Elliott Smith - video interview + Clementine - 1995 

It really makes me wonder what they expected😂safe to say he blew their expectations out of the water.was def beautiful

Yes!

Absolutely.

they were all being nice and light hearted imo. what a beautiful moment 💙

Nobody was taking jabs at him. It’s just a fun light hearted show. I think you misread it

The host was but times were different back then.people weren’t used to such real shit.i remember those days

The awestruck lady is Jessica Hecht (she played Gretchen in Breaking Bad)

​@@iamianwalsh bro no way!! This is so priceless for that reason alone too!! 😂

The lady about to cry is Laurie Hibberd, I think.

AHA not surprised to find you here at all.

@@iamianwalshholy shit😂 thanks for that connection, thought she looked familiar

But it was too fucking awkward and he's like that with almost everyone can no one comprehend that it does not matter what the fuck he writes or sings if he's stuck with that life condition

@@paulviviani5217 It was a strange show to be on. The only thing that matters is what he writes and sings, what are you talking about?

@@louispconstant6624 When you're stuck with those life conditions you're not able to really see or feel any of that. Too much vital resources being blocked and it perpetuates itself

@@paulviviani5217 Elliott saw things clearer than most, let me assure you. Listen to the lyrics. He is on another level when you discover humanity like Kurt and Elliott did, its depressing to find out the reality

@@louispconstant6624 👍

he went into villain mode

Yeah my heart went out to him. I saw his hand even shaking between changing chords.

The way he's drinking his coffee, it made me think he had finished it a long time ago but still kept pretending just as something to do. Or maybe i'm just projecting!

Yea he mentions and gestures it at 4:56

Shaking from alcohol maybe?

I hope you’re feeling better

@@mymayapapayaCan I just say, I love this interaction. There is so much generosity from both of you.

This can't be said enough times. Beautiful inside and out!

I didn't find it terribly awkward, not any more than usual at least haha. He seemed pretty nervous in the talking part... The mood changes so much when he starts to play though hehe

@@JunkBondTrader I definitely got the impression that it was awkward at first, but I appreciate this insight

You must’ve never heard of Elliott smith 🤦‍♂️

Was a pretty awkward setting for Elliott to be on… how the heck did this even come about?

@@shanec8224 music labels and managers lol

That's kinda the standard for mainstream Elliott Smith interviews. They always end up intentionally or unintentionally putting him down or belittling him. I'm thinking of Carson Daly's "You feelin' alright?" Like, wtf is that?

lol I don’t know how I made that mistake

Bet they didn’t

3:51 *she's GETTING IT*

@@rb919 She’s in breaking bad married to a character named elliot 😂

@@adamsteiner7352 holy shit! That is her 😂 this has to be the strangest video I’ve ever found on RU-vid. It’s so surreal with Elliott in the middle of all that.

All the reaction shots seemed to it

Thank you, someone in the Elliott subreddit found it, sent it to me and said I should upload it

@@mymayapapaya

7:56 Tom Bergeron saying "shit!"

*she thinks

That’s so great that you met him! 🌸

@@mymayapapaya yeah! I knew him!! We would hang out at Largo on Fridays for awhile, in LA!! He sang me that harvest moon song you have here!! In Toronto that night!! (I know that’s so strange to say now… but I met up with him in Vermont two nights before that because I was living in Montreal then got to be with him for his show in Montreal (he asked me for a copy of my dissertation -ha!) Then I decided to drive to his Toronto show! 1999 or late 1998… that’s the year i lived there! It was before cell phones so he gave me the fax number! Haha! Anyways… thanks for all you put out here! It’s sweet -sometimes hard to watch, but usually great memories! Thank you!

@@DrCherylMeier incredible memories!!!!

@@SirCommoner ❤️❤️ it’s like time froze every time I saw him… it was so strange! Just a high level of consciousness… anyways…

​@@DrCherylMeier oh I love that! If you don't mind I would like to ask you a question about him, like, was he funny?? Because I think that we only get his awkward or sad interviews and I've seen moments of him that are genuinely funny but there's to little of them

Lol

At least there was some interaction between them. I think things are too compartmentalised now, simpler times then, when not everything was uber curated and marketed, there was more room for randomness. I feel they got something from the song, and at least in that era people knew how to shut up and listen more.

@@CharlieOBrienTF "a circus like environment to drag him into" making fun of the label he was on, joking about physical harm and bashing his cover art. im sure Elliott loved that huh?

@@soundcamper he didn’t seem to give a fuck, sang his song and moved on I’m sure. Don’t get me wrong, the program seems painful, but at least we got to hear that beautiful rendition of clementine all these years later.

@@soundcamper you don’t know what he loved. Get over yourself and stop hating things just because they’re ‘fake’ and ‘corporate’. People who dwell over what’s ‘real’ need to mature a bit. Just get on with life. Does all the ‘corporate bs’ really affect you that much? Who cares. It is what it is.

@@soundcamper "making fun of the label he was on, joking about physical harm and bashing his cover art." Oh come on. I feel like when fans become way too attached to an artist they just love to demonize anyone that artist interacts with in the most bad faith way. Tom Bergeron (the host) is a comedian, these were jokes that I doubt Elliott took any offense to.

best reaction, that look of curiousity marvel and discovery is absolute gold, what I and any real artist should aspire for

The lady next to him in the pink dress. No clue who she is though. She looks very familiar.

Honestly I think he's just like that, I mean the guy hosted America's Funniest Videos too. He's a goofy goober.