Pearl jam band members biography definition

American rock band

For their 2006 album, see Pearl Jam (album).

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

The band's lineup consists of founding members Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), as well as Matt Cameron (drums), who joined in 1998.

Keyboardist Boom Gaspar has also been a touring/session member with the band since 2002. Former members include Dave Krusen (an original member), Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons, all of whom were the band's drummers from 1990 to 1998.

One of the key bands in the grunge movement of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam has outsold and outlasted many of its contemporaries from the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands from that decade,^[1] dubbed "the most popular American rock and roll band of the '90s".^[2]

Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's