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Yankovic had just been in a film with SNL star Victoria Jackson, so used that connection to get through. Their conversation took place while Cobain was on set at Saturday Night Live. A lot of his songs had food gags in them, including his two high-profile Michael Jackson parodies (Fat and Eat It). While laughing at the unintelligible nature of CobainвЂ™s vocals struck Yankovic as the most obvious gag to go for, Cobain assumed heвЂ™d do a song about food. Guitarist Jim West has played with him since the early 1980s. Yankovic only learned to play the guitar in 2017, debuting it on stage the next year вЂ“ while he was frequently seen holding guitars before then, they functioned only as props. I donвЂ™t know how drummers hit that for real.вЂќ

ItвЂ™s hard to tell with that slow-motion footage, but I hit that pretty hard. вЂњHe wanted to make sure I knew there was a lot of headbanging, thatвЂ™s what Dave Grohl was doing. вЂњAlвЂ™s manager was concerned that I wouldnвЂ™t be as rockвЂ™nвЂ™roll,вЂќ he recalled to Spin. Kurt Cobain had neither.Дrummer Schwartz was urged to bring out his inner rock god for the shoot. One of the complicated things about 'Weird Al' in this era was that his signature look included glasses and a moustache, so all of his impersonations of famous musicians also involved glasses and a moustache. When performing this song live, Jay uses two straps tied together to play at knee-height. I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.вЂќД«assist Steve Jay is doing his best Krist Novoselic. So that became the main joke of my parody. The main thing that everybody - even the VJs on MTV - were saying about the song was, 'What in the world is he talking about?' The lyrics, even when intelligible, were hard to decipher. вЂњWhen Nevermind shot up to number one on Billboard, of course I thought otherwise. вЂњI honestly didn't think the song would ever be вЂmainstreamвЂ™ enough to merit my doing a parody of it,вЂќ he told Esquire. Yankovic was a Nirvana fan before most, and was delighted when they broke through and became big enough to make fun of. His being in the video came about because of a decision that they should get someone famous in the video, and someone on the shoot having Dick Van PattenвЂ™s number for some reason. Van Patten also founded pet food company Natural Balance. That is the late Dick Van Patten, as seen in Spaceballs and Soylent Green, and long-running U.S. Yankovic later brought him back for another video, You DonвЂ™t Love Me Anymore, a parody of ExtremeвЂ™s More Than Words clip. I believe he was a real janitor,вЂќ said Levey.

вЂњI donвЂ™t know that he even knew a thing about Nirvana. This janitor, Tony De La Rosa, is the same guy as in NirvanaвЂ™s original. Cobain had complained about the cheerleaders used on the Smells Like Teen Spirit shoot, saying they were too slim and pretty. That one particular cheerleader isnвЂ™t in the original video either. That is YankovicвЂ™s longtime drummer John вЂњBermudaвЂќ Schwartz doing his best Dave Grohl impression. The drummer wearing a shirt labelled вЂњDRUMMERвЂќ and not being Dave Grohl is pretty much the first sign that this isnвЂ™t the real deal. The vast majority of the fans in the bleachers were from the original Nirvana video.вЂќ But from a karmic standpoint, it was pretty heavy to be in the exact same place where they shot theirs. The soundstage, in essence, is four bare walls, so you could be in any soundstage and not know it was the one. We were able to track down and book the same soundstage.

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Director Jay Levey вЂ“ YankovicвЂ™s longtime manager, who also directed another dozen or so of his videos and his cult movie UHF вЂ“ set out to ape the original as closely as possible. As the video begins, youвЂ™d be hard-pressed to know it wasnвЂ™t the original.

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