Pearl Jam's 'Alive' celebrated as one of the 100 greatest guitar solos by Rolling Stone

A 1991 hit that was a rock band's signature song was named one of the greatest guitar solos of all time and it still rocks ...
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How Pearl Jam's 'Alive' Guitar Riff Became a Defining Grunge Anthem

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opening riff for the song, played by Gossard, is monolithic, wide and classically kind of slacker for a grunge anthem. Guitar ...
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Pearl Jam's 'Alive' Sets Record as Longest-Running Near-Hit Without Charting

Eddie Vedder calls it a curse. Fans call it sacrilege. Originally written by Stone Gossard and titled "Dollar Short," the song tells the semiautobiographical story of a teenager who learns later in ...
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Hear Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ How It Was Always Meant to Be: Played by a Bluegrass Band

Deep inside every hard-hitting Pearl Jam grunge-a-palooza lurks a bluegrass hoedown dying to do-si-do. Eddie Vedder himself has proven this time and again by switching between the rock group and his ...