PEARL JAM 10 Platinum Award (13X) Certified 2009 AUTHENTIC W/COA "EPIC"

Description

Ten
is the debut studio album
by American rock
band
PEARL JAM
, released on August 27, 1991 through EPIC Records.
Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament
and guitarist Stone Gossard's
previous group Mother Love Bone
, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder,
guitarist Mike McCready,
and drummer Dave Krusen
to form Pearl Jam in 1990. Most of the songs began as instrumental jams, to which Vedder added lyrics about topics such as depression, homelessness, and abuse.
ALL COMPONENTS ARE UNDER GLASS.  THIS IS AN ORIGINAL AWARD MADE BY MY FATHER WHO WAS THE PREMIER GOLD & PLATINUM AWARDS MAKER FOR 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.  HE PASSED AWAY IN 2016 AND I INHERITED HIS ESTATE WHICH INCLUDED HUNDREDS OF GOLD & PLATINUM AWARDS NOT DISTRIBUTED TO RADIO STATIONS OR MUSIC EXECUTIVES.  THESE AWARDS WERE NEVER AVAILABLE FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC
.
ALL COMPONENTS ARE UNDER GLASS.  THIS IS A SHADOW BOX AWARD  13 x `13 x  1.5"
OF THE THREE HIT TRACKS
ALIVE,
EVEN FLOW
&
JEREMY
,   “JEREMY”  WAS THE ONLY SINGLE TO CERTIFY  “GOLD”  ON NOV. 1, 1999,  long before the album itself went GOLD OR PLATINUM YEARS LATER.
While Pearl Jam was accused of jumping on the grunge
bandwagon at the time—despite the fact that
Ten
had been both recorded and released before Nirvana's Nevermind
—
Ten
was instrumental in popularizing alternative rock in the mainstream
In February 2013, the album crossed the 10 million mark in sales, becoming the 22nd one to do so in the Nielsen Sound Scan era
and has been certified  13
X platinum
by the
RIAA
AS A FOOTNOTE TO THE BEGINNINGS OF PEARL JAM:
Mother Love Bone's career was cut short when vocalist Andrew Wood
died of a drug overdose in 1990, shortly before the release of the group's debut album
Apple
.
Devastated, it took months before Gossard and Ament agreed to play together again.