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10-22-90 Who was there?

arqarq Posts: 8,023
edited October 2008 in The Porch
I just want to know, if somebody has 18 (complete) years as a fan, do you know someone who was there, or it was YOU there in the beggining?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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  • Big Green CountryBig Green Country Posts: 188
    No, but that would have been a blast. Wish I was there.
  • Mike GossardMike Gossard Posts: 344
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtyeclQt2ic





    the video taper was there!!
    Let's see those 2013 dates in the southern states.
  • CitizenRickCitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    I wish!

    I'll bet nobody in that crowd had any idea what was about to happen.
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    Well i didn't see them on 10/22/90 but I did see them about 10 months later before Ten came out, very young first time out sneaking into the town and I had not the slightest clue as to who Pearl Jam were i didn't even know who was playing that night at The Marquee, I just followed the crowd that took me out.. and that night proved to be a life changing one... :)
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • arqarq Posts: 8,023
    Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:
    Well i didn't see them on 10/22/90 but I did see them about 10 months later before Ten came out, very young first time out sneaking into the town and I had not the slightest clue as to who Pearl Jam were i didn't even know who was playing that night at The Marquee, I just followed the crowd that took me out.. and that night proved to be a life changing one... :)

    No way! Really, love at first sight? It took me a couple of spins back in 1991 to love PJ. But you are one of the first fan I ever heard, my respects to you!
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

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  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    arq wrote:
    No way! Really, love at first sight? It took me a couple of spins back in 1991 to love PJ. But you are one of the first fan I ever heard, my respects to you!


    I think it was a mix of many things that night.
    I was 13 years old and my cousins and their friends were going out to NYC and they took me along, I was way to excited about everything that night, they were all older than me so hanging out with that crowd was mind blowing at that point in time... LOL

    It was my first night in a club and the very first time I saw bands live on a stage and there were a few 3 bands before PJ I think, they didn't really score any points with me though... Ed came out with Wash and I can't say the band didn't catch my attention but Garden was what changed everything, i don't know what it was about that song that night that hypnotized me and I can say that 17 years later I'm still under that same spell.
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    LOL! I'm not saying that the band wasn't mind blowing though, but I think that the thrill of sneaking out at night and into a club with an older crowd just made everything that night seem super awesome - :D
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:
    LOL! I'm not saying that the band wasn't mind blowing though, but I think that the thrill of sneaking out at night and into a club with an older crowd just made everything that night seem super awesome - :D

    Nice save! ;)
    Never, ever, flipping forget
    "Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY

    My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    pjtradeking wrote:
    Nice save! ;)


    LOL - what's your story? when were you put under the spell? ;)
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:
    LOL - what's your story? when were you put under the spell? ;)

    About two months after TEN came out. I was living away from home and had just broke it off with a gal I was suppose to marry. I was doing some cocaine back then. On my days off, for a couple of months, I would buy myself an 8-ball and lock myself in my apt and listen to records and drink beer and get high for a couple days at a time by myself....That only lasted a few months and I pretty much quit drugs and drinking all together for good...Not because of the band or the music, but because I decided I had done enough...:)

    ......I had heard alive on the radio and really dug it and thought I would buy the disc. I remember sitting there when "black" came on, and initially thought I had blown my speakers because of the guitar in the beginning. So when it kicked in, I started to listen a little closer...First time through, I thought it was very cool...so I grabbed the lyric sheet and followed along....By the end of it I was crying so hard that I couldnt breathe...I had been just in a fog because of the breakup that I hadnt really dealt with it...I was blown away that someone could write what I THOUGHT I was feeling at the time(turns out it had nothing to do with her, but the music just GRABBED me)...I had never really paid too much attention to word until Ed came along. I listened to OVER AND OVER AND OVER for like two solid days and by the end of the weekend, I was out of cocaine...out of beer and out of tears, but in a very good place...I was hooked...A couple of months later, I quit my job, moved back to my hometown and proceeded to just fall in love with PJ and never looked back....About a year later, I had the "stickman" tattooed in tye-dye coloring on my arm with the word "black" between the feet and discovered a place called "4000 holes"...A mom and pop shop that had started to carry some bootlegs to the tune of $50+ a pc and couldnt get enough...that was the beginning of the collection...It just escalated from there....

