Post Malone Fronts Nirvana, Eddie Vedder Jams With The Roots At ‘SNL’ 50th Concert

Grunge was alive and effectively final evening (Feb. 14) throughout Saturday Night time Stay‘s fiftieth anniversary live performance at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, as Put up Malone fronted a one-song Nirvana reunion and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder lined considered one of his personal band’s songs in addition to a Tom Petty basic whereas backed by the Roots,

An avowed ’90s rock fan whose 2020 all-Nirvana covers livestream (that includes blink-182 drummer Travis Barker) is making its vinyl debut in April for File Retailer Day, Malone joined surviving members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The non-singing members reunited final week for the primary time in seven years as a part of the FireAid profit, with St. Vincent, Joan Jett and Kim Gordon dealing with the late Kurt Cobain’s vocals.

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Earlier, Vedder and the Roots lined the late Tom Petty basic “The Ready,” which Vedder sung with Petty himself on a handful of events within the 2000s. Through the track’s mellow breakdown, Vedder saluted deceased forged members equivalent to Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Norm MacDonald and John Belushi. The efficiency was adopted by Pearl Jam’s ’90s anthem “Corduroy.”

The three hour-plus live performance, which was streamed dwell on Peacock, featured a number of different distinctive collaborations and surprises, together with David Byrne with each the Arcade Hearth (David Bowie’s “Heroes”) and Robyn (“Dancing on My Personal,” Speaking Heads’ “(This Should Be the Place) Naive Melody”), Bonnie Raitt with Coldplay’s Chris Martin (“I Can’t Make You Love Me”), Miley Cyrus with Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard (Queen’s “Loopy Little Factor Known as Love”), Snoop Dogg and Jelly Roll (“Final Dance With Mary Jane”) and a two-thirds Fugees reunion with Lauryn Hill.

The night concluded with Jack White masking Neil Younger’s “Rockin’ within the Free World” and dusting off the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Military.”

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