Plea to 4 Digit or Less Fan Club Members: Tell Us a Story
Please come out of hiding and tell us how you came to love PJ from the very start. What got you first interested? What compelled you to join the club all those years ago? Why did you keep renewing your membership year after year? With all the changes that have taken place in the club, with the band and in their music; was it hard to keep renewing?
Did you follow Mother Love Bone? See them live? Did you see Mookie Baylock open for Alice In Chains? Or maybe Pearl Jam open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Did you buy TEN when it was released and join right away?
Please take a moment a share a little with us.
Did you follow Mother Love Bone? See them live? Did you see Mookie Baylock open for Alice In Chains? Or maybe Pearl Jam open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Did you buy TEN when it was released and join right away?
Please take a moment a share a little with us.
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
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Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
It was a funny joke.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
~ What got you to Roseland? That Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins (sometimes Nirvana) and Red Hot Chili Peppers tour in ’91 in hindsight was pretty dang special.
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Wow, didn’t expect something like that right off. Thank you for taking the time to share. It hurts to hear about your hard times and the subsequent loss of your early membership number after supporting the bands early endeavors. If it ever works out, that we plan on attending the same show, you can use my extra. At least that’ll get you a little closer. You deserve it.
So I have to ask, did you see Bad Radio in San Diego?
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Sounds like you want to toot your own horn here pal. Congrats you have a low number.
What got me into the band? Well, I'd like to say "duh", but that doesn't cut it. I was in HS in 89-93, grunge was hot. I'm a drummer and I pretty much exclusively listened to Rush up to that point. My brother met the band in 92 at a convention in Texas (he was the events/music/talent coordinator for his college and went to these things all the time... I have a signed Epic Records CD from that meeting... that Epic sampler has 3rd Bass and Spin Doctors on it, if I recall). Anyway, I listened to that CD, fell IN LOVE with PJ instantly. It spoke to me in a way not much else has. there's TONS of better "musicians" out there (no, I'm not saying they're bad musicians, just that there's always better... another side story... the drummer for Mastodon is an acquaintance of mine, and he once told me when I made a critical comment about a drummer I thought sucked but the band was successful... "but it works for them". I felt dumb... but that's the point about pearl jam, for me... "it just works for them", they mesh so well together... again, they're very good musicians/artists). So I was an angst ridden teen, with all the life problems that everyone thinks they're the only ones that have it. If PJ didn't speak to me at that time, no one could have. Maybe they didn't save my life, but they saved me from me.
Anywho, I listened to RHCP and my bro saw PJ open at lolla. My bro was really influential in getting me into them as you can tell. I recently flew him and his family over to Europe to go to Vienna 2006 with me. (I lived in Germany for a while). That was way cool. We had 10c tix and the floor was GA with 10c getting in early. We had an awesome spot on the floor, along the center 'spine', about 10 'rows' of people back. Because we were on the spine, we had something to hold on to, and didn't get pushed around at all... moved back 1 foot the whole night as I marked the spine just to see!).
I grew up and went to college in Rochester, NY. My 2 best friends and I had something called PJ time. When TEN was released, it was the only tape (yeah, tape) in our cars. We'd pick each other up and go places... My house to our favorite place to eat took us "Alive" to get there. It was "Black" to get from my house to Tim's place. Everywhere we went, we knew how long it took, by how far we'd get thru 10. Crazy. In 1993, I was approx the 20th person in Roc to get Vs. (the original, untitled eco pack) as I went to the House of Guitars for the CD release party. We stayed up ALL night and put that fucker on repeat. Ahhh, to be in college. Go, Dissident and RVM are still on my all time fav list.
What keeps me listening? They're the same band, but they're not. I like that the CD's don't all sound like Ten. That would suck.
