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How did you become a Pearl Jam fan ?.

Tommy GuitarTommy Guitar Posts: 134
edited October 2009 in The Porch
This is my first post on here, BIG MOMENT :D
For me it was only 2 years ago, We were going to a concert * ACDC * and My uncle brought TEN with him, I absolute loved it form the moment i heard the song Porch, The song still has a special place with me. After the concert i bought TEN then VS and so on..
No other Band had such an effect on me as much as PJ did and they still continue to please my ears.
I am a young cub in the eyes of Pearl Jam fans :lol:
But i will be sure to grow and grow. But sadly :( I have never seen them live, Hopefully they will come to Ireland this year.

Thank you Pearl Jam :)
and hello EVERYBODY hope ye all have a great week.!!
DUBLIN~~22-6-10
BELFAST~~23-6-10

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  • InMyTree4InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    welcome to the board...

    i saw them in concert and thats what got me
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  • VINNY GOOMBAVINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,819
    My friend Kevin made me a cassette of highlights from Ten, Vs., Vitalogy (which had just come out a few months prior), and some Nirvana stuff on it. Before that, I barely listened to music at all. After I heard "ONCE" I was blown away-- "REARVIEWMIRROR" sealed the deal.
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    My older brother just started playing SOLAT unplugged version loads and said check this out then i just went mad with them ;p
  • MC170228MC170228 Posts: 36
    I was twelve when Ten came out. It was the first C.D. that I ever purchased. For everyone that I went to school with, your first C.D. was either Ten or Nevermind. I fell in love with PJ instantly. I literally took the C.D. everywhere I went where I know I would have the ability to play it. I am now twenty nine and I think that I have owned Ten at least seven times. I now own the ultimate box set of Ten and consider it one of my most valued possessions. I have followed them ever since. I have been in love with them unconditionally until they gave more to people who bought their C.D. from Target, than the fans who got it off their web page.
  • CorduroyboyCorduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    I got sick of listening to gangster rap!

    Vitalogy, Merkinball, and college radio changed it all for me in the 90s!

    BTW, Vinny, I love your name!
  • LukinforPJLukinforPJ Posts: 46
    Saw them at Jones Beach "its Ok" Show

    Got hooked! PHILLY with be my 22/23 show!
  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    welcome to the community, Ten IS amazing huh?

    My brother stole Ten froma mall, and I stole it from him after Hearing Garden and Why Go, I just got stuck in it and have never looked back. That is the very very short version by the way.. lol

    Have fun here.. there's alot of cool peeps on here, hope to see more of ya as ya grow with us and the band we all love..
  • spencer958spencer958 Louisville, KY Posts: 279
    I remember in '92-'93(I was 15)when the Even Flow video came on and the song rocked. Eddie was climbing up on stuff and jumping into the crowd. I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. I bought the CD that weekend and have been a fan ever since!
  • firecrotch23firecrotch23 Posts: 586
    welcome to the bitching..err..board!
    mine has to be my brother and his friend showing me the MTV VMA with them playing Rockin in the Free World with Uncle Neil, been hooked ever since
    Small my table, seats just 3, its not crowded, its just lucky me
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    SOLD TO PEARL JAM AT BIRTH
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    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • mike-sizzlemike-sizzle Posts: 186
    I was in third grade when my brother's friend made us a copy of Ten and we traded a copy of Nevermind, it was a white and blue Maxwell cassette with pearl jam Ten scribbled across the top. And after waning through the late '90s and high school, I picked up the 2000 bootleg of the 11/06 show in Seattle and that was it, I was hooked.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    SOLD TO PEARL JAM AT BIRTH

    LMAO that's cute :lol:
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    I had always liked them. I remember my brother bringing home Vs., and I remember buying Yield on the first day. But oddly what really hooked me was reading a review of one of their live shows, then buying Riot Act and becoming obsessed :lol:
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,580
    listening to Vs on the ole sony walkman

    they almost lost me as a fan when they didnt tour for awhile

    then I went to Randalls 2 in 96

    nuff said
  • RGarabed21RGarabed21 Posts: 467
    Older sister put me onto them in 92
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    whispering hands wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    SOLD TO PEARL JAM AT BIRTH

