Where were you...

Jeremys Spoken

when you heard Vedder's voice?

I was 4 in my dad's car on the way to a Mets game.. song was Alive. It was on 92.3 K-Rock here in New York.

How do I remember? I had a home video from inside the car because it was my first mets game and you can hear "Oh i, oh, Im still alive Hey, i, i, oh, Im still alive Hey i, oh, Im still alive" in the background... sadly that tape was lost...

fugawzi

...while weee were getting high?

I think I was at home or in the car, but like you, I was really young, probably 7 or 8 years old.

red mos

watching Mtv unplugged, well actually, I was flipping through channels, but the music and the greatness of Ed's voice had me in awe. After that I just remember they kept playing these awesome songs by Pearl jam on the radio, and the addiction and my love for the bands music just kicked in. Can't really explain why they are my favorite band prese, they just are. Seeing the band live however just adds a whole new world to the obsession with pearl jam. The live show is like an orgasm, yeah, I said it.

Worldwidesuicide08

It was 1992,17 years old,i was getting ready for college and Alive came on mtv and i thought fuck me what a voice,remember going to wullys to by the single,those were the days.

Jeremys Spoken

Worldwidesuicide08 wrote:

It was 1992,17 years old,i was getting ready for college and Alive came on mtv and i thought fuck me what a voice,remember going to wullys to by the single,those were the days.

I was 2 years old... lmao. I WISH I was 17 im 92 DAMNIT!... but hey I like being young..

Man I can't wait to see them for the first time ever back to back..

i like matt.c

Can't remember how old I was but I think I heard Alive first on the radio and my sister was going, "This is the song I like!" I didn't pay too much attention until she got Touring Band for her birthday years later and made me watch it with her. Then I was like "Woah! I like these guys."

DriftingByTheStorm

I was 11, '91, back seat of my best friend's dad's black pathfinder ... he was a young dad - early 30's - and he was an ex-stoner goof ass that liked to say "pull my finger" and fart a lot ... the next store neighbors had 2 kids in highschool, one of them was 18 and in a garage band ... and he had given my friends dad a tape of 5 or 6 songs that were on Ten ... this was like some sort of pre-release tape ... not really sure, but others here know what i'm talking about ... anyway, my friends dad put that on the tape deck in the pathfinder and cranked it. He said something like, "Nathan gave me this tape. Its some new band he said is gonna be big out of Seattle. I kinda like it. Its heavy but its not metal." ... something like that ... anyway

... i just remember us listening to it in the car and thinking that it was so different from anything else out at the time. Although to be honest it didn't really grab me until a year later when i got an actual CD copy of Ten, and listened to it with headphones, falling asleep against the window of a econovan, on the way back from a rockclimbing trip with a group from the local rock gym.

I woke up back at the gym, with this weird feeling, and i just thought, "Man i REALLY need to listen to that CD again... WHAT the HELL was that i just heard !??!"

JP2026766

I heard Alive on K-Rock 92.3...granted this was like around 2003...im only 20. But yeah. I heard that. And I was hooked.

angryyoungman

i was sitting at home in '91 watching mtv when it actually played some music (gasp, ROCK MUSIC). . .i love alive the first time i heard it, i was 15 at the time. . .but i didnt really get really into them until they performed ritfw on the '93 mtv music awards w/ neil young, still one of my favorite performances

angryyoungman

all this talk is getting me fired up to want to see them again

Kilgore_Trout

i was probably 4 or 5 years old... in my cousins car... a blue lincoln if i do recall correctly... on the way to the mall... his gf worked at fields and was really cool... we bought a capgun at the dollar store there too and were running around shooting it... which by todays standards would be pretty risky... mustve been fun tho cause it still stands out in my memory... the music and everything

meistereder

17 years old in a Warehouse music store. I asked my girlfriend who they were and she said Pearl Jam -- "some heavy metal band."

Edit: To clarify, it was 1991 and the song was Even Flow, I think.

dawng

A month or so after Ten was released, I was giving a friend a ride home and he asked if I'd heard the new band that was formed with the members from Mother Love Bone (who was one of my fav bands at the time). He put the cassette in my car stereo and we ended up driving past his house and listening to the whole tape. I was blown away.

jesse

haha i remember mine i was drunk at the cricket club about 16-17 yrs old and alive came on the radio i brought the cd the next day, had all albums within 6 weeks!!

HungerStrike409

Hey Im new,

Anyway, the first time I heard Eddie's voice was not to long ago because I just got in to Pearl Jam at the end of 2007. I had heard a friend do a cover of Betterman and I bought it on iTunes and I thought it was great, I began to buy all there albums and more.

Kilgore_Trout

HungerStrike409 wrote:

Hey Im new,

Anyway, the first time I heard Eddie's voice was not to long ago because I just got in to Pearl Jam at the end of 2007. I had heard a friend do a cover of Betterman and I bought it on iTunes and I thought it was great, I began to buy all there albums and more.

welcome! glad your friend was able to get ya hooked!

