I always felt that Mike McCready was my big brother - He kept me away from drinking & when I used to go fishing a lot, I'd be listening to his heart wail & it always made me feel like I was with my imaginary big brother who'd be crying his heart out to me. I feel like Mike McCready is my big brother because I've had friends with addiction problems & I've seriously thought, "If Mike McCready was here right now, what could I say to make my big brother happy?" & then I'd use that advice on friends, & in turn, it's like I got the advice from my big brother Mike.

I feel like Mike McCready is my big brother because I always felt really close to Layne & I know since Mike was in Mad Season, he did too, so it's kind of like we both lost a brother.
Mike McCready is also my big brother because he inspired me to start playing guitar & look for the beauty within myself, like an inside job.

Mike McCready is my big brother because he made me play guitar in college & he pushed me to become a brilliant music major.

Mike McCready is always going to be my big brother




Who's your big "Pearl Jam" brother? & What makes him your big Pearl Jam member brother?

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is that a good thing?

Stone would be my big brother. My big brother was gay.

dude if you're just going to be a negative nancy, you can go elsewhere - I made this thread for us big Pearl Jam fans

This is a negative thread, I mean, look at it.

No it's not!!! It's about what each Pearl Jam member has inside that makes you think, "Wow, they're like a big brother!" & if you call that negative you're wrong!

"negative nancy"

Acht my leg! Shit that stings

::shakes leg::

That's better BUT

They aren't your big brothers or even your little brothers. They are my mothers. I can PROOOOVE it.

See, I lost my mother when I was 7 years old and ever since then, I've been on a journey to discover my mother. At first, I thought maybe it would be my sister. After all, we're related and all and she does have dark hair. But she's my sister and beat me up so that didn't work out

Not my mother

I thought for a while it might be my fifth grade teacher. He was the first teacher to pay attention to me which means he was the first adult to pay attention to me. Is this my mother? Well he wrote on my report card one semester "she is brilliant and creative but spends her time staring out the window". WTF? I am brilliant and creative. What else do you expect me to do in a boring as hell classroom like that?

Not my mother.

I had a roommate in college. First time away from home and all that. She was black and I thought, I'm really black because I'd moved from the inner city school system in NYC to hickville in NJ see, so I had to leave my blackness behind to fit in with rednecks. Maybe I was really African American. Was she my mother? That didn't work out because when you are menstruating out of sync and living a girl, it's a fucking disaster. There's a reason chicks sync up.

Not my mother

I married a man. Everything was beautiful, the air had clarity, the colors changed, I could feel his arms around me when i was alone and I closed my eyes. He smelled like spice. When he hit me I thought, don't mom's do this? Was he my mother? Well he lied about music and art. My mother loved music. He sold my records. My Mother had a walk in closet full of them.

Not my mother

I bought the album Ten. I played it over and over. When I heard Porch and Eddie said, take my hand a yaddda yaddda doo, I knew he was talking only to me. My mother held my hand. Was he my mother? I played vs. he said he wasn'tmy Daughter. Daughters can't be their own mothers, damn it! I knew all about that shit. Even if he wasn't my mother, he was plenty smart. I had hope. I bought Vitalogy. He said was immortal with a trap door like my mother and he wanted to hold my hand again. But when he sang me the lullaby on No Code I had my proof.

Eddie Vedder was my mother!

I heard Stone sing about Listerine. My mother was really freaky about dental hygiene. Was Stone my mother? When he told me Don't Gi'mme No Lip, I had proof.

Stone Gossard was my mother!

Now I had two Mothers and I didn't expect more, but I bought Yield. My mother loved animals. One time she ran out into the street in traffic to save a baby bird, or so everyone told me... it was one of those, your mommy is dead but here's a nice story kind of thing people say, but she loved animals. Apparently, Jeff Ament had a DOG!!! Oh my god. He couldn't pilot a boat for shit but HE HAD A DOG! Was he my mother? Then there was Lowlight. See, Lowlight is like riding horses. You didn't know that? Sure it is! It's got a horsey ridey feel to it, so that was proof because my mother loved horses too, or so everybody told me.

Jeff Ament was my mother!

For a while I thought I was ok, but something was wrong. My mothers were incomplete. They were lonely. So I bought Live on Two Legs. See, being alive is a really good thing after the whole dead mother thing and having two legs, well that's... never mind. I bought the thing, ok? Anyway, my mothers were on it with their 2 legs and all, but i could hear someone else. Two someone elses really. I had to investigate. I read the album and I saw one was called Mike McCready.

M M = My Mother

Mike McCready was My Mother!

But what about the other person I heard? What was with that? I went back through all the records and I saw the person kept changing, then Oh my god I realized what it was. My father was an opera singer and he used to screw around on my mother so there were other women... already multiples!

It all fit.

The drummers were my mothers.

So the members of Pearl Jam couldn't possibly be your brothers because they are already my mothers. OK? Don't let the testosterone poisoning go to your heads.

As long as we're clear on this whole thing we're good and can be friends.

Got it? Good

Nice work

"That's a shame."

One of these threads...

Oh my god that is so funny. I looked the title of this thread and thought "how did those Synergy people sneak in here again? "

Wow. Just....wow.

This is like an Avocado thread, just (slightly) less nuts.

Hmm.

As much as I love the band, I couldn't really say I relate to any of them in the way you describe. The closest would probably be Matt though. He seems the most grounded and pragmatic of the lot.

Oh and Paddy, I will henceforth refer to thee as "Nancy".

That alone makes this thread worthwhile.

Wowza! =)