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Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Since His Earliest Days as a Popular High School Actor and His Years as The "Best Networker" in the San Diego Music Scene, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Has Reinvented Himself as the Voice of an Alienated Gener ....

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... of the faithful who have waited a long time for this moment. Apart from scattered dates on their abortive 1995 tour, Pearl Jam have not sustained a tour in more than two years. The scene is set, then, for a legendary show -- the band's triumphant return. You'd never guess it from Vedder's scowl. "Have you heard the new album?" he asks in his husky baritone. The applause is scattered. "Well," Vedder mumbles, "you're about to hear it again." With that, Pearl Jam edge into "Sometimes," the fragile ballad that opens No Code. "Seek my part," Vedder sings, pushing out the lyrics in a pained rasp. "Devote myself/My small self/Like a book amongst ...