If you got to sit next to a member of a band that you actually hate OR hated, would you say it to their face? Because he did!
Comedian Bill Burr apparently spent his teenage years listening to 80’s hair metal and hard rock, so he wasn’t a fan of the grunge movement in the early 90’s with “all these sad guys singing about being under a bridge.” Pearl Jam included. He said,
“That was the band that made me realize my youth was over. 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 it 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.”
After “hating” his band for all of that time, Bill Burr found himself sitting next to Eddie Vedder one day, and he made sure he knew how he once felt about his band.
He said,
“So I got to sit next to him … 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.’”
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