Tell Your Story. How has PJ affected your life?

Harvtron

Just today I had another one of those life experiences where things don't make any sense and you feel lost. However like always music, really just Pearl Jam, helped me get through the day and think straight. I can go on for hours talking about how the music of Pearl Jam helped me deal with life but I would rather hear your stories. I'm sure some people here may not understand, or think I'm crazy but I also know a lot of you Pearl Jam fans out there feel the same. So What are your stories? How has Pearl Jam affected your life?

Duartisimo

I would go the opposite way: it sorta ruined a lot of things for me. Before PJ i liked a lot of music, but now im a junkie. Very have survived the "Pearl Jam Purge" and now i'm one of those whose friends just say "please, not again". And it gets worse: the newer their material, the more i love it... And you know what? i dont care, because their music has been the soundtrack to many moments of my life, both sad and happy ones, and i'll never regret it.

airblue1

Got me through college, girlfriends and into my created real life. They for some resason have been everywhere and anywhere I have needed them to be. Unbelieveably Pearl Jam is my comfort music. Thanks Gentlemen!!!

McNairn

shows the world we don't all have to be a bunch of useless assholes

Life has nothing to do with killing time
so why be satisfied
we've got all night!

nykoelle

sometimes I think I'm a HUGE loser for being so Pearl Jam hooked, but I read this forum and I feel less lame. Thank you all for that.

A couple basic things. Breakups, crazy family, there was always music to put things into terms. For my 10th birthday my dad bought me a CD Player, a PJ album (almost positive Vitalogy, could be wrong though), and a Boyz II Men album. Pearl Jam stuck. Every year he bought me their newest release, he'd buy me posters and Pearl Jam everything. My first credit card I got the fan club membership. So they've sorta been with me most of my cognitive life.

I've seen them live everytime I could afford it. I actually 'broke up' with them after Hartford 2008, I had to wait in that damned 10c line for hours to get my will call tickets. Missed a good hour or so of them playing. I was pissed, bigtime, then when I got in, everyone near me was equally pissed as they waited in line forever too. I didn't buy Backspacer, I skipped Vedder's solo tour. But we've made up. I'm back.

The biggest thing for me though, is that I'm probably going to go deaf. Yeah, sucks. I'm sort of to terms with it. I went deaf in the left ear when I was 15, this year I've been having the familiar 'feelings' I had before losing my left ear. I'll eventually go to the doctor, there isn't anything they can do for it so I've put it off. I'm just hoping to either a) not go deaf or b) go deaf after MSG in May. After MSG I don't care. I'll just read lyrics or something. Rock out to vibrations. I'm down with the deafness, just not for two more months.

So that's my story. Bigtime junkie

joe2468

back in 97 .... PEARL JAM saved my life....end of story

jervin007

Once upon a time I had money, then pearl jam came along and I spent every penny of it.