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How Pearl Jam Helped Define the Grunge Music Movement
Pearl Jam, the band that would come to define a region and an era found its earliest pieces when Montana-born bassist Jeff Ament and Seattle guitarist Stone Gossard joined fellow guitarist Steve Turner, drummer Alex Vincent and frontman Mark Arm in 1984 to launch Green River, a band named after a local serial killer.
As documented in Kim Neely's Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story, among the pioneering Seattle groups that were fusing hardcore and metal in the wake of punk's rise and fall, in autumn 1985, Green River put out what many consider to be the first grunge record, the six-track EP Come On Down.
Clashing interests led to their demise before the release of a full-length album in June 1988.
Meanwhile, Ament and Gossard had found another like-minded musician in Malfunkshun vocalist Andy Wood, a magnetic frontman equally capable of outlandish stage theatrics and heart-tugging piano ballads.
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