Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard were beside themselves, and they took several months off to grieve. The band members were stunned, and Mother Love Bone was no more.
Unfortunately, however, tragedy struck, and unique and energetic frontman Andrew Wood overdosed on heroin, passing away at the young age of 24. After recording their first record, Apple, the band sensed its pending success. After two years of gigging locally, MLB was ready to release their debut album and tour the country. The music being played was in stark contrast to what was currently popular on the radio at the time, and it was an exciting era to be a fan of underground rock, to say the least. In late 1988, a band called Mother Love Bone ruled Seattle’s underground music scene. After a decade’s worth of synths, drum machines, and digital studio effects throughout the 1980s, Pearl Jam was a well-received breath of fresh air when Ten was released in August 1991, and the album propelled Eddie Vedder and company towards being one of the biggest and most influential bands of their generation. The band injected a large amount of excitement and unpredictability to the world of rock and roll during the height of the highly-commercialized MTV era of American pop music, and acted as a bridge between the mainstream and Seattle’s blossoming alternative music scene at the time. The album, released via Epic Records, is filled with songs that are now considered classics in rock circles, and many of them now transcend the grunge genre to be considered “classic rock”. Released on this day in 1991, debut Pearl Jam album Ten still hails as one of the top grunge-era rock albums of the decade, and is certainly worthy of its placement the upper echelon of debut albums from across the musical spectrum.
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