20th ANNIVERSARY VINYL + POSTER etc. FREE - WINNER

jwagner · October 2010

I don't mean to be all zen-like, but I kind of invented my own explanation for Pearl Jam and that is:

PEARL JAM is PEARL JAM.

No matter what they do, what direction they go, there's never been anyone like them. Who could give us songs as different from one another as "Porch," "Present Tense," "Johnny Guitar" and "U" and have it all make sense under the same roof? There's nobody like them. They are a place of comfort for many of us.

sickofit · October 2010

Given To DragonFly wrote:

One of my favorite responses so far

aaww....you made me smile, thanks!

mauaus · October 2010

No matter how i feel , happy, sad, angry, furious theres always a pearl jam song i can identify myself with at that moment. Its the only band in the world i would gladly travel for.

yoyo · October 2010

1-PEARL JAM ...
I listen to Pearl Jam from my 14 years, since 1992, I now 32 years old! 18 years of passion
2-PEARL JAM ...
9 albums ... which is more than half are killing! Masterpieces interplanetary
3-PEARL JAM
11 concerts in Europe and 2 Vedder concerts in Los Angeles!
4-PEARL JAM
I'm still addicted ... I'm still febrile at the announcement of a new album, crisp music news ...
5-PEARL JAM
My favorites ...
Vitalogy and No Code, ... all
In my tree, Who You Are, Present Tense, Release, Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Corduroy, Nais, Leash, Black, Oceans, Of The Girl, Sleight Of Hand, Strangest Tribe, sad, can not keep, Strength of nature, Off He Goes, Do the Evolution, immortality, smile, indifference, Lukin, Light Years, long road, no way, brain of j, rats, Tremor Christ, Johnny Guitar, just breathe, ... Believe You Me ... uh ... oops ...
6-PEARL JAM
Music for the good & the bad times, my wedding, etc. ...
In their songs, all emotions: love, hate, angry, slow, energy, ...
7-PEARL JAM
Pearl Jam is the soundtrack of my life ... There are no day without hearing the band. I'm recall having left no code in my platinum 5CD (waouhh!) for 2 years until Yield, every day I passed it 2 or 3 times .. .
8-PEARL JAM
They gave me a lot things: Loving MUSIC (Pearl Jam made me interested in music), The Taste of the trip (adventures), my passion for computers, etc...
9-PEARL JAM
A Visual Audio Sensory Theater ... No Code, Vitalogy, Riot Act, Backspacer, over and over again ... I always try to find codes!
10-PEARL JAM
The Marseille show 09.09.2006, fucking awesome and terrible show ... some words with Eddie Vedder! A childhood dream.
11-PEARL JAM
My collection: 600CD - 50LP - 10 dvds - posters - stickers - clothes - millancelous ...
12-PEARL JAM
It's to find correlations with my personal life with the guys, for example Vedder
Me
06-26-1978
My wife
09-03-1979
My first daughter
Juliette (1 first name)
10-23-2005
My second daughter
Aimy-Sarah (2 first names)
03-11-2008
Eddie Vedder
His first daughter
Olivia (1 first name)
06-11-2004
His second daughter
Harper-Moon (2 first names)
09-23-2008
Lol ...
13-PEARL JAM
Fuckin' Band! Fuckin' other projects ... Brad, Three Fish, ...
14-PEARL JAM
Travels and Adventures ... trips for Marseille (sleeping in front of The Station, etc...) - London - Dublin - Mijmegen - Werchter - LOS ANGELES (my "Into the Wild"!) Another dream!
15-PEARL JAM
It's meetings and exchanges with others persons across the world, fans and others ...
16 - PEARL JAM
Maned this pets like “Pearl”, my old die cat !
17-PEARL JAM
There are many things I do with pj in the head ... learn Photoshop at my work, learn for web site, go to town with my wife, knowing that Pearl Jam not go away ...
18-PEARL JAM
Motive my wife to see Pearl Jam for our honeymoon in Hawaii!
19-PEARL JAM
Playing Pearl Jam with my guitar at home
20-PEARL JAM
I'm a psycho ... lol!

Blow ...

Happy birthday ...

