Pearl Jam On SNL 1994

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  • armyreserve
    armyreserve Posts: 209
    I've got a bootleg of their '94 SNL performances (3 songs) on VHS. I haven't seen it in a while. I think I'll take it out.
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  • rhinomagic
    rhinomagic Charlottesville, VA Posts: 2,553
    love to Pearl Jam wrote:
    Kurt Cobain had already been announced dead. I clearly remember watching it at the time, and Pearl Jam's performance that night was fierce but contained. You could feel their sadness.

    Another thing I remember (really in poor taste) was that there was an ad run by SNL during the show, saying that the band the following week (on SNL)was Nirvana.

    You think it was wrong for them to memorialize Kurt like that? Or it was in poor taste to do it right after Pearl Jam played?

    I don't understand.

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,979
    i saw PJ the next night at the paramount theater in NY city my 1st pj show as a member of 10c great seats that night won't forget "footsteps" .i've been to 20 other pj shows since then and haven't seen "footsteps" again
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • project_radio
    project_radio Posts: 13
    slightofjeff wrote:
    people watching that for the first time nowadays don't have any frame of reference for how frickin' powerful that was.

    Kurt had like JUST died. everyone was in shock. the king was dead. everybody, even people who normally wouldn't care, tuned in that night to see what Pearl Jam would do. They were the new "spokesmen for a generation."

    We wanted them to tell us that everything would be OK. and then they played those three songs. three perfect choices. looking back, Not for You was inspired.

    then, the daughter tag ... lifting different lyrics from the EXACT same Neil Young song Kurt had quoted in his suicide note. the suicide note seemed so sad ... "it's better to burn out than fade away."

    the daughter tag left us with a sense of hope ... "hey hey, my my ... rock and roll can never die ... there's more to the picture than meets the eye ... hey hey, my my."

    and that was that. To those of us who knew what was going on, it was one of the most powerful moments in the history of music.

    My thoughts at the time exactly too.
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  • project_radio
    project_radio Posts: 13
    rhinomagic wrote:
    You think it was wrong for them to memorialize Kurt like that? Or it was in poor taste to do it right after Pearl Jam played?

    I don't understand.

    .

    Kurt was dead. Would've been hard for them to play the following week my friend.
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  • 10_pearljam
    10_pearljam Posts: 172
    Drop the Leash wrote:
    yeah i think his tattoo is the hammer thing or whatever it is and its earth first


    http://www.rootsofcompassion.org/newshop/catalog/images/PA018.jpg

    that it?
    He is alive but feels absolutely nothing.
    So is he?
    When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him.
    By nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact.
    No tradebacks...
    So this is what it's like to be an adult
    If he only knew now what he knew then...
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    love to Pearl Jam wrote:
    Another thing I remember (really in poor taste) was that there was an ad run by SNL during the show, saying that the band the following week (on SNL)was Nirvana.

    The next week was a week off so they re-ran the Nirvana episode as a tribute to Kurt. They do the same thing when any ex-guest/host/cast member passes away. How is that in poor taste?
  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    edited March 2018
    angryyoungman said:
    ok, so im posting on a dead thread (at least i didnt start a new thread, used the SEARCH prompt, try it once in a while). . .anyways, i was watching this on pearljamlive.com and it made me remember when i saw it on t.v., there was this funny moment at the end when everyones together on stage, just before they went off the air you could see chris farley grab ed and start slow dancing with him. it was a really funny moment. ed's laying his head on chris's shoulder. anywho, i was just remembering that so figured id share it
    I used to have it but sadly lost the screenshot of Eddie and Farley hugging. Went through some archives but they shrank the screen and you cannot see them hug. Please, does anyone have it?
  • CO278952
    CO278952 Orlando, FL Posts: 1,451
    edited March 2018
    BifEverchad said:
    Deadman wrote:
    Kurt had just passed before SNL.

    Yeah, the show date was: 04/16/94
    Yup. My first show was the very next night.  They added the date to the tour just a few days earlier since they were in town for SNL. Dave A’s last show. They were on fire. 
    Post edited by CO278952 on
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  • CO278952
    CO278952 Orlando, FL Posts: 1,451
    Was there too. I am pretty sure I have a VHS tape in my garage somewhere of SNL from 24 years ago. Don’t have a vcr. But watched it so many times back in the day 
    josevolution said:
    i saw PJ the next night at the paramount theater in NY city my 1st pj show as a member of 10c great seats that night won't forget "footsteps" .i've been to 20 other pj shows since then and haven't seen "footsteps" again
    4.17.94 Paramount 9.28.96 Randall's Island 8.25.00 Jones Beach 4.28.03 Spectrum 7.5.03 Camden 7.6.03 Camden 07.08.03 MSG 07.09.03 MSG 7.12.03 Hershey 7.14.03 Holmdel 6.12.08 Tampa 10.19.13 Brooklyn 4.11.16 Tampa 5.1.16 MSG 5.2.16 MSG 8.7.16 Fenway 9.2.18 Fenway 9.4.18 Fenway 9.11.22 MSG 9.16.22 Nashville 9.18.23 Austin 9.19.23 Austin 9.3.24 MSG 9.4.24 MSG Fenway 9.15.24 Fenway 9.17.24 Hollywood 4.24.25 Nashville 5.6.25 Nashville 5.8.25
  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    Thanks Pete said:
    angryyoungman said:
    ok, so im posting on a dead thread (at least i didnt start a new thread, used the SEARCH prompt, try it once in a while). . .anyways, i was watching this on pearljamlive.com and it made me remember when i saw it on t.v., there was this funny moment at the end when everyones together on stage, just before they went off the air you could see chris farley grab ed and start slow dancing with him. it was a really funny moment. ed's laying his head on chris's shoulder. anywho, i was just remembering that so figured id share it
    I used to have it but sadly lost the screenshot of Eddie and Farley hugging. Went through some archives but they shrank the screen and you cannot see them hug. Please, does anyone have it?
    I've checked numerous websites where you can see the episode, but for some reason they sides of the screen are cut. I used to have the original on VHS, but it's lost.
  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    stonesgstring wrote:
    Yeah they definitely played Rear View Mirror as I have a copy of that song from that show.


    they did. they don't show it on the rerun of the show though
    Every episode is on www1.fmovies.se in their entirety. Just be sure you have a great anti-virus program. But for some reason when they say good night the picture isn't as wide as it should. I'm pretty sure when I had it on VHS they showed Vedder and Farley dancing. I also remember the fanclub put a picture of them in one of their early newsletters along with a picture of some of the band members sitting on set chairs with fake skinny legs for the sketch "how much ya bench"
  • go pre
    go pre Posts: 671
    Just watched this episode on peacock. Unfortunately it didn’t show PJ’s performances, but it did show the ending with Eddie first snubbing Emilio Estevez, then putting his hand under the “K” on his heart (for Kurt). Then he was dancing with and hugging Farley. Kinda sad thinking of those two icons we lost way too soon.
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.

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