    I met my wife a few months later...When I told her that PJ was a huge thing for me and that it was my passion, I think she like everyone else and myself thought it was just a phase...I had the same connection with Motley Crue and G-n-R back then, so no reason to think it wouldnt...

    Well it didnt....so fast forward 17+ years later...I havent stopped collecting(it has only gotten worse..hahaha) I havent stopped listening..I am like a giddy little kid each and everytime I pop a disc in the player, and "black" still brings me to tears on any given day...the love affair continues...:)
    Never, ever, flipping forget
    "Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY

    My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    pjtradeking wrote:
    About two months after TEN came out. I was living away from home and had just broke it off with a gal I was suppose to marry. I was doing some cocaine back then. On my days off, for a couple of months, I would buy myself an 8-ball and lock myself in my apt and listen to records and drink beer and get high for a couple days at a time by myself....That only lasted a few months and I pretty much quit drugs and drinking all together for good...Not because of the band or the music, but because I decided I had done enough...:)

    ......I had heard alive on the radio and really dug it and thought I would buy the disc. I remember sitting there when "black" came on, and initially thought I had blown my speakers because of the guitar in the beginning. So when it kicked in, I started to listen a little closer...First time through, I thought it was very cool...so I grabbed the lyric sheet and followed along....By the end of it I was crying so hard that I couldnt breathe...I had been just in a fog because of the breakup that I hadnt really dealt with it...I was blown away that someone could write what I THOUGHT I was feeling at the time(turns out it had nothing to do with her, but the music just GRABBED me)...I had never really paid too much attention to word until Ed came along. I listened to OVER AND OVER AND OVER for like two solid days and by the end of the weekend, I was out of cocaine...out of beer and out of tears, but in a very good place...I was hooked...A couple of months later, I quit my job, moved back to my hometown and proceeded to just fall in love with PJ and never looked back....About a year later, I had the "stickman" tattooed in tye-dye coloring on my arm with the word "black" between the feet and discovered a place called "4000 holes"...A mom and pop shop that had started to carry some bootlegs to the tune of $50+ a pc and couldnt get enough...that was the beginning of the collection...It just escalated from there....

    I met my wife a few months later...When I told her that PJ was a huge thing for me and that it was my passion, I think she like everyone else and myself thought it was just a phase...I had the same connection with Motley Crue and G-n-R back then, so no reason to think it wouldnt...

    Well it didnt....so fast forward 17+ years later...I havent stopped collecting(it has only gotten worse..hahaha) I havent stopped listening..I am like a giddy little kid each and everytime I pop a disc in the player, and "black" still brings me to tears on any given day...the love affair continues...:)



    Great post!!Cheers!!!
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • arqarq Posts: 8,023
    I'm so proud of this thread, the stories are great, thanks!
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Why not (V) (°,,,,°) (V) ?
  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    I didn't see them early on, but I have friends who saw them quite a bit when they were Mookie Baylock (opening for AIC, I think) and then at their first show outside the US as Pearl Jam...and again at other bars before they switched to arenas... I try not to talk to them too much about that...After seeing them so much, they stopped being fans...

    My friend in Vancouver invited me to see them at the Town Pump, but that show got moved to the Plaza of Nations...I didn't want to see them, although I liked them...but I could hear them from my condo patio...Of course, hindsight is 20/20...
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  • yostaramayostarama Posts: 287
    First show was March 31st 1992. Newport music hall. Tickets were 10 bucks raw energy from the band. I was hooked for life when I heard Mcready play evenflow live. When i saw them in DC this year mike's solo on evenflow brought back every thing I love about the band. Listened to Ten for about 6or 7 months before I saw the boys for the first time. Later Yostarama
  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    pjtradeking wrote:
    About two months after TEN came out. I was living away from home and had just broke it off with a gal I was suppose to marry. I was doing some cocaine back then. On my days off, for a couple of months, I would buy myself an 8-ball and lock myself in my apt and listen to records and drink beer and get high for a couple days at a time by myself....That only lasted a few months and I pretty much quit drugs and drinking all together for good...Not because of the band or the music, but because I decided I had done enough...:)