Thank you PJ

Sorry for bad English ...

in eds tree · October 2010

i've never felt anything like i feel when i listen to pearl jam...especially at a live show.

i honestly don't know if there are ANY words to describe it.

it seems silly sometimes, i suppose, to feel that way about a BAND...but it's just so much more...

mike-mcfuckin-cready · October 2010

Wow Dimitris, thank goodness there is no word limit on this! haha

PJ is everything that is good in music and the world. The love they show for each other and their fans, even still after more than 2 decades together, is mind blowing. Fighting for right and justice, shedding light on the wrongs and wrongdoers in the world, yet remaining just really nice people. But most of all, it's the music! The fucking music baby! when you heard ten for the first time it changed you, but then they just kept getting better: vs, vitalogy, yield, no code, yield: the best albums of the 90's! i never got to see them live until 2000 but after that first show, ive seen them 16 times in 9 countries and dont plan on stopping any time soon. ed's contact with the crowd, his genuine care and thanks for the people who turn up to see the guys and of course a couple bottles of wine and a double encore make pj easily the best live show there is. no flashy light shows or semi-naked dancers, just great track after great track played by a group of genius. Pearl Jam is ageless, the songs have been on repeat on my ipod for years and they dont get old. pearl jam is family. my love for ed got me to buy into the wild on dvd which i shared one evening when home with my mom. ever since she is a converted pj fan and is always listening to my pj bootlegs in the car, even though im rarely home. now we have this common love in our lives that makes us infintely closer. PJ started my love of vinyl records which was maybe one of the happiest times in both my father and father-in-laws lives. now we meet up to go record shopping a couple times a month. Aside from the music, of which there is no equal, the best part of pearl jam is the fans. Ive been fortunate enough to travel with fans around europe twice and see a number of shows in different cities in the states. PJ fans are literally the shit. i cant imagine travelling around a continent id never been to before with strangers ... unless they were pj fans and we were going to pj shows. 2006 & 2010 ... best times of my life thanks to you people. Jam on my friends, jam on!

Force Of Nature · October 2010

hard to put into words. from the first time i listened to 10, ive been hooked. remember playing release over and over, and then years later hearing it live was amazing. for any mood im in, I can find a song that makes me feel better.

maxferl · October 2010

It's all about the music

Hugh Freaking Dillon · October 2010

I saw PJ for the first time after they exploded at Sunfest 1993. It was nuts. I honestly somewhat took it for granted, as I didn't think it would be a full 10 years (minus 2 months) until the next time I saw them live (and I'm not the bravest soul when it comes to mosh pits). The next time was in Fargo 2003. One of the few shows where Ed sang Arc. Like someone else said earlier, when he started singing it, it was almost like a religious experience, I welled up with tears. It was just ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS in your life that you won't ever forget. My wife saw my tears, and squeezed my hand as we listened to that angelic voice...........and then they exploded into Go and then DTE. The whole experience was unlike anything I had experienced before or since at any show. The flood of emotion I have felt with this band's music over the previous 12 years was overwhelming, like a rebirth of sorts. I could feel it through my entire body. I was so spent after the show emotionally and physically I could not go out with friends and celebrate. I had to stay in my hotel room.

This band exhausts me. In an after-really-good-sex kinda way.

There is nothing like Pearl Jam. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

50 Foot Roman · October 2010

Pearl Jam was the first band that I heard that said something that spoke to me. I was enthralled and I couldn't stop listening. Since then I've literally grown with the band. The music has always remarkably been the exact thing I needed to hear. The new albums always seem to speak to my life at that time. I listen to Pearl Jam because they express in music what is in me. I listen because I have to listen.

guitar59 · October 2010

Love the culture and community that is Pearl Jam. The music speaks to so many, on so many levels. They are the best band to watch and listen to live. I could go on and on....

Sian-of-the-dead · October 2010

Pearl Jam changed my life...

