My parents were into the grunge era big time! They got Ten the first time it came out. I listened to it and became a fan at a very young age (I was only 6). I used to say I was going to marry Ed, but I got the next best thing...a husband who likes Pearl Jam as much as I do! Just saw them at Bonnaroo last week! It was my fifth show.
Following as in listening to?
...since i sat in a basement and sang the words out of a guitar mag while my boyfriend's band played Evenflow...93? I think.
Or as in physically travelling to see them?
..that would be since 2005. It would've been awesome back in the day but i was a teenager with no cash and they NEVER would've come to my island when grunge was at it's height....then life got in the way...then miracously (really, there's no other way to put it!) in 2005 they came to my backyard and after seeing them twice there, i realized just what i was missing all these years and decided that following Pearl Jam was my calling in life
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2016: Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Jacksonville, JazzFest 2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1 2022: Nashville 2023: Ft. Worth II
1991, but wasn't really a fan at the time. My college roommate played them nonstop. I was really only into hip hop at the time. Sometime in early 1992 I finally converted.
But, had to wait until 1998 to see my first live show.
2002ish when I heard I Am Mine on the radio, and a friend let me borrow a ton of PJ cds, and then he took me to the Albany show in 03 for my birthday, ever since its been an addiction.
I do remember seeing the Do the Evolution video premiering on TRL and seeing the Jeremy video on VH1 many of times and it scaring the hell out of me.
Christmas 1992. My dad went to a local (Italy) record store and since I was moving my first steps in rock/metal he asked to one of the clerks for a rock cd and he got Ten!
I followed them until Vitalogy, then black-out for a few years, until 2004. After that the metamorphosis to die hard fan took place!!
Bologna 2006, Verona 2006, Pistoia 2006, EV Santa Cruz 2008, NYC 1&2 2008, Hartford 2008, Mansfield 1&2 2008, EV Boston 1&2 2008, EV Albany 2 2009, PJ20_1, Berlin 1&2 2012, Stockholm 2012
"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise."
--Anonymous
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. -Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)
November 92, first time I heard Black on the radio. I had previously thought that alive, even flow, and jeremy were good rock songs, but there were a lot of good rock songs. Black showed depth and opened my eyes to the passion that was not only in that song, but also in the others. And I was only 12.
AskPearlJam: PearlJama101-guest says: Who's idea was it for Eddie to play banjo on "Soon Forget"?
Eddie: I don't know whose idea it was but it was turned down.
Since 92 when my then boyfriend now husband let me borrow Ten. Been obsessed ever since. First show....CU Field House Boulder CO Nov. 1993.
My kids have been listening since conception and all of them would be calmed by Ed's voice as babies. My kids are BIG fans and my 4-year-old can name songs by the first few notes!
In 1991 when I first heard Even Flow on the radio in Tampa, I was hooked...
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mee too. same song. but in Ft. lauderdale instead of tampa. Right around the same time Smells Like teen Spirit was on MTV buzz clips. I was a freshman in College and throughout high school i was always a fan of classic rock and hard rock bands like Guns n Roses, but I hated the lame hair bands like warrant and White Lion and with Nirvana and PJ hittign the scene, i rememeber thinknig "OMG, the return of good music!" That was the best time of my life. Great music, beign on my own in college for the first time! experimanting with all kinds of "stuff". Man, i wish i could relive those years.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
for me it was 1993.... when Vs. was released... and cruising around with my older cousin listening to that TAPE all the time...yeah cassette tape....didnt make it to my first show til '98, but it changed my life
Think it was about 1992 when I first saw this wild group with long hair, flannel shirts, work shorts and boots and they played Blacke. I was totally mesmerized then as still am now. I was so excited music was back after the mostly shit 1980's stuff.
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My parents were into the grunge era big time! They got Ten the first time it came out. I listened to it and became a fan at a very young age (I was only 6). I used to say I was going to marry Ed, but I got the next best thing...a husband who likes Pearl Jam as much as I do! Just saw them at Bonnaroo last week! It was my fifth show.
...since i sat in a basement and sang the words out of a guitar mag while my boyfriend's band played Evenflow...93? I think.
Or as in physically travelling to see them?
..that would be since 2005. It would've been awesome back in the day but i was a teenager with no cash and they NEVER would've come to my island when grunge was at it's height....then life got in the way...then miracously (really, there's no other way to put it!) in 2005 they came to my backyard and after seeing them twice there, i realized just what i was missing all these years and decided that following Pearl Jam was my calling in life
"To is a preposition.
Come is a verb"
Saw them soundcheck for the Bridge School Benefit.
Been hooked since.
EV
Boston 1
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
But, had to wait until 1998 to see my first live show.
I do remember seeing the Do the Evolution video premiering on TRL and seeing the Jeremy video on VH1 many of times and it scaring the hell out of me.
I followed them until Vitalogy, then black-out for a few years, until 2004. After that the metamorphosis to die hard fan took place!!
Which one? Green River broke up in 1987. Temple of the Dog wouldn't even be conceptualized for three more years.
"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise."
--Anonymous
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. -Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)
Ditto!
Eddie: I don't know whose idea it was but it was turned down.
My kids have been listening since conception and all of them would be calmed by Ed's voice as babies. My kids are BIG fans and my 4-year-old can name songs by the first few notes!
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Ben Franklin
i fucking love pearl jam!!!
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine.
Became OBSESSED in 2004 when I saw them for the first time live.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
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