Pearl Jam Promo T-Shirt...

ACE10

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has this shirt. My understanding is about 50 of these shirts were made.





"Annoying," wrote Robert Hilburn in the L.A. Times. "Offensive," added Bob Keyes of the Argus-Leader.

"(They) flail about in search of a groove and a song," concluded David Browne in Entertainment Weekly.

Even more damning was Nirvana's Kurt Cobain: "There are a lot of really mainstream bands, who sound just like Poison or resemble Poison very much, and they're being promoted as alternative bands. I find that really offensive. I think one of the biggest examples of that would be Pearl Jam."

And from the offended to the disgusted: "Pearl Jam — a hopeless Seattle Sub Pop wannabe band. Ick," courtesy of Steve Bojanowski, a Triangle staff writer.

The band had barely arrived, and the backlash was in full swing. But Pearl Jam — Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder and original drummer Dave Krusen — just laughed and added a quip of their own: "Pearl Jam Press love 'em," then put them all on an official promotional black and white T-shirt.

-Goldmine 8/20/93

Lizard

I've never seen that before.


PEARL JAM - BUILT TO LAST

starmap3333

Best shirt ever. I have one of them. I was asked to interview a stupid singer from a band named Korn in 1993 or 94 when I was in college and had a radio show. I was in cahoots with Smitty from Epic records and didn;t want to stay at the station to do the interview at 7:30 pm. He said he would hook me up bigtime if I helped him fill this last interview spot. I said what can you give me? He mentioned a Ted Nugent box set or something and I was like, "ehhh... no way dude". Then I said "I like Pearl Jam a lot, what do you have?" He said he;d send me every promo item he could get his hands on and I said "ok" I interviewed Jon Davis from Korn and then, about a week later, I got a box that had a bunch of cd singles, 2 records, a hat, and a t shirt. This was the shirt.

It's shredded to pieces in the attic but it still remains...

PureandEasy

THAT IS AWESOME.


Never knew of it's existence.

Mitch8415

starmap3333 wrote:

Best shirt ever. I have one of them. I was asked to interview a stupid singer from a band named Korn in 1993 or 94 when I was in college and had a radio show. I was in cahoots with Smitty from Epic records and didn;t want to stay at the station to do the interview at 7:30 pm. He said he would hook me up bigtime if I helped him fill this last interview spot. I said what can you give me? He mentioned a Ted Nugent box set or something and I was like, "ehhh... no way dude". Then I said "I like Pearl Jam a lot, what do you have?" He said he;d send me every promo item he could get his hands on and I said "ok" I interviewed Jon Davis from Korn and then, about a week later, I got a box that had a bunch of cd singles, 2 records, a hat, and a t shirt. This was the shirt.

It's shredded to pieces in the attic but it still remains...

Now that is a great story.

The only thing I ever got from working at a college radio station was their copy of Merkinball. The manager said "We never play it, so you can keep it".

I gladly accepted.

starmap3333

well thanks... i had a metal show. lol.

Mitch8415

starmap3333 wrote:

well thanks... i had a metal show. lol.

I went to a pretty small college, so I never had an opportunity to interview anyone like that... but I did get to play whatever I wanted on my show.

ACE10

starmap3333 wrote:

Best shirt ever. I have one of them. I was asked to interview a stupid singer from a band named Korn in 1993 or 94 when I was in college and had a radio show. I was in cahoots with Smitty from Epic records and didn;t want to stay at the station to do the interview at 7:30 pm. He said he would hook me up bigtime if I helped him fill this last interview spot. I said what can you give me? He mentioned a Ted Nugent box set or something and I was like, "ehhh... no way dude". Then I said "I like Pearl Jam a lot, what do you have?" He said he;d send me every promo item he could get his hands on and I said "ok" I interviewed Jon Davis from Korn and then, about a week later, I got a box that had a bunch of cd singles, 2 records, a hat, and a t shirt. This was the shirt.

It's shredded to pieces in the attic but it still remains...

Cool story! Thats a sweet box of stuff you scored! I have a lot of cool PJ shirts but this has always been my favorite one. Got it back in '97 or '98 and haven't seen another one since.

The shirt is not mentioned in this article:
http://www.twofeetthick.com/2003/04/been-there-done-that-got-the-t-shirt/

And i've never seen it here either: http://www.bandshirtarchive.com/Pearl-Jam-Shirts-Store/

So i was just curious if anymore were out there. Thanks

starmap3333

how did you get it? now that i think of it, it was before the buffalo show in 96 or 97 that i got this stuff, not 93 or 94.