14 in 94. Even Flow video 3 days in a row on the Pauly Shore 3 pm MTV show. Played at the same time each day exactly as I got home from school. That led to Ten, which led to VS with Go and Animal- how could you not be hooked? For me Pearl Jam came first, then Nirvana (as I hated them in 91 when they were so popular) and they are the band that made me take music seriously. They started it all. I have been hooked since, even through their musically challenged No Code era debacle.
age 7, 1992. ten was the first cd i ever owned. got it on my 7th birthday. i was told that the guy at the record store recommended it along with a U2 album and pushed for PJ. Much thanks to that guy.
first concert wasn't until 2000 at age 15, but nothing has changed since i was 7 ha
Pensacola '94 New Orleans '95 Birmingham '98 New Orleans '00 New Orleans '03 Tampa '08 New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest Fenway Park '18 St. Louis '22
I think I was 14 or 15. It was in gym class and we were running laps. One of the songs that came on was Alive. It was just such a powerful fucking riff that echoed through the gymnasium.
Must have been 12 in '02.
I think last kiss was the first song, vitalogy and no code were the first ones i bought (it was limewire's heyday and I was young and money-less).
I remember thinking "like a stone" was pearl jam,
oh to be 12 again.
puts his faith in love and, tremor christ.
"I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback."
i was 13...and it was dec 31, 1991...i was watching some show late at night where they performed...i had heard alive and even flow, maybe, on the radio a few times by then, and thought, nice, but after watching that performance, i was hooked forever.
i really really wish i had a checkbook or credit card number so that i could have joined 10 club back then...
2000 - Houston (x2)
2003 - Houston, NOLA
2005 - Toronto, Mexico City (x2)
2006 - DC, NYC Avalon (Storytellers), E Rutherford (x2), SF (x3)
2007 - Chicago (Lollapalooza)
2008 - Virginia Beach, Camden (x2), DC, NYC MSG (x2), EV DC (x2)
2009 - EV Baltimore (x2)
2011 - EV SF (x2), Toronto (x2)
1993, I was 12 years old. Heard Daughter on a juke box at a pizza joint. Immediately bought Vs. After that I was hooked. Saw my first show when I was 17 in 1998.
17 in 1991. Just getting ready to go to college. A perfect time to be into good music.
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A 13-year old me rode my bike to K-Mart in the summer of 92 and picked up the cassettes for Ten...
and TLC's "Ooh... On the TLC tip." I remember holding them both in my hand trying to pick which one I would buy, and then saying fuckit, I'll get both. Sufficed to say one stuck around a little longer than the other (can't say I've ever spent any time on the TLC message board, he he).
But when I really fell for them was a couple of months later, I was on a church trip on a bus from Houston to LA non-stop, and we were allowed to bring a Walkman but no "secular" music. So I decided if I brought one rock tape without the case, I could say it was in there when I grabbed the player and get away with it. So I chose "Ten", and I can't sleep in moving vehicles so I pretty much listened to Ten over and over for 30 hours (when I wasn't playing a Sega Game Gear that is), there and back. My friend did the same thing and brought Temple of the Dog, so I threw in a few listens of that as well. I did get caught, btw, and the excuse totally worked. Thus, a lifelong PJ fan.
Memphis 1994 New Orleans 1995 Fort Lauderdale 1996 Atlanta & Birmingham 1998 New Orleans 2000 Tampa 2003 Kissimmee 2004 New York City (x 2) 2008 East Troy (x 2) 2011 Chicago & New Orleans 2013 Hampton, Raleigh, Boston 2016 Baltimore2020 Louisville 2022 Philadelphia & Baltimore 2024
It may sound unreal, but I was 10 years when "Ten" came out and we were driving up to Mary's Glacier to watch my brother and his friend snowboard (since that was the only place with snow). His friend has just picked up the new album and was playing it in the car. I loved it, got it for my 11th bday a month later and the rest is history...so I have my brother's friend to thank for this addiction.
15 years old in 1998. All thanks to a late night haircut in an empty barber shop.
10c #TBD
"They said timing was everything, made him want to be everywhere,...there's a lot to be said for nowhere."
"Let them wash away,... all those yesterdays."
I was 3 when ten came out and my dad was 19. I grew up on PJ, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. I have specific memories of singing Hunger Strike in my Dad's Orange Chevy Love when I was about 4. As the other bands faded, my dad's fandom in PJ only grew. I have listened to Yield probably more than any other album. My dad played the shit out of that for like 3 solid years! And it's crazy because I was always just a casual PJ fan even after I started to got through the "music appreciation phase" at age 14-16 like I'm sure all of us on this board did. I was a huge alice fan, Soundgarden came next, Pink Floyd, The Doors, they got me through school. And then Early last summer I began working graveyards at a grocery store. The store is closed at night, so we can listen to our ipods and shit. And I remember going through our Itunes at my parents house and thinking that it was time to give PJ a deeper look. I'll never forget listening to Ten all the way through those first few times a nd being fucking flabergasted. It was like my entire high-school music venture was a search for that one sound. And I had finally found it. PJ is everything that I look for in music, and recently the only thing. About a year later, I am the proud owner of a 160 GB Ipod loaded with about 300+ Pearl Jam shows! It was cool for me because I had all of these bootlegs at my fingertips via this board and other great sites. It only fueled my obsession. I listen to 2 or 3 shows a night every graveyard I work, and I don't know how I could possibly get through that shift without PJ. Long live the Jam!
I was 23 and the year was 1991. Heard "Alive" on the radio and I was like "what tha fuck????". I was blown away and I saw them months later on the '92 Lollapalooza show in Scranton, PA. Still remember that day vividly!!!
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first concert wasn't until 2000 at age 15, but nothing has changed since i was 7 ha
Pensacola '94
New Orleans '95
Birmingham '98
New Orleans '00
New Orleans '03
Tampa '08
New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest
New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest
Fenway Park '18
St. Louis '22
Of he fills it up, with the love, of a girl...
I think last kiss was the first song, vitalogy and no code were the first ones i bought (it was limewire's heyday and I was young and money-less).
I remember thinking "like a stone" was pearl jam,
oh to be 12 again.
"I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback."
i really really wish i had a checkbook or credit card number so that i could have joined 10 club back then...
2003 - Houston, NOLA
2005 - Toronto, Mexico City (x2)
2006 - DC, NYC Avalon (Storytellers), E Rutherford (x2), SF (x3)
2007 - Chicago (Lollapalooza)
2008 - Virginia Beach, Camden (x2), DC, NYC MSG (x2), EV DC (x2)
2009 - EV Baltimore (x2)
2011 - EV SF (x2), Toronto (x2)
"No one cares about climbing stairs, Nothing at the top no more." Chris Cornell
and TLC's "Ooh... On the TLC tip." I remember holding them both in my hand trying to pick which one I would buy, and then saying fuckit, I'll get both. Sufficed to say one stuck around a little longer than the other (can't say I've ever spent any time on the TLC message board, he he).
But when I really fell for them was a couple of months later, I was on a church trip on a bus from Houston to LA non-stop, and we were allowed to bring a Walkman but no "secular" music. So I decided if I brought one rock tape without the case, I could say it was in there when I grabbed the player and get away with it. So I chose "Ten", and I can't sleep in moving vehicles so I pretty much listened to Ten over and over for 30 hours (when I wasn't playing a Sega Game Gear that is), there and back. My friend did the same thing and brought Temple of the Dog, so I threw in a few listens of that as well. I did get caught, btw, and the excuse totally worked. Thus, a lifelong PJ fan.
Long story short, 13 in '92.
exactly
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New Orleans 1995
Fort Lauderdale 1996
Atlanta & Birmingham 1998
New Orleans 2000
Tampa 2003
Kissimmee 2004
New York City (x 2) 2008
East Troy (x 2) 2011
Chicago & New Orleans 2013
Hampton, Raleigh, Boston 2016
Baltimore 2020
Louisville 2022
Philadelphia & Baltimore 2024
31 Now
They can buy but cant put on my clothes
Throw down my ace in the hole~~~~~~
Let's go for three in a row, no sorry i can't think of anything thats not funny. - Paul Merton
London96,Manchester00,Berlin06,London07
"They said timing was everything, made him want to be everywhere,...there's a lot to be said for nowhere."
"Let them wash away,... all those yesterdays."
09/10/98, 08/23/00, 08/24/00, 08/25/00, 04/30/03, 07/09/03, 07/14/03, 06/01/06, 06/03/06, 06/24/08, 06/25/08
February 3, 1998 was when I became a PJ addict! 15!
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
i hate that i got on board so late... but considering my age i think i made the move as soon as possible
6 happy years!
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