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oneway23 · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am **Posts:** 2016

My buddies and I used to sing Pearl Jam songs into a tape recorder, listen back, and compare.
Suffice it to say, when I sing, dogs scurry.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:06 am

96583UP wrote:

I was raised in a pro-life household and had this fantasy that I was in the hospital for some noble reason and PJ came to visit me and I managed to convince them that pro-life was the way and at the next PJ concert Ed explained to the crowd his mini-soul searching episode on the topic and that the band came to the conclusion they were wrong about being pro-choice and had seen the light and that all the audience should change their view now too

<walks toward trag for support as though we are in the same boat, trag shudders away like I am some sicko>

Holy shit, also amazing

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40116

i once argued (1995) Bugs was better than any Beatles song.

Still not a Beatles fan but I should probably walk that back

oneway23 · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am **Posts:** 2016

stip wrote:

i once argued (1995) Bugs was better than any Beatles song.

In 1500 words or more, please

WaitingForBluey · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:15 am

I went on a weekend camping trip with a bunch of strangers I met in the Pit. Twas a disaster.
The guy who organized it was piss drunk by the time anyone got there. Then it poured non-stop for 2 days, everything was covered in mud and most people sat in their car listening to PJ alone... :shake:

96583UP · **Joined:** Sun September 15, 2013 5:50 am **Posts:** 22566

tragabigzanda wrote:

96583UP wrote:

I was raised in a pro-life household and had this fantasy that I was in the hospital for some noble reason and PJ came to visit me and I managed to convince them that pro-life was the way and at the next PJ concert Ed explained to the crowd his mini-soul searching episode on the topic and that the band came to the conclusion they were wrong about being pro-choice and had seen the light and that all the audience should change their view now too

<walks toward trag for support as though we are in the same boat, trag shudders away like I am some sicko>

Holy shit, also amazing

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:24 am

daft twat wrote:

wease wrote:

Which would have embarrassed you more, your mom walking in on you during your Porch dance or your mom walking in on you masturbating?

I assume one always led into the other.

Iholdthepain wrote:

Yes, I DID get the stickman tattoo on NYE, going into 1995. I followed a local Dallas band, JiBe, who were friends with the Abbruzzese family. In fact, Dave A's brother, Frank, documented the band. When a friend of mine in the band found out about the tattoo, he grinned, walked me over to Frank, and had me show it to him. They both had a great laugh at me for doing EXACTLY what his brother had done. This was very shortly after the firing, so the wound was fresh.

He also gave me a his only copy of PJ at Trees on VHS, to make a copy and give back. I accidentally fucked up his tape, and forever lost the final two songs of that performance. Somehow, I salvaged most of the show, although it was kinda messed up, copied it onto a new VHS, and passed it back to him, as if it was the original.

Needless to say, he was then pretty pissed! I think the f'ed up version is out there, somewhere... Maybe on yt?

This stresses me out. Try to imagine being a teenage and feeling like you're *this* close to being friends with the band, then you completely botch it. I bet the self loathing was something else.

96583UP wrote:

I was raised in a pro-life household and had this fantasy that I was in the hospital for some noble reason and PJ came to visit me and I managed to convince them that pro-life was the way and at the next PJ concert Ed explained to the crowd his mini-soul searching episode on the topic and that the band came to the conclusion they were wrong about being pro-choice and had seen the light and that all the audience should change their view now too

<walks toward trag for support as though we are in the same boat, trag shudders away like I am some sicko>

I think this might be the one to beat. Mine is pretty funny, but it's just the anthropomorphic version of having a bunch of Kerrang posters on your wall. But NumbersUp is so oddly specific...

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:25 am

my favorite thread in a minute. Well done daft twat.

coptheriotact · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:26 am

There’s probably more but probably my absurd ratio of listening to pear jam compared to all other music in a 3 year period

wease · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:35 am

I love pear jam

Bammer · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:40 am

I did similar weird shit like trag did but nothing quite that specific and yes I had a shrine in my room.

wease · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 3:42 am

I sometimes wonder how my fandom would change if I had been in high school or younger when Ten came out. Would I have even liked them?

Iholdthepain · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 4:05 am

tragabigzanda wrote:

This stresses me out. Try to imagine being a teenage and feeling like you're *this* close to being friends with the band, then you completely botch it. I bet the self loathing was something else.

I was never close to being friends with anyone in PJ, nor would I have asked Frank to meet his brother. It just so happened that he filmed a lot of JiBe shows in Dallas, and I was friends with them. He is also the one who would film some PJ shows on the road, while backstage, thanks to Dave. Here's a link to the the Trees show he recorded, that I fucked up. The part I couldn't salvage was the encore of Breath and I've Got A Feeling, during which Jeff handed the bass to Ed, who played while Kelly Curtis jumped onstage and performed a striptease, down to his underwear and a bra! Jeff was dancing onstage along with him. Sucks I messed up that footage :oops:

Sorry, couldn't embed...

https://youtu.be/X8jB-GKW3g8?si=bvAhtwIL1FV0lJYY

Monkey_Driven · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 4:27 am

Having 25k+ posts on a Pearl Jam message board

Ello Sailor · **Joined:** Sun March 12, 2017 3:06 pm **Posts:** 11878

Proud of you, team.

Trag triumphing vs. a mob of punks.

Incensed divine plagiarist DT.

Superb stuff.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 11:11 am

wease wrote:

I sometimes wonder how my fandom would change if I had been in high school or younger when Ten came out. Would I have even liked them?

This is where I’m at regarding today. If I never heard of them, and dark matter came out along with all this other crap, would I like the song or the band? I would not.

Ms Harmless · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 11:55 am

does *would not* immediately translate to *don't*?

daft twat · **Posted:** Wed March 06, 2024 12:00 pm

oneway23 wrote:

stip wrote:

i once argued (1995) Bugs was better than any Beatles song.

In 1500 words or more, please

I lol’d.

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 36413

these are all great

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40116

i was at a summer program at penn state my junior into senior year of high schooll (94) lived in the dorms for 6 weeks. i typed up and printed out all the lyrics to ten and vs (i probably also did nevermind and probably a few metallica albums. so much paper and tape and misheard lyrics

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