Maybe some (most) would say I'm not a "fanatic". I like the 'band' and the music they put out. I don't know the names of Eddie's kids, or what the member's b-days are... I have wikipedia for that should I need to know it. I only have a very small handful of collectible items (including 3 of the t-shirts they just re-released, stickman, choices, black... all have been worn at least once a year since back then... still in "relatively" good shape). Maybe I'm not the best guy to ask PJ trivia questions too, but doesn't mean I don't love the band. I used to have "every lyric to every song" memorized... but I have a 6 yr old and a 3 yr old now... I can sing you some "Go, Diego, Go" songs if you'd like. Those words I know by heart. PJ is great, but my kids are better. PJ wouldn't stand a chance.
Since it's not really a money thing, I kinda wish those of us that lapsed could just pay up for the years missed. I'd even pay a make-up fee or something. The seniority thing is valuable, and while I know how it would seem unfair (especially since I don't have a good reason for lapsing other than "i got busy with life"). Would be cool, but I own my f-ups and (no offense here) I didn't write in to ask for special treatment.
Well, I hope that story is reasonable for you. Love 'em tons. I think it's kick ass that they are still rocking so hard. The don't jump around nearly as much, but I don't blame em for that (neither do I). I've seen them 9 times, Toronto on my b-day this year will be 10. gonna see Eddie in Albany 2x in June.... PJ has been non-stop on my mp3 player for the last month easy. It's like a Renaissance. I'm 17-18 all over again.
I’m not sure how to online, maybe someone else can help with that route.
If you have any mailings from the 10c your member number is printed by your address.
Or you could probably shoot the club an email and request it.
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Take your join date (eg: 10241996) and divide it by 3 and times it by the day you were born (eg: if born on a Wednesday, times it by 4 for the fourth day of the week). Move the decimel to the left three spaces, and that'll give you a number in no way resembling your member number. ...but you wanna try it now, don't ya?
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
My love for their music went up another notch with "Vs" at which point I craved any info I could get my hands on, hence me joining the fanclub.
I'm actually surprised I never forgot to re-new, but luckily I'm kind of anal about bills and deadlines.
made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."
I'm so off-topic here, but Mastodon's new record is AMAZING. Please tell your friend that he's got a HUGE fan base here in Chicago
How could you run into financial trouble to not be able to pay for membership. Wasn't it like $5 a year back then?
Unless, of course, you were homeless and living on the street... then i suppose you really couldn't afford it.
The Sentence Above Is False
(ok, back on topic now!).
Sounds like you want to be an ass, pal. Congrats, you are an ass. :arrow:
$20, $5 or $0.50, when you have no money, you have no money. I applaud him for not putting a fan club membership above his financial needs. He's got better discipline than I.
I feel your pain. I joined in 92 and have the newsletters to prove it. I let mine lapse because back in those days the 10 club was really disorganized. I sent my five bucks, they lost it, I got annoyed with them and decided not to renew. Something I have regretted ever since but who knew? I have also begged them for my old number back but you can guess how well that went. I rejoined in the late 90's and now have a 193XXX number. I tend to be on Mike side in a 100 level section, which is pretty good but a collection of picks and tambourines I do not have (or any of either). Either that or really far back on the floor which as a relatively short person sucks. I have never won the lottery though Ive been to dozens of shows since they started it. Sorry to hear your story but I'm at least glad I'm not the only one.
