Live From New York, it’s Pearl Jam’s Saturday Nights!
May 14, 2008 by Eric Hebert in MusicComment
Al did a great post last year about Pearl Jam’s Late Show With David Letterman appearances, so I thought I’d rip the idea from him and entertain you with the band’s Saturday Night Live appearances.
1992
Alive
Note Stone’s girly-ass hair-do, and look for a Jeff Ament who had too much coffee towards the end of the song.
1994 Rehersals
Al just told me as I was writing this post that the ‘94 performance happened right after the death of Kurt Cobain, and Vedder nods to him by singing parts of the song American Pie by Don McLean at the end of Daughter, a song which itself was written in honor of 3 musicians who died in a plane crash (Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Ritchardson.)
Daughter/American Pie
Rearview Mirror
Not For You
The band has appeared in later SNL episodes, but alas I couldn’t find the vids. Hopefully NBC will see this and throw them up on the SNL site someday soon.
Al on Wed, 14th May 2008 2:48 pm
Great post brother. Man, I'm sure as shit glad that Stone cut his hair, he looks silly. Jeff is just as nuts as Eddie and Mike tears the roof.
Just an FYI, the videos got taken down from YouTube, but imeem has the audio for them. Also, the tribute to Kurt during “Daughter” was during the “Hey Hey My My” tag, cause in his suicide note he quoted the line “it's better to burn out than fade away” from Neil Young's “Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)”.
Still a great post though!
Pearl Jam - Daughter tags on Tue, 27th May 2008 5:52 pm
[...] began during the band’s Saturday Night Live Performance on April 16, 1994 when they paid tribute to Kurt Cobain (who had died just over a week [...]