    ......I had heard alive on the radio and really dug it and thought I would buy the disc. I remember sitting there when "black" came on, and initially thought I had blown my speakers because of the guitar in the beginning. So when it kicked in, I started to listen a little closer...First time through, I thought it was very cool...so I grabbed the lyric sheet and followed along....By the end of it I was crying so hard that I couldnt breathe...I had been just in a fog because of the breakup that I hadnt really dealt with it...I was blown away that someone could write what I THOUGHT I was feeling at the time(turns out it had nothing to do with her, but the music just GRABBED me)...I had never really paid too much attention to word until Ed came along. I listened to OVER AND OVER AND OVER for like two solid days and by the end of the weekend, I was out of cocaine...out of beer and out of tears, but in a very good place...I was hooked...A couple of months later, I quit my job, moved back to my hometown and proceeded to just fall in love with PJ and never looked back....About a year later, I had the "stickman" tattooed in tye-dye coloring on my arm with the word "black" between the feet and discovered a place called "4000 holes"...A mom and pop shop that had started to carry some bootlegs to the tune of $50+ a pc and couldnt get enough...that was the beginning of the collection...It just escalated from there....

    I met my wife a few months later...When I told her that PJ was a huge thing for me and that it was my passion, I think she like everyone else and myself thought it was just a phase...I had the same connection with Motley Crue and G-n-R back then, so no reason to think it wouldnt...

    Well it didnt....so fast forward 17+ years later...I havent stopped collecting(it has only gotten worse..hahaha) I havent stopped listening..I am like a giddy little kid each and everytime I pop a disc in the player, and "black" still brings me to tears on any given day...the love affair continues...:)


    I love this story!
    I have a couple of friends that became fans because they connected with one of the songs too, and they are still fans today.

    I wish I could say I connected on the personal level with one of their songs, but in my case it was just the music I guess @ least early on.

    Next time I go up there ima knock on your door to see that collection of yours that I'm 150% sure puts mine to shame :D
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:
    I love this story!
    I have a couple of friends that became fans because they connected with one of the songs too, and they are still fans today.

    I wish I could say I connected on the personal level with one of their songs, but in my case it was just the music I guess @ least early on.

    Next time I go up there ima knock on your door to see that collection of yours that I'm 150% sure puts mine to shame :D

    You have an open invitation!!

    It was "black" that drew me in for sure, but once I was hooked, it was TOTALLY all of the music for sure....I was then and am now still amazed at the way things are written and the stories that they tell. Nothing (imho) seems to be forced and again, to me, is very genuine. I can find some sort of story in everything I hear from PJ. While it may have a different meaning for each person, and even ed himself may have written it from a perspective known only to him, there is nothing I like more, then just closing my eyes and just listening over and over even to this day.
    Never, ever, flipping forget
    "Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY

    My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
  • NYbenbenNYbenben Posts: 1,020
    my first was April 12, 1992.... Limelight, NYC... i had been so into the band for a while... i worked at a record store and personally recommended thousands of copies to people coming into the store... i paid $12 for a ticket... and NOT ONE of my friends wanted to go see them with me. i ended up selling 2 tickets in front of the door to the venue for $20 each... magical night!
    4/12/92, 8/11/92, 9/28/96, 9/11/98, 8/23/00, 8/24/00, 7/9/03, 4/30/03, 10/1/04, 10/3/05, 12/9/05, 5/12/06, 5/17/06, 5/28/06, 6/3/06, 12/9/06, EV LA 4/12-4/13/08, 6/12/08, 6,19,08, 6,20,08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 7/1/08

    and still jonesing for another show....
    "the waiting drove me mad..."
  • Oz JammerOz Jammer Posts: 9,858
    NYbenben wrote:
    my first was April 12, 1992.... Limelight, NYC... i had been so into the band for a while... i worked at a record store and personally recommended thousands of copies to people coming into the store... i paid $12 for a ticket... and NOT ONE of my friends wanted to go see them with me. i ended up selling 2 tickets in front of the door to the venue for $20 each... magical night!

