i'll make this as short as possible. i heard the name pearl jam in the import pages of Kerrang magazine in late 1991. early in the new year, 1992, i was in my local record shop (remember those things?) just looking, when i heard the rep going theough the new releases of the week. as i heard the name PJ, i turned suddenly, remembering the good reviews that Kerrang had gave, and interupted the shopkeeper as she declined, saying i would take a copy of 'that'. the guy went back to his car and brought in the usual greatest hits, and pop hits cd's, and one copy of Ten by Pearl Jam. Theres no need to explain how i fell for the album, just to say that when they came back to the uk in June 1992, as support to the cult in finsbury park, london, i travelled 200 miles to see them! because, even then, i knew how fucking fantastic they were. and soon after i got hold of a bootleg video of the show, which is exactly like remembering the view i had that day! what a fucking band! sorry for curseing, but there's no other adjectives for PJ.
Well, my case... It was late 1991, when a 10-year old girl was sitting out of her brother's bedroom door, and she enjoyed so much the music she was listening to, that she begged to her parents if they could buy the "Ten" cassette.
Now I'm 24... why do I love them? There are a lot of reasons: excelent lyrics & music, excelent values, and it may sound really stupid, but in a way their music helped me through a really really tough stage in my life, and their music gave me the joy of living once more
I had heard Betterman on the radio and absolutely loved it, so I went out and bought Vitalogy on cassette on Christmas Day 1994. I played it into the ground. It was the most amazing thing I had ever heard in my entire life, especially Immortality. It spoke so much to what I was going through at that time as a 15 year old. Not only was that the beginning of my obsession with Pearl Jam, it was the beginning of my obession with music in general. To this day, Vitalogy is still my favorite album of all time. The next two years were spent trying to get all the videos, music, and lives shows I had missed out on from 1990-1994. I started trading boots and videos and taping anything I saw on MTV with Pearl Jam on it. I would listen to the radio with the hope of hearing a new song. It's amazing how much they used to play pearl jam on the radio in 1995/96, compared to today.
Well it was probably in grade 9 when Even Flow came on the radio; I thought it was one of the coolest songs I'd ever heard, so from that point on I basically listened to more and more of PJ. I had a few friends who really liked them too which was cool. The rest is pretty much history; I get more into them as I go along and I finally just saw my first concert after a few years of waiting!
woah, it was in 92-93, I was 13 I was having the worst time at school.
I was so down.. nothing seemed to be fun for me.Till one day I discovered grunge music and Jeremy and even flown.
I felt like someone knew exactly how I was feeling. what else you can wish, be a teen and listen to Ten and Versus.
now, '05 my dream is coming true, PJ is coming to Argentina......
I believe in miraclesssssssssssss!! the ramones were right
I only own my mind. I am MINE.
my best friend had a radio show at her college in our home town. when i was around in the summer i would help her out. it was supposed to be a new music show and we were supposed to preview the music before we put it on but we usually based it on song titles. we pulled a promo that had a song called deep on it and played it and we're blown away.
a few months later i saw them on the first night of their tour with smashing pumpkins and red hot chili peppers. it was flea's birthday and we hung out by the stage door to meet the chili peppers and i was torn as i watched jeff get on the the bus, but alas, i hung out and got autographs and photos with the chili peppers instead of chasing down jeff. http://www.juliannesjournal.com/images/rock/CELEB-ANTHONY.JPG
the next summer we did our radio show again and slept out to get lollapalooza tickets. everyone else was getting tickets for 6 or 8 people and they were ending up super far back. there were only two of us and we ended up in the fourth row which was great! we spent the whole summer bragging on the radio about having great tickets for the show.
pearl jam played second and soundgarden played third. soundgarden was not well received in wisconsin. people threw sod from the lawn which wasn't cool at all. when they were done chris announced that he was going to check out jim rose on the side stage so we went up to the top of the hill and watched and sure enough a few minutes later here comes a golf cart with eddie in it and then a few minutes later another one with chris. we rushed down to the stage where jim rose circus sideshow had just finished and we got right up front. chris and eddie played hunger strike then chris did seasons and eddie did some folk song that i never did figure out the name of. we walked around the rest of the afternoon telling random people that we just saw chris and eddie.
that was the last time i saw them perform until vancouver last week. the show last week was just as good but it was different seeing the crowd go nuts for them. it was pretty cool to see them as the headliner and i had the honor of being backstage (with the supersuckers) and i got a few cool photos http://www.juliannesjournal.com/pearl_jam.htm
i've now moved pearl jam to the top of my ipod playlists and am enjoying getting back into all of that great music!
