyРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљAliveРІР‚Сњ solo was inspired by Ace Frehley.Р”Р‡or the epic two-minute solo that closes РІР‚СљAlive,РІР‚Сњ lead guitarist Mike McCready tried to channel one of his childhood heroes: Kiss ax man Ace Frehley. РІР‚СљWeРІР‚в„ўd captured that song at that moment,РІР‚Сњ drummer Dave Krusen, whose alcohol issues forced him to leave the band before TenРІР‚Вs release, remembered in the book Pearl Jam Twenty. When the band proved unable to duplicate the power and intensity of the РІР‚СљAliveРІР‚Сњ demo during the official Ten recording sessions in March and April, they decided to go with the original recording for the album (and for their first single) РІР‚вЂњ albeit with a new Mike McCready guitar solo that was added to the outro during the albumРІР‚в„ўs final mix. One of those songs was РІР‚СљAlive,РІР‚Сњ which would become one of Pearl JamРІР‚в„ўs most enduring anthems. In January 1991, Pearl Jam (still known at the time as Mookie Blaylock) recorded several songs at SeattleРІР‚в„ўs London Bridge studio as part of a demo session with future Ten producer Rick Parashar. РІР‚СљAliveРІР‚Сњ is actually a demo recording (with a little bit of sweetening). We didnРІР‚в„ўt expect the record to be a huge deal.

РІР‚СљBut it was still a third of the money that weРІР‚в„ўd spent making the Mother Love Bone record. РІР‚СљI think we spent about $25,000 making and about three times that mixing it,РІР‚Сњ bassist Jeff Ament recently told Classic Rock. Ten was recorded on a modest budget.Р”Р‡ormed out of the ashes of Mother Love Bone РІР‚вЂњ whose frontman Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in March 1990, shortly before the release of Apple, their lone full-length album РІР‚вЂњ Pearl Jam were determined to avoid MLBРІР‚в„ўs costly excesses and mistakes. Here are 10 lesser-known facts about the album. Now that the debates have cooled and the dust has settled, Ten stands tall as one of the most iconic records of its era. It also effectively blurred the lines between so-called alternative and mainstream rock, igniting a heated debate among the bandРІР‚в„ўs critics, fans and fellow musicians over whether Pearl Jam were major-label sell-outs, or committed artists whose musical vision just happened to be broad enough to fill arenas. alone.Р”Р‡or better or worse, the success of Ten also helped push the Seattle rock scene that spawned it (and РІР‚СљgrungeРІР‚Сњ culture in general) squarely into the national spotlight, and inspired a host of lesser bands who blatantly imitated Pearl JamРІР‚в„ўs densely rumbling attack and VedderРІР‚в„ўs distinctive baritone roar. Ten unleashed the modern-rock classics РІР‚СљAlive,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљJeremyРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљEven Flow,РІР‚Сњ established the previously unknown Eddie Vedder as a superstar frontman and went on to sell more than 13 million copies in the U.S. But if theyРІР‚в„ўd released only one record РІР‚вЂњ their 1991 debut, Ten РІР‚вЂњ their place in rock history would still be secure. One of the most successful rock bands of the past quarter-century, Pearl Jam have released 10 studio LPs and numerous live records and official bootlegs over the course of their career, selling an estimated 60 million albums worldwide.

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