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Young Pearl Jam fans...

djenksdjenks Posts: 15
edited 2009 23 in The Porch
Just curious how many younger Pearl Jam fans are on this board. A good amount of my high school friends listen to Pearl Jam with me and my 2 bestfriends being dieahard fans... My college friends however don't really listen to Pearl Jam or most of the music I like for that matter... I'll be 20 in month by the way
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  • InMyTree4InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    im a freshman in college
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,395
    I'm 21 and have somehow managed to surround myself with 1 other hardcore fan and a bunch of casuals who at least have respect for the band and are always down for a show. I think that is a kind of rare though...we must be pretty lucky.

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  • SammyK14SammyK14 Posts: 287
    I'm 20 and a junior in college. None of my friends at school are that into them and think I'm clinically insane for having 900+ pj songs on my itunes library. But luckily a few of my good friends at home are as into them as i am
    5 years of Jam...

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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    ill be 21 in a week... and i hang around with too many hipsters to have any friends into PJ... oh well... most of their stuff is pretty decent and it keeps me up on the current music scene... but the conversations some people have about music! SHEESH :roll:
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I just turned 20 in december. None of my close friends listen to them but i have a few older freinds that like them a bit.
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  • andyred.atmandyred.atm Posts: 10
    Here you are a young pj fan from italy. nobody of my friends love pearl jam, they only know a few songs...I consider it a good thing, I wouldn't want pearl jam to become too popular, they wouldn't be the same for me.
  • ThrowUrArmsAroundMeThrowUrArmsAroundMe Posts: 113
    I'm turning 21 in a month, been a fan since i was 15. I got my best friend into em, brought him to a few shows, they are certainly one of his favorite bands, and nearly everyone that I know I've tried to get to like them, although most younger folks don't know the songs aside from Betterman, Last Kiss, Evenflow.
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  • Dissident67Dissident67 Posts: 570
    I'm a college freshman and turning 19, and i have a few friends that listen to them but not that many.
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  • Elbereth84Elbereth84 Posts: 253
    I'm 24 ... am I young enough to be on this list? :D
  • ThrowUrArmsAroundMeThrowUrArmsAroundMe Posts: 113
    Elbereth84 wrote:
    I'm 24 ... am I young enough to be on this list? :D

    Of course! The more the merrier, obviously. Besides I think 24 falls under the spectrum of "young".
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,395
    Elbereth84 wrote:
    I'm 24 ... am I young enough to be on this list? :D


    definitely! Kiel is a beautiful city, well all of Germany is pretty much frickin awesome...I have a few friends there
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • StereotypeStereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    If 24 passes, then count me in! :) I got to know them when I was 14 or 15 years old.

    When I was in high school Pearl Jam were quite popular here - it was a period of a year or two - around 2002. It was like a hype - especially among girls. It seemed like so many attended concert in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2000, and it was a sort of reaction to that. I remember reading yearbooks from seniors and almost every second face had in description " loves Pearl Jam" or something similar. I was really surprised since in my class there were only two that liked them. In 2006 when PJ came to neighboring country - Croatia, I had to struggle to find people to come on a concert with me. Pearl Jam were like a musical phase for them. But not for me ;) .
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  • PJbauer88PJbauer88 Posts: 87
    i'm 20 and have been a fan since 14. i've also converted 4 or 5 of my friends to pretty much diehards. PJ got me through high school!
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    i'm 23 and been a fan since the no code days.
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  • CardinalCardinal Posts: 479
    I have two very young Pearl Jam fans....2-4 years old.....and yes they really are fans. They enjoy dancing almost every night to Do The Evolution before bed...at their request. My son listens to ITW and some solo stuff while falling asleep at night. Anytime we put on PJ in the house...the kids drop anything to go dance.

    And my favorite......my son knows and can sing word for word his favorite song Walking the Cow....whats even funnier is watching the almost 2 year old try and sing it too. My son has the Portland CCFA FireFighter on his wall that one very generous Pit member gave my son for free....they have never met before....its one of his favorite things in his room. Now Im looking for something to with pink for my daughters room so she can have a PJ poster too.

    They would have posted in the thread...but they cant type so Im doing it for them.

