1993!!! Heard Black for the first time and was hooked. Never looked back. I'm from Australia and have seen them 12 times around the world. Greatest band alive
right after vitalogy came out - the xmas holidays in 94 i was staying with the family at my aunt and uncles place and my cousin was obsessed and schooled me real good on the joys of PJ for a week. i came back home with a dubbed version of ten on cassette (sorry kat..) and then as soon as we got home dad got me the ten CD, then a week later i got vs and vitalogy and never looked back. i didnt listen to anything else for about a year. the first time i did listen to something else the eyes of the band on my 'go' poster were so sad............
i spent the day with that cousin actually.... i was singing the fixer to her baby with different lyrics... "when someone's poooooped, we gotta put a little diaper on it.." and then with educational lyrics "when someone's drumming, we gotta put matt cameron on it... when someone's stone... we gotta put a little gossard on it.."
The first time that I had seen the Even Flow video got me in to them. When the Jeremy came out I was floored. It was like no other song that I had ever heard. But when Unplugged aired, thats when it became an obsession.
In autumn 1991, when I was 16 years old. My dad had heard of a new band from the states that musically reminded of rock from the late sixties. He asked me to buy the album while I was at a record fair. It hadn't been released i Sweden yet, but there was a guy who sold imports. I was lucky to get one of three copies. Later that evening, wan dad played "Ten" I was paralyzed in front of the speakers and stood there 'til the last song. It was love at the first sound and I'm more in love now than ever.
So thank you dad for introducing me and congratulations (he's turning 60 next week)!
When I saw the video for Jeremy on MTV in early 1992 and then the MTV Unplugged performance...begged my parents to buy me Ten right after that.
At first i loved Nirvana with his rought style. Heard Alive on the radio and it was a pretty good song but didn't hit me right away.
And most people surrounding me hated Nirvana and like "Alive" so it was easy for me not to like it :twisted:
I was 18 and a rebel.
But then i saw Jeremy for the first time on MTV. somewhere in '92
that hit me with a surprise left, my jaw left hurting... dropped wide open.
Bought the CD and played it untill it was like a mantra in my head. Helped me through my time in the Army.
And when i saw MTV UNPLUGGED i realised i was watching the best band ever....
That's it.
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Ten was the first album I ever owned. I was into all the music at that time but for some reason PJ just seperated themselves from the rest.... An as they say, the rest is history.
when i see Jeremy in mtv..and after mtv unplugged just confirm that will be my favorite band for life..
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
The beginning of 1992 - they were on a BBC TV show singing 'Alive'.
I was flicking through the channels on my remote and got to that show just as Pearl Jam were being introduced so I thought I'd see what they were like. Thank God that I did! They completely blew me away.
The next day I went to my local HMV and bought Ten and that was it... hooked!! I joined 10C from the address inside the CD sleeve and subscribed to Footsteps fanzine, then over the next few months I managed to find out a little bit about them from UK rock mags and their appearances on MTV. Then, in 1993 I achieved my dream of finally able to see them live for the first time when they played a couple of shows in London.
If I'd been told back in 1992 what a difference catching that TV performance would make to my life I'd never have believed it, let alone the fact that all these years later they would not only still be going, but they would be even stronger than ever and putting out music and live shows of this calibre.
London Brixton '93 / Reading Festival '95 (w/Neil Young) / London Wembley '96 / Manchester '09 / Boston, Newark, MSG2, London Hyde Park, Rock Werchter, Bilbao '10
saw an un-named band open up for Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins in State College, PA 1992. i thought they blew the headliners away. bought the cd right away and started spreading the word!
Saw them at the Palumbo Center in October 1991- must have been the same tour for the Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Majik . Incredible night, as the Pumpkins got booed off the stage, Corgan sulked, and seats were literally torn out before the RHCP even played.. Pearl Jam blew me and most of the crowd away with their energy and intensity in it's 45 minutes that I almost didn't care if anyone else played. They were all everyone was talking about after the show. Only other opening act to ever do that was seeing Fleetwood Mac right after Buckingham-Nicks joined them open for the Jefferson Airplane in the early 70's . It's nice to meet another "lifer" so to speak, although I know a few people who were into PJ from the Seattle scene before that. I've been to State College to see them too, just can't remember the year.
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine.
I liked them in High School but when I became obsessed was my Freshman Year at SIU 1994. The friends I met that year at the dorm are still some of the biggest Pearl Jam fans you will ever meet. The music and times we had back then bonded us forever. We spent most of our time listening to music or talking about music.
My friend Bill turned me from a casual listener to what I became. There were a couple of record stores on the Strip that had a huge selection of Pearl Jam bootlegs/imports. I still remmber buying Vitalogy at the record store and walking back to the towers. Bill and I were holding the CD up showing everyone that passed that we were cooler than they were. It was then that we felt we were apart of a select group that not everyone was allowed to be apart of. All of these years later I still feel apart of this group that not everyone appreciates or understands. To be a part of the group you don't have to love every song they write. You don't have to have all of the same political views. If the music makes you happy no matter what is going on, if you smile or get excited every time you hear a rare song, if you refuse to turn off the car while a Pearl Jam song is on the Radio then you like myself are part of the Pearl Jam family.
It was August of '91 and I was visiting my brother who lives in Mukilteo, WA. I had the Mother Love Bone album and knew, from Rolling Stone, of a new band forming from their remnants. My brother had heard of a free show so we went down to the Mural Amphitheater and experienced their awesomeness. I was hooked.
Seattle 8/91, MPLS 3/92, St Paul 8/92, Denver 6/95, Missoula 6/98, MPLS 6/98, Albuquerque 10/00, Seattle 12/02, St Paul 6/03, Thunder Bay 9/05, DC 5/06, St Paul x2 6/06, Vancouver (EV) 4/08, DC 6/08, Chicago x2 8/09, KC 5/10, MPLS (EV) 7/11, Chicago 7/13, St Paul 10/14, Santiago 11/15, Missoula 8/18, Denver 9/22, Saint Paul 8/23, Saint Paul 9/23
... If the music makes you happy no matter what is going on, if you smile or get excited every time you hear a rare song, if you refuse to turn off the car while a Pearl Jam song is on the Radio then you like myself are part of the Pearl Jam family.
... are fan-fuckin'-tastic.
None of my friends love this band as much, or in the same ways as, i do.
All you guys are validating my obsession -- and i need more.
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my brother's girlfriend Liz worked at a San Francisco radio station and sent me a cassette of live PJ stuff
it's been on since then
'93
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZaRoFF/95885951739?created#!/profile.php?id=100001560978213
baby seemed to like it....
So thank you dad for introducing me and congratulations (he's turning 60 next week)!
At first i loved Nirvana with his rought style. Heard Alive on the radio and it was a pretty good song but didn't hit me right away.
And most people surrounding me hated Nirvana and like "Alive" so it was easy for me not to like it :twisted:
I was 18 and a rebel.
But then i saw Jeremy for the first time on MTV. somewhere in '92
that hit me with a surprise left, my jaw left hurting... dropped wide open.
Bought the CD and played it untill it was like a mantra in my head. Helped me through my time in the Army.
And when i saw MTV UNPLUGGED i realised i was watching the best band ever....
That's it.
It had 2 songs: Black and Release
Jesus...
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
I was flicking through the channels on my remote and got to that show just as Pearl Jam were being introduced so I thought I'd see what they were like. Thank God that I did! They completely blew me away.
The next day I went to my local HMV and bought Ten and that was it... hooked!! I joined 10C from the address inside the CD sleeve and subscribed to Footsteps fanzine, then over the next few months I managed to find out a little bit about them from UK rock mags and their appearances on MTV. Then, in 1993 I achieved my dream of finally able to see them live for the first time when they played a couple of shows in London.
If I'd been told back in 1992 what a difference catching that TV performance would make to my life I'd never have believed it, let alone the fact that all these years later they would not only still be going, but they would be even stronger than ever and putting out music and live shows of this calibre.
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Saw them at the Palumbo Center in October 1991- must have been the same tour for the Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Majik . Incredible night, as the Pumpkins got booed off the stage, Corgan sulked, and seats were literally torn out before the RHCP even played.. Pearl Jam blew me and most of the crowd away with their energy and intensity in it's 45 minutes that I almost didn't care if anyone else played. They were all everyone was talking about after the show. Only other opening act to ever do that was seeing Fleetwood Mac right after Buckingham-Nicks joined them open for the Jefferson Airplane in the early 70's . It's nice to meet another "lifer" so to speak, although I know a few people who were into PJ from the Seattle scene before that. I've been to State College to see them too, just can't remember the year.
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine.
"... Tan suato mi'jo!!"
-Salomón & Artemisa Vargas
My friend Bill turned me from a casual listener to what I became. There were a couple of record stores on the Strip that had a huge selection of Pearl Jam bootlegs/imports. I still remmber buying Vitalogy at the record store and walking back to the towers. Bill and I were holding the CD up showing everyone that passed that we were cooler than they were. It was then that we felt we were apart of a select group that not everyone was allowed to be apart of. All of these years later I still feel apart of this group that not everyone appreciates or understands. To be a part of the group you don't have to love every song they write. You don't have to have all of the same political views. If the music makes you happy no matter what is going on, if you smile or get excited every time you hear a rare song, if you refuse to turn off the car while a Pearl Jam song is on the Radio then you like myself are part of the Pearl Jam family.
Does not get more old school than that. For those who know what 5against1 is anyways.
... are fan-fuckin'-tastic.
None of my friends love this band as much, or in the same ways as, i do.
All you guys are validating my obsession -- and i need more.
Don't you do it, too.
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
I was probably still a casual fan at that time... I think my first show in Missoula '98 turned me into a much bigger fan.