New PJ Symbol

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  • i see the P and J in shapes
    very simple and powerful, ominous like someone said too

    hmmmm

    it's...nice?
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,781
    Kat wrote:
    I love it. Funny interpretation of it and all. ha.

    What I didn't like were all the advertising banners all over the venue. They are just what you don't want to see when you're listening to or playing music. :)

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    It's true, it could have been "Bud Light Lime PJ20" for all of the billboards and banners promoting that beverage.
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  • I thought it was a boom box, seriously that's what I thought I was looking at all weekend :oops:
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  • KatKat Posts: 4,930
    BF25394 wrote:
    Kat wrote:
    I love it. Funny interpretation of it and all. ha.

    What I didn't like were all the advertising banners all over the venue. They are just what you don't want to see when you're listening to or playing music. :)

    x

    It's true, it could have been "Bud Light Lime PJ20" for all of the billboards and banners promoting that beverage.

    It could have been that way and I'm really grateful that it wasn't. I was joking, of course, since all the advertising banners were gone and all that we had were the Pearl Jam symbol flags flying everywhere. It was beautiful. :)
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  • I think the new symbol fails. It is far too cryptic to get people's attention, to make them see the P and J and it doesn't immediately convey the band's name even if a person somehow manages to decipher it as PJ. At best it is a symbol for the crowd who is intimately familiar with the band already. And for that crowd, I think it isn't very interesting anyway. For strangers, it absolutely bombs at advertising Pearl Jam to new people.
  • I immediately thought CBC.
  • covered in blisscovered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    Soulfire42 wrote:
    At best it is a symbol for the crowd who is intimately familiar with the band already.

    I thought that was the point?
  • Soulfire42 wrote:
    At best it is a symbol for the crowd who is intimately familiar with the band already.

    I thought that was the point?

    That's very true. Nobody could see that on a shirt walking down the street and say "Oh cool a Pearl Jam shirt".
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  • Pearl Jam's take on the Plan B skateboard logo??? I'm pretty sure that's what it is. They also used the independent logo a couple of years ago with the "Built to last" slogan.

    http://www.planbskateboards.com/
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,781
    edited September 2011
    "Kat wrote:
    It could have been that way and I'm really grateful that it wasn't. I was joking, of course, since all the advertising banners were gone and all that we had were the Pearl Jam symbol flags flying everywhere. It was beautiful. :)

    There was actually a large Bud Light Lime banner to the right of the pavilion (I was in Section 203 and you couldn't miss it), and there were two Bud Light Lime billboards in front of the PJ20 Alpine Valley billboard in the parking lot (which I used as landmarks to pinpoint exactly where I parked).

    The only show I recall where there was truly no advertising in the venue was at the Forum in L.A. in 2006. Eddie made a note of it during the show.
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  • I like it. Contemplating my first tattoo to be this.
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  • Gvn2flyGvn2fly Posts: 754
    It obviously gets people talking and for that reason it works. First thing I thought of was how cryptic it is. I also like that it's very subtle. The "more then casual" fan will know what it is when they see it. I like that it doesn't immediately scream "Pearl Jam."

    It's definately open for interpretation if nothing else.

    And if it was modeled after Plan B then there you go. They are a heavily influenced skate/surf band.
  • It's a nice logo. The way it's made up reminds me a bit of the Doors logo:
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  • kid canadakid canada Toronto Posts: 446
    It sucks. But it won't be around long.
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  • Given to...Given to... Wyoming Posts: 4,997
    Love it. Like it the most in black. no color to differentiate. just black

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  • I love it.
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  • joebotjoebot Posts: 372
    I dislike it. Almost hate.
  • I just keep seeing this when I come across it lol

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  • My buddy and I were making fun of somebody at PJ20 we overheard saying they didn't know it was "PJ". Really? I can't see how you could NOT know. It's a P and a J, and you're at a PJ concert. I am shocked there are others who didn't pick up on it.
  • And I love it, btw. Cool, simple, and easily identifiable.
  • Aaron 23Aaron 23 Allen, TX Posts: 543
    My buddy and I were making fun of somebody at PJ20 we overheard saying they didn't know it was "PJ". Really? I can't see how you could NOT know. It's a P and a J, and you're at a PJ concert. I am shocked there are others who didn't pick up on it.
    I didn't realize there were that many people that didn't get it, either.

    I like it.
  • I like it, really 80's/70's looking.
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  • PillowPantsPillowPants Posts: 4,877
    edited September 2011
    Kat wrote:
    I love it. Funny interpretation of it and all. ha.

    What I didn't like were all the advertising banners all over the venue. They are just what you don't want to see when you're listening to or playing music. :)

    x


    i was confused day 1 by the billboard with the (what I thought was) cross promotion with vitamin water... but then i realized it was a rain delay on the live art


    i actually didn't see the puker over the weekend... i saw the PJ... and I envisioned the shapes moving into 2011... like in a multimedia presentation or something

    part of me also sees the sun rising between twin towers... which is kind of a nice image to think of around this weekend... 10 years have passed and hopefully we're all rising above while still remembering
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    To me it looks like a guy bent over puking into a toilet.
  • Pearl Jam's take on the Plan B skateboard logo??? I'm pretty sure that's what it is. They also used the independent logo a couple of years ago with the "Built to last" slogan.

    http://www.planbskateboards.com/


    interesting

    wonder if this PJ is jeff's work


    i love that we all see different things and it's cryptic

    i don't think PJ made it with new fans in mind...

    and i love that the diehards will be able to see it and know we're amongst friends



    on my way to WI I was in Logan airport and the woman putting me in the xray machine says "oh you're going to the concert too??"

    had to laugh... she said she saw tons of shirts that friday and saturday

    she then asked me why the avocado - as my checkin person did in WI at the hotel... and I told them it was a secret :)
  • rna2525 wrote:
    It looks like someone is throwing up in a toilet bowl....actually i think that what its supposed to b

    This, precisely.

    My wife was w/ me in the merch line on Day 1 and asked why anyone would want a shirt w/ a guy puking in the toilet on it.
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  • rna2525 wrote:
    It looks like someone is throwing up in a toilet bowl....actually i think that what its supposed to b
    I heard this three times saturday of pj20. Were you sitting in section 201????
  • StereotypeStereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    I like the simplicity. I think I like it.
    At the same time it reminds me of a dog that I once knew. It had long ears, a big nose, looked like he was smiling and you could never see his eyes. But I guess this is already Gestalt psychology or something.
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  • Given to...Given to... Wyoming Posts: 4,997
    BF25394 wrote:
    Kat wrote:
    I love it. Funny interpretation of it and all. ha.

    What I didn't like were all the advertising banners all over the venue. They are just what you don't want to see when you're listening to or playing music. :)

    x

    It's true, it could have been "Bud Light Lime PJ20" for all of the billboards and banners promoting that beverage.


    That sign was TERRIBLE!!! With the Lasic I had done last year, night halos and ambient lights like that make everything fucked up. That sign should have been covered up or broken!
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