Pearl Jam , initially called Mookie Blaylock after the former National Basketball Association player of the same name , was formed in 1990 by Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready , who then recruited Vedder as lead singer but hired and fired three different drummers. The band was forced to change its name when they signed to Epic Records in 1991, becoming Pearl Jam, and instead naming their debut album Ten after Blaylock’s jersey number.
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