2:03 Pat realizes the Kurt guitar is out of action and responds by turning up his volume knob to cover up. You can clearly hear the volume difference as well.
I love how Kurt just improvises after his guitar fucks up and Pat realizes that he has to do all the guitar parts rest of the song. Such a professional band.
In spite of what some people have said during all these years, Pat Smear was indeed a great addition to the band. They started sounding bigger and tighter, and Kurt played with less stress since he wasn't the only one in charge of guitar and vocal duties anymore. In this particular case, Pat saved the performance, literally.
Nobody has ever criticized the addition of Pat Smear to the band. Stop being so desperate to have a contrary opinion that you literally create the opposition within your own head.
you don t have to live twice when all is said and done. "there's nothing i could say that i haven't thought before". like most of good visionaries artists, he needed just some years to explode in the face of this stupid mercantil grimm world.
@@a.georgopoulou Not sure at all. The Best poet in the world, Arthur Rainbaud change the face of poetry between the age of 16 and 20. Write nothing after that. Michel-Angelo, william Burroughts, Tennessee Williams, and many more were artistically dead after just a few years. Kurt was very anxious about a "somewhere else" after In Utero. Thinking he could be a sort of Johnny Cash but big.....No seriously, i think he was over. The great Game was over. I saw them in RENNES feb 94, the concert was long but not really good. After his death, i understood his words, i have no passion anymore. That night, there was no Kurt on stage. Not a bad concert, but....a sort of 'fed up'
@@jebstuart4004 he wasn't over he was just fucking stressed out from touring and needed a break that's all paul mccartney is still making good music at age 78 you just listed some names from history and made assumptions of kurt being creatively burnt out he was just extremely stressed and had a lot of physical problems
@@jonasrmb01 🤣🤣🤣 only one new song came out in 12 months "you know you re right" nothing more and you talk about créativity ??🙄 . No songs were found even 20 years after, no studio take out, nothing at all.......He sais it twice in his letter too.....Face the truth, he was fed up with all.
Wow, I realized this is the first time in 20+ years that I ever saw Kurt standing and singing without a guitar in his hands. It’s great to see what his stage posture was like without one. What an impactful image.
@@organgrinder9922i think in some of the deluxe versions of albums, he's included in them in serve the servants in the deluxe or remastered version (i forgot which one) you can definitely hear him over the solo
He did it one other time, either in the middle of June or July 1989. I forgot which one, probably June, since Everman was still with them and he played guitar for that whole show. No video, though audio exists.
Billy Gildark no, you can see that his guitar stopped working and that Pat Smear took over as lead guitar. The input for his guitar kinda stopped nothing else.
The best part of this video, besides all of it, is when Kurt's guitar takes a shit, Pat turns up the volume and just seamlessly takes the role of lead guitar. True professionalism right there.
Kevin, Canal + was and is still a Major french boardcaster so it's not surprising also even at that time Pal secam was giving better result than NTSC for the colors etc and 1994 is not prehistoric please xD ahah As for Paramount this an al other story.... it's Film... so yes
Vitor Oliveira it’s alright, but I’ve seen people do that for no reason a lot lately, and then be able to properly construct a sentence a minute later.
This was Nirvana at their best! Kurt, Krist, Dave, and Pat were just perfect together. Kurt left this world just 2 months later. It's just so hard to believe looking at these vibrant performances from Feb. 1994.
Wow, I didn't realize this was only 2 months before he died. Thanks for that info. This performance was simply too good for Kurt to be suicidal. this is clearly not a suicidal man. I'm sorry, but when people become suicidal they lose interest in life, lose passion, stop caring about little things, etc. Kurt clearly has passion here. This just doesn't align with the claim he was suicidal in any way, shape, or form.
@Jakejakejake-k2j That's true. We can never know for sure what is going on in someone else's mind. I'm just very suspicious of the official story regarding how he died for a bunch of reasons I won't get into here. And he just doesn't seen suicidal here, to me, for it being 2 months prior to his death. Of course outward image isn't going to tell the whole story but there are a lot of combined factors that make me suspicious of how he really died.
I think this is the most important song they ever made, not for fame, for Kurt, he always played it, said it was his favourite nirvana song and I think is one of the reasons the band didn’t end earlier
@@youreokayboah2128 "Grunge" was just Punk Rock Ver.2.0... Everyone in the 90s considered it "punk rock"... Grunge was an industry term for posers and TV video jockeys.
Yeah he’s like : “you fuckin with me?” lol Fun fact : The reason the guitar stopped working in the first place is because during the In Utero tour, Nirvana tried bringing as little personal gear as possible. So, Kurt rented a cable but it was damaged so the cable to his pedal failed which cut all signal to his guitar
I like other bands too but like they dont hit me with as much energy and passion like Nirvana. Nirvana is the reason why I even started guitar in the first place.
This is why the band was so much more than just Kurt. If you’ve ever played in any kind of band There is a connective tissue and instinct that gets developed between musicians when they practice over and over again that becomes like muscle memory. You could see them fall right back into it after over 20 years when the 3 surviving members occasionally play together.
2:22 that scream. Wow. When I first heard Nirvana, i thought there's no way someone could scream on pitch like that live, so i thought it must've all been in the production. This scream is live, yet it's better than even their produced material. This man had serious talent
He played a whole show in Mid-1989 without a guitar, while Everman played. I forgot the exact date, something like June or July, and the 14th or 16th of either month that year. Why? He had no guitar, he smashed it the night before. No footage exists that I know of, but audio exists of it.
He did it 15th July 1989 at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, MA. He broke his guitar, then give it To Sluggo Cawley who gave him his in exchange...Sluggo sold it 100,000$ later, which helpt him a lot ( not a good time for Sluggo)
@@malachiminiard1624 i am really wondering...I saw it, I remember like it was yesterday, they played few songs and it was just so perfect, nothing went wrong...
@@MarcusBlueWolf There’s a video on here of Local H playing Fritz’s Corner. Someone in the audience knocked the mic stand into Scott, who jumped down and starting beating the guy before getting back on stage. All the while the drummer plowed ahead like nothing was going on.
You have to just keep going! I play drums and have had issues with cymbal stands and whatnot on stage. Have to just keep playing and fix it when the song is over! Especially if you don’t have a drum tech.
Honestly Dave Grohl did so much for Nirvana, he was the engine that pushed them up another level and drove them through performances. He gets Kurt back on tempo when he goes off and when you see concert performances he backs him up vocally when he misses. The pair of them together worked perfectly and while I think the Foo Fighters are incredible in their own right, I think their songs need that melody drive that Cobain instinctively had. It's what made Nirvana songs so memorable.
@@casaraku1 Wha? Yea sure Dave has the Foo Fighters but the guy has been in so many different projects it's funny you say he was (still is) a fine drummer who wanted spotlight. The man constantly stepped aside and let other people shine. Take Probot for example, Dave was the drummer, and brought in a bunch of famous friends and such to just make some damn good songs (including one where the foo fighters producer was on bass). That's only one example of the