Aunt Pearls jam
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So I remember watching a video a long time ago where Ed mentions that his Aunt Pearl had a jam made from a hallucinogenic recipe. And when the band could not use Mookie Blaylock as their name, he thought of his Aunt Pearls jam.
My first question, does anyone remember this video? I had it for a long time on vhs but ive lost it over the years.
And does anyone know the validity of this story? Is that how the band was named? It would make sense to me since I also used to have a box set called hallucinogenic recipe.
My first question, does anyone remember this video? I had it for a long time on vhs but ive lost it over the years.
And does anyone know the validity of this story? Is that how the band was named? It would make sense to me since I also used to have a box set called hallucinogenic recipe.
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Neely, Kim. "Right Here, Right Now". Rolling Stone. October 31, 1991.
Pearl Jam supposedly came from one of them throwing out the name Pearl for their band after they lost Mookie Blaylock, and then they saw some Neil Young show where they were jamming, and they put the two together to make Pearl Jam. That's what PJ20 said anyway.
But he concedes that another oft-told tale is less accurate: that the name Pearl Jam came from Vedder's great-grandmother Pearl, who, he used to claim, was married to an American Indian and was in the habit of making preserves spiked with various hallucinogenics. His great-grandma really was named Pearl. The rest is, indeed, "total bullshit."
Told of Vedder's admission, Ament and McCready seem relieved. They cough up the true – if less romantic – tale behind the band's name. Brainstorming in a Seattle restaurant to come up with something, anything, to replace their original name, Mookie Blaylock (inspired by the NBA star), Ament came up with "pearl." The band didn't settle on the second half of its name until a 1991 trip to New York to sign a deal with Epic Records. Gossard, Vedder and Ament drove out to see Neil Young play Nassau Coliseum. "He played, like, nine songs over three hours. Every song was like a fifteen-or twenty-minute jam," says Ament. "So that's how 'jam' got added on to the name. Or at least that's how I remember it."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-the-second-coming-20060629#ixzz3BM2WNXhR
I am surprised the jam story persists among fans when the truth has been in both Rolling Stone and PJ20.
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I guess great grandma pearls jam is a better story.
Pearl: Accidentally driving the nose of the board underwater, generally ending the ride
"Pearl Jam cums from Mother Love Bone."
Simple
Those that can be trusted can change their mind.