Ed Vedder stopped at Easy Street Records last Friday to introduce Alain Johannes.
Pearl Jam singer gave a great introduction to Alain Johannes before Alain’s concert at Easy Street Records in Seattle.
Alain Johannes is a Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, and a founding member of several bands, including the alternative rock group Eleven, and has been involved with acts such as Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Chris Cornell, Arctic Monkeys, and Mark Lanegan, both as a musician and as a producer.
Some days after the Easy Street Records show, Alain Johannes jammed with Matt Cameron at the London Bridge Studio in Seattle.
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Watch the Vedder’s introduction to Johannes clip below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP6zUXz5cNs
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1980. He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of “Pearl Jam Evolution” in 2009 along with his wife Daria. Since 2022, he is behind 2 podcasts: “Pearl Jam dalla A alla Z” and “Fuori Orario Not Another Podcast”. He has collaborated with Barracuda Style, HvsR, Rolling Stone, Rockol and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.
Favorite song: Present Tense
Favorite album: No Code
Favorite bands/artists other than PJ: Tom Waits, Soundgarden, Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital, Dead Kennedys, Mark Lanegan, Cat Power, R.E.M.