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Tom Tomorrow Gets Gold Record for Work on Pearl Jam's 'Backspacer'

By AAN Staff
june 4, 2010  09:17 am
Tom Tomorrow Gets Gold Record for Work on Pearl Jam's 'Backspacer'
The cartoonist behind "This Modern World" was tapped by Pearl Jam to create the cover for the band's most recent album, Backspacer. Now it has gone gold after selling a half-million units, and the band thanked Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins) with a framed gold record. "I had no idea they were going to pull me up on stage last week in Hartford, and I had no idea this was in the works. It was an incredibly thoughtful gesture on their part, and I was as moved as you might imagine," Perkins says. "And now I have a gold record, with my name on the plaque and everything -- how cool is that?"
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