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  • Elbereth84Elbereth84 Posts: 253
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    Elbereth84 wrote:
    I'm 24 ... am I young enough to be on this list? :D


    definitely! Kiel is a beautiful city, well all of Germany is pretty much frickin awesome...I have a few friends there

    Yehaaa someone from the other side of the big ocean knows Kiel! :o I'm impressed! :D
  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,395
    Elbereth84 wrote:
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    Elbereth84 wrote:
    I'm 24 ... am I young enough to be on this list? :D


    definitely! Kiel is a beautiful city, well all of Germany is pretty much frickin awesome...I have a few friends there

    Yehaaa someone from the other side of the big ocean knows Kiel! :o I'm impressed! :D


    yeah I've been over to Germany twice but spent most my time in Marburg...next time PJ heads that way I'm planning my vacation around it!
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • Cinnamon GirlCinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    It makes me sad that I don't belong on this list. :cry:

    I'm gettin' old.
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    Cinnamon Girl wrote:
    It makes me sad that I don't belong on this list. :cry:

    I'm gettin' old.
    if its any consolation, you still look young in your photo :D
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  • ThrowUrArmsAroundMeThrowUrArmsAroundMe Posts: 113
    sgossard3 wrote:
    Cinnamon Girl wrote:
    It makes me sad that I don't belong on this list. :cry:

    I'm gettin' old.
    if its any consolation, you still look young in your photo :D

    Nice save Goss, nice save. I wonder if Stone is as smooth as that.
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  • yieldmookie10yieldmookie10 Posts: 61
    I'm 20, my closest friend from high school (and middle school for that matter) got rear view mirror when we were sophomores in high school and he got me into them very quickly. We went to the Philly 05 show and I have been to 10 more since. When i got to college, i pledged a frat and one of the kids I pledged with was shockingly as into pearl jam as I am. He has been my roommate and closest friend up here since. Everyone thinks we are freaks because we have our wall covered in posters and a shrine in the corner of our room. We also get boozed to Pearl Jam power hours quite frequently. The rest of the 40 or so kids that I live with have slowly warmed up to PJ because of us, though most of them never listened to them at all before.
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  • StickmanJamStickmanJam Posts: 425
    Nice! Us 24 year olds are invited to the "young" party too, haha. Been into them since probably the mid-90's, but didn't become a diehard fan until I was about 16.
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  • ryanrunningryanrunning Posts: 427
    Jees, i feel really young then. I turned 18 a week ago, have known of Pearl Jam most of my life (but only their hits), and within the last year have become a huge fan.
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  • allstar340allstar340 NYC Posts: 812
    I'm 16, a junior in highschool :mrgreen:
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  • Vedder_Girl77Vedder_Girl77 Posts: 4,335
    I guess I am considered an "old" fan since I am "30 something" and have been a fan since 1992 but it is really awesome to see people in their teens and twenties who love Pearl Jam too! You ROCK! :D
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  • KravenKraven Posts: 829
    21 here, been a fan since I was 15, saw my first show the day after I turned 16. It was all "down hill" from there. 14 more shows after the first ,and I think I am up to 1300 songs on my computer. All of my friends know and respect Pearl Jam. I have 1 friend whose as hardcore as I am and we hit two PJ shows and an EV show together over the summer.
    32 shows and counting...
  • It_Wasnt_My_SurfaceIt_Wasnt_My_Surface Posts: 851
    I am 21 and only have 1 other friend that is a fan. I'm the only person I know personally who is die-hard as I am. There needs to be more of us. Or like Pearl Jam AA. That would be helpful.
  • LoveBoatAdmiralLoveBoatAdmiral Posts: 1,191
    StrangestTribe27 wrote:
    I am 21 and only have 1 other friend that is a fan. I'm the only person I know personally who is die-hard as I am. There needs to be more of us. Or like Pearl Jam AA. That would be helpful.

    Also 21 and from the Boston area. Hey Strangest Tribe, how went the search for the whale poster?
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  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    I'm 18. My sister and her friend (who are 21) are big fans aswell.
  • It_Wasnt_My_SurfaceIt_Wasnt_My_Surface Posts: 851
    LoveBoatAdmiral wrote:

    Also 21 and from the Boston area. Hey Strangest Tribe, how went the search for the whale poster?

    Just like Ishmael I too can not find that damn Whale. It will happen eventually. I just keep crossing my fingers. Thanks for asking though!
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