Gaten Matarazzo, who plays the curly-haired mop-top Dustin Henderson on Stranger Things, is also the lead singer of a New Jersey rock band that covers Pearl Jam. The band recently uploaded a cover of “Porch” off of Pearl Jam’s iconic 1991 debut album Ten.
Gaten isn’t Pearl Jam’s only celebrity fan, NBA legend Dennis Rodman has been a die hard Pearl Jam fan for years.
Rodman discussed his love of Pearl Jam in an interview on Undeniable with Joe Buck earlier this year. Rodman remembered a day in April 1993 when he was sitting in his car with a gun on his lap outside the Palace of Auburn Hills.
“I really don’t think about that too much, but man, that was a life changing experience for me. Something that saved me was the fact that I was listening to Pearl Jam a lot.”
Buck asked, “Pearl Jam saved your life?”
Rodman responded, “Pretty much. That’s all I listened to the whole time.”
“I think it’s the lyrics. I think I was listening to a song called ‘Black.’”
Buck then asked if Vedder knows this story, and if he has told him.
Rodman said, “He knows that.”
He said he actually became a fan of Pearl Jam after meeting Vedder, and Vedder recommending he check out his band.
“So I went and got that album, I would play it every day, every day. For some reason, that song [‘Black’] was on, I think that saved my life.”
