What does this band mean to your significant other?

mfc2006

my wife loves music...and has been a casual pj fan since before we met. but she is beyond excited to see them @ ACL. it will be her first pj show & she keeps talking about it. she wants to be as close as possible, which is fine with me!!

Evergreen

Jerome230 wrote:

Evergreen888 wrote:

Mu husband could not give 2 shits about them. I drag him to a show or two, then he is done and I go to the rest with my girlfriends.

It gets me out of town, and he goes and does what he wants. It works.

I have seriously considered leaving him just for the fact that he does not get it, but I married him before I saw the band. He likes guns too...I seriously have no idea how we cohabitate.

Well, Ed and Johnny Ramone were very close friends, and Johnny was a notorious right-leaning Republican. Opposite attract, I suppose!

...of course, they weren't dating, though.

hahahahaha!


We have made it through 21 years. He is a pick up driving republican from Texas and I am a west coast tree huggin' hippie liberal. Go figure. I have TOTALLY swayed him in the political arena, though. I give thanks every day that my son turned out to be a free spirit and free thinker like me.

It is kinda amazing that it has worked.

He is a sweetheart and totally indulges me with this Pearl Jam thing. He knows that I would leave him in a heartbeat for Ed. He is ok with that...he just wants a house out of the deal.

81

she hates them and says eddie sounds whiny.

OffMeGoes

competition

pearljgirl2010

my ex was a fan, but didn't "need" to see or listen to them as much as I did/do. My current SO...well, I met him thru this fine place, so we're on the same page, and he's just as bad as I am (if not worse)!

ms.honeymeister

jimbojones1138 wrote:

my girlfriend hates that i have this obsession that she cannot identify with... i would love for her to share going on pearl jam tour w me but she doesnt get why i have the drive to see them 10+ times on any given tour.

plus...at the moment she really is expecting an engagement ring... so right now she sees pearl jam as an obstacle...

...she's already threatened me...if i cheat on her she is destroying my entire...huge...rare...uber expensively priceless pj collection... i guess its lucky for me that i usually buy...burn...pilfer doubles or triples of everything they have ever put out...all in retirement in safe, secure location away from her..... 8-)

hmmmmm.... or not cheat.

Brony

Lauri wrote:

Uh...hopefully all three of these paragraphs are jokes.

find a different thread

youngster

Honestly my wife knew little and liked even less, the band Pearl Jam. I convinced her to got to our first show together, VFC Boston 2004. I have always liked PJ but seeing them live for the first time put me over the top. She appreciated them a lot more as well. FF to now. She likes them a million X's more than she did back then but still tells me to "give it a rest" when I try to put in a different bootleg almost every night. We just went to Chicago I a couple weeks ago and I think she is starting to get the itch again cause she asked me twice this week when Backspacer was coming in the mail.

iamica

My husband likes them, but he's not all gung-ho about them like I am. I've taken him to 2 PJ shows, and I think he's satisfied with that (he doesn't really enjoy concert-going as much as I do). However, he was completely blown away by Ed's solo show last year. He said it was the best concert he'd ever seen.

springsteenfan

my girlfriend hates PJ. It's cool,though. We can't like all the same things.

In My Dreams

One time on the way back from Seattle, I suggested listening to Pearl Jam. My husband informed me he only likes 3 songs and he doesn't want to hear them.

I didn't tell him I got tickets for this tour. He found out reading the captions for my emails to a friend that I'm taking to the concert. When he found out I was going he about blew a gasket. That is too much money to spend on a concert. (It's ok if I go to Rush and Heart, but it's too fucking much to pay for Pearl Jam)
It's a good thing I have at least one friend that likes them. (Her husband didn't want to go)

Heavy sigh.

So, Pearl Jam is MY personal music. That's what it means to ME. That's all that matters.

It's all about me.

morgie2

DS114969 wrote:

My wife likes some songs, mainly the slower ones. She likes the fixer and supersonic. She also enjoyed Ed's solo show. Basically, she could take em or leave em at this point. She's not going to put on a PJ album or look for their songs on youtube like she does for other artists she enjoys. She'll only listen when I happen to have their stuff on.

