Five against the world biography of Pearl Jam

Five Against the World There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif., it's easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets outside the Site, the recording studio where …

…f---ing gas-station attendant you ever saw." Best of all, Pearl Jam are no longer a band with only one very, very big album. "There's no school to go to for some of the weird shit that happens," says Vedder. "The f---ing weirdness of it all. But some of these guys, they can help out a bit. Bob Dylan's advice was 'Go to Dublin.' I wrote him a postcard today." "It said, 'Made it.' "