You got to spend it all.....Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (August 16, 1992), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (August 25, 1998),Virginia Beach, Virginia (August 03, 2000),Noblesville, Indiana (August 18, 2000), Cincinnati, Ohio (August 20, 2000), Columbus, Ohio (August 21, 2000),Columbia, Maryland (September 04, 2000),Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (September 05, 2000),Auburn Hills, Michigan (October 07, 2000),Seattle, Washington (November 05, 2000),Seattle, Washington (November 06, 2000),Mountain View, California (October 20, 2001),Mountain View, California (October 21, 2001),Seattle, Washington (October 22, 2001),Seattle, Washington (December 08, 2002),Seattle, Washington (December 09, 2002),Cleveland, Ohio (April 25, 2003),Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 26, 2003),State College, Pennsylvania (May 03, 2003),Mountain View, California (June 01, 2003),East Troy, Wisconsin (June 21, 2003),Toronto, Ontario (June 28, 2003),Camden, New Jersey (July 05, 2003), Camden, New Jersey (July 06, 2003),New York, New York (July 08, 2003),New York, New York (July 09, 2003),Mansfield, Massachusetts (July 11, 2003),Hershey, Pennsylvania (July 12, 2003),Mountain View, California (October 25, 2003),Boston, Massachusetts (September 28, 2004),Boston, Massachusetts (September 29, 2004),Reading, Pennsylvania (October 01, 2004), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (September 28, 2005),Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 03, 2005),Chicago, Illinois (October 05, 2005),Cleveland, OH (May 20, 2006),Camden, New Jersey (May 27, 2006),Camden, New Jersey (May 28, 2006),Washington, D.C. (May 30, 2006),E. Rutherford, New Jersey (June 01, 2006), E. Rutherford, New Jersey (June 03, 2006),Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 23, 2006),Cincinnati, Ohio (June 24, 2006),Washington, D.C. (June 22, 2008),New York, New York (June 24, 2008),New York, New York (June 25, 2008),Chicago, Illinois (August 23, 2009),Chicago, Illinois (August 24, 2009),Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 27, 2009),Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 28, 2009), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 30, 2009),Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 31, 2009),Columbus, OH (May 06, 2010),Cleveland, OH (May 09, 2010),East Troy, Wisconsin (September 03, 2011),Alpine Valley Music Theatre (September 04, 2011),Pensacola, FL (September 21, 2012),Pittsburgh, PA (October 11, 2013),Brooklyn, NY (October 18, 2013),Brooklyn, NY (October 19, 2013),New York 1 (May 01, 2016),New York 2 (May 02, 2016),Chicago 1 (August 20, 2016),Chicago 2 (August 22, 2016),Chicago Night 1 (August 18, 2018), Chicago Night 2 (August 20, 2018)
Ed Solo Washington DC August 16 & 17 2008, Baltimore June 14 & 15 2009, Atlanta June 23 & 24 2009 Chicago June 28 & 29 2011, St. Louis July 1 2011, OHANAFest Dana Point Ca September 29, 2018
There was no basis for upholding your seniority until they started doing reserved seating.
Apologies for speaking on this guy's behalf, but I would imagine that if tickets weren't based on seniority till 00', then what was the point of being in a fanclub and paying any annual dues if you couldn't afford to go to any shows?
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
2024: Baltimore
2025: Hollywood II
creative stories
2005.09.12-London; 2006.05.09-Toronto; 2007.08.05-Lolla; 2008.08.13-EV Toronto; 2009.08.21-Toronto; 2009.10.30-Philly; 2010.05.06-Columbus; 2010.05.07-Noblesville; 2011.06.26-EV Detroit; 2011.09.11-Toronto; 2011.09.12-Toronto; 2011.09.15-Hamilton; 2013.07.16-London; 2013.07.19-Wrigley Field; 2014.10.16-Detroit; 2016.05.08 Ottawa, 2016.05.10-Toronto; 2016.05.12-Toronto; 2016.08.20 Wrigley Field; 2016.08.22 Wrigley Field; 2018.08.18-Wrigley Field; 2018.08.20-Wrigley Field; 2021.09.24/25 - EV Ohana; 2021.09.26 Ohana; 2021.10.01 Ohana; 2021.10.02 - Ohana; 2022.09.03-Ottawa; 2022.09.06-Hamilton; 2022.09.08-Toronto; 2022.09.16-Nashville; 2023.08.31; 2023.09.02 Minnesota; 2023.09.05 & 09.07 Chicago; 2024.05.04 Vancouver 1; 2024.05.06 Vancouver 2; 2024.05.10 Portland; 2024-08-29 Chigaco; 2024-08-31 Chicago; 2024-09-27 Ohana; 2024-09-29 Ohana Dana Point; 2025-05-06 Nashville; 2025-05-08 Nashville; 2025-05-16 Pittsburgh; 2025-05-18 Pittsburgh
I don't care what anyone says....thats some funny shit!!!!
Also I am not a 4 digit person but I am a 5 digit person signed up in april of 94