Revealed: Dave Eggers Used Whistle-Double

[Laughs.] Well, technically, there may be some Dave Eggers on there. It’s funny, because I did this show—he has this charity, a tutoring program called 826 Valencia, and I’ve done a bunch of benefits for them—and I heard him whistling backstage. I was like, “Dude, wow, you can really whistle!” He was this sort of awesome whistler. So like a year later I needed whistling on this song, so I said, “You gotta come down and whistle on this song.” And then we realized his style of whistling is not, like, melancholy enough. It has a lot of vibrato and it’s sort of jaunty. It’s fantastic, but it didn’t really fit. And the other thing you realize is that just because somebody can whistle doesn’t mean they can necessarily whistle the melody that you are trying to get them to whistle. So there’s some Dave Eggers whistling, but there’s some that had to be replaced.