Best and Worst Pearl Jam Posters

acutejam

Speaking for those of us with a horrendeous poster curse, all I have to do is run down my show list:

San Fran 2006 III (2-3 mentions already)
LA 2009 II
SD 2009
Indy 2010 (2-3 mentions already)

But yeah, WE HAVE A WINNER: the cake has to go to Vancouver '11 -- not even screenprinted!

Recent Favs:
Cleveland 2010 - Guy Burwell
SLC 2009 - Brad Klausen

PJ_Soul

imalive wrote:

dislocated wrote:

There are no best & worst. Art is a matter of taste/opinion. For exaplme, I don't get the MSG Kong poster, but everyone else seems to love it.

agreed...it sucks....but it was NYC, so you know how that goes :roll:

There are best and worst in individuals' opinions. That's what we're talking about here, isn't it? ... But when did saying you didn't personally like a work of art become unacceptable? I'm okay with expressing my opinion about art (and everything else)! If someone declares art to be horrible, yes they're critiquing it, but no matter how it's phrased, they can't dictate to anyone else whether or not they are going to like it. I dunno... sometimes I just think people take criticism of art a little too seriously.

rvapete

Suziemay wrote:

dislocated wrote:

There are no best & worst. Art is a matter of taste. For exaplme, I don't get the MSG Kong poster, but everyone else seems to love it.

Me neither but boy am I glad I grabbed one Epic show!!
My favourite so far, Sperry Sao Paulo. Hoping to score one through 10C!

LUCKY GIRL! I hope you get one Thursday

rvapete

Best: 9/19/98, 7/1/03, 5/30/06, 6/17/08, 6/22/08, 5/13/10, 9/3/11, 9/4/11
11/4/11 (Don't have yet but looks awesome in pictures)

Worst: NONE :-D

jwagner

NYbenben wrote:

the moose playing the violin from 9/11/11 is awesome and the next nite 9/12/11 was a complete disaster!!

I was just going to say the same thing, glad I read the whole thread first. I couldn't agree more! Have the 9/11 one framed, and didn't bother buying the 9/12 eyesore. But I'm not really a PJ poster collector, so what do I know... awesome shows though!

Spoony C

pjradio wrote:

first ones that come to mind:

Best:

...i want this one

Wanna cry? I actually have this one, signed by the entire band (including Boom). It was PJ's contribution to the silent auction at Bonnaroo in 2008. I actually came in third on the bidding, but the first two people didn't respond to the phone calls that they'd won, so I got it by default. Can't believe what I spent, but she is my pride and joy.

Ironically, probably my least favorite of the ones I own (and I own the aforementioned Indy 2010, so keep that in mind as a benchmark) is the Bonnaroo 2008 poster. Don't have a photo to upload right now, but it just underwhelmed me--for such a big event (and my favorite of the seven shows I've attended, including PJ20), it just seemed to be not enough. Too much white space, too simple a design: a rudimentary blue skull with Elvis hair and a centipede crawling through the eye and mouth.

On a side note, re: Speedy's repeated assertions that Cincy 2006 was horrible, what's the reason for that diagnosis? PM me if you'd like, as I get the impression everybody else has heard your opinion on this, and besides, I don't want to derail a thread to a completely different topic. But I quite enjoyed that show, and I've always wondered what your beef was with it. (Again, I'm coming from a perspective of single-digit PJ concert attendance, so I'm not as concerned with setlist variety, etc.)

smithnic

Suziemay wrote:

dislocated wrote:

There are no best & worst. Art is a matter of taste. For exaplme, I don't get the MSG Kong poster, but everyone else seems to love it.

Me neither but boy am I glad I grabbed one Epic show!!
My favourite so far, Sperry Sao Paulo. Hoping to score one through 10C!

I actually would put that in the worst category. Also most of 06 is pretty rough.

One of my favorites is Lansing 98 (comic book with king kong) ,Albany 04 (statue of liberty) Pittsburgh 06 (typewriter) Dublin 10, Donkey Kong,

PJ_Soul

rvapete wrote:

Suziemay wrote:

dislocated wrote:

There are no best & worst. Art is a matter of taste. For exaplme, I don't get the MSG Kong poster, but everyone else seems to love it.

Me neither but boy am I glad I grabbed one Epic show!!
My favourite so far, Sperry Sao Paulo. Hoping to score one through 10C!

