Environmentally conscious rocker Perry Farrell is apparently out to prove how committed he is to clean oceans in an upcoming TV special by improvising a song for Mother Earth while riding a wave.

"It was really cool, Perry is singing this song about the ocean that he's making up on the spot while surfing with a waterproof microphone," said Dave Kaplan, president of Surfdog Records, the label that has now released two surf-friendly compilations designed to benefit the world's oceans and shores.

The footage featuring Farrell -- the leader of Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros and his new project, Gobbelee, as well as an outspoken environmental activist

-- will be aired during "MOM II: A Music Special," a half-hour program set to air March 9 on MTV as a celebration of the second MOM (Music For Our Mother Ocean) album, whose sales benefit the Surfrider Foundation. The grass-roots group fights for preservation of beaches and clean oceans.

The special, hosted by Pamela Anderson Lee, former "Baywatch" TV actress and wife of Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, will also feature commentary from folk-pop star Jewel and White Zombie leader Rob Zombie, as well as performances from punk band Pennywise, blues-rocker Ben Harper, Royal Crown Revue and the ska-punks the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. "We wanted to get something to document what we had done with the album," Kaplan said.

Among the surprisingly surf-friendly, non-musical artists Kaplan said they found to lend a hand were former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, "a real lover of the ocean," and Anderson Lee, who Kaplan described as "a real sincere ocean person."

The two MOM albums -- which to date have raised more than $400,000 for Surfrider, according to Surfdog -- have featured tracks from the punk-rappers the Beastie Boys, Jewel, reggae-rock's Sublime, Farrell's Porno for Pyros, grunge-rockers Silverchair, punk pioneers the Ramones, ska-popsters No Doubt, alterna-rockers the Offspring and the surf-rock legends themselves, the Beach Boys. Porno cover the "West Side Story" Broadway classic "Tonight" (RealAudio excerpt) for the latest compilation.

The organization is already working on the third and final installment of the series, which Kaplan said he hopes to have out by late this year or early 1999. Among the artists already committed are surf fanatic Eddie Vedder's Pearl Jam, who have gone so far as to submit a new song for the album.

Pearl Jam previously recorded the song "Gremmie Out of Control," a cover of a Silly Surfers song, for the first MOM album. -- Gil Kaufman [Tues., March 3, 1998, 6:30 p.m. PST]