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JesterTGameJesterTGame Posts: 109
edited January 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
can anyone tell me a few things about pj that maybe most peeps dont know. give me your info. stuff like first ever songs or why pj are called pj stuff like that. cheers
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  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    ok, i'll start with the obvious one. before they were pearl jam they were mookie blaylock. when i asked ed why they changed it he said "cause we didnt want to seem like a joke or a novelty." not to imply me and ed talk regularly, it was just once but he did say that.
  • ExTReMe FrEAkExTReMe FrEAk Posts: 118
    Did they ever release an album under Mookie Blaylock?
    Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.
  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    no. i think they played 2 or 3 shows under that name. if that. it was short-lived.
  • JesterTGameJesterTGame Posts: 109
    i got told that they are called pj coz eds auntie made halucogenic jam and her name was pearl. probably a load of shit but thas what i heard
    Fuck me if i say somthing you dont want to hear,
    Fuck me if you only hear whats in your head.
    Fuck me if you can, coz im not leaving here.
  • PandaPanda Posts: 1
    I read that is was his Nana that mad the jam & her name was pearl, apparenty he realy loved that jam.
  • JesterTGameJesterTGame Posts: 109
    so my story was slightly plausable. i'd love that jam if i had some. mmmmmmmmmmmmm i want some. do you think ed will send me some
    Fuck me if i say somthing you dont want to hear,
    Fuck me if you only hear whats in your head.
    Fuck me if you can, coz im not leaving here.
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    JesterTGame wrote:
    i got told that they are called pj coz eds auntie made halucogenic jam and her name was pearl. probably a load of shit but thas what i heard



    That story is a myth actually.
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  • JesterTGameJesterTGame Posts: 109
    if loads a people have heard the story then it might be true. my mate lives in canada and thas the story he heard. anyway the MYTH ov the tomb under the sphinx's left foot is real and thats a myth. the fact that someone has seen our galaxy from the other side of it is a myth but thas true aswell. so do we really know what myths are and if the truth is as real as we believe....
    Fuck me if i say somthing you dont want to hear,
    Fuck me if you only hear whats in your head.
    Fuck me if you can, coz im not leaving here.
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    JesterTGame wrote:
    if loads a people have heard the story then it might be true. my mate lives in canada and thas the story he heard. anyway the MYTH ov the tomb under the sphinx's left foot is real and thats a myth. the fact that someone has seen our galaxy from the other side of it is a myth but thas true aswell. so do we really know what myths are and if the truth is as real as we believe....


    Many, *many* people have heard the story....but it's not true, trust me. I have read interviews where Ed (et al) flat out denies it.

    Think about the Phil Collins/friend drowning story where a guy let him drown and then Phil invited him to a concert and gave him front row seats and pointed him out during the show and told the crowd that was the guy who killed his friend. Yeah, never happened. But in the PJ name case, they started the rumor just to mess w/ people.
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    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • St. NickSt. Nick Posts: 72
    INT: How did you all finally arrive at the name Pearl Jam?

    Eddie: [Stone's laughing in the background.] Well, we drove by a few other names and decided to keep moving until we could find one that we could make ourselves at home in. And it was...I think the name's open to interpretation...even though the real story is the fact that my great grandma was married to an indian chief and... Actually I don't know if he was a chief... Yeah, actually he was demoted. [Stone's cracking up.] He was a chief for a while and then...
    Stone: L'il Chief.
    Eddie: When he moved into like white society, he was no longer ordained...but they also...like the ultimate combining of their cultures was the fact that like my great grandma made this jam that was passed down for generations but then she added his end of it by adding, like peyote and hallucenogenics and it was this kind of hallucenogenic jam...
    Stone: ...they smeared all over each other.
    Eddie: Really?
    Stone: That's my own interpretation. [laughter]


    INT: Isn't there a basketball player who originally was going to be the moniker for the band?

    Eddie: Ah yeah, we were called...the name of the band was Mookie Blaylock.
    Stone: This is the New Jersey Nets point guard.
    Eddie: And he's an amazing cult hero of ours. However...ultimately, I guess we thought it was a little bit of a goofy name and we don't think we're really a goofy band.
    Stone: [laughing] We take ourselves very seriously.
    Eddie: [laughing] Yes, as you can see by this fine interview.

    entire interview on: http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/echoes/echoes2.html

    Really cool to read :D
  • Eddie_Vedder_83Eddie_Vedder_83 Posts: 281
    BinFrog wrote:
    That story is a myth actually.

    well actualy there is a Epic promo video with Ed sitting at the campfire and explaining the very thing. he laughed a bit about it, but it was also his first video ever, and he seemed VERY nervous (or stoned for that matter lol)
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