Name: Bill Burr - 90's Rock Music
Uploaded: 2011-08-08T11:17:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - 90's Rock Music' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2011-08-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - 90's Rock Music' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2011-08-08. Transcript available.

oh can i digress for half a second do you know it's the 20th anniversary of uh
nirvana's never
mind and i bought spin magazine they had this giant article and everybody was
talking about it
and uh and for the majority of people were just like dude when that album came
out man
i was just like fuck hair metal this is something different and it's fucking
over
was i the only guy who heard that album was just kind of like yeah you know i
kind of still like
white snake i did i was too far down the hair metal trail i didn't realize how
good nirvana was
and i hated pearl jam fucking hated them i hated eddie vetter's stupid i'm in a
trance on purpose face
when he'd sit there and he'd be fucking have his arms up and his wrists were
all fucking limp and he was
making those faces on fucking purpose he looked like a like he should have been
on wrestling or something
he's crazy eddie vetter um i hated that fucking i still hate that fucking album
even flow hate it i like their other stuff vitology i like when he stopped
making the faces
you know what he was like he was like mel gibson in the first lethal weapon
when he was fucking acting
like he was suicidal and it was so awful they had to make him stop that's what
eddie vetter was like
in the first pearl jam and then and then they'd go to fucking interview do you
ever see that interview
kurt loder did if somebody can find this fucking video they interview eddie vetter
and he's like
literally in like the fetal position making this face like he doesn't want to
be interviewed
it's like eddie you don't have to do the interview you could just say yeah i'm
suffering from
exhaustion and everyone will think you have a coke problem but who gives a fuck
right so i wasn't
into any of that shit i didn't get into uh nirvana until probably 1993
and by then i noticed everybody was wearing flannel shirts and uh smashing
pumpkins and all my bands
were gone banished never to be returned until that that metal show came back
triumphantly to bring
back my music but uh yeah i was late i was definitely late so i was i guess i
mean i guess the article
would suck i'm such a moron i was upset that no one said that basically in the
article like why would
they say that bill they're trying to commemorate a fucking masterpiece of an
album why would they have
a bunch of people going you know i thought i didn't think anything about it i
thought pearl jam sucked
but i really i was still listening to uh whatever the fuck i was listening to
the fuck was i listening
to in the early 90s i actually tried to get into jazz i was flailing and just
completely not progressing
in my drumming at all so i thought if i listened to jazz i would get better and
i like big band swing and
you know i i i saw all the great drummers i used to go to the regatta bar in boston
i saw tony williams
i saw tony williams in a fucking bar that held like a hundred people
louis belson i went up and shook his hand i'm standing behind his drum kit
it was fucking ridiculous roy haynes i saw max roach i saw all these guys
didn't improve my drumming at all that's what the fuck i was doing and i was
hanging out with my drum
teacher who was like 70 years old uh i don't know if i need to add this at this
point but yes there was
no pussy in my life at that point
so anyways
yeah i i kind of missed the beginning of the grunge thing
i'm not a gen x i think i'm old enough to be gen x but i'm not
i am a hair metal
fucking 80s kid
that's who i am i watched family ties
uh full metal jacket
the lost boys
that was my shit
that was when i came up
i can't help it
that that's what the music
i thought cinderella was a good band
what did i know
just a fucking redhead kid in the middle of nowhere
um
yeah so they were just
everybody was just going
i just heard it and i stopped
in my tracks and i was like
what the fuck
is this
it's like
how did
how did everybody know that
you know
i remember being annoyed
by the uh
that their first video
when kurt goes to take the fucking solo
and he pretends like he's tap
like doing the tap on solo
like basically making fun of all the bands that i was listening to
and i was kind of like who's this douche
you know
you call that a fucking solo
just basically playing the goddamn melody of the song
through a fucking distortion pedal
i'm not saying any of these thoughts were right
i think the guys are fucking genius
and the album's fucking unbelievable
but that's where my head was at
that is honestly
where my head was at
like i
when got
when axl rose had his run in
backstage with them
at whatever award show that was
when the uh
the bass player
and now senator
threw it up in the air
and it fucking crashed down on his forehead
and i believe dana carvey was hosting
going
did you see what that fucking guy just did
i was rooting for axl rose
i think the only thing that i did respectively
respectively
as far as my music listening
between 1988 and 1992
was i never bought guns and roses
use your illusion one or two
i hated the fucking band by that point
when they had dizzy
and lizzie
and all these other fucking guys
and they had matt sorum
and the whole fucking band was gone
and he was running around
in goddamn biker shorts
and he had that stupid white
fucking windscreen
the whole
it just
it was un-fucking-believable
it just went right down the shitter
so that's where i was at
i was sitting there going
i can't believe they kicked steven adler
out
that guy's a phenomenal fucking drummer
changed the whole sound of the goddamn band
now is he left
that's what i was thinking of
i wasn't
my libido
a mosquito
look at the windshield
is that a mosquito
i wasn't listening to any of that
yeah
i didn't listen to any of it
and then that fucking dude came on
that's when i started feeling old
i think when that
when that album came out
and then smashing pumpkins came out
and whatever the fuck he was singing about
cats
siamese
twins
the hell was that song
i don't know
despite all my rage
all that shit
i was trying
i was trying so hard
but by then i was like 25 years old
and i gotta tell you
it's fucking over
it's over
music is for young people
um
all right
there you go
if you wanted to relive the early 90s
through my fucking eyeballs
there it was
jesus christ
was that long enough for you