Watch Bruno Mars cover Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at private corporate Christmas party that also featured Yungblud, Slash, Eddie Vedder and more

    Slash, Bruno Mars, and Yungblud

    Bruno Mars, Eddie Vedder, Slash, Yungblud, Anthony Kiedis and more recently came together to cover rock classics at a lavish corporate Christmas party. Check out footage and the setlist from the night below.

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    The gig was held on Thursday (December 11) at the Capitol Theatre in New York, and organised as a private event for the holding company Eldridge Industries.

    Designed as part of the Christmas celebrations they were holding for employees, the night saw some of the biggest names in music appear together to perform an eclectic mix of covers.

    Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan joined up with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and renowned record producer Andrew Watt to make up the core line-up: a band going by the name ‘The Dirty Bats’.

    The four of them were joined by various vocalists throughout the night, and broke out a stacked 24-song setlist featuring tracks by Queen, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead and more.

    The night kicked off with Yungblud joining them to break out covers of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Start Me Up’, Faces’ ‘Stay With Me’, and Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’, before Brandi Carlile took his place and performed her own song ‘The Story’, as well as a cover of Queen’s ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’.

    Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman later joined The Dirty Bats to cover Motörhead’s ‘Ace Of Spades’, Iggy And The Stooges’ ‘Search And Destroy’, and Black Flag’s ‘Nervous Breakdown, as well as The Allman Brothers Band’s ‘Whipping Post’ and Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘If You Want Me to Stay’ – which RHCP shared their own cover of back in the ‘80s.

    Towards the end of the night, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder took to the stage to perform some of his classic songs ‘Corduroy’, ‘Better Man’ and ‘Wishlist’, before covering artists including The Rolling Stones, Dead Boys and Brinsley Schwarz.

    Finally, Bruno Mars was the last singer to perform at the corporate party, and broke out covers of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’, The Police’s ‘Roxanne’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Dirty Diana’, Jimi Hendrix‘s ‘Fire’, and Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

    The night closed off with an all-star medley featuring all guest-singers, where they came together to cover Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ and ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ by Neil Young.