‘Singles’ Premiere Party with MTV Promo
The Who Cover
as shown on MTV Singles Scene Special
* This video is already on KZread but I think here we have a much better quality.
About the event, director Cameron Crowe remembers:
I had to go on Lollapalooza and beg the guys in Pearl Jam to play the party. I was Willy Loman on the Lollapalooza tour. You know, it wasn’t fun and I never like asking people a favor. I just don’t. I’d rather do a million favors than ask for one. But here I was asking them on their day off to play the show. They said yes to help me get the movie released. But, this was their one day off.
Eddie [Vedder] had some surfer buddies around and I think they needed to blow off some steam. They showed up to play this live MTV premiere party-concert drunk. Like, really drunk. [Laughs] And I’d never seen Eddie drunk. I mean, I’d never seen him drink! But now all of a sudden, he’s got these surfer buddies who are pouring beer down a funnel and he’s drinking beer from a funnel and it’s like, Whoa! This is like Animal House, man. The idea was, this was going to be an acoustic performance. Like Unplugged.
But we got the word shortly after the funnels started appearing that Pearl Jam’s changed their minds. It’s going to be a punk rock set. And from there, everything began to unravel in classic punk rock style. Eddie slipping all over the stage, saying the stage is like Hollywood slick. And guys are looking at me like, ‘Yeah, we loved releasing this movie. It was a ball of laughs before and now it’s really fun. My kids just heard ‘f-‘ five times straight from your man Vedder.’ It was ugly, we barely had anything to cut together. I think it showed once.