The meaning of the name Pearl Jam for Zoe Kravitz

In the first interviews with Pearl Jamwhen he was asked for the meaning of their name, the frontman Eddie Vedder He kindly explained a colorful and evocative story. Pearl Jamhe would reveal, it is a reference to his great -grandmother Pearl, who married an American Native and became famous for his homemade preserves, in which he mixed boiled fruit and sugar with hallucinogen peyote.

A fabulous anecdote, but a total bullshit, as the bassist admitted Jeff Ament and the guitarist Mike McCready Speaking at the US magazine Rolling Stone in 2006.

Among the Fan circulating a whole series of voices, more or less bizarre, about the origin of the name of the Seattle band. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the actor Austin Butlerknown for his interpretation of Elvis Presley in the biographical film directed by the director Baz Luhrmann of 2022, ‘Elvis’reported one of these voices told by the actress Zoe Kravitzthe daughter of Lenny Kravitz.

Here is his story. Before telling him what the origin of the name was for her Pearl JamKravitz asked him: “I have a question. How old did you have when you understand what Pearl Jam meant?”. He then replied. “What does Pearl Jam mean?”. And she, “sperm.”

When he heard this story, the fans immediately went into action to deny it, reiterating what seems to be the most accredited and likely story about the name of their favorite group. That is to say: Jeff Ament He suggested the word Pearl as a possible name of the band while they were thinking about which name to give themselves to change the provisional Mookie Blaylockname of a basketball player, who had borrowed. The word Jam was added after seeing, Ament e Stone Gossard they had witnessed a concert by Neil Young in which the Canadian musician had played only nine songs in three hours, making an intense jam session.