    Fucking scalper!! ;)
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    I actually didn't see them but the first time I heard them was when my buddy came back from visiting his brother in Seattle with a few really bad quality boots on cassette. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was one of those kids back in the day with a Walkman on all day and a backpack filled with tapes. I listened to music all the time.
    Anyway, I was a Junior in HS(around March 1991) sitting in the back of English class listening to these tapes and being like wtf, these guys are awesome, can I borrow this and tape it?? He gave me PJ,Soundgarden and Mudhoney(I think). At the time Soundgarden didn't do much for me but PJ blew me away. Since that day I was hooked. I still get excited everytime a new song,album comes out.

    I remember at the time because there wasn't much happening in Music at least for me anyway. I had the classics and a lot of crap mixed in. I think Ugly Kid Joe was #1 at the time(haha) or Crash Test Dummies or whoever but I do remember it was pretty lame. I listen to a lot of music during the day,but PJ is always in the mix.
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

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  • Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    NYbenben wrote:
    ... i paid $12 for a ticket... and NOT ONE of my friends wanted to go see them with me. i ended up selling 2 tickets in front of the door to the venue for $20 each... magical night!


    scalper! :p
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    yoke wrote:
    I actually didn't see them but the first time I heard them was when my buddy came back from visiting his brother in Seattle with a few really bad quality boots on cassette. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was one of those kids back in the day with a Walkman on all day and a backpack filled with tapes. I listened to music all the time.
    Anyway, I was a Junior in HS(around March 1991) sitting in the back of English class listening to these tapes and being like wtf, these guys are awesome, can I borrow this and tape it?? He gave me PJ,Soundgarden and Mudhoney(I think). At the time Soundgarden didn't do much for me but PJ blew me away. Since that day I was hooked. I still get excited everytime a new song,album comes out.

    I remember at the time because there wasn't much happening in Music at least for me anyway. I had the classics and a lot of crap mixed in. I think Ugly Kid Joe was #1 at the time(haha) or Crash Test Dummies or whoever but I do remember it was pretty lame. I listen to a lot of music during the day,but PJ is always in the mix.


    I STILL have a huge box of cassettes...I cant bring myself to part with them....
    Never, ever, flipping forget
    "Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY

    My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
  • PJPATPJPAT Posts: 399
    Great story tradeking!

    I had someone lend me a cassette of PJ soon after it came out. I remember playing it on my cheap cassette player. I forgot what it was called but it was a dual cassette that came with a microphone so you could play one tape and record yourself singing on the 2nd tape. Fisher price type of thing.

    The first 3 songs had me hooked. PJ was playing at the Metro in Chicago and I had heard it was a tough ticket so I did not even try. The Vic show finally made up for that indecision back in the day.

    I tried to get RHCP tickets at the Aragon and that was sold out. Later I found out that PJ and the Smashing Pumpkins were the openers.

    Loll 92 was announced and I got my chance to see RHCP finally and bought tickets the day they went on sale. By the time the show came around it was Pearl Jam that I was going to see. I still remember falling down the hill during Jeremy and being at the bottom of the pile. Walking back up the hill in the rain listening to Black was emotional. I still have the tshirt with 9 out of 10 kids choose crayons over guns.

    It is amazing how Music can change your life. This band really has changed my life and I would say it changed it for the better.

    Keep up the great work PJ!
    "All the money you make will never buy back your soul" Bob Dylan

    "I need honesty, I need truth, and I need hope...I need it! That's what music means to me." EV
  • DEMON CLEANERDEMON CLEANER Posts: 242
    17 years for me now.
    COYS!
  • joshualukinjoshualukin Posts: 6
    was only 10 then. lol! But 18 years later I'm still a diehard fan and a better person because of them, I'm a pot smoker now! lol
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