Help Pearl Jam's Merchandise Manager Tom Husman beat cancer!

lastexitlondon

Man. This is awful news. Tom was always so kind to all if us waiting in line and walking  around the  venues. 
One of the  good souls. 
Save journey tom.

maverick

Such sad news about Tom.  My condolences to his family and friends.  He was a good man and I enjoyed chatting with him at PJ 20 and subsequent concerts.  

One thing he said I am reminded of.  I asked him if he toured with other bands when Pearl Jam wasn’t touring, and he said yes, but was so genuine in his appreciation of the band.  He said nobody takes care of the crew like Pearl Jam.  He said they are the absolute best to work for and it’s not even close.  He described the band and crew like family, and so to all who knew and loved Tom, my deepest condolences.  He’s was one of the good ones. 

deadendp

From the Pixies:

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lotsalemon

Condolences to Tom's family and the band. 
I'll always remember the brief conversation I had with him during the merch craziness of Fenway 2016. A kind soul. 

HughFreakingDillon

elwayvedder said:

Here's what i tried to share with his friends and family on social media:

Most of you who are friends, co-workers and family of Tom's don't know me but I need to share something with you and get it off my chest of a day where Tom displayed how kind and big hearted he was to total strangers so please forgive me as I need to express this in my gratitude towards Tom.
I'm your typical Pearl Jam fan who always tried to leave Tom alone so he could do his job and work etc. I realize how he must get bombarded on game day from fans hovering around the merch booths all day etc.
One special day in Philadelphia was a day Tom changed someone's life forever and for the better.
Again, forgive me as I'm not as close to Tom as many of you are but I need you all to know what amazing thing Tom did out of the kindness of his heart.
Besides being a PJ fan, I also run a non-profit that sends morale boosting care packages to our US Service Members deployed to the war zones in the Middle East. We had a Pearl Jam fan (edit: and forum member here on this page) on our list who was in Afghanistan and while there suffered emotional and mental trauma with being deployed and events happening around him in Afghanistan. While this US Service Member was there and receiving our care packages, he used the music of Pearl Jam to help him cope with what he was dealing with and while deployed he flew 2 US Flags over the base; one in my name/honor for sending him care packages and one in the honor and name of PJ's lead singer as the music and lyrics saved this young man's life.
This young man wrote out a letter to Pearl Jam's Ed Vedder and the band and mailed the US Flag and letter to the band in Seattle only for him to return from deployment to find it returned and sitting on his doorstep marked as "undeliverable". He was devastated.
Fast forward to 2 concerts in Philly years later and I was taking this US Hero with me to the first of two nights as my treat. He brought the flag and letter with him and we spent the day before the concert trying to find out how get it to the band. He needed the band to know the impact they had on his life. How their art, music and lyrics kept him sane in Afghanistan and kept him going. Kept him ALIVE.
We were unsuccessful that day and before he left to drive home after the concert, he handed me the flag and private letter and asked me to try for him again the next day as I was returning for the 2nd Philly show.
That's where Tom comes in. I spent part of the early afternoon walking around the venue not knowing what to do with this burden that would be an honor to do but at the same time, I was simply there to enjoy a concert. I was terribly nervous about the weight of the flag as it seemed to get heavier and heavier as we got closer to show time.
Tom was working hard restocking a merch booth. I asked him to give me 30 seconds and I showed him the US Flag. I showed him the personal hand written letter. He said "it's for a US Veteran?". I said "Yes sir". He said "I will take care of it. Stay here".
I won't go into the rest of the details but after that it was taken care of. That night during the show, Ed Vedder publicly called out our US Service Member and thanked the US Service Member for the gift. For the flag. For the hand written letter and letting him know how their art saved his life.
Thanks to Tom, our US Service Member forever can go to sleep at night knowing his US Flag flown over the base in Afghanistan absolutely made it to it's intended new owner. It flew from Afghanistan to Seattle back to Virginia and then finally made it's way to Philly and took years to land in the hands of it's intended owner and thanks to Tom, it did.
Tom was working and had a job to do but yet he displayed a HUGE heart and demonstrated an act of kindness that we can all learn from and that is you can always do something kind for someone else, no matter how busy you are.
For this and more, I will forever be grateful to Tom and may his memory be a blessing to us all.
Thanks for letting me share this with you all.
Be safe

you do amazing work too, my man. I'm sure he is forever grateful to you as well as tom.