Pretty much describes my wife also. She's been to 2 of Eddie's shows and loved them. She will always go to those now. She is going with me to 2 PJ shows for the first time, so I'm a little "nervous".

PatrickBateman

She bleached my EV shirt!...lol


but, took my wife in 96 and that was about it for Pearl jam for her....I hear her humming parts of Last exit, Jeremy, and betterman but she couldn't less.....she likes Last Kiss though

katellis

he's pretty indifferent .. i took him to a show a few years back and he liked it, but it didnt really turn him into a fan. he did say he'd go to another one if the opportunity arose. he's just not the type to get REALLY into any music/band (pretty much the exact opposite of me in that respect).

jimbojones1138

Lauri wrote:

jimbojones1138 wrote:

my girlfriend hates that i have this obsession that she cannot identify with... i would love for her to share going on pearl jam tour w me but she doesnt get why i have the drive to see them 10+ times on any given tour.

plus...at the moment she really is expecting an engagement ring... so right now she sees pearl jam as an obstacle...

...she's already threatened me...if i cheat on her she is destroying my entire...huge...rare...uber expensively priceless pj collection... i guess its lucky for me that i usually buy...burn...pilfer doubles or triples of everything they have ever put out...all in retirement in safe, secure location away from her..... 8-)

Uh...hopefully all three of these paragraphs are jokes.

um...actually no... not at all... this is my life...why?

jimbojones1138

ms.honeymeister wrote:

jimbojones1138 wrote:

my girlfriend hates that i have this obsession that she cannot identify with... i would love for her to share going on pearl jam tour w me but she doesnt get why i have the drive to see them 10+ times on any given tour.

plus...at the moment she really is expecting an engagement ring... so right now she sees pearl jam as an obstacle...

...she's already threatened me...if i cheat on her she is destroying my entire...huge...rare...uber expensively priceless pj collection... i guess its lucky for me that i usually buy...burn...pilfer doubles or triples of everything they have ever put out...all in retirement in safe, secure location away from her..... 8-)

hmmmmm.... or not cheat.

actually... i have never/nor will ever cheat on her... although she says she will destroy my collection if i ever do (her ex cheated on her)...the collection took me years to collect...either or... it doesnt change the fact that i do collect double and triples of most of their poster, albums...tshirts...and i dont even wanna go into my bootleg collection... i have over 100 pearl jam shirts in those air tight bags in retirement for when im in my fifties and sixties... i usually find a shirt at a show a like and buy two... one for now... one for future...she thinks im crazy

Backspacer_Backer

it's clear that we need a support group for PJ fanatics with unsupportive significant others. maybe at least the mods would let us have a support sticky thread.

i am glad my wife at least is ok with me going to shows that are within a reasonable distance - like chicago this year. she doesn't "hate" PJ and tries to understand my obsession.

katellis

csickels wrote:

i am glad my wife at least is ok with me going to shows that are within a reasonable distance - like chicago this year. she doesn't "hate" PJ and tries to understand my obsession.

my boyfriend is the same way .. he thinks im nuts, but is supportive as he knows it is something that makes me really happy.

I_Am_Mike

my wife likes PJ but just plain isn't a big fan of any music. she doesn't own a stitch of music (and that's a good thing because our house has only enough room for one outrageous collection). when driving, she mostly listens to npr or other talk radio. but she's seen them with me 4 times and is going to one of the 3 shows that i have tickets for in philly. she always enjoys the shows but mostly digs on the hits. i'm grateful that she understands my obsession. she doesn't bitch when the new PJ t's or onesies arrive for our 2 kids, and she only rolls her eyes when she sees the small box arrive on the porch every now and again. she already knows its another bootleg from ebay. i play a lot of boots and i catch her every now and again humming or singing along. perhaps all the sensory overload will eventually brainwash her to conform with my altered state of pearl jam on the brain.

st1

My husband agreed to vacation in Chicago recently and go to both concerts, but then sat more than he stood. I'm only bringing him to one Philly show -- I'm going to the other three with another local female PJ fan whose husband is also happy to not have to go to all four concerts.