This is the job Eddie Vedder had before he rose to fame with Pearl Jam. No star in the music world was born into a position of wealth. In fact, the vast majority grew up in conventional contexts and, while they grew physically and artistically, they had to go through ordinary jobs.
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One example is Eddie Vedder, who, before becoming a legend of grunge music and the fourth art in general, worked as a security guard at the Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, California.
In an interview with SiriusXM, the musician and singer-songwriter said: "I remember working late-shift security and coming home a little burnt out at nine in the morning after traffic, and wanted to play something, but I had the brain dead to do anything complicated.”
During his spare time, Vedder also became friends with original Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, with whom he would go on camping trips. Later, the Evanston native decided to focus fully on music, especially after Stone Gossard sent him a tape in Seattle looking for a singer.
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The Pearl Jam track that included a riff from their guard days
Far from forgetting his former days as a security guard, once his group managed to become the talk of the town after the release of their first album, Ten, Vedder used one of the riffs he had played during his time in La Valencia. to create the track "Rearviewmirror," which was included on Pearl Jam's second album, Vs.
Vedder said: That was just a riff that I used to play. I played that thing for years and years, and at some point it was time to make a song. All the chord changes were there and that day I decided what it was going to be about.
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