LUCKY GIRL! I hope you get one Thursday

Lol. I'm really glad you like that. I think it looks like one of those velvet painting things from the flea market, lol. Good thing such diverse posters are made, considering the diverse tastes of the fans!

boyo79

acutejam wrote:

Speaking for those of us with a horrendeous poster curse, all I have to do is run down my show list:

San Fran 2006 III (2-3 mentions already)
LA 2009 II
SD 2009
Indy 2010 (2-3 mentions already)

But yeah, WE HAVE A WINNER: the cake has to go to Vancouver '11 -- not even screenprinted!

Recent Favs:
Cleveland 2010 - Guy Burwell
SLC 2009 - Brad Klausen

Looking at the posters that were done for the shows I've been I'm not thrilled with them. 2 I like. (Wembley '07 and Manchester '09 - didn't like it at first, regret not buying it now)

Spoony C wrote:

Ironically, probably my least favorite of the ones I own (and I own the aforementioned Indy 2010, so keep that in mind as a benchmark) is the Bonnaroo 2008 poster. Don't have a photo to upload right now, but it just underwhelmed me--for such a big event (and my favorite of the seven shows I've attended, including PJ20), it just seemed to be not enough. Too much white space, too simple a design: a rudimentary blue skull with Elvis hair and a centipede crawling through the eye and mouth.

Another poster I have framed. I think the simplicty of it is what I love but I can understand how you feel underwhelmed by it for the event

stickfig13

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

boyo79

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

Yeah that is a contender. That gig was played on my 30th birthday and thats the poster that got made

stickfig13

boyo79 wrote:

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

Yeah that is a contender. That gig was played on my 30th birthday and thats the poster that got made

I have a poster from every show I've been to. This poster will never be owned by me. Garbage.

Too bad because it was an epic show

veddertown

boyo79 wrote:

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

Yeah that is a contender. That gig was played on my 30th birthday and thats the poster that got made

No justice is there Ian!?

This was the one from my 40th last year and the darlings that are dottles and ilockyer sprung a surprise on me and brought one home as a gift! It looks amazing and it'll look even better once it's framed..
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSeBrXzlwGc/T ... n%2BCC.jpg

boyo79

veddertown wrote:

boyo79 wrote:

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

Yeah that is a contender. That gig was played on my 30th birthday and thats the poster that got made

No justice is there Ian!?

This was the one from my 40th last year and the darlings that are dottles and ilockyer sprung a surprise on me and brought one home as a gift! It looks amazing and it'll look even better once it's framed..
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSeBrXzlwGc/T ... n%2BCC.jpg

Hopefully they play on my 40th and I get to go and the poster is good! Hamilton's a good poster, look forward to seeing it once you've framed it

stickfig13 wrote:

I have a poster from every show I've been to. This poster will never be owned by me. Garbage.

Too bad because it was an epic show

I remember listening to that show last year and being blown away by how good it was. And then wishing that I'd have gone. But yeah, the poster is just bad! If I ended up buying it, I could never frame it

PJ_Soul

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

I think that's an awesome poster!

perfectlefts14

PJ_Soul3388 wrote:

stickfig13 wrote:

WORST POSTER EVER
SD 2009

I think that's an awesome poster!

I like it as well!
I think there are a ton of worst posters than this one. It looks great on my wall!

pjradio

not a fan of this one:

En La Clandestinidad

DS1119 wrote:

81 wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

this is pretty bad

It's actually my favorite. Wish I had got one when I was there.

Crazy frigging story about this one. So I was sharing a ten club ticket with some random member on the boards. I was waiting outside the venue forever for this dude to show up. I kept calling him and he said that he was still trying to get to the venue, finally like right before the opening act he says he's here. Well, he was a liar because I saw him walking around the whole time, but didn't know it was him. Well, he actually won the lottery, so wanted to make sure his buddy picked up his tickets and they would take the best pair, which I get, I guess. Well, I was sharing tickets with get_right for a future show and he had an extra ticket that was probably going to be much better than what the guy I was sharing with was going to get, so I figured I'd sell my extra. Well, long story short (too late!) I only got like $20 or so for the extra ticket and then by the time I got in all the posters were sold out except for one stand that I finally found. So I got talking to the guy and his girlfriend and he told me that when he made it to the front of the line, he would grab one for me. Lucky he did, because we got the last two!! So I probably got the last poster sold that night. It was such a stressful deal, but was so happy to get one at face value. 10C never did have a sale for that poster if I remember right.

I am not the biggest fan of it, but it fits really well with the Hampton from PJ 20 and plus, I gotta have one from all the shows I have been to.

PJStatTracker

There are many contenders for best...there are a lot that I love. This, however, is my least favorite:

TroubledSoul

best


dusseldorf 07, st louis 98. cali trio 2000.

worst


VFC, and most oz 06 and recent canadian ones.