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madison, wi october 16, 1991
east troy, wi august 29, 1992- stage two set by eddie and chris cornell
vancouver, bc september 2, 2005- backstage with the supersuckers
george, wa july 23, 2006
I was in 8th grade, 1994 I think, and my brother had Unleashed in his room and everytime I went in to snoop (hehe wink wink) I'd glance over it like, "WTF is up with this lamb close-up cd cover?". Then my friend mentioned them and played a few songs from Ten for me pointing out all her favorites and how much she liked them. I went home and grabbed that "lamb" cd and sat in my room for hours listening to it. I think that Pearl Jam is one of the only bands that I have had the chance to grow-up with. And every year I continue to anticipate another amazing album. The band has always been in my life since then and once you're hooked, you can't let go.
"If it takes my whole life, I won't break I won't bend."
-S. McLachlan
about 5 years ago i met this guy online, who absolutely loved PJ. he emailed some of their lyrics, songs that i'd never heard before like present tense and indifference...they blew me away. i thought they were absolutely beautiful, so i downloaded them...after i heard indifference i was completely hooked. i went out and bought all of their albums and downloaded songs from napster, bought bootlegs.........flew to California for the Bridge School Benefit...it was my first PJ show....absolutely amazing. i don't know what it was, but something just clicked. when i listen to PJ songs...it makes me genuinely happy....i think 'God, I love this band.'
i first heard pj in cannes, fr at a record store. i had been real sick for two years and ran away to europe, where i knew noone. i had been gone for several months and the record store stereo was playing ALIVE. i realized i still was and danced in the store! i didn't care, there was noone in the store at the time. pj music is very personal...
i first heard of pearl jam in 1993/94 when i saw a video on mtv.
but in 1996 i heard a concert in berlin broadcasted on the radio, i think the first song i heard was yellow ledbetter. i recorded it on cassette, and i´m still proud of it.
in 2002, i´ve got my stickman tatoo.
i hurt myself today,
to see if i still feel,
i focus all the pain,
the only thing that´s real...
I've heard of PJ about 4 years ago...
...I used to sing in one our local rock band and the guy who played guitar brought me a copy of Ten to listen and to sing it, so I took it and got addicted.
The most powerful vocal I have ever heard!
I LOVE them ALL!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
about 5 years ago when i was 14 i started to listen to nirvana and well, when you are a nirvana fan you will get in touch with pearl jam sooner or later...i knew alive because it was played on the radio sometimes but i was some of those stupid people that thought when you are a nirvana fan you have to hate pearl jam (because other people said so) and i did not care for alive...
but one day, it was a rainy afternoon in fall, i sat in my room, listening to the radoi and they played alive again...the only thing i thought was...how cool is that...got it from napster and listened to nothing else for a few days...and that would have been the end of my pearl jam story if i had not realizied that another song i knew from the radio and which i absolutly loved was a pearl jam song too...but i did not know the name, just a few words, something with understood feelings and words...so i read thousands of pearl jam lyrics until i found out it was called light years...then i started to buy the albums and the music touched me in a way other music never did
...been on my first show in vancouver last week...fuck...i think now i am becoming a real freak...
and i know that this story is not very exciting...
"now i've got room to spread my wings and my messages of love...yeah love was my drug but that's not what i died of"
"I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"
"Go then, there are other worlds than these!" - Jake Chambers
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I remember it kind of clearly, it was 2000 and I was slowly creating my own musical tastes from listening to what little rock they played on the local Top 40 station in Columbia. I was getting into rock, and pushing away from trying to like the music the popular kids at high school were listening to.
