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Those that LOVE PJ, there is never a discussion, but those that I know of that don't get it, I feel like I have to explain the creation of the universe. Why? IDK but that's what I feel ends up happening. PJ saved me in SOOO many ways when I was growing up that I JUST CAN NOT EXPLAIN. If there was to be a movie of my life, it will be a long drawn out Pearl Jam video. Not what I ever had planned, but how it just so happened to be. I could pick out 10 songs that would describe me to a tee, but even those closest to me will never ever ever get it. I do feel shut out, and lost, alone and afraid, but I know there are those that really do understand me, only because of the music I love SOOOO much!! I am not a x-gen, or emo, or half of the other bs that kids are coming up with today. I am me. You want to know ME, listen to all of PJ's records, that's me. EV knows our pains, struggles and everything and will fight for us all, through music. Gotta love the man!! And gotta love the band!! Saved me from myself so many times I owe them a postcard!!
"I had a false belief, I thought we all came here to stay"
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I have something she doesn't
an undying love and connection to one of the best god damn rock bands of all time.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
I love what you've said there. That is how I've felt about Pearl Jam the whole time I've listened to them...a band that can accurately describe me and a band I can definitely indulge myself into, and most of all a band that allows you to be your fucking self.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
In spring 2006, I introduced a friend of mine to PJ music (introduced is such a fun word - actually I made him listen to it on a 5 hr road trip with only a brief escape for Metallica - then right back to PJ). He went to his first PJ concert a few months later - guess what - hooked... all by himself. I didn't need to say anything. It wasn't any explanation about what it meant to me that would help him... I think it is just one of those things that either it speaks to you or it doesn't. I cannot be happier that it speaks to me. PJ music and Ed's vocals. Life is great.
pj fans are the best people in the world...u know why?
becouse they love the BEST ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
You got one who just like some of the songs, really likes the music, but doesn't care about/comprehend the lyrics. Then you got some deep fans who have listened and allowed it to shape us and change us. (In all honesty that goes for most good music.)
I think you can tell a lot about a band from its core fan base. This band has an amazing core fan base...
It's hard for me to share it with my peers, but what little I do share everyone likes. I just wish I had more time to tell everyone. They are an amazing band and I feel like the world needs to know about them.
A comfortable belonging feeling.
PJ has been the biggest support in my life other than my very immediate family and bestest friend and its the other fans that get this, other people in my life haven't and I'm just a "groupie"
It sounds silly maybe but I also think PJ gets this. I think they know the importance of their music to us.
I know I celebrate with it, party and get crazy with it let loose
I cry, I'm mad or frustrated and often lost and the music is there with me.
We are unique fans cause PJ is a unique band.
It just all works together
DITTO.
Even when the bottom drops out (sometimes repeatedly), I turn to the music & it heals the soul. I dont know that I can put a finger on it exactly or how it works but it does. This is the only music that ever did that for me. And it's worked since I heard Alive on MTV way back when.... I think I was 13.
Funny - as I type this my husband is playing Alive on Rockband2 - and suckin' big time!
I do wish Pearl Jam toured like Phish did once in a while.....where the venues were close enough to each other that people could actually follow them and camp out, like Phish did at the Gorge or Deercreek. I would love to spend a couple of nights camping out before shows with other fans to really see who we all are. Spiffs to the Phish fans who are peaceful people and behave as though they have known you forever. It's easy to make friends at those shows.
Sometimes, I find the forums to be less than friendly and I know this does not represent all the fans.
I appreciate the packages they offer to see the band in far off places, but who can really afford 5 grand to go see a show down under and in New Zealand. That must be a third group of fans, the ones with big bucks. :!: I'd certainly do it, if money were no object.
One thing I know for sure is we do stand the test of time.
I sometimes wish, if I was very well off, I would love to just follow PJ around the country on tour. In 2006 I got to see them 7 times which is the most I've seen them on one tour, and it was amazing. Saw them in NY/NJ a bunch and then at the Gorge shows, it was beautiful.
One of the nights at the Gorge after the show I was on cloud 9, like literally. Me and my fiance were on this crazy roadtrip across country, we saw friends in Colorado and Sacremento and visited all these cool places and REALLY saw America and it was the best 2 1/2 weeks of our lives.
So after the Gorge show my girl had gone to sleep in our tent and I'm just sitting there alone in the starlight, but I'm not alone... really. I put on a PJ cd but meanwhile I hear a PJ song coming from every conceivable direction. I'm sitting there, smokin some weed, taking in the billions of stars (I'm from Jersey, I had NO idea how many stars there actually are) listening to PJ, seein my girl's angelic face asleep in the tent, just staring at the sky. It was the calmest, most peaceful moment of my whole life. As I'm sitting there I see a shooting star, within 5 seconds I see another shooting star... I've never seen a shooting star EVER! In a matter of seconds I see 2! I think the inspiration I got from the Avocado was part of what got me to say yeah lets travel across the country, even though we don't really have the money you know. Plus all our friends and family thought we were nuts. PJ has always inspired me, helped me see the possibilities of life, without them I don't know who I'd be, but it wouldn't be ME
I give the credit for that moment, the most peaceful of my life, to Pearl Jam
Ooooh. Whoooa, much more than this. Woooh see the world. Much more than... Oooh, much more than.. Why?
