Hope Sandoval w/The Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always, LIVE on MTV - 1994, Oct. 24

In 1994, Mazzy Star was on a North American tour opening for JAMC. Each night during JAMC's set, Hope would come on stage to sing the duet "Sometimes Always" with Jim Reid. The song with Hope & Jim singing had been released in July, 1994 as the first single off JAMC's Stoned & Dethroned album. By 1994, Hope & JAMC's William Reid were dating and were a couple for several years after. About the song, JAMC's William Reid said, QUOTE: "'I wrote this song that sounded to me like Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra. We'd known Hope since she was in Opal, back in [1987]. We always liked her voice. We asked her years ago to be on one of the records, but there was never a song that suited. Then this one came along and it just felt right. At first, I felt maybe it was just a bit too cute or whatever, too light a story. But when we recorded it, Hope and Jim sang and they just transcended it. I think we got her to sing differently from her Mazzy Star voice, which is a brilliant voice, but this was a different type of song, more up-tempo, and it worked." (-MELODY MAKER, July 16, 1994) ........................................................ QUOTES FROM HOPE: HOPE: "They [JAMC] sent me the song, and I thought it was really good. (Mazzy Star) were in London, touring, and I went to their studio and met them for the first time *. The recording took two days, and it was really difficult. They produce their own records, so they were really picky, which is totally understandable. The fun part was having wine and talking and laughing." * [Hope met them for the first time regarding the song, that is. Hope already knew them and had toured wth JAMC in 1987 when she sang with Opal who opened for JAMC-Bob B./Hermesacat].(-1994, OCT. 5, ROLLING STONE, INTERVIEW WITH HOPE + JAMC RE. JAMC SINGLE, "SOMETIMES, ALWAYS") ..... INTERVIEWER: Hope, you sing a song (Sometimes Always) on the new Jesus and Mary Chain album. How did this collaboration come about? HOPE: They called me. Actually two years ago. Due to time constraints, collaborations never happened before. This time, after finishing 'So Tonight ...", I was able to listen to a song they'd chosen they wanted me to sing on. I liked it immediately, and I did them the favor. (-1994, Sept. - Oct. Issue, EB METRONOM mag no. 50, Germany, Mazzy Star interview with Hope & David, English translation from German) ..... INTERVIEWER: Outside of such partnerships [as Hope has with David in Mazzy Star], you appear on The Jesus and Mary Chain's new song "Sometimes Always" HOPE: (smiles faintly) INTERVIEWER: I'm impressed that you are featured so prominently in the song rather than just as a guest vocalist. How did this project come about? HOPE: They don't send me songs or sing them INTERVIEWER: You knew about their work from before? HOPE: No, not really. I knew a little bit about it. I've toured with them before. INTERVIEWER: Were they easy to work with? HOPE: (laughs) INTERVIEWER: So, did they think of you as a competitor? DAVID: (laughs) HOPE: No, I don't think so. I didn't think so, I'm sure. No, I don't mean to speak ill of The Jesus and Mary Chain. They were very nice people. It's just that I don't usually work with other people, that's why it's very difficult for me. I don't think I'll be doing any more collaborations. [Fortunately, Hope changed her mind. She went on to do another collab. w/JAMC, "Perfume" in 1998 and, by 2025, has sung on 16 different collab songs with many other artists that have been released. Many of those songs Hope co-wrote. -Bob B. (Hermesacat)]. (-1994, Oct., Rockin' On Japan mag, Mazzy Star interview, English translation from the Japanese) ..... INTERVIEWER: On The Jesus And Mary Chain's "Sometimes Always" Hope sings a duet with William's brother, Jim Reid. HOPE: -That recording was Hell on Earth. It's William's song and he had a very definite idea of how he wanted it. I had a hard time getting my ideas through, and my voice didn't sound the way it usually does. There is lots of will and power in the lyrics, it's a small war. It's just that I sang about William's war, and not my own. I can get so annoyed when it's expected I will just be a singer in someone else's band. Mazzy Star is as much mine as David's band. We came up with half the group name each, and that's how everything that has to do with Mazzy Star works. There's no reason for anyone to believe otherwise. But with The Jesus And Mary Chain, I was actually just a singer. (-POP mag Mazzy Star interview , Sweden, Dec., 1996, English translation from Swedish) ....................................................... Thanks go to youtuber Pepe Cruzado, for 1st upping this HD version in 2013. But he doesn't identify his upload as being the MTV performance(as opposed to the 1994 Letterman one), and doesn't emphasize it's an improved image quality version from previous versions on yt , or give its broadcast date. So, I decided to re-up it to my own yt Channel with that info, plus more.