what age did you get into the band

In2Deep

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.

Surf Rider

I was 67 years old. I broke my hip twice in the mosh pits from 91 to 92.

MikeLammi23

15 years old in 1998. All thanks to a late night haircut in an empty barber shop.

pjfan85

Got my first CD in 2000 at age 13. I liked them before got the CD ("Live On Two Legs), but I became obsessed after that.

LONGRD

'92? Through Alive, Even Flow and Jeremy. I was barely ten but I wouldn't say I was a fan.

February 3, 1998 was when I became a PJ addict! 15!

Kilgore_Trout

14 i think... so thatd be... 2002

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!

NeverbeenLedbetter

meistereder wrote:

17 in 1991. Just getting ready to go to college. A perfect time to be into good music.

yep I hear ya, 19 in 1991 in college

ajurlacher

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!

edpearson

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!!!

lastexitlondon

16 in 1991 when ten came out it was like nothing else around---and it is still like nothing else around...amen

Fatal

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.

Carlos D

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.

stoneg

I was the finally an adult 18.

GreenTeaDisease

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.

TooMuchBlood

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.

dserver

I was 7 when I stole Ten from my mothers CD collection. That would have been 1996.

Stella

10 in 92..

hrd2imgn

92 just liked them, 93 became a junkie (age 18/19)

bigshasha

11 y.o. 1993....only wished i joined 10c back then.

Yefa

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.