4/20/02

4/20/02

Pearl Jam

An outtake from the Riot Act sessions that appeared as the hidden final track of Pearl Jam’s 2003 compilation album Lost Dogs. “4/20/02” was the date when vocalist Eddie Vedder first heard the news that Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley was found dead in his home. The song functions as a tribute to him as well as an attack on anyone that has sounded or tried to sound like him for the sake of making money, because to Eddie Vedder, there’s no one that was as good as Staley.