Pearl Jam Opened On 20 Years Of Rock Fame

Toronto (Reuters) - The documentary of Cameron Crowe's "Twenty Pearl Jam" will take viewers is 20 years behind the scenes tour, the band reached the Top of the Rock 'n' roll Pantheon, but refused to embrace the spotlight.

"It is more than just a rock documentary," Crowe says Oscar-winning film, he reconstructed from more than 1,200 hours of archival footage and recent interviews.

High and Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder slow dance with Kurt Cobain Nirvana under such a scenario plays Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven" above the cross in the death of nine fans choking Roskilde group, the Denmark concert in 2000, the entire two-hour movie.

"I'm still emotionally down parts of it," guitarist Mike McCready said in an interview with Crowe and the rest of the band since its debut in the documentary of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

"I had to sit down a while ago because I was overwhelmed ... like a concert, but even more so."

Crowe, director of "Jerry Maguire" and a rock journalist in Seattle in 80 years, spent three years making the film. He hits theaters around the world of cinema on September 20 for an evening showing, then runs for a week in selected markets from September 23.

The Seattle-based group is also launching a 384-page book and a soundtrack of 29 songs to celebrate his first two decades. A DVD of the documentary will follow with additional images.

There are moments in the film, where the group is on the verge of collapse, as in its fight against Ticketmaster in the mid 90's, or the tragedy of Roskilde and drummer Matt Cameron, said he was the most heartbreaking to see the movie.

"But it is an important part of the history of our survival, because we could easily throw in the towel," he said. "It 'a kind of reliving the memories of facing the audience. It was a real catharsis all of us."

TWENTY YEARS OF FAME

Pearl Jam after the birth of a drug overdose, Andrew Wood, a charismatic singer Mother Love Bone, in 1990. That the band's guitarist, Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament McCready then connected with and Soundgarden Cameron. Together, they brought Vedder, a surfer from San Diego to sing.

Pearl Jam gave its first six days later.

Fame came quickly, but the band turned their backs on it. Vedder did not want to make films, and he accepts his speech, the best hard rock performance Grammy Awards in 1996, said, "this means nothing."

Twenty years later, Pearl Jam is ready to open on her rise to fame, and struggle to avoid its pitfalls.

"We kept all pretty close," Gossard said, adding that at this stage, "It's good not to be afraid, as if to leave some things and let people see how the process works and what characters are like."

In the movie, Cameron interviews with group members in their homes, and Gossard's hard to find all the trappings of Pearl Jam. All members of the sub-projects that deal, from the ukulele album Vedder, Cameron to work on a new album of Soundgarden, and the new group Ament Three Mts.

"When we put our shoes that we use in this band, is a real pleasure," says Ament. "We are always under the lights, and when we played in Montreal the other night, I was like 'Oh my God, wow! This is the craziest thing ever!'"

The TIFF format compact group, in a few days trip 22 days.

They played two and a half hours together in Toronto on Sunday, a sold-out arena, ended an epic version of Neil Young's "Rockin 'in the Free World", with "Uncle Neil" cry himself out of the band's charming audiences .

Pearl Jam has been working with young people and credit of the past 66 years with a great inspiration. Vedder, Young attended the premier before falling out of Pearl Jam's second sold-out concert in Toronto on Monday.

In 1991, when the band played the first show, had eight songs.

"Now we can play with, literally, nearly 140 pieces at a time," said Vedder. It is another 20 years for them?

"I challenge you to find and try to follow me, Matt, or any of us," said Vedder.

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