Hidden Findings discovered in Backspacer Cover (Updated)

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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    broloco wrote:
    whoever the fuck this is (I'd like to say it's Stone!) from the Backspacer promo vid, it appears to be the image from the television in panel 7. notice the single strand of hair hanging down in the middle of face.

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    Previously thought it ws Kristy McNichol, and still might be..


    come on Soulfire42 can you work some more magic?

    Good eye!!!!!!!
    i thought it was Stone too
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    Dark Star wrote:
    I think that's a match... looks like Ed.

    Interesting.... but I think it is definitely Stone!

    What's funnier is that when Tom Tomorrow posted the group picture and some people made fun of poor Stoney...

    And then this showed up in the video?

    Must have been weird stars crossing their paths up there or being positioned differently because somehow somewhere Stoney planned his old school for the video and people making fun of him on his poses like elementary classroom picture!

    :lol:

    I swear lately the stars have been positioned really strange the last few months... for one, I was taken aback at being called a lunatic here on the board, then seeing that on the setlist in Nashville....

    ...two weeks later we are on a family vacation in Tennessee again, two hours away from Nashville, and we had our 10 years old niece, Abby, visiting with us from Florida. We haven't seen her since she was 4, but anyway....she had a crush on our oldest son and wanted to come up with words for each letter of his first name in chalk on the road

    She begged for our help but Uncle Bobby told her to be creative so she left and when she came back, she said something and Bobby's jaws fell apart and just stared at her for a few before saying, "That's funny you should say that, Abby..." and turned to me, "She just asked me how to spell the word 'Lunatic'".

    Anyway,I love it that he wore his pink shirt in the video... you go, Stone! :mrgreen:
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    EV: It's your band.
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  • Rollingstone123
    Rollingstone123 Posts: 222
    this is a GREAT thread! thanks
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    It's definitely not Ed...

    I agree it does look like Stone, that's probably who it is.
  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    something that (i think?) no one has said or noticed yet...

    the man in photo 3 and the man in photo 7 are the same....

    look at the face, it's the exact same face.

    Good pick-up, I didnt even notice.

    Great work everyone....keep em coming
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  • elwayvedder
    elwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,179
    Dark Star wrote:
    I think that's a match... looks like Ed.

    My initial thought that it was Ed as well, maybe a laugh at his Chuckles commerical days that probably ran during Gilligan's Island? Just thinking out loud...
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  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    elwayvedder wrote:
    Dark Star wrote:
    I think that's a match... looks like Ed.

    My initial thought that it was Ed as well, maybe a laugh at his Chuckles commerical days that probably ran during Gilligan's Island? Just thinking out loud...

    i really don't think it's Ed. in that "5 Against One" bio book it has a pic of Ed around the same age/hair length...and it doesn't look like this. I mean let's face it, Ed is/was much better-looking kid! anyway, it would make sense that it's Stone because the Gilligan guy looks like Stone, too. so it may just be Tom's humor at a lil Stoney dream sequence thing going on. subtlety making it look a bit Kristy-like.
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    It is 100% for sure NOT Ed.
  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    I don't think it's either Stone or Eddie, but it's definately apart of the album cover...how? or why?...I don't know.

    Who's amp was this picture on? Was it just a shirne?

    I remember the NME article saying the band had a shrine to Andrew Wood in their warehouse/clubhouse...Perhaps this is a picture of a young Andrew Wood

    -Just throwing that out there-

    Either way...It still doesn't explain or confirm anything about Gilligan, The Robot, The Atomic Bomb, or the Three Flying Saucers.
  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    I thought it was stone because they show him before and after they show the child picture
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Yeah...I really thought it was Kristy McNicholl, but now it's most likely that kid in the photo - which looks more like Stone than ed....and my orignal thought about the "gilligan" is that he actually really reminded me of Bill Nye (the science guy)...but not sure how this all fits in...if the kid photo is Mike, then he appeared on Almost Live, which is where Bill Nye (the science) guy got his start....cut to lame list guys scratching their heads and looking confused. :lol:
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  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    Guys.... guys.... check this out!

    Tom Tomorrow's latest post at http://thismodernworld.com/4868:

    August 18, 2009
    Tom Tomorrow:
    Backspacer promo
    There’s a ten minute Pearl Jam promo video here. I was there in the rehearsal space the day it was shot, lurking in the shadows, drinking wine from a plastic cup. It’s no wonder I came back from Seattle enthusiastic about the experience of working in an office.

    posted by Tom Tomorrow at 8:39 AM
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________


    Wow!!!!... this lucky penguin got to hang out that day!

    Who wants to dare asking him about that kid picture??

    I double dare you.... :twisted:
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


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  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    cropduster82 wrote:
    All I have to say is if it's this much fun looking at the 9 pics on the cover, I can't WAIT to see the 28 page color booklet in the vinyl edition.

    *drools*


    That is so true 8-)


    But what a fantastic job you're doing with findig out what the pictures mean...
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  • Jwmcc
    Jwmcc Posts: 451
    Bump!

    Check out this cartoon from Tom Tomorrow in 2005, looks like he just changed the bathing suit color in the third panel and used it for the underwater Seattle image:

    http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/04/04/tomo/
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    Jwmcc wrote:
    Bump!

    Check out this cartoon from Tom Tomorrow in 2005, looks like he just changed the bathing suit color in the third panel and used it for the underwater Seattle image:

    http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/04/04/tomo/


    good catch.
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  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    Jwmcc wrote:
    Bump!

    Check out this cartoon from Tom Tomorrow in 2005, looks like he just changed the bathing suit color in the third panel and used it for the underwater Seattle image:

    http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/04/04/tomo/


    Ding Ding Ding

    We have a winner!!!
  • reflectedfromafar
    reflectedfromafar Posts: 235
    Gonzo1977 wrote:
    Jwmcc wrote:
    Bump!

    Check out this cartoon from Tom Tomorrow in 2005, looks like he just changed the bathing suit color in the third panel and used it for the underwater Seattle image:

    http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/04/04/tomo/


    Ding Ding Ding

    We have a winner!!!

    Nice! It even has those THREE FISH in the pic... :)
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  • allstar340
    allstar340 NYC Posts: 848
    I took the liberty of emailing Tomorrow and I actually got a response! Unfortunately, it was one basically telling me that he can't tell me anything :P
    The artwork was a collaboration in which the band was very involved. Whether or not to discuss the specific meanings of the images is their decision, not mine, and I have to honor that. I can say that they were great guys to work with though!

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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    pearljambackspacer4.jpg

    Maybe just maybe... the kid looking in is Daniel san from The Karate Kid... she is 'snap kicking' him to the head in Seattle.

    Maybe the woman is a Seattle Sea-monkey?
  • Dark Star
    Dark Star Posts: 496
    Two things I read over at "the sky i scrape" message board...

    1) The cover will be partially glow in the dark!

    2) Mike said in a recent interview that their childhoods were interwoven into the artwork or something along those lines, hence, all three children are possibly band members. Stone's is from the promo video, so the other two are probably Ed, Mike, or Jeff. Does anyone in PJ have green eyes?

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