I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.