New PJ Symbol

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  • F5AgainstOne
    F5AgainstOne New Hampshire, USA Posts: 1,462
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Really???
    Hmmmmm............now that flag of PP's make sense.
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  • Dirty Frankk
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    PillowPants wrote:
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    :lol::lol::lol::lol:
    that's awesome
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    I think the new symbol is awesome. Simple logos are the best.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    HeavyHands wrote:
    The red banner looks like it's from the 80's tv show "V". Kind of ominous. Strong symbology.

    Ominous is an understatement, since "V" was an allegory about Nazism and Fascism, and the aliens' lettering was intended to be evocative of the swastika. So that's what I was thinking at PJ20 every time I looked up at those banners, which was awkward.
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  • BF25394
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    I should add that I also wondered if what they were going for is that it kind of looks like a speaker.
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  • eyejacker
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    mfc2006 wrote:

    just got a text from Adam---he & Dimi got tickets for Jimmy Fallon. lucky guys!


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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,975
    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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  • tremors
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    F5AgainstOne wrote:
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    Looks like a man vomiting into a basin at PJ20 to me
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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    i see the P and J in shapes
    very simple and powerful, ominous like someone said too

    hmmmm

    it's...nice?
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    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.
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  • cbrunelle783
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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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  • Kat
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    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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  • Soulfire42
    Soulfire42 Posts: 404
    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.
  • awilkins
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    I immediately thought CBC.
  • covered in bliss
    covered 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?
  • capthowdy1027
    capthowdy1027 Posts: 3,270
    covered in bliss wrote:
    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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  • Child Of The 90s
    Child Of The 90s Posts: 526
    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/
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    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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