They wanted to call it "Life," and by the time Pearl Jam began recording their third album, their lives seemed pretty charmed. Despite ignoring nearly every dictate of the music business, they had sold millions of copies of Ten and Vs. Creatively, Pearl Jam were on such fire that they began cutting
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Pearl Jam’s ‘Vitalogy’: How Band Nearly Came Apart Making Volatile Third LP