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Formed in the aftermath of Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam would go through five drummers in just an eight year span. While I’ve previously talked about Dave Abbruzzese in my videos and included a link to that story down below, some of you have requested me to do a story on whatever happened to the Pearl Jam’s first drummer Dave Krusen who played on the group’s landmark debut record Ten. Let’s explore the full story in today’s video and if you guys have requests for me use the link in the description box below and put as many requests as you guys like.
Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament would be members of influential Seattle bands Green River and Mother Love Bone prior to forming Pearl Jam. It was following the death of Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood the pair soon turned their attention to a new project and enlisted guitarist Mike McCready. Prior to finding a frontman they started jamming with drummer Dave Krusen. Krusen would recall to Rolling Stone how he joined the early incarnation of Pearl Jam stating
A friend of mine, was in a band called Son of Man. They played a lot of shows with Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden. He actually told me that Jeff Ament said they were looking for drummers to jam with and they mentioned me. Jeff said, “Tell him to call me. I’m in the phone book.” So I looked them up in the phone book and called Jeff and he said, “Do you want come down and jam and bring drums?” I was like, “Definitely.” I was a huge Mother Love Bone fan. …I went down there and we played for about a couple of hours. I thought it sounded great. In the same interview Krusen admitted he wasn’t sure what was going on with the singer situation and two days after that initial jam Eddie Vedder showed up to audition recalling to Rolling Stone They asked me if I wanted to come back the next day and I was like, “Of course.” Then Ed came up a couple of days after that. I had never heard of him, never met him, knew nothing about him. I met him at the rehearsal space and he just started singing off the bat.
By this point in Pearl Jam’s early career they were using the monicker Mookie Blaylock named after then current NBA Player and the band already had demos of the songs ‘Black’ and ‘Alive.’ Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog drummer Matt Cameron had played on the demos but was already committed to Soundgarden and Jack Irons who helped the band find Eddie Vedder was initially offered teh drumming spot but declined at the time. Krusen recalled to Rolling Stone working on the drum parts for the songs from Ten:
I tried to approach them like he did (referring to Matt Cameron), but obviously I can’t play as good as him, so I tried to turn them into my own thing. But yeah, those songs just came together really easily. Stone would start in on a riff, whether it was song he had going or one where he just started on a riff, even if it just an idea, and ten minutes later we’d pretty much worked it into something we could work with.In late 1990 the band played their first set of shows and soon became the opening act for Alice in Chains during a west coast tour when they were promoting their debut record Facelift. Soon enough they got signed to Epic Records and renamed themselves Pearl Jam.
Krusen would play drums on the band’s debut album Ten and it was following the recording of the record he played a few more shows with the band before e was ultimately fired. He would admit in the book everybody loves our town that his final gig with the group would be the wrap party for the Cameron Crowe film singles. Krusen’s drinking had became so out of control with him admitting “i just wanted to party & get fucked up. When we did the photo shoot for the album, i got some beer & halfway through the shoot, i started to fall asleep.” He would recall not remembering the shoot after seeing photos of it and the band had to put sunglasses on Krusen and prop him up against the wall. In addition to struggling with alcohol Krusen would admit in the same book that he had gotten his girlfriend (or as he referred to and i quote “my kind of girlfriend” and he had gotten her pregnant and tried to do the right thing and stick around and help raise the kid. Admittin
4 окт 2024
