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In 1990, Eddie Vedder preferred pajama bottoms to corduroys onstage.

He is also an excellent surfer.

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That agitated growl of Vedder's first displayed itself after a bouncer beat the shit out of one of his fans, apparently.

Chris Cornell? Nice guy.

Cameron Crowe is not afraid to use footage of men playing football in their underwear.

Nor is he afraid to use footage of "Opera Man."

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Guitarist Mike McCready blacked out during an SNL performance of "Daughter" — his way of dealing with fame, apparently.

Eddie Vedder is not afraid to climb speaker rigs: "We're gonna take it to this — to some level you're never gonna forget. And if that means risking you're life, we're gonna do it."

Cameron Crowe is not afraid to use footage from Don't Look Back in his own rock-and-roll documentaries.

Or Andy Rooney.

Twice.

Kurt Cobain "kept us on good behavior with almost everything we did."

So did Mookie Blaylock:

Boom Gaspar is by far the best piano-player name in rock history, even if he looks like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

"What is grunge?" "I don't even use that word."

Band founder Stone Gossard owns approximately this much Pearl Jam memorabilia: one concert DVD, one copy of every Pearl Jam record, one dirty coffee mug from Mexico, one Grammy.

They really only almost broke up once.

Drummers are necessary, and also not so: "You do it out of survival mode," Vedder says. "It's like a heart transplant."

Cameron Crowe's next movie is about a zoo.

This one is probably better than that, and available on DVD way sooner.

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