Pearl Jam

"The night before our first show with P.J. in St. Louis, we were at some bar having drinks. The radio was playing, and [the DJs] started talking about how excited they were for the show the next day, and about how nobody knew who we were and that they hoped that we didn't suck as bad as the last band P.J. brought to town (The Frogs). The DJs were joking about how they couldn't even hear the band because everyone was booing so loudly, so we all raised our glasses and toasted to being booed by 20,000 people. The next day we had a blast playing and didn't give a sh*t if anyone liked it because for us, it totally ruled."

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