Fill in the blank: 2020 marks my ___ year as a Pearl Jam fan.

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  • MR242791
    MR242791 Brooklyn NY Posts: 669
    edited January 2020
    Whatever year Betterman came out on the radio while I was in HS.  then didn't listen to them again until I bought the bootleg Tokyo Japan album 2003.  after listening to that album i became a bigger fan.  so a long time now. first concert was Virginia Beach 2008.  why it took me so long? i was poor most my life and didn't know i could just buy concert tickets like that. PJ opened up my world.
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    38 concerts and counting
    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in between is mine"
  • Evel K
    Evel K Posts: 588
    edited January 2020
    29th- Friend of mine heard Temple of the Dog in a record store. Loved it, backtracked to MLB and knew Pearl Jam was going to rock before 10 was released. Sent the scan of early fan club letter to TwoFeetThick. No complaints for 10club. They have delivered. 
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    Things were different then
  • NewfieintheUSA
    NewfieintheUSA Posts: 2,416
    edited January 2020
    28, got into them during 10th grade. I remember being so excited for Vs to be released in the fall the next school year (the day before my 16th birthday). 
  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,969
    17 years
  • BSully
    BSully Indiana Posts: 1,506
    29th...sometime right after Ten came out...
    1998: Noblesville, IN 08-17
    2000: Noblesville, IN 08-18
    2003: Noblesville, IN 06-22
    2006: Cincinnati, OH 06-24
    2010: Noblesville, IN 05-07
    2016: Lexington, KY 04-26, Wrigley Field 2 08-22
    2018: Wrigley Field 1 08-18, Wrigley Field 2 08-20
    2022: St. Louis, MO 09-18
    2024: Noblesville, IN 08-26, Wrigley Field 1 08-29, Wrigley Field 2 08-31
    2025: Pitt 1 05-16, Pitt 2 05-18
  • KN219077
    KN219077 Montana Posts: 1,203
    I had heard rumblings about the greatness of live PJ, but not really being a rock fan and having the impression that PJ was just a notch above nickleback I was wary. I picked up Live in Tokyo 2003 randomly at walmart and Release absolutely hooked me. I knew in hearing the first song that this wasn’t an average rock band. I picked up Lost Dogs the same week and basically wore those discs out. My first taste of the band was a stellar one, still love lost dogs and listen to it often 
  • PJADED12
    PJADED12 Quispamsis NB Canada Posts: 19
    Was always a fan, but when I saw them live in Augusta in 96 I became A crazed fan..24 years of Pearl Jam All Day Every Day (Pjaded)
    Expecting perfection leaves a lot to ignore
  • Torontonian
    Torontonian Posts: 562
    27th year... wha happen?!?! 🤟
  • LOV2ROCK
    LOV2ROCK Minneapolis/St.Paul Posts: 822
    Once I heard Alive I was mesmerized and had to find out who these guys were so I started ordering all the import cd singles I could get along with any shirts and Merch I could find. 
    1991,so 29 years a fanatic and 27 as a fan club member (1993). Sent in my $5 when Vs came out. 
  • BDHiding
    BDHiding RVA Posts: 10
    Not quite 7 for me. Picked em up in high school when I had my musical “awakening”, so to speak. I’d imagine I might be in the contest for youngest 10c member.
  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    25th/26th. Should have joined the Vitalogy Health Club back then instead of dicking around.
    Stars are suns to other people.

    Wellington 1998
    London 2007
    Brisbane 2009
    Stockholm 2012
    Amsterdam 1 & 2 2014
    EV Dublin 2017
    Milan 2018
    Padova 2018
    Boston 2 2018
    Auckland 1 & 2 2024
  • TS28928
    TS28928 Posts: 13
    First heard Ten on a cassette while driving from Kingston, Ontario to Washington DC in summer of '92. Joined the 10 C in '98. First show was Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario in '98.  57 more shows since then,  on 4 different continents, in 14 different countries.  
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,378
    28th. I was in the Navy stationed on an island off of the coast of Alaska in 1992. The only way to hear new music was to watch 120 minutes on MTV. I saw the video for Even Flow and was like "whoa!". Not having access to a record store, I called my Dad, who went to the Tower Records in Campbell California, bought the Ten CD along with Smashing Pumpkins Gish and mailed it up to me. Been listening even since.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,982
    LOV2ROCK said:
    Once I heard Alive I was mesmerized and had to find out who these guys were so I started ordering all the import cd singles I could get along with any shirts and Merch I could find. 
    1991,so 29 years a fanatic and 27 as a fan club member (1993). Sent in my $5 when Vs came out. 
    Dan - are you going to any shows this spring?  I'm going to work on getting the regulars organized so we know who is where.  
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    edited January 2020
    18th, I wish I had gotten on board sooner.  Mad respect for those who have been with them since the beginning.
    I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.
  • Greatplainsman...
    Greatplainsman... Posts: 842
    29th. Freshman in High School.
    IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!!!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,945
    "first"  !!!
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,057
    It's a good question and I was tempted to blurt out "since 1991 fools!!!!"...but looking back on it, I remember going to Spain with my friend and her family for the Summer, in either '92 or 93. I'd got a Sony Discman for Christmas so 'borrowed' a bunch of CDs from my mate - RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam's Ten and The Goats' Tricks of the Shade were among them. I'd been into Hip Hop before that trip and these albums helped open up my tastes a bit. Looks Like The Goats album came out in Nov '92 so that trip must have been Summer 1993 which is later than I'd have expected. I obviously fell hard for Pearl Jam as I bought a bootleg tshirt from a market on that trip. Here I am back in '93 and more recently in Italy for an Eddie solo gig.



    Pretty much the soundtrack to my life. 
    Nature drunk and High
  • rearviewmirror33
    rearviewmirror33 Posts: 99
    29th
  • Pearl34Jam
    Pearl34Jam TN Posts: 1,112
    7th :innocent:
    "Must I keep explaining my decisions to you strangers of the Internet?" - Merch tent 8/19/16

    '13: 10/27 Baltimore
    '15: 9/26 New York City
    '16: 4/16 Greenville (VS!), 4/26 Lexington, 4/28 Philly, 8/20 Wrigley
    '18: 9/02 Fenway
    '22: 9/16 Nashville
    ’24: 8/26 Noblesville, 9/12 Baltimore
    ’25: 5/6 & 5/8 Nashville

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