Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready hosted his 14th annual Crohn's Disease benefit in Seattle over the weekend and he brought along a few famous friends.
Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley and members of Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees assembled for just one album as Mad Season, but 'Above' took grunge to experimental new heights.
Pearl Jam were reconfiguring themselves as a band whose ambitions transcended traditional measures of success, and that meant making a record on their own shifting terms.