I had heard "Last Kiss" on the radio before, and I had heard of Pearl Jam before, but I had never really given them any real thought.
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It was early 2000, and I was still a good 5 months away from switching to the alternative rock station when I heard this...
I followed Mike in junior high when he played for Warrior and then Shadow. Saw Shadow a few times in 7th and 8th grades. I guess that would be 1978ish. Always thought he was awesome- even at 13 years old. When I was at the U of Washington I heard he'd joined this new band called Pearl Jam so off I went to buy the CD when it came out. Rest is history.
And why do you love them?
(may seem a silly question)
well it all started wen i was in like 5th class (i was bout11) and me n my friend started getin into rock we started of lovin linkin park and limp bizcuit!! then in 6th class (iwas 12) my friend heard a song by pj and made me listen to it and i was all OM MY GOD dat is f'in sweet!! and even since dat great day i ave been a pj fave!! they are defn. one of my fave bands of all time!!!
1- Heard ALIVE on the radio (WHAT THE HELL!!)
2- Got the video from PINKPOP 92 for alive (NOW THIS IS A BAND)
3- Bought TEN (THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER, HOLY CRAP!!)
now i'm a fan
when i heared TEN i knew i wanted to get whatEVER they had put out ever since.
Mine was when Vs came out, a friend of mine had aquired the cd but didnt have a cd player, i had one listen and thought holy fuck this is awesome. I raided my older brothers music collection and found ten and a couple of bootlegs. Also after i got Vs i would always check to top 50 albums sold in New Zealand every week and Ten and Vs were both on it together for ages
Enjoy it while it's happening- It won't last forever. That's what I've learned in my 39 years of life. I had so many chances to see Nirvana but kept putting it off. Things can change so quickly so go-go-go while they're still playing.
I all started about a year ago this time and of course i heard of pearl jam and enjoyed it before but i wasnt what youd call a fan. I was going on a road trip with the parents and wasnt planning on talking to them so i asked my sisters boyfriend (turns out he went to a chicago show in 2002) to burn me some cds pf bands such as nirvana soundgarden STP and pearl jam.
He gave me Ten Vs. and the Chicago bootleg along with some other bands. This first song i heard on the trip was Go and fell in love. The rest of the trip I must have listened to the boot a thousand times!
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Ok, it was 92, and I was 13. The pop station back then played little of everything. When Jeremy came on, I was blown away by the story, voice and the guitar. If I listen just right, the first few notes of that song take me back to being a kid. I had just gotten my first CD player and picked a few albums in the cd store one weekend. I didn’t think pj was my type of music, so the fool that I was got Ten on cassette. BIG mistake, wore the damn thing out, and luckily before the tape literally snapped I had dubbed it over to another tape. I still remember what I was looking at when first heard “black”. The melody hit me hard, and I drifted off to space…this calm came over me. I was looking at my cd tower, at the two measly cds I owned, and how long it would take me to fill it up. Now, that’s not a problem, own over 150 cds, 14 of which are Pearl Jams. Ten single handedly helped me thru adolescences, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. My parents were going thru a divorce and I was struggling to find my place with having a disability. Not fun. I played Ten to escape, and there were many afternoons after school were I feel asleep listening to side two. Trying to belt out the lyrics in a way only Eddie can was it’s own twisted therapy too; loved his deep voice and how long he could hold a note. I had a blast trying to measure up. There’s nothing like throwing in your fav album, when there’s nobody around, and wailing out the lyrics.
I remember when Kurt died, I wasn’t surprised, his music seemed so unhappy. It was so obvious to me; this guy wasn’t just angry like Eddie, he was extremely depressed. I was worried about Eddie accepting fame, but I knew in my heart pj would make it. Damn right, they made it. I can’t imagine my world without them.
*~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*
always liked em just never got into em. but would have to be when a mate of mine lent me a boot of theirs. hearing their known songs like (betterman last kiss etc), then appreciating their other stuff got me hooked
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Enjoy it while it's happening- It won't last forever. That's what I've learned in my 39 years of life. I had so many chances to see Nirvana but kept putting it off. Things can change so quickly so go-go-go while they're still playing.
