what age did you get into the band

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  • brock05
    brock05 Posts: 11
    15 in 1992, my school work suffered badly that year
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  • vonnegutnaked2
    vonnegutnaked2 Posts: 43
    Kind of a gradual thing with me...as I had a couple of the old albums, but bought Yield when I was like 14, so I think that was a big step.

    Then, I really got into the boots and everything around my first year in college. But still didn't see them live until I was 23...now, try to see them at every opportunity.
  • stillalivejlp
    stillalivejlp Massachusetts Posts: 76
    19 in '91. I remember being at a party in college and "Alive" was playing and I was loving it. Dancing around like a fool with my flannel shirt flying. :)
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  • mr orion
    mr orion Posts: 61
    I was 16 when I first heard Pearl Jam, and remember listening to porch and thought what the f#*k is this. I had been listening to alot of stadium rock, so I was suprised when I heard something I could relate to.I didn't buy ten, but really got into the band during the vs era, and still think vs is a better record.
  • BinGnarly
    BinGnarly Posts: 508
    around 5. My brother bought Alive and played it all the time.
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  • bwright
    bwright Posts: 28
    age 14, 8th grade, 1992
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    13

    pretty rare for a young teen girl huh? ;)

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  • gibbits
    gibbits Posts: 522
    All of 7 in 92 and rocking since
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    14... back in 1998

    My older sis was into PJ back then (when PJ started)...so I've always heard PJ's music around the house but didn't get into them until Yield was released.
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • jwoodcock
    jwoodcock Posts: 22
    At 16 ten came out and it played at every party or cruising around trip we went on. We also listened to Dr. Dre equally. When Vs. came out it was a workout tape. When vitology came out it was the college party scene. I was still a fan from 96-2000, but I listened mostly to bootlegs I obtained from seattle clubs from a member on my lacrosse team who fished on a boat in Seattle during the early days to get over a lost love. I really became fired up when I signed up for tenclub and started checking out five horizons and this site. 17 years as a fan. I think I was more fanatical about AIC and Soundgarden though.
  • Im still here
    Im still here Posts: 826
    when Ten hit

    1992

    bought every cd since, and any and all i can get my hands on

    i was 22
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  • Capstoner
    Capstoner Posts: 727
    25 in 1992
    Atlanta 92
    Columbia 08
    Atlanta 12
    Charlotte 13
    St Louis 14
    Greenville 16
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    Seattle 24
  • Kegzy05
    Kegzy05 Posts: 93
    5 or 6 in '91

    Obviously didnt have any money of my own then so i spent every afternoon in my brothers room listening to "Ten" on cd over and over.
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  • rockpants
    rockpants BC Posts: 838
    I was 9 in 1991. My brother, 2 years older than I, introduced me to PJ.
  • knitted
    knitted Posts: 244
    Oxxys wrote:
    man some of you guys are old :)

    man some of you guys are young :)






    i love these threads (not the first one on this subject obviously) i always end up reading them the whole way thru and being astonished how everyone's experience of becoming a pj fan is so different...but so the same. whether you're 4 or 40, in 1991 or 2001... it's a funny thing.
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  • MerkingBoy
    MerkingBoy Posts: 249
    1996, I stole sum punk's CD's kases and saw Vs. inside. Den, stole a CD playr frum a nerd & play'd the CD. I was a big man on campus in high school!
  • lephty
    lephty Posts: 770
    in 91 i was 11! wasn't as hardcore of a fan till VS. came out. its amazing that it's been 17 years! never really thought of that till now. i wish i could have a "played count" for all the songs/albums that they have. would be interesting to see how many times i obsessively listened to VS and Yield :)
  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    I was 20 years old and it was 1991. It was the first time JJJ (an Aussie radio station) played Alive. I was hooked from that very first listen and was immediately trying to find out all I could about PJ :D Have been obsessed every minute of my life since then :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    19. I am now 904.
  • bword
    bword Posts: 74
    30 in 1993
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