10-22-90 Who was there?

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  • pjtradeking
    pjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    yoke wrote:
    I actually didn't see them but the first time I heard them was when my buddy came back from visiting his brother in Seattle with a few really bad quality boots on cassette. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was one of those kids back in the day with a Walkman on all day and a backpack filled with tapes. I listened to music all the time.
    Anyway, I was a Junior in HS(around March 1991) sitting in the back of English class listening to these tapes and being like wtf, these guys are awesome, can I borrow this and tape it?? He gave me PJ,Soundgarden and Mudhoney(I think). At the time Soundgarden didn't do much for me but PJ blew me away. Since that day I was hooked. I still get excited everytime a new song,album comes out.

    I remember at the time because there wasn't much happening in Music at least for me anyway. I had the classics and a lot of crap mixed in. I think Ugly Kid Joe was #1 at the time(haha) or Crash Test Dummies or whoever but I do remember it was pretty lame. I listen to a lot of music during the day,but PJ is always in the mix.


    I STILL have a huge box of cassettes...I cant bring myself to part with them....
    Never, ever, flipping forget
    "Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY

    My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
  • PJPAT
    PJPAT Posts: 399
    Great story tradeking!

    I had someone lend me a cassette of PJ soon after it came out. I remember playing it on my cheap cassette player. I forgot what it was called but it was a dual cassette that came with a microphone so you could play one tape and record yourself singing on the 2nd tape. Fisher price type of thing.

    The first 3 songs had me hooked. PJ was playing at the Metro in Chicago and I had heard it was a tough ticket so I did not even try. The Vic show finally made up for that indecision back in the day.

    I tried to get RHCP tickets at the Aragon and that was sold out. Later I found out that PJ and the Smashing Pumpkins were the openers.

    Loll 92 was announced and I got my chance to see RHCP finally and bought tickets the day they went on sale. By the time the show came around it was Pearl Jam that I was going to see. I still remember falling down the hill during Jeremy and being at the bottom of the pile. Walking back up the hill in the rain listening to Black was emotional. I still have the tshirt with 9 out of 10 kids choose crayons over guns.

    It is amazing how Music can change your life. This band really has changed my life and I would say it changed it for the better.

    Keep up the great work PJ!
    "All the money you make will never buy back your soul" Bob Dylan

    "I need honesty, I need truth, and I need hope...I need it! That's what music means to me." EV
  • DEMON CLEANER
    DEMON CLEANER Posts: 242
    17 years for me now.
    COYS!
  • joshualukin
    joshualukin Posts: 6
    was only 10 then. lol! But 18 years later I'm still a diehard fan and a better person because of them, I'm a pot smoker now! lol

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