"Jeremy" was first performed live by Pearl Jam on May 17, 1991, at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle, Washington."Pearl Jam Songs: "Jeremy"" . pearljam.com. The band's 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged included a performance of the song. At the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, the band had intended to play the Dead Boys song "Sonic Reducer", but MTV insisted on "Jeremy", since the video was in heavy rotation (although it had been released after the deadline for that year's awards). At the end of the intense performance, however, Vedder managed to sneak in a reference to "Sonic Reducer" by singing that song's first line: "I don't need no... I don't need no mom and dad."Bruns, Jean and Caryn Rose. "Jeremy: 64 Degrees and Cloudy". fivehorizons.com. August 1999.
