Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story by Kim Neely

Author:Kim Neely [Neely, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Pop Culture, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780756774097
Google: hQf2AAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0140276424
Publisher: Diane Publishing Company
Published: 1999-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

AVeryWary Christmas / Channeling Mr. Mojo Risin’ / Dave Braves the AMAs / Setting Up Shop at the Site

At the end of September, Pearl Jam finally got a chance to step off the treadmill, the band members, the crew, and Kelly Curtis treating themselves to a working vacation in Hawaii. There, they played a few shows and shot another video with Josh Taft—a grainy, black-and-white postcard for the Ten track “Oceans,” featuring the band scampering on the beach, that would be released only in Europe. But mostly, they spent the time communing with nature, taking stock and trying to put the last year in perspective.

Between October and February, when they would begin rehearsals for their second album, they would make a few public appearances together as a band, but for the most part the members of Pearl Jam scattered during this period, seeing to personal relationships they’d neglected during the past several months and grappling individually with the odd emptiness that, they would learn, always accompanied the end of a lengthy tour. Throughout their career, no matter how rigorous the tour or how anxious they were to get home, they would always dread it just a little—the feeling of jumping off a fast-moving train and onto the back of a tortoise; the stifling, dusty panic of being deposited on your doorstep and realizing, suddenly, that you don’t know how you’re going to spend your days. But, as they did when they returned home in October 1992, they would usually keep busy enough to burn the blues off quickly.

Jeff took off for Montana, where he would soon buy a parcel of land and build a house. Stone poured his excess energy into a side project, recording an album, Shame, with Brad, a band featuring Luv Co. alumnus Shawn Smith on vocals and drummer Regan Hagar, formerly of Malfunkshun. 10 Dave, who’d finally begun to equate Seattle with “home,” set about exploring the city’s offerings and looking for a permanent residence, something he hadn’t previously had a chance to do. A romance also blossomed between Dave and Sheri Fineman around this time. Still living in the basement room at Kelly Curtis’s that had earlier been occupied by Jerry Cantrell and, later, by Eddie, the drummer had turned to Fineman, who was still nannying for the Curtises, as a defacto Seattle tour guide. The more time the two spent together, the closer they became. Before long, they would be sharing an address.

Mike and Eddie decided to accept one of the countless invitations that were pouring in, traveling to New York in mid-October to perform a fiery version of “Masters of War” at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. In typical we‘re-not-worthy form, Eddie joked to reporters that he and Mike were only there because they’d “volunteered as roadies,” either unaware of or unwilling to accept the symbolic torch that was being passed. A Newsday reporter recounting the event on the following day would opine that Pearl Jam was “as important

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