Have you been lucky enough to meet pearljam?

Raeleigh

Thank you to everyone for your amazing stories... I am so jealous!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

IamMine

eldarion75 wrote:

Eddies a really sweet guy. Met him 4 times and he always remembers ye..great guy.

Wow, that's a great pic!

I guess I am wrong... I really don't know Ed at all.

I am surprised by the stories that he really does remember people.

Not sure if I really like that... :oops:

Seems like he's one of those who has elephant memories!

I really enjoyed reading those stories... keep 'em coming.

VOLITION

I had the opportunity to hang out with Ed and about 10 other fans for little over an hour in the parking lot of Molson Amphitheater (Toronto) in 2003.
Shared a Heineken with him and held his bike as he stumbled into the bushes piss drunk to take a piss. It was the three year anniversary of Roskilde so it was a very emotional conversation, one i will never forget.

nevmiles

Stoney.G.Girl wrote:

We got to the hotel REALLY early in the morning, probably somewhere around 8:30-9:00am,

I had to laugh when I read this . . . 8:30-9:00 is REALLY early? You must be young

elderman

Yea, a few times, but only in my dreams.....was on stage with them once and had a guitar in my hand and did not know what to do.

Corduroy Footsteps

My story takes place on July 1, 2008 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. After a scorching pair of shows at the legendary MSG a week before, PJ returns to NYC to play a one off benefit show for the Robin Hood Foundation at the Beacon Theatre. My bus from New Hampshire pulls in o Port Authority ahead of schedule in the early afternoon. I head up to the venue to check out the scene. Sure enough, there are already a few fans hanging around, waiting...

A small pack of about ten of us are standing around near the backstage door for about 20-30 minutes, suddenly the security detail start scuttling about, placing one of those mobile gate rails out in front of us, a black SUV pulls up, out comes Mike. We all call out to him and he gives us a smiling, passing wave.

Ten minutes later, another black SUV pulls up, up go the gate rails, out comes Ed. He starts heading in to the venue carrying what looks like a uke case. We call out to him and he does a double take and comes over to greet us. He shakes everyone's hand, but tells us he is not signing autographs. That is...until he spots a vinyl ITW album being held out. He then says, "Okay, only this one," and proceeds to sign it. Lucky S.O.B! I guess Ed really does hold different standards when vinyl enters the equation. I pat Ed on the back and thank him for doing this show, he gives me a quick nod of recognition. He then goes inside.

A few minutes later, as we're waiting for the gate rails to come over again. We hear from behind us, "Hey, fellas." It was Jeff sneaking up from the rear and heading inside. A total air strike. He flashes us all a quick peace sign.

Finally, a few minutes later, the gate rails are moved up again, Stone and Matt jump out and rush in, as if late for soundcheck or something.

So, there is was. All the members steadily trickling in with Ed the only one to actually come over to say hey, definitely a cool encounter. The show rocked, too! And, $3 million raised for charity.

HAPHES

Met Ed in Philly this year after his solo show. A few of us were standing by the tour bus thinking maybe he'd walk by getting onto the bus. Turns out he was already on the bus but security kinda led us to believe if we didn't act like idiots, he might come out. After like an hour he came out and said he was gonna try to say hello to as many of us as he could. I was in the front so I knew I was gonna meet him. After all these years I was drawing a blank as to what I was gonna say. So I just told him that my fav song is LBC and he was like, did you hear us play it with the African kids, and told how the band showed them how to eat pizza, etc. I was blown away that after playing a whole show he would take the time to talk to a complete stranger like me. Not only does he have this crazy incredible gift of music, he really wants to share it with people. It has to be tough when everyone wants to be your friend but he was extremely gracious.