Plea to 4 Digit or Less Fan Club Members: Tell Us a Story

Well...I guess this would be the perfect opportunity for me to " vent " a long standing frustration regarding the loss of my " 4 digit or less " fan club number ... I have been a die hard follower of the band members since pre Pearl Jam days and was lucky enough to have seen everyone with the exception of Mike pre PJ. I was a member of the fan club from the start, I'm a collector of all items PJ, play the music, listen to it everyday...even have a PJ tattoo but...In the mid 90's I encountered financial hardships and could not afford to maintain my Ten Club membership so I lost my # by the time I was able to re enlist I ended up with a 6 digit member # and no amount of pleading via letter writting ( yup pre internet ) got my old # back. I have not had good fan club tickets ever since ...it is pure torture not being able to secure good seats to shows and constantly being trapped in a lower balcony seat 30 rows behind people that might not have been born when I was already deeply in love with the music. I have never missed a PJ tour and on many occassions I have coughed up disgusting amounts of money to upgrade my seats " on site " but I have never - never been able to even get within the first 30 rows No BS...what..like 17 years and never once have I scored a seat up front !? I've attended the entire west coast slide on multiple occasions but every time from the " cheap seats " On any occasion in which I have been able to buy better tickets on site I have given my seats away for free to folks that were unable to secure tickets because I understand the torture of missing a show or having less than desirable seats. The saga continues...just as frustrating was missing out on pre sale tickets to every EV solo west coast show and seeing those tickets for sale on every figgin web site you can imagine ! I even got skunked on EV tickets for the San Diego show in my home town on my birthday ! shed a tear for me it was sad...knowing that show was going on on my B Day and shut out...but seriously I felt that whole pre sale process was so poorly handled that I refused to shell out the insane amount of money these jerks were re selling the seats for and missed the whole EV tour. Dear Santa, good seats to a PJ show just once...O.k...done venting.

PearlJamPatriot wrote:

edwho wrote:

Bashing not allowed :roll: maybe that’s why these guys rarely post around here. These fans need to be celebrated for jump starting the band and helping to keep them relevant all these years.

I wasnt being serious. Obviously anybody thats been in the fan club deserves credit. Ive been in since 98, but cant imagin have been being in it since day one.

It was a funny joke.

josevolution wrote:

I'm here bitches j/k been in the club since APRIL 93 it is by far the best fan club around they made me feel important as soon as i joined getting that 1st invitation to see PJ at the paramount sealed it for me.I have never ever let my membership expire it's by far the most important date that i keep track of ,1st time i saw them was back in 91 when they were on the bill with the CP & SP at ROSELAND in NY city ...the rest is History my friends, to join the 10C was the best decision i've made it has paid off tenfold .....peace 27xxx... even though you wanted 4digits or lower my ### is very nice

Yes, very nice number indeed. I want it!!! I cant complain with 167xxx though.

Where to start. I, like JC63117, was a member early... for me in '93 (i think?). I've lapsed 2x since. No financial hardships here, I'm just stupid, and I own that stupidity. I think it was only 15 bux until about 2004/5 or so right? Anyway, my number now is 214,xxx (yeah, suck), and I said on a different thread that I will try to dig up my old number. easier said than done with a hundred moves since 93!).

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.

edwho wrote:

jw185687 wrote:

how u find out ur senority #

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.

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?

I have a five-digit number but figured I'd share anyway. For me....it was the "Jeremy" song and video, which I randomly saw late one night on MTV. It blew my mind and instantly rendered the rest of my CD collection irrelevant.

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.

pjsurf wrote:

Well...I guess this would be the perfect opportunity for me to " vent " a long standing frustration regarding the loss of my " 4 digit or less " fan club number ... I have been a die hard follower of the band members since pre Pearl Jam days and was lucky enough to have seen everyone with the exception of Mike pre PJ. I was a member of the fan club from the start, I'm a collector of all items PJ, play the music, listen to it everyday...even have a PJ tattoo but...In the mid 90's I encountered financial hardships and could not afford to maintain my Ten Club membership so I lost my # by the time I was able to re enlist I ended up with a 6 digit member # and no amount of pleading via letter writting ( yup pre internet ) got my old # back. I have not had good fan club tickets ever since ...it is pure torture not being able to secure good seats to shows and constantly being trapped in a lower balcony seat 30 rows behind people that might not have been born when I was already deeply in love with the music. I have never missed a PJ tour and on many occassions I have coughed up disgusting amounts of money to upgrade my seats " on site " but I have never - never been able to even get within the first 30 rows No BS...what..like 17 years and never once have I scored a seat up front !? I've attended the entire west coast slide on multiple occasions but every time from the " cheap seats " On any occasion in which I have been able to buy better tickets on site I have given my seats away for free to folks that were unable to secure tickets because I understand the torture of missing a show or having less than desirable seats. The saga continues...just as frustrating was missing out on pre sale tickets to every EV solo west coast show and seeing those tickets for sale on every figgin web site you can imagine ! I even got skunked on EV tickets for the San Diego show in my home town on my birthday ! shed a tear for me it was sad...knowing that show was going on on my B Day and shut out...but seriously I felt that whole pre sale process was so poorly handled that I refused to shell out the insane amount of money these jerks were re selling the seats for and missed the whole EV tour. Dear Santa, good seats to a PJ show just once...O.k...done venting.

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.