Do Your Friends Mock Your Pearl Jam Love??

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  • finnannie
    finnannie Posts: 1,186
    according to my parents I have completely lost touch with reality... :D

    my sister doesnt understand Pearl Jam at all (no one in my family does), that might be because I'm the only one who speaks english well enough.

    I'm 21 btw - so i don't really care what my sister or parents think. :D I've always gone my own ways.

    And now that I'm traveling all the way to NYC (+Hartford and Mansf)... they're like; "Why? Its just a band....?" its difficult trying to explain to them that it isn't just a band- and just music. ;) it's much much more, it cant be explained. PJs music is the soundtrack of my life.

    :)
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  • yoke
    yoke Posts: 1,440
    Yeah it gets to the wife the most though... She can't get into my truck without hearing them. I have a 6 disc changer and its usually all PJ. When I know she can't take it anymore I will put on the radio. The funny thing is we will hear a PJ song on the radio with 5 minutes of me switching over. She just rolls her eyes and says.. Of course ,why wouldn't be a PJ song and then she laughs.

    She understands and she cool with it. As far as my friends, I don't really care what they think. They all say crap to me all the time.
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

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  • GeorgeMcFly
    GeorgeMcFly Posts: 75
    It's rare to find someone who understands the love. "How can you go to 5 shows in a row?" etc.

    Then again, I've converted quite a few people. I've forced a handful of people to go to a PJ show with me. Every time, the next tour, they go to at least 3 shows. So be careful, PJ love is contagious.
  • mattmidgett
    mattmidgett Posts: 130
    I often get made fun of for how obsessive I am about the band. Most of my friends, parents, and girlfriend like Pearl Jam, but none are nearly as into them as I am. I have converted my roommate and now he claims that PJ is his favorite band, but still, my passion for all things PJ is unrivaled in my circle of friends.

    My friends love to tell me that I have been "out Pearl Jammed" if and when I run into someone else who truly appreciates the brilliance of PJ. Sometimes this includes me honestly getting "out Pearl Jammed" like I was multiple times at Lollapalooza last year and other times it happens if we happen to run into someone who is wearing a Pearl Jam shirt on one of the rare occasions that I am not. Regardless, I find it pretty entertaining and quite funny.

    Everyone has their little things that they are really (and questionably overly) into. Pearl Jam just so happens to be mine.
  • JP2026766
    JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    Yeah. Some mock it, some understand it. I dont really care either way. Haha.

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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    no

    they are more likely to tease me for being a Ryan Gosling fan. ;)
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,829
    My friends mock my funky ways
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    The term that has been applied to me is "Vedderosexual."
  • FrankieJ
    FrankieJ Posts: 602
    writersu wrote:
    my kids are so sick of hearing PJ when we drive and they make fun of me on this site all of the time.....

    but I figure one day they will have good taste and join me.......


    Yeah they will, my dad hooked me when I was 14.

    Nobody really mocks me aboout PJ. (Except my brother)
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  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    oh yea!
    even though most of my friends really like and appreciate pearl jam they still bust my balls every chance they get because of my obsession. it's all harmless though.
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  • jimbojones1138
    jimbojones1138 Posts: 3,640
    One time up at school my best friend was trying to tell some story... and when i didnt get the point he was trying to get acorss... he got all angry and screamed in my face "that you listen to too much pearl jam!"... like i was retarded or something for not understanding him...
    it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Me and my dad are taking a trip to north carolina from NJ to see my sister and her husband and he asked me today "you gonna play enough pearl jam for me?" I just said waht are you talking about lol. Luckily he digs PJ and im taking him to see them in hartford this june.
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  • NYbenben
    NYbenben Posts: 1,020
    i stopped telling people what shows i am going to... they automatically assume its a Pearl Jam show... And they are right!!

    it is a sickness, an insanity, but it is so well worth it... its healing to my soul!
    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..."
  • NYbenben
    NYbenben Posts: 1,020
    funny story.. .my wife and i were in the car heading home from Atlantic City and she decided to shuffle the songs in my 80Gb iPod. i told her she should never do that... then she realized why...

    of the 80Gb on it, there is about 60Gb of live Pearl Jam shows... she would hear the crowd cheering almost every song that started... she was asking if it was the same song... she learned her lesson... 12 PJ songs to 1 other song... and thats the way it should be...
    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..."
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    All the time.
  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    Well... no actually. I've learned not to be a freak about it when they are around... Because I know what would happen if I was!
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  • mattcozea
    mattcozea Posts: 377
    Heh, yeah sometimes, mostly from my one friend who is also a Pearl Jam fan. All in good fun though. :)
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    Lizardking wrote:
    Some of my friends kinda make fun of me because I have so much Pearl Jam items and do things because of Pearl Jam, Like Brad show's and Flight To Mars. Or going to Liamm Finn at Easystreet hoping Ed stop's by?

    Do any of you kinda feel your friends get a chuckle out of you and Pearl Jam.


    Yeah, people mock my love of Pearl jam all the time. I really don't care though. They all have favorite bands that I like and don't understand the obsession, so I look at it like a "to each his own" kind of thing.
    My friends support that pearl jam is my favorite band, and they will go to shows with me, they just aren't as hardcore into the band.

    I was once told by a girl I dated for awhile, that I was beyond obsessed with pearl jam, so much so that she couldn't enjoy pearl jam or even like them. She was a huge Nirvana fan but I found it just bizarre that she would say I am beyond obsessed with Pearl jam's music. So I have like 10 posters, 10 shirts, like 50/60 boots, and I just got my EV solo shirt today :D). I do have a friend I work with that is a pearl jam fan and we like alot of the same music outside pj, so I have helped him expand his collection of music a bit.

    On a side not to the original poster Lizard King, I think that is awesome that you live in Seattle, and are able to attend Flight to mars, and various other cool shows surrounding pj including the Gorge trips. I wish I lived in Seattle honestly. I actually mailed my resume' and a cover letter to the 10 club applying for a job (no joke) and I have done that with various Dallas bands I love too since Dallas and Seattle are the home of alot of my music collection. I have tried to get a music biz job, but have started to get discouraged. I just really would like to be involved in music somehow, but no I don't think your obsessed. you have met Master Mike McCready and that is awesome , those pics are bad ass.
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  • candleofthought
    candleofthought Posts: 897
    Lizardking wrote:
    Some of my friends kinda make fun of me because I have so much Pearl Jam items and do things because of Pearl Jam, Like Brad show's and Flight To Mars. Or going to Liamm Finn at Easystreet hoping Ed stop's by?

    Do any of you kinda feel your friends get a chuckle out of you and Pearl Jam.


    We must have some of the same friends!
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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    2 of my friends do. one is worse than the other. he's the guy that loves all '80's music. you know, he always goes out of his way to say how much he hates the band but then i hear him say how he likes different songs by the band.

    i was at his wedding this weekend and when asked what name i would like to be introduced as while walking in the other friend says "eddie vedder, and then rolls his eyes".

    and that's the guy whose favorite 'band' is weird al.


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