Mookie Blaylock

...wouldn't have worked in the midst of Ten. "Just a Girl" comes from early demos recorded not long after the band's first show, when they were still called Mookie Blaylock, after the NBA player. Unlike "Brother", which would have been a sore...

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...the name. They settled on naming their debut album ''Ten '' after Blaylock's jersey number. In addition, Blaylock himself is a fan of Pearl Jam. In Tom Robbins' 1994 novel Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, character Larry Diamond uses the name...

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...Vedder to come to Seattle and he was asked to join the band. The band, then called Mookie Blaylock, recorded "Alive" during a demo session at London Bridge studio in January 1991. The version recorded during this session would later appear on...

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...live shows supporting Ten. Released on August 27, 1991, Ten (named after Mookie Blaylock's jersey number) contained eleven tracks dealing with dark subjects like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder. Ten<nowiki>'</nowiki>s musical...

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...Mookie Blaylock. It was changed after the band signed to Epic Records, as record executives were concerned about intellectual property and naming rights following Blaylock's inking of an endorsement deal with Nike . In commemoration of...

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