In which circumstances did you discover Pearl Jam ?

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  • otter
    otter Posts: 772
    During a wintry drive down to the shore to find our summer apartment with my future roomies. Candy played, rewound, played again as I drifted off to sleep; Black. She lived in Pittsburgh at the time so I guess that is where she found it.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    It was a mixture of seeing the "alive, and Evenflow" videos on MTV, then seeing their MTV unplugged and after the Unplugged I was hooked. :)
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  • Deano
    Deano Posts: 183
    edited July 2014
    red mos said:

    It was a mixture of seeing the "alive, and Evenflow" videos on MTV, then seeing their MTV unplugged and after the Unplugged I was hooked. :)

    Exactly the same for me.

    Was aware of them before but when i saw them on MTV Unplugged i was blown away by their performance.
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  • jumbojet
    jumbojet Posts: 1,484
    In a rock-jazz bar in a popular tourist destination in Turkey, at the sea. The song was Jeremy, but I didn't know of course the band or the song name, at that time. I was thinking, WTF, this is so different than everything I heard.

    Just like Zod, I don't remember the exact moment that I got introduced to PJ music. I remember watching MTV Unplugged and Animal performance with my mouth open.

    I remember one afternoon, literally falling off my bed while listening to the Ten cassette, with the beauty of music. It happened twice, with Black and Garden.

    It was university years, it was good weather and I had both Ten and Vs. cassettes in the cheap car, driving to classes.

    My DJ friend in the university radio would tell me; they'd have meetings and the supervisor would ask: "Who played PJ today?". Of course then he'd have to ask:"OK, anyone who didn't play PJ today?".

    I also have a story of re-finding PJ music again like Sallyroo but it's for another thread.
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  • vaggar99
    vaggar99 San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    i bought Vs based on Rolling Stone magazines 4.5 star review. i was still a big Guns n Roses fan at the time. I didn't think anyone could be better than them. Man was I wrong and glad to be so.
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,929
    edited July 2014
    I heard it at the local record store, bought the cassette on the spot. Circa 91/92
    Evenflow was playing, never heard anything like it before.
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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Heard them on radio and saw them on TV and then saw them in Portland later in 1993 and was blown away.
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Kent State. Print Shop. 1991.
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