Fan Club Single #3 – You F**kin’ Little What? Part 2

Deep Dive into Side B of the 1993 Christmas Single

Fan Club Single #3 – Like An Angel, Part 1

The beautiful Side A “Angel”: written, recorded, performed and retired.

VHC Starter Kit – Five items for fan growth

A curiously cool collection of No-codery appeared in the late 1996 and 1997 issues of the Ten Club newsletter and other mailings under the appealing rubrick of the VHC Starter Kit.

“I Love You” Promo CD: On Tour with Pearl Jam

This sampler from the band “I Love You” helps us uncover early Pearl Jam concert dates from 1991.

2006 Latin America Show Translations

Fan translations from the 2006 tour of Latin America

Fan Club Single #2: Sorry Rudolph

By the time Pearl Jam turned two at the end of 1992, turntables were well on their way to being only the domain of audiophiles, DJs, and old-schoolers and band fan clubs were mostly nostalgia. But the young band had other ideas. They’d sent their fan club the same holiday gift in 1991 that the Beatles had back in the day: an exclusive 45rpm single with their greetings on the b-side. 1992 would be no different.

Reeeink Roink: “It’s Ok to mess up!”

What makes a Pearl Jam collectible “valuable”? The “Reeenk Roink” promo CD boasts neither unreleased music nor eye catching graphics; but its rarity, odd name, handcrafted manufacturing and place in PJ history have made it one of the handful of “holy grail” collectibles. What is Reeenk Roink? TFT and PJ collector Seth Dolled take a closer look.

Fan Club Single #1: Band’s First Christmas

TFT takes a deep dive into one of the “original” artifactors: the first Fan Club Christmast Single

Live At Soldier Field

A close look at one of the first “official bootlegs” from the July 11, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago, IL concert

Ed’s Pre-Pearl Jam Demo

Summer ‘88 Demo

Eddie Vedder is human, and now we have proof.
The recent discovery of a four-song demo from 1988 by Eddie Vedder shows the creativity and motivation of a gifted artist before a future of sold-out arenas and concert DVDs. This vintage material was made before Pearl Jam, even before Bad Radio! [...]