HungerStrike409

sgossard3 wrote:

welcome! glad your friend was able to get ya hooked!

Thanks. I really glad he got me hooked, Pearl Jam is now one of my favorite bands, hope I can see them in NYC.

Gather No Moss

My first time hearing his voice was in concert.. It was 10/20/91 and Pearl Jam was opening for the Smashing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers.. I was just there for the Chili Peppers and had never heard of the Pumpkins or Pearl Jam... When Ed stage dived on top of me and my friends I knew he was as crazy as me and I was hooked.. His voice and the songs they sang that night from Ten clinched the deal.. When I saw him climbing the rafters with his microphone and singing with one hand holding him from a 15 foot fall, I knew I was witnessing a rock n' roll revolution...........

suns rival

13 years old & i was in the toilet then.

jimed14

Note: Timing on this may be a tad off, but for the most part ... this is pretty much how it went down.

Probably summer 1991 in my best friend's bad ass ........... black Geo Storm ... ha ...

A friend and I went to Strawberry's (New England record store back then) ... he listened to Rush ... that was it ... all Rush, all the time ... I was trying to get him into other stuff. He said, "You like good music .... get me something new that no one's heard of."

I had heard an interview with Kurt Cobain where he mentioned Pearl Jam and Mudhoney as bands he was recommending to folks on a local radio interview (WFNX ... this is Post 'Bleach', but Pre 'Nevermind' ... I think, maybe Nevermind had just come out ... but it wasn't nearly as huge as it would become).

I saw the tape, picked it out and gave it to my friend .... "here ... let's try this ... I heard some guy say these guys are good" .... (in case you didn't know, I picked out "Ten").

Indeed, I had never heard it either. So, we got in my friends car, popped the tape in and away we went ...............................

Before the end of Once, I had him turn the car around and I was back in Strawberry's, getting my own copy.

Worldwidesuicide08

Jeremy's Spoken wrote:

I was 2 years old... lmao. I WISH I was 17 im 92 DAMNIT!... but hey I like being young..

Man I can't wait to see them for the first time ever back to back..

Im only 32 and 3 quarters,im still young,so i keep telling myself.

Clarice

Worldwidesuicide08 wrote:

Im only 32 and 3 quarters,im still young,so i keep telling myself.

Hy, enjoy your youth...
I was in the middle of the party when i listened PJ the first time..But, the party was the birthday of my little daughter...my boyfriend said to me: listen...and put Ten for play. I listened Once and wanted listen more, but the father of my daughter said: it´s not song for child birthday. ok, no problems...we listened the cd all the night. After the end of the party, of course..Ah, my daughter loves PJ too.

R-Dub81

i remember seeing "jeremy" and "Evenflow" on mtv back in the day. my first CD i ever got was VS. right after it came out.

Spunkie

Jeremy's Spoken wrote:

when you heard Vedder's voice?

I was 4 in my dad's car on the way to a Mets game.. song was Alive. It was on 92.3 K-Rock here in New York.

How do I remember? I had a home video from inside the car because it was my first mets game and you can hear "Oh i, oh, Im still alive Hey, i, i, oh, Im still alive Hey i, oh, Im still alive" in the background... sadly that tape was lost...

I was watching Much Music, at a friend's with whom I would drink in Toronto's bars at age 14.

sidewalkcigarette

My first time was seeing them on Saturday Night Live in '92 when they played Alive and Porch. I was 9 at the time and was into a lot of good music thanks to my older brothers. To this day it was the most amazing musical performance I have ever seen on TV. My jaw dropped and I knew I had just seen something huge. It was kind of like my Beatles on Sullivan moment.

yoke

I was sitting in English class if I recall in 1991 and my buddy just got back from Seattle with some tapes of shows he went to. I listend on my walkman, haha.

obiwon76

Fall of 91, driving to the beach to surf and the local radio station played "Alive" and the DJ was hyping the band as the next big grunge band. Over the next week, I must of heard the song 10-11 times on the same station and I went out and purchased "Ten" to see how the other songs sounded. Safe to say I was impressed.

drlovemonkey

I was 20 years old and still listening to hair metal. I remember my 17 year old sister Dee coming in to my room and saying "when you're done listening to this shit, come check out a real band on MTV Unplugged right now". I was hooked.

...and 16 years later, she's the one I'm taking with me to the Mansfield show.

pearljamgirl07

I was 8 years old . One of my brothers was listening Ten , so from that moment I coudn't forget black and ED's voice....

behindtheeyes

Fall of '91, sitting in my Ohio University O'Bleness dorm room on a disgusting mauve couch watching MTV. My jaw just dropped and I've been hooked ever since!

edit: It was the Alive video.....

LongerRoad

puking in my college dorm room's toilet...heard Even Flow for the first time. Someone told me the name of the song and then I flushed the toilet. Next time the refrain came around, I started singing "Over Flow..."

Very stupid, not overly proud of this, but a true story nonetheless.