Flashback: Pre-Fame Eddie Vedder Sings 'Better Man' in 1989

Two years before joining Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder fronted the San Diego rock band Bad Radio. The group had a decent local following, but they never recorded anything besides a handful of demos and after a couple of years Vedder grew frustrated by their lack of progress. "We'd win 'battle of the bands' on intensity alone, but it was coming from me," he later said. "I couldn't get anybody else to give up their fucking bullshit. As far as songs and stuff, they weren't reading, they weren't living. T