I met my future husband through Tenclub as well as one of my bridesmaids - Some of my dearest friendships are a result of the PJ community. I've travelled to places I never thought I would and had experiences that have moved me to tears. The music has got me through some of the toughest times a human being can endure, including messy relationship breakdowns and suddenly losing a parent; over the last 5 years it's made me who I am.
I love Pearl Jam with my very soul.. and y'know, I don't care if I never meet the band or don't go on every tour and have every rare item... I have their music and my friends, and that's enough for me

guypjfreak · October 2010

i cant put it into words .enough to say that in this order
my beautiful wife who keeps me alive with her love
my lovely 2 kids [grown up now]that make me a very proud father
and pearl jam that gives me hope and inspiration in there music unlike any other band i have found
life would be very different

oh and my dog [ thats called Eddie Vedder ] who makes me laugh cos hes mad just like me .

ah and Glastonbury where i one day hope to see pearl jam

peace
guy

Spags · October 2010

The band have been my compass as I've sailed through life, rough seas and calm.

dimitrispearljam · October 2010

beautiful..thanks to all

dimitrispearljam · October 2010

one day left

Gvn2fly · October 2010

...oh yeah, and for lyrics such as:

"no matter how cold the winter there's a spring time ahead."

Can never get that out of my head. How promising is that lyric, huh?

I already entered days ago dimitris, just wanted to add that thought, thanks!

RKCNDY · October 2010

Why? Pearl Jam helped me thru though times back in the 90s....'The Story of my Life'

Eliot Rosewater · October 2010

The music is amazing. The lyrics are even better. And that voice...not only is the voice incredible, but he can sing like there's no tomorrow. The passion, the emotion, the feeling and energy. Wow, I love this band.

Thanks Dimi you are the greatest!

dottles · October 2010

When I was 11ish I heard SOLAT on the Singles soundtrack on cassette. I was on holiday in Spain and struck up a friendship with a slightly older girl from Glasgow called Nyree, who was also on holiday. We promised to write after the holiday ended, as you do - but we did and a few weeks later she sent me a taped off copy of the soundtrack. It was the first time music accompanied a snapshot of memories in my life.
I went on to buy Ten, (and then all the albums as they were released), I joined the Vitalogy health club I think it was called, I had the original stickman T shirt, worn with a baggy check shirt, long indian cotton skirts and jeans, DM boots or converse boots

I got into live music and bands, spending my time at gigs every weekend although never PJ as I live miles away from a city.

I met a guy at 19, who I thought was the love of my life. He liked music but wasn't passionate about it, movies, technology and computer games were his thing. He didn't like gigs, or going to the pub, or anything like that really. He travelled a lot for his job, so he never wanted to travel anywhere in his spare time. So I changed my outlook in order to meet his. Everything I used to do sort of gradually stopped. I longingly watched the coverage of Reading and Leeds wishing so hard I was there. I did get him to some gigs but it was such a trial it spoilt any possbile fun so something like that wasn't worth suggesting.
We split up, ten years on when he had an affair, I was devested. I had centred my whole life around this man, losing touch of who I actually was and losing any inch of self confidence.
The one thing that had stayed with me was music and so I drowned myself in it,rediscovering music that although I had listened too, I hadn't emotionally stayed in touch with. I listened to PJ a lot during this time, there were so many things in the lyrics I connected to.

I joined this forum, when I heard a rumour that the band were going to tour in 2009. I was scared by it, how passionate people were, how tight the friendships were, and felt like an intruder. I went to the Manchester gig with an old friend and a couple of his friends. That night was amazing, I know for many it wasn't the best gig of that tour, but for me, it was the start of something. We came back to outr hotel and drunkenly sang Black at the bar staff, you tubed PJ vids for hours and the feeling I was left with stayed with me. I began posting here more regularily, and not being quite so scared of you all!

The tour this year was amazing, there is no other word I can use to describe it. I have friends that I hope will remain for my lifetime, and during that trip I was also able to find a bit of the pre-19 year old self I had lost.
This passion for music we all share, can lead to immense things, and that sense is oh so special, and it's down to this band.

I have a wide taste in music, bands and artists I dip in and out of, very few are constant in my life. PJ has been a constant, and funnily enough despite her turning to dance music, I am also still friends with Nyree from Glasgow.

(sorry for going on!)

20th ANNIVERSARY VINYL + POSTER etc. FREE - WINNER

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