Pearl Jam is one of the world’s biggest, well-respected rock groups. Now, in a rare wide-ranging interview with correspondent Anthony Mason, Eddie Vedder and bassist Jeff Ament open up about the band’s founding, being together for nearly 35 years, their latest album, and more to “CBS Sunday Morning,” airs Sunday, September 22 on CBS and streams on Paramount+.
Mason caught up with Pearl Jam while on tour for a revealing, personal look, where Vedder and Ament talk about their childhood, making music together, their devoted fan base, being on tour, getting older and their friendship.
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Watch the excerpt in the video player above with Vedder talking about writing lyrics while surfing to an instrumental tape sent to him by a group of Seattle musicians, and bassist Jeff Ament’s reaction upon hearing them:
EDDIE VEDDER: I did those midnight shifts. So when I went out surfing in the morning … I remember it was super foggy and one of those days where you think, “Maybe I won’t go out.” … But I had the music in my head, the instrumental, and kind of wrote it. And then I was still wet when I broke the “record”.
ANTHONY MASON: When you heard what he sent back, what did you think?
JEFF AMENT: I listened to it. And then I remember I went and went and got a coffee, and then I came back, and I listened to it again. … And then I remember calling Stone [Gossard] and I said, ‘You have to come here now.’
Ament and guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready flew Vedder up to Seattle to audition.
VEDDER: It was just, I was like you felt it. Like, you were like, ‘Oh, this is what it is. Like, this is heaven.”
You can stream Pearl Jam’s latest album, “Dark Matter,” by clicking the embed below (free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
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