Yeah! Now they're comig to Brasil i'm not gonna miss that! god knows when the'l come again (maybe another 15 years lol)
I had heard "jeremy" on the radio a few times and saw the video. I didn't pay too much attention to it at the time cause I was distracted by something else.....Then I stopped by a buddy of mine's house who I hadn't really seen much of for about a year or so....
We were hangin out and he asked "hey...do you like that new Pearl Jam band?"
I said....ummmmm, they're ok I guess. He had just bought Ten so he said...."you gotta listen to this shit"....he put it on and I've been hooked ever since.....
Then when I heard RVM....I freaked out....I identified with it and it kind of became my teenage theme song.
"I guess it was the beatings.....made me wise"
Now I'm pushing 30 and "somethings so much clearer"
It was 91 and I was working at Fantastic Sams hair saloon at the time, and every day at 12 the station would play "hungerstrike" and I was starving and since I always skipped breakfast, my blood sugar would drop and I would be a bit shaky, and the womens hair I was doing would be jabbering away and I would aways shut them out about this time and listen to the lyrics of hungerstrike "i'm going hungry" over and over. Then, my husband bought ten and was Into them, and I started watching Jeremy video alot on TV because i thought It was the rockingest song ever and video, then, I got Into all the songs from Ten, and was Inlove with eddie's voice until this day, and of course the group as a whole. : )
I heard them when I was very young, about 9 yaers or so ago.. at least. I was very mature for my age - na dmy sister loved (loves still) them. I understood lyrics. I interpreted them. Some pretty screwed up things happened when I was younger, so I'd just HOPE my sister was listening to Pearl Jam every time I was in the room.
Then, I kind of spaced out and had some weird/crazy years and all that.
Now, I've renewed my love due to my late husband.
The music meant so much to him, and now it's continuing to mean an unmeasureable amount to me - if it weren't for Pearl Jam, I would have died right after my husband did.
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Now I'm 24... why do I love them? There are a lot of reasons: excelent lyrics & music, excelent values, and it may sound really stupid, but in a way their music helped me through a really really tough stage in my life, and their music gave me the joy of living once more
Gorge 7/23/06
I was so down.. nothing seemed to be fun for me.Till one day I discovered grunge music and Jeremy and even flown.
I felt like someone knew exactly how I was feeling. what else you can wish, be a teen and listen to Ten and Versus.
now, '05 my dream is coming true, PJ is coming to Argentina......
I believe in miraclesssssssssssss!! the ramones were right
I only own my mind. I am MINE.
a few months later i saw them on the first night of their tour with smashing pumpkins and red hot chili peppers. it was flea's birthday and we hung out by the stage door to meet the chili peppers and i was torn as i watched jeff get on the the bus, but alas, i hung out and got autographs and photos with the chili peppers instead of chasing down jeff. http://www.juliannesjournal.com/images/rock/CELEB-ANTHONY.JPG
the next summer we did our radio show again and slept out to get lollapalooza tickets. everyone else was getting tickets for 6 or 8 people and they were ending up super far back. there were only two of us and we ended up in the fourth row which was great! we spent the whole summer bragging on the radio about having great tickets for the show.
pearl jam played second and soundgarden played third. soundgarden was not well received in wisconsin. people threw sod from the lawn which wasn't cool at all. when they were done chris announced that he was going to check out jim rose on the side stage so we went up to the top of the hill and watched and sure enough a few minutes later here comes a golf cart with eddie in it and then a few minutes later another one with chris. we rushed down to the stage where jim rose circus sideshow had just finished and we got right up front. chris and eddie played hunger strike then chris did seasons and eddie did some folk song that i never did figure out the name of. we walked around the rest of the afternoon telling random people that we just saw chris and eddie.
that was the last time i saw them perform until vancouver last week. the show last week was just as good but it was different seeing the crowd go nuts for them. it was pretty cool to see them as the headliner and i had the honor of being backstage (with the supersuckers) and i got a few cool photos http://www.juliannesjournal.com/pearl_jam.htm
i've now moved pearl jam to the top of my ipod playlists and am enjoying getting back into all of that great music!
madison, wi october 16, 1991
east troy, wi august 29, 1992- stage two set by eddie and chris cornell
vancouver, bc september 2, 2005- backstage with the supersuckers
george, wa july 23, 2006
" makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
-S. McLachlan
but in 1996 i heard a concert in berlin broadcasted on the radio, i think the first song i heard was yellow ledbetter. i recorded it on cassette, and i´m still proud of it.
in 2002, i´ve got my stickman tatoo.
to see if i still feel,
i focus all the pain,
the only thing that´s real...
