Later this month, Pearl Jam will hit the road for their Dark Matter Tour. Across on the “Wreckage” musicians’ upcoming show dates Bill Burr just could be among the crowd. However, the comedian was not always a fan of the group.
During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Bill Burr confessed that he “hated” Pearl Jam for over two decades. He even confessed his feelings to the band’s frontman Eddie Vedder at SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert.
“Pearl Jam, that was the band that made me realize my youth was over,” he told host Seth Meyers. “I was watching all the hair metal and […] all those bands. And I was loving them. And they were on the countdown.”
He continued: “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.”
“And then all my bands, Skid Row and all of them, were gone,” he added. “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 cocaine, right?’ Like, that was all over.”