Can I indulge and share mine? Cheers.
My ears were blown right open by a mix tape given to me when I was 12 by a girl called Tracy, she was coolness personified. She was witty, her older sister was in a punk band called Sidi Boo Said, she had 14 hole DMs, she played guitar,she dyed her hair with henna...Cool. And she took me under her wing when I started in her class at Gravesend Grammar School for Girls, me!
That was 17 years ago now. Tracy's big sister was a member of Ten Club, and so Sonic Reducer was on the tape (from the TC 1992 holiday gift)plus Jeremy, along with stuff by Temple of the Dog, Smashing Pumpkins, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tracy gave me this with an equisitly annotated booklet that she'd made herself with the middle pages from an exercise book. In it were breakdowns of each song; why she'd chosen them, a bit about the history of each band and the story behind each song, plus drawings done in black biro, all bound together with staples and red electrician's tape. I poured over the book whilst playing the tape over and over, soaking up every last written word and note played.
This was a huge awakening. Massive. The year before I was screaming my lungs out at a New Kids on the Block concert in Wembley Arena.
Since then my love and deep gratitue for Pearl Jam has grown, slowly but determindly, like an oak. And now I'm 30, and that tree stands magnificent; proud and strong.
Over the years, many reasons have made me run into my room, slam on an album and through myself onto the bed. From anger right through to elation with a detour to utter despare, Pearl Jam have always, always been there.
Yeah, I've drifted a little, who hasn't? But best friend's don't question you when you return, they just pick up where you left off. A while ago I found myself really getting into contemorary folk; the likes of Tunng, Devendra Banhart, Elliot Smith, acoustic stuff. I thought I'd left PJ behind, but then I heard Ed's Into the Wild soundtrack... woah. Then (after 17 years of waiting, 17!!) I finally saw PJ at the O2 in August... THEN Backspacer, and I realised they had been with me all along, evolving and growing with me.
Seeing Ed bound onto that stage at the O2 was like coming home. That voice I feel I know every tone of.. that face that had stared at me from years of posters and magazine cuttings.. this wonderous musician, was just meters infront of me. And it was like I was with my familiy.
where I belonged.
I still play the tape. Really loud.
Better loud
Than too late
If I include a Pj song on a CD compilation disc I give to my twin she usually skips through it, but at least she knows it's there if she would like a little listen.
When my mom found out PJ was playing near them (Gorge 2006) she made sure to notify me
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Pearl Jam fans exist for the band and the Pearl Jam exist for their fans. There's definitely a connection that few other bands have and for a band to promote positivity in a world filled with negatives is a rare thing and one to be treasured.
Eddie is the personification of everything that's good about Pearl Jam. A real rock n' roll frontman in the greatest live band on Earth and yet he shows such affection for the fans and, I'm sure, would share a beer and while away the day with you without giving it a passing thought.
I think it's this that the fans relate to and that's why the love goes on...
All of us relate to the music.
How Awesome is THAT?
Awesome.
Pearl Jam are so unique to this world, it is only us UNIQUE people who cant help wanting to be a part of it.
And although techniquely I wont have any Grandkids for atleast 6 years, I can't wait to tell all of them about Pearl Jam.
and this in no way diminshes pj fans or pj.
we're fans of a rock band. a GREAt rock band, but a rock band none the less. there is nothing unique about that. even going all over when they tour = not unique. loving their music/indentifying with the music = not unique. yea, yea, yea.....we're all special snowflakes.....just like everybody else.
that said, i LOVE this band, i LOVE their music, their lyrics....touring....and many, many of their fans. this is a community i want to be a part of, which is unique for me b/c i am not much of a joiner otherwise...but in all other senses, we're none too different from other people with dedicated passions. we don't need to be *unique* or *special* to just LOVE being a part of all *this*.......
have a GREAT weekend all!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Anyone find humor in this perfectly misspelled word? Well done, albeit not intentionally I'm sure...
Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
no, not really.
and this in no way diminshes pj fans or pj.
we're fans of a rock band. a GREAt rock band, but a rock band none the less. there is nothing unique about that.
that said, i LOVE this band, i LOVE their music, their lyrics....touring....and many, many of their fans. this is a community i want to be a part of, which is unique for me b/c i am not much of a joiner otherwise...
have a GREAT weekend all!
I'm lucky enough to have an awesome girlfriend who loves PJ to bits, almost as much as I do *ahem cough cough* ... and those moments we share, playing a song or an album on repeat all night, in the dim glow of a candle-lit room, guitars in hand, trying to decipher lyrics like each and every single word has a hidden chain of meanings... it's just the greatest. Whether it's singing alone in bed at night, humming to myself in the shower, or screaming at the top of my lungs in my car - I owe these emotions to Pearl Jam. Cheers guy, you complete me. How cliche. Heh.
"Our audience is like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice"