When did you become a fan?

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  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    Vedder_Girl77 wrote:
    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.


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    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 worshippy.gif

    that hit me with a surprise left, my jaw left hurting... dropped wide open. 8-)

    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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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Maybe around 2002/2003, my bro started playing state of love and trust from the mtv unplugged show loads and i was like hey, this is good!
  • kazmo
    kazmo Posts: 99
    After watching them perform Jeremy at the 1992 MTV vma's. Much of '93 was spent glued to MTV recording their PJ weekends :lol:
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    Summer '92. I was 18 and had just broke up with a girl, who then sent me a tape that said "play me".

    It had 2 songs: Black and Release
  • HeavyHands
    HeavyHands Posts: 2,131
    MrMerkinball wrote:
    Summer '92. I was 18 and had just broke up with a girl, who then sent me a tape that said "play me".

    It had 2 songs: Black and Release


    Jesus...
    "A lot more people are capable of being big out there that just don't give themselves a chance." -Stone Gossard
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    HeavyHands wrote:
    MrMerkinball wrote:
    Summer '92. I was 18 and had just broke up with a girl, who then sent me a tape that said "play me".

    It had 2 songs: Black and Release


    Jesus...
    Yeah...good times
  • Brain of the Brain
    Brain of the Brain Posts: 89
    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.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    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.."
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  • tightrope high
    tightrope high Posts: 137
    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.
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  • Tuolumne Mama
    Tuolumne Mama Posts: 1,210
    I_Am_Mike wrote:
    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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  • Tonykin
    Tonykin Posts: 252
    Summer of 92 after listening to Alive on TV. Then I got Ten in tape and I love it and love the band ever since.....
    "... Tan suato mi'jo!!"

    -Salomón & Artemisa Vargas
  • Policeman
    Policeman Posts: 61
    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.
    Don't it make you smile?
  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    1984
  • nooram
    nooram Posts: 392
    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.
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  • JF116983
    JF116983 Posts: 176
    The first time I heard TEN. After that, I remember buying "five against one" the day it was released with my friends.

    Does not get more old school than that. For those who know what 5against1 is anyways.
  • krymsin
    krymsin Posts: 75
    All these stories -- especially this one ...
    Policeman wrote:
    ... 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.

    ;)
    If you hate something,
    Don't you do it, too.
  • SCRIBLING C-MENT
    SCRIBLING C-MENT Posts: 248
    Early '92
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Tonykin wrote:
    Summer of 92 after listening to Alive on TV. Then I got Ten in tape and I love it and love the band ever since.....
    me too i was 14 it rocked & i loved it. MTV actually introduced me to good music back then.
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  • bdelehant
    bdelehant Posts: 12
    Around 1994ish. I found a copy of my brother's Ten CD and was hooked. What a ride since then.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,914
    Grade 9, I guess I was about 14.. that'd be around late '92. They were all over the radio, got TEN from columbia house on casette tape.. lol!

    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.

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