    LMAO that's cute :lol:
    :D
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    My sister bought Ten in one of those deals where you buy 10Cds for 1 cent back in 1997 when I was 13 and I've been hooked ever since. The specific song that got me was Alive.
  • in_the_mudin_the_mud Calgary AB Posts: 494
    RGarabed21 wrote:
    Older sister put me onto them in 92
    That's exactly what happened to me :D I was 15 years old.
    Now I'm 32 and I can't imagine one day without PJ.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,414
    I always thought they were ok when they first emerged...they played the shit out of their videos on MTV

    I don't remember being blown away by Vs when it came out.....what snagged me was corduroy....after I heard that I bought Vitalogy, then bought Vs, then Ten....unfortunately I never knew about the 10c until like 2005...
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  • smithnicsmithnic Posts: 1,563
    A friend gave me a tape of Ten to listen to on the way home from an amusement park after the van we were in broke down. I remember him giving me the tape and not being able to get past the first song because it was so good. This was in 1993.
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  • IGotShit76IGotShit76 Posts: 768
    A really good friend passed me in 1994 a VHS with MTV unplugged and also a bootleg CD from a concert at Brixton academy. I was instantly hooked. Then I bought Ten and Vs ... and many more PJ stuff. However I only saw them for the first time live in 2000.
  • deepgreendeepgreen Posts: 41
    The year is: 1997 - when I was 15.
    I was listening Nirvana for a year and I had an old rock magazine (from the year '94). You know the rock was equal to grunge at that times! And the title was: Kurt Cobain vs. Eddie Vedder. That is how I heard about Pearl Jam. After a while, in school, I was bored -between the break time of two lectures,- decided to go to music shop and bought Yield (by the way, turned back to class!)
    At first times it sounded different, maybe I was waiting something (especially guitar sound) close to Nirvana?!

    The second album came after 2 weeks:
    I remember breaking the schooll in the morning. Buying V.S. (as cassette), listening it on the way back home with my sony walkmen. Said my mom: "Teachers let us early". Got into my room. Then I listened over and over again, and amazed with the sound and songs of the album.

    Then I collected all the albums, Eddie became one of my best friends for 12 years.
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Always cool to see new fans, and welcome to the pit! I was 15 when Ten came out and after a friend had left his copy of Ten at my house, I was hooked soon after. I also remember watching the videos for Even Flow and Alive on MTV around the same time. They always seemed to come on right when I got home from school.
  • ToneTone Posts: 1,206
    Ahh, it just happened. I was 18 in late '91, finishing school... it was a big time with lots of huge albums being released: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Nevermind and Ten. I absorbed them all, along with Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Alice In Chains but the band that stuck in my heart, from the off, was Pearl Jam. I tend to be an all or nothing kind of person and, consequently, I've been all about Pearl Jam ever since. Oh, there was also the movie Singles, which I saw 4 or 5 times at the cinema. I bought the Alive single and immediately fell in love with both it and Wash, ditto to Even Flow single with Dirty Frank. To this day, Wash is still my favourite song and I'm still yet to hear it live. One day... hopefully Philly Oct 30th (c'mon guys, it's my birthday... pretty please!) :D
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  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    How did I become?

    I just started to listen to Ther music
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    First heard Eddie's voice on Hunger Strike when TOD first came out. Had to find out more about the guy (and the band!) behind the voice.
  • pearljam75pearljam75 Posts: 80
    It was 1993 and I remember hearing Black on the radio and I didn't even know the bands name at that point but I just knew I had to find out whose voice that was singing that song. Have been hooked ever since.

    First saw them the the Patriot Center at George Mason in VA. Apr 94 the same day that Kurt Cobain's body was found. It was an extremely emotional night for the band and especially Eddie. The concert was completely amazing and I have been a follower ever since. Have been to over 45 shows. Going to all 4 Philly shows so I will approaching 50 shows. Wow !!!
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Indio, CA. - 1993.
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  • jordan kjordan k Posts: 196
    I heard the song hunger strike and then even flow and then it was the first CD I ever bought. I bought my first CD player, walked down the street and bought Ten.

    And away we go!
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  • redeyeredeye Posts: 620
    first time i heard alive, i was hooked...
    got into the band in 91, been my fav band ever since :D:D
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