...I used to sing in one our local rock band and the guy who played guitar brought me a copy of Ten to listen and to sing it, so I took it and got addicted.
The most powerful vocal I have ever heard!
I LOVE them ALL!
but one day, it was a rainy afternoon in fall, i sat in my room, listening to the radoi and they played alive again...the only thing i thought was...how cool is that...got it from napster and listened to nothing else for a few days...and that would have been the end of my pearl jam story if i had not realizied that another song i knew from the radio and which i absolutly loved was a pearl jam song too...but i did not know the name, just a few words, something with understood feelings and words...so i read thousands of pearl jam lyrics until i found out it was called light years...then i started to buy the albums and the music touched me in a way other music never did
...been on my first show in vancouver last week...fuck...i think now i am becoming a real freak...
and i know that this story is not very exciting...
"I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"
"Go then, there are other worlds than these!" - Jake Chambers
09/02/2005 Vancouver
09/23/2006 Berlin
06/21/2007 Düsseldorf
I had heard "Last Kiss" on the radio before, and I had heard of Pearl Jam before, but I had never really given them any real thought.
*Please get you Binaural CDs, LPs, or MP3s ready*
It was early 2000, and I was still a good 5 months away from switching to the alternative rock station when I heard this...
*Please play Nothing As It Seems*
I was hooked.
6-12-03, 10-5-04
well it all started wen i was in like 5th class (i was bout11) and me n my friend started getin into rock we started of lovin linkin park and limp bizcuit!! then in 6th class (iwas 12) my friend heard a song by pj and made me listen to it and i was all OM MY GOD dat is f'in sweet!! and even since dat great day i ave been a pj fave!! they are defn. one of my fave bands of all time!!!
Thanks pearl jam for the great music!!!
2- Got the video from PINKPOP 92 for alive (NOW THIS IS A BAND)
3- Bought TEN (THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER, HOLY CRAP!!)
now i'm a fan
when i heared TEN i knew i wanted to get whatEVER they had put out ever since.
This band is so great, i feel very lucky.
ALIVE
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Enjoy it while it's happening- It won't last forever. That's what I've learned in my 39 years of life. I had so many chances to see Nirvana but kept putting it off. Things can change so quickly so go-go-go while they're still playing.
He gave me Ten Vs. and the Chicago bootleg along with some other bands. This first song i heard on the trip was Go and fell in love. The rest of the trip I must have listened to the boot a thousand times!
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he grew a beard.
I remember when Kurt died, I wasn’t surprised, his music seemed so unhappy. It was so obvious to me; this guy wasn’t just angry like Eddie, he was extremely depressed. I was worried about Eddie accepting fame, but I knew in my heart pj would make it. Damn right, they made it. I can’t imagine my world without them.
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Yeah! Now they're comig to Brasil i'm not gonna miss that! god knows when the'l come again (maybe another 15 years lol)
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We were hangin out and he asked "hey...do you like that new Pearl Jam band?"
I said....ummmmm, they're ok I guess. He had just bought Ten so he said...."you gotta listen to this shit"....he put it on and I've been hooked ever since.....
Then when I heard RVM....I freaked out....I identified with it and it kind of became my teenage theme song.
"I guess it was the beatings.....made me wise"
Now I'm pushing 30 and "somethings so much clearer"
I love those boys
Then, I kind of spaced out and had some weird/crazy years and all that.
Now, I've renewed my love due to my late husband.
The music meant so much to him, and now it's continuing to mean an unmeasureable amount to me - if it weren't for Pearl Jam, I would have died right after my husband did.
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