Almost Gone

Eddie Vedder says Pearl Jam considered calling it a day after performing at the Danish festival Roskilde in June 2000, where nine people were trampled to death.

“It was a hard decision to get to. There was at least one person in the band, I remember, that thought that maybe we should never play again. If that’s something the rest of us didn’t feel, it still was not something that could be easily dismissed and they felt strongly about it. We all had to process something that we all went through as individuals, but also with the help of each other, although I kind of disappeared into Europe. [I] kinda had my own way of getting through it, which was taking Spanish guitar lessons.”