* From Jill deeprelease99@hotmail.com

Alright, I finally got what I wanted.  Some action out of the boy!  I went to the Merriweather show as a last-minute thing, didn't even have a ticket, but knew from experience that somebody would have extras to get rid of and hoping against hope to hear mankind.  That's all i was hoping, just mankind.  Well, no such luck. but check this out.  I got a free ticket when I got there (!) so i couldn't complain about my lawn spot.  Well, when the show started I realized I wasn't going to be able to see anything except the (one) screen that was working, and Stone never really gets adequate screen time, so i figured what the heck, I could still listen for free!  Then some folks moved, and I got their spot and I could see one spot on the stage.  Guess where?   Yeah!!   The most important spot on the stage!  (sorry, Ed) so I got to watch stone for a couple of hours.  I had been to 6 other shows this tour and kept waiting for him to crank it up, just a little bit.  Wow!  He sure did at the Merriweather!  Finally, my hero in full animation-- the duck walk, jumping all around, swinging his guitar, really, really getting into it and I saw all this from the lawn-- I can only imagine how great it was up close!!  He was laughing and interacting with the crowd all night.  Threw 2 handfulls of pics into the ten club seats, and just laughed at everyone grabbing.  It was great.  Mankind would have made it evenbetter, but oh well, it was a free show!  STONE RULES!!!!!  Now...if i could only meet him...!

* From Jason jeckel_b@bellsouth.net

I was on vacation about a year ago and when we was in Seattle thats where we went to for vacation I was driving in a rental car with my brother we had just got off the airport cause Seattle is where we wanted to go for vacation but we also was there to see relatives and I am just a big fan of Pearl Jam three fish mother love bone anything Pearl Jam related but anyways the story is we past the Pearl Jam touring bus there was like four or five of them but they were parked outside some little store and I was looking sense I was such a big fan cause it was the pearl jam buses cause I have seen them like four times down here in S.C. Bi-lo center but in the phone booth no lying Stone Gossard was in it you could tell cause we were right there beside it across the road at a diner but they had body gaurds there with them but when he came out you could tell it was him cause he had short brown hair wearing glasses but it had to have been him cause it looked just like him and there is not many people who ride in tour buses and look just like him but thats my story beleave it or not.....

* From Hunt Rumpington heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme@hotmail.comNEW

My Stone Experience goes like this. When Pearl Jam came to Wellington in 1998 I went to the concert. It was amazing! You know the usual yadda yadda.... Then the day after me and my friends were gonna go bowling. When we got there our lane had been booked out so one of my mates suggested we go to the airport to look at the plane land. I didn’t really want to go but finally agreed. When I arrived there after going to the supermarket my mates were waving for me to hurry up. I was wondering what the hell? Then my brother pointed to a group of guys picking up their bags and I was like oh my GOD! It was the guys! I nearly threw up I was so excited! Then I saw Eddie coming over but he walked away when he saw this guy taking photos of him. So I managed to get the balls up to talk to Stone and was sooooo cool we talked for 15 minutes just about shit. It was great! He asked me what I was doing and how my life was and stuff. I said to him at one stage "Oh my god I cant believe I’m talking to a rock star....My favorite rock star!" and he laughed and said that he wasn’t that special! Yeah Right! Then he signed my Pearl Jam ticket and was outta there. Five minutes later I was talking to Mike while Stone was checking his bags in. Stone had sent Mike over to talk to me! What a champion!!!!!!! Well there ya go.