Eddie Vedder Shooting Original SNL Promos For Pearl Jam April 1994 Show
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 Published On Oct 23, 2011

I got this VHS tape from a used records store that I used to live by, I've had it since probably at least 1995. Sorry about the quality, like I said it was on videotape, I've finally gotten around to transferring it. The tape had these, and all the raw footage from the three songs the band rehearsed earlier that week. I've seen multiple people already have those 3 songs up here on YT (Daughter, Rearview Mirror and Not For You) but I've never seen the shooting of these commercial promos before, so I thought why not. Maybe there's even some hardcore PJ fans who've still never seen these. It's funny to watch how obviously nervous that Adam Sandler is in these, he was a huge PJ fan (probably still is).

FUN FACT: at the time this aired (April 1994), only one other musical artist in the history of Saturday Night Live was allowed to play 3 songs in one episode (the usual is 2), Aretha Franklin back in the late 70's. Pearl Jam became the second. But I haven't regularly watched SNL in a long time, another band might've done it again by now for all I know.
Also, this was recorded only days after the news hit that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain committed suicide. The "K" drawn in a circle on Eddie's tshirt is a reference to Cobain. He reveals it briefly during one of the song performances that Saturday night, and more obviously shows it (& looks sadly up to the rafters) during the cast goodbyes at the end of the show.

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