what age did you get into the band

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  • FatalFatal Posts: 821
    I was 15...first time i saw them was shortly after the Jeremy video was released on MuchMusic...bought Ten shortly thereafter.

    First time seeing them live was 21, for the Yield tour.
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  • Carlos DCarlos D Posts: 638
    14 in 2002.After I Am Mine came out.Got Ten that Christmas but wasn't hooked til I got Yield the following June....listening to that album for the first time was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
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  • stonegstoneg Posts: 1,940
    I was the finally an adult 18.
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    13-14...1991-1992

    heard them a few times at age 13 in 1991 and loved it, but didn't get really into them until a few months later in early 92 after I just turned 14 and I got a copy of ten.
  • TooMuchBloodTooMuchBlood Posts: 312
    About a week before I turned 20, in mid-July 1997. With the Atlantic Ocean's water beading up on me on a sun-splashed afternoon in Ocean City, Md., as I walked to the hotel at which I stayed, I heard "Small Town" on the patio bar.

    The words just wouldn't leave my head for days: "Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name."

    I had gotten the first four records before then but never quite "got" PJ outside parts of "Ten" early on during my senior year of high school. That July 1997 day somehow made it all click. I had been listening to lots of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, The Doors and Simon and Garfunkel and had recently gotten into Radiohead's "The Bends" and the just-released "OK Computer," so I was in a period of musical evolution.

    I'm proud to have gotten into PJ, which I think has set the bar for what bands can be. They've always said "it's about the music," but they've managed to transcend just the music. They've created a following, and it's one I enjoy to be part of.
  • dserverdserver Posts: 25
    I was 7 when I stole Ten from my mothers CD collection. That would have been 1996.
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  • StellaStella Posts: 283
    10 in 92..
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  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,898
    92 just liked them, 93 became a junkie (age 18/19)
  • bigshashabigshasha Posts: 38
    11 y.o. 1993....only wished i joined 10c back then.
    I wanna run like the lions.
  • YefaYefa Posts: 1,133
    I was 22 in '91 when I saw the "Alive" video. I then saw them at Roseland Ballroom with the Peppers and Pumpkins and have been a fan ever since.
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  • hguz73hguz73 Posts: 245
    16..i was still in school..had already heard RHCP, Jane's Addiction and Faith No More..a friend of mine went for a vacation trip to the U.S. and he brought lots of cd's..but in the bag there were 3 that should be noted.."TEN", "BADMOTORFINGER" and "NEVERMIND"...the rest is history.
  • MikeLoveMikeLove Posts: 67
    40 in 2001
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  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    25 in '92, but yeah, took me 3 years to actually track 'em down and see 'em live. Remember finding Sonic Reducer (which I think now was actually a Christmas vinyl?) on early, early internet -- my First MP3 download!
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  • 11 years old around the time VS came out
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  • PJamGrunge10PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    Well same here, except not quite 2 or 3 years old. maybe 4 or 5. But did you honestly become a huge fan at 2 and continued one since? I think the message starter means when we became huge fans. I've been a fan since 13 and knew about them since i was like 4, but i havent been a huge fan since i was 16 in 2004. im turning 20 this year.


    I was about as huge a fan you could be at that point. I mean... I had this Play-Doh machine that you put play-doh into and it would dispense out whatever shape you wanted it to depending on the pieces used... so I made a stick figure from regular play-doh and used the dispenser to make a bunch of string like play-do and used it as hair for the stick figure, and I called it... Eddie Vedder! :D
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  • BrezBrez Posts: 570
    13 or 14 in the year 2004
    And before his first step... He's off again...
  • In middle school, around '98-'99
  • Blind3Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    32 in 91.
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    8 when Ten came out :D
  • MyTree89MyTree89 Illinois Posts: 26
    I think I was 3. I remember singing Daughter in my aunt's car. Must have been 4 at that time. thanks to my brothers and my aunts and uncles, i always listened to PJ. i'm 19 now.
  • regalturboregalturbo Posts: 299
    I was 10 yrs old when I got Ten in '91, similar story to someone else who got it as part of a Columbia House Membership. Must have been one of my first CDs. Yeah, sadly, didn't join 10c until 2004 because living in Minnesota I never made it to any shows. "If I had known then...what I know now"
  • iamsampjiamsampj Posts: 784
    i was 12 in '92...and it was awesome!

    i'd fall asleep listening to my walkman, playing ten. good memories :)
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • 13 in 1992.
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  • MahoneMahone Posts: 62
    13 in 1991.
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  • angel5amangel5am Posts: 2
    I was 13 in 1992. I had heard them before and liked them, but I got the TEN album for my 13th birthday and became addicted. I was going through some really bad times and the boys were "there" for me. I've never been able to see them live -- until next month when I go to Hartford!

    My daughter will be 4 next month and does a pretty mean RITFW and Even Flow. :D
  • 5 In 92. I know, sounds bogus but it's true.
  • Evolution1Evolution1 Posts: 50
    I was 17 years old :-)
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  • jwhjr17jwhjr17 Posts: 2,000
    17 in '91
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    13 in 91
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  • Fu_ManchuFu_Manchu Posts: 422
    15 in 1993
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