In honor of PJ20 - What were you up to 20 years ago?

thinair_23

1st year High School.

nevmiles

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

What was your life like in 1991?

School, work, in jail, not yet born?

13 years old, in Grade 7 listening to awesome early 90's dance music without any interest whatsoever in "heavy metal" music

Now I am obsessed with PJ . . . . and still love my 90's dance

tremors

18 years old, getting ready to start my first year at Uni, listening to a lot of cool music that wasn't Pearl Jam (though that was soon to come) and smoking waaaay too much weed

InHiding19

I was 9 years old losing my v card..........hahahahahhahah just kidding, but I was 9.

nevmiles

InHiding19 wrote:

I was 9 years old losing my v card...........

Maybe to your right hand.

Lizard

wolfbear wrote:

Loving the new music from Seattle!

me too!!

BugzInMyHead

Freshman year of high school. My soul was ripe for the picking and PJ along with Nirvana, Primus, and Alice in Chains have made up the soundtrack of my life ever since.

RedMosquito22

BugzInMyHead wrote:

Freshman year of high school. My soul was ripe for the picking and PJ along with Nirvana, Primus, and Alice in Chains have made up the soundtrack of my life ever since.

I just remember buying Ten and Guns and Roses use your illusion 1 & 2 all on the same day. I believe it was in September of 1991 my freshman year at the University of Pittsburgh.

Owl

Excellent thread: I enjoyed reading everybody's stories so far!

In 1991 I was 14 and that was my first year of high school.
Music was my passion and main hobby: Elvis (from my eldest brother) and Bruce Springsteen (from the other brother) could be heard daily in my house, while I was a lot into Queen, at the time. How I wish I had the possibility to see them live! That November was pretty sad as Freddy Mercury died, on my mum's birthday. I'll never forget the tribute held at Wembley stadium that came right after that, in April 1992.
Like many of you already mentioned, I think I happened to know Metallica before Pearl jam stepped into my life: I used to listened to their Black album for hours. My favourite band only came later when a friend of mine gave me a cassette with both Ten and Vs. together. What I clearly remember though, is how mesmerized I was when watching Jeremy on Mtv and I simply loved listening to Once

mbangel10

By the time I heard Pearl Jam for the first time, I was 19 and in my first year of college. I remember being in class, and this one guy would walk in every day singing at the top of his lungs, "Evenflow, thoughts arrive like butterflies." He did this for a few days and curiosity got the better of me. I asked him what he was singing and he told me, "Pearl Jam, they're amazing." So after classes that day I found my boyfriend and told him we had to go to the record store. When we got there I found Ten on CD so I bought it, even though he was the one who owned the CD player. When we got back to his place, we put it on. It WAS amazing. When it finished, he played it again... and again.

My memories are a little fuzzy but I believe I heard PJ before I'd ever heard Nirvana, so it must have been darn close to when Ten was first released. By the time Nirvana got huge, I loved them too but there were a few of us that were already PJ die-hards and put Nevermind as a close second.

That was a great year, Ten, Nevermind and Badmotorfinger were all released. 1991 really was the birth of "grunge".

Keiran

20 years ago, I was an at home mommy busily potty training my 2 year old son.

bionicamy

I was 15... just met the love of my life, my husband and my passion for a band had just begun....

20 years ago was a very good time!

mike-mcfuckin-cready

was grooving out with the ninja turtles haha kowabunga dude! if youd asked me who eddie vedder was i'd probably have thought he was some relative of shredders! alas ...

now 1997, that was the start of my pj revolution ... but youre never too old for ninja turtles!

tinkerbell

Ezo5000 wrote:

Sophomore going on 16, riding skateboards, stealing 40s, and listening to a lot of Eazy-E. PJ was introduced to me the following school year...thank goodness. I worked at a seafood restaurant where I remember listening to "Alive" over and over one particular day, which led to one of the girls we worked with complaining "Is that all you guys are going to listen to?" I remember standing there in that kitchen like it was yesterday telling her YES IT IS!!!

Awesome first post :-D :wave:

robthepjfan

10 years old..probably playing mega man or ninja turtles on my nintendo with my cousin...camping out in the yard ...shooting birds with the bb gun...having no idea what sex is

igotid88

school

stevehomeair

In 11th grade.. Singing in a coverband....No anxiety,no hardships,no idea of what the future would hold?Clueless to the evils of the world...And in one word PURE! And after twenty years of self discovery and a shat ton of mistakes and poor decisions..I find myself back where I started, in the same hometown..PURE&HAPPY AGAIN!

PillowPants

graduating high school

class clown

12345AGNST1

probably crying and shitting my pants as a 2 year old.

Roeghmann

Having a blast - drinking beer, going to high school, hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend (now my wife) and listening to TEN - that album made me: :shock: :shock: :shock:

1STmammal2wearPants

first grade. not even knowing who pearl jam was at the time

Jerome230

I was 13, seventh grade, making the transition from listening to MC Hammer, to listening to Faith No More and Nirvana. :P

he.who.forgets

I was almost 11. Probably listening to a lot of RUN DMC, Beastie Boys, Poison, & Def Leppard...and then there was PJ

Arocker28

Being born tomorrow

tinkerbell

Arocker28 wrote:

Being born tomorrow

Happy birthday!

mike-mcfuckin-cready

Arocker28 wrote:

Being born tomorrow

nice answer! haha happy birthday

Beck..

16 Last year of school

Gabriel Lawlis

Let's see, I was 12. It was about that time I talked my parents into buying me our household's first CD player (which I still have, a huge Sony contraption). My first CDs are a little embarassing; Heavy D and the Boys being my first and Right Said Fred amongst them, cause you know, I'm too sexy (I'm starting to question my parents for buying that for a 12 year old). But Nirvana, PJ, Soundgarden, NIN, RHCP soon filled my collection and the rest is history. However my Mom kept throwing away my RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic cd booklet because of all the tattoos in it.

kasedoug

11 years old. 5th grade.

megatron

i was 8 and probably playing rad racer