Stone Gossard
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Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is the rhythm guitarist and, along with Jeff Ament and Mike McCready, a founding member of American rock band Pearl Jam.
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Stone is well known for his work in grunge rock bands based in Seattle through the 1980s prior to Pearl Jam, and he has made significant contributions to the music industry since then aside from Pearl Jam.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Stone formed his first band in the early 1980s named March of Crimes, which introduced him to the emerging music scene in Seattle. Stone formed a close friendship with fellow guitarist Steve Turner who attended the same school as him. Stone was a founding member of the influential grunge bands Green River and Mother Love Bone. After singer Andrew Wood's death and the demise of Mother Love Bone, Stone's new songs and demos developed into significant contributions to the Temple of the Dog project, and the formation of Pearl Jam in 1990. Eight of the eleven tracks on Pearl Jam's seminal debut Ten were musically penned by Gossard, including "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Black". He has since made less of a solo contribution to the band's work, instead becoming part of the collaborative efforts. However he was behind the more recent hits "Do the Evolution" and "Life Wasted".
Gossard is known for his hard rhythm style of playing, and his superb sense of beat and groove. He said of himself: "I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way"[1]. He is a very talented and varied guitarist, and can be seen playing lead guitar on many of Pearl Jam's more recent songs. Eddie Vedder was quoted as saying that it is extremely difficult to collaborate with Stone, as Stone outright refuses to work on anything remotely like anything he's done before.[2] As well as guitar contributions, Stone has also played mellotron, bass guitar, lead vocals and made numerous backing vocal cuts.
Aside from Pearl Jam, Gossard is a founding member of Seattle side project band Brad, who formed in 1993, and have since released three albums. Gossard formed the record label Loosegroove Records in 1995, but the company was dissolved in 2000. He released his first solo album, Bayleaf in 2001. He is the owner of the prestigious Studio Litho in Seattle.
He appeared in the 1992 movie Singles as himself, in lead actor Matt Dillon's backing band. During Pearl Jam's dispute with Ticketmaster in 1994 over prices and surcharges, Gossard appeared along with fellow Pearl Jam member Jeff Ament before a congressional subcommittee to testify on the issue. He has also produced records by such artists as Satchel, Green Apple Quick Step, Weapon of Choice and Critters Buggin[3]. He is a talented artist and painter, and his artwork is on many Pearl Jam releases, as well as his solo album, Bayleaf.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Pearl Jam
- Ten (1991)
- Vs. (1993)
- Vitalogy (1994)
- No Code (1996)
- Yield (1998)
- Binaural (2000)
- Riot Act (2002)
- Lost Dogs (2003)
- Rearviemirror - Greatest Hits (2004)
- Pearl Jam (2006)
[edit] Solo
[edit] Temple of the Dog
[edit] Mother Love Bone
[edit] Green River
- Deep Six (1985)
- Come on Down (1986)
- Dry As a Bone (1987)
- Rehab Doll (1988) (1988)
- Rehab Doll/Dry As a Bone (1988)
- Sub Pop 200 (1988)
[edit] Brad
[edit] References
- ↑ Single Video Theory, Epic, 1998
- ↑ "Eddie Vedder: Addicted to Rock" by Austin Scaggs, Rolling Stone
- ↑ All Music Guide
[edit] External links
- Pearl Jam's Ten Club
- Official Website of Brad
- Brad's Myspace page
- Studio Litho
- All Music Guide entry for Stone Gossard
- Website dedicated to fellow Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, but with excellent information on Stone's equipment in the Gear section of the site
- Stone Gossard on bicycling and health
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