2018 Euro Merch

Spiritual_Chaos · June 2018

tempo_n_groove said:

Of the Girl as an opener yesterday! Nice.

So the keychain has been the only cool thing so far as of merch?

I enjoy a tshirt or two...

Hyperbole in this thread.

But the stickers and animal-eye-things arent too exciting.

PJNB · June 2018

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Going crossed eyed looking at that one.

pjsteelerfan · June 2018

Hope the double eyed animal theme is abandoned by the time the US shows start

JojoRice · June 2018

The fireball shirt is the only piece of merch that I’ve liked so far. Posters have been meh. All the 4 eyed animal merch has been ugly.

tempo_n_groove · June 2018

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Of the Girl as an opener yesterday! Nice.

So the keychain has been the only cool thing so far as of merch?

I enjoy a tshirt or two...

Hyperbole in this thread.

But the stickers and animal-eye-things arent too exciting.

Hyperbole? Have you seen the stuff?

jpdannabelle · June 2018

Does anyone have an Amsterdam lion shirt they’d like to sell? Size Large. Let me know thanks!

dimitrispearljam · June 2018

One poster per person today

js261067 · June 2018

dimitrispearljam said:

One poster per person today

Fina-fucking-lly (although I doubt you'll have any trouble with flippers on this one lol)

jpdannabelle · June 2018

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Restless Soul said:

Are these the official posters? What's the significance of some of these, such as the first one with the goddess-type woman?

The problem, in my opinion, is that rock posters in general are detached from the show itself.

the fusion of the artists together with that specific show (geographically, date wise etc) is what interests me.

Just getting some guy who's amazing at drawing crows, do draw a crow and throw Pearl Jam on top off it is quite boring to me. Or atlest, a missed opportunity.

True. The artwork is awesome but for me since ‘98, maybe 2000, the posters don’t really say “gig poster”. It’s a piece of artwork with Pearl Jam on it. Some are better than others but they don’t really look like concert posters. You can’t deny the talent of the artists but something is missing.

droptheleash9 · June 2018

dimitrispearljam said:

One poster per person today

Big if true. 1 per person is how it should be so that it keeps posters, at least initially, in the hands of those who went to the show. Maybe a system of 1 per person before/during show and then open it up to 2 per person once it's over? Might be a happy medium. I know a lot of people pick up a spare for a friend or someone arriving late but the reality is that most people buying 2 are looking to use it as trade bait.

nicknyr15 · June 2018

Man I feel bad for the flippers. Nothing really taking the community by storm yet. Looks like low resale value so far. Lol.

willbarclay · June 2018

HesCalledDyer said:

willbarclay said:

HesCalledDyer said:

I really don't like modern day gig posters for the most part. I miss the flat, simple style of the 96-2006 era. When they actually looked like gig posters and full-blown illustrations.

EDIT: *NOT* full-blown illustrations

Id Like to see Dan Stiles do some. His style is a little more old school gig poster-ie.

I just looked him up. Yes, I dig his style. Looks like he's done some work for some PJ-related artists, too. I see some Sleater-Kinney, Petty, Midlake, Gaslight Anthem in there.

@HesCalledDyer
Another Artist that you might like for a PJ print is Rob Schwater. http://tinybirdpress.storenvy.com/

I'd Dig It.

Spiritual_Chaos · June 2018

jpdannabelle said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Restless Soul said:

Are these the official posters? What's the significance of some of these, such as the first one with the goddess-type woman?

The problem, in my opinion, is that rock posters in general are detached from the show itself.

the fusion of the artists together with that specific show (geographically, date wise etc) is what interests me.

Just getting some guy who's amazing at drawing crows, do draw a crow and throw Pearl Jam on top off it is quite boring to me. Or atlest, a missed opportunity.

True. The artwork is awesome but for me since ‘98, maybe 2000, the posters don’t really say “gig poster”. It’s a piece of artwork with Pearl Jam on it. Some are better than others but they don’t really look like concert posters. You can’t deny the talent of the artists but something is missing.

I don't really know what constitutes a gig poster, if not artwork with a band name on it. Haha.

F Me In The Brain · June 2018

vant0037 said:

Any of these posters - probably framed, matted and hung - can look incredible. That’s art 101. Frankly, most people (PJ fans in particular) don’t display their stuff correctly, because it’s expensive or they don’t have an eye for matting etc or because they hang it next to five other things that don’t compliment it or because its being displayed in a Michael’s poster binder in a closet etc. I’ve gone through those threads where people post pictures of their PJ prints framed and hung and all I can say is...yuck. Lots of gutless black frame jobs hung over shitty home office desk furniture. Yeah, of course it looks bad.

These prints aren’t my personal favorites but I could see someone doing something awesome with them.

Friendly rant over!

Gutless...shitty....would hate to see what a non friendly rant looks like.

jpdannabelle · June 2018

Spiritual_Chaos said:

jpdannabelle said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Restless Soul said:

Are these the official posters? What's the significance of some of these, such as the first one with the goddess-type woman?

The problem, in my opinion, is that rock posters in general are detached from the show itself.

the fusion of the artists together with that specific show (geographically, date wise etc) is what interests me.

Just getting some guy who's amazing at drawing crows, do draw a crow and throw Pearl Jam on top off it is quite boring to me. Or atlest, a missed opportunity.

True. The artwork is awesome but for me since ‘98, maybe 2000, the posters don’t really say “gig poster”. It’s a piece of artwork with Pearl Jam on it. Some are better than others but they don’t really look like concert posters. You can’t deny the talent of the artists but something is missing.

I don't really know what constitutes a gig poster, if not artwork with a band name on it. Haha.

Like you said though it seems these modern era posters look like a random piece of artwork with Pearl Jam slapped on it. Awesome illustrations but no real connection to the city or the band. Maybe simple is better. If you look at the posters from the late nineties, early 2000’s they were much simpler in design but in my opinion much cooler.