While appearing as a guest on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Thursday (April 3rd), comedian Bill Burr spoke a bit about his love for bands like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, saying that he often plays along to songs by those bands on an electronic drum kit.
This led Meyers to bring up Burr’s apparent “one-sided” issue with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, with the host asking him if he “mended fences” with the musician when he attended the 50th anniversary celebration of “Saturday Night Live” this past February.
“Pearl Jam, that was the band that made me realize my youth was over,” Burr told Meyers. “I was watching all the hair metal and … all those bands. And I was loving them. And they were on the countdown.”
“And then Nirvana came in, and I was like, ‘What’s this?’ They always say, like, Nirvana knocked [the hair metal] out. It was Pearl Jam. When Pearl Jam came, that was another one of those grunge Seattle bands. And that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, my God. This isn’t ending.’ Like, this is just gonna keep coming.”
He continued: “And then all my bands, Skid Row and all of them, were gone. And it was just these sad guys singing about being under a bridge and not being happy. And I’m like, ‘What happened to nothing but a good time and ignoring all your problems with c*caine, right?’ Like, that was all over.”
Burr then went on to explain how he ended up confronting Vedder about his past hatred of Pearl Jam when the two came face-to-face at the SNL50 Anniversary Special.
“So I got to sit next to him,” Burr said. “I did it in good nature. I was like, ‘Man, I hated your band. You ended my thing.’ And he was cracking up. I go, ‘Do you know how long it took me to admit how great a band Pearl Jam is?’ Because now I love ’em. But it was like 20 years where I just, like, ‘I’m not listening to those guys.’”
When asked by Meyers what kind of music he listens to with his kids, the comedian responded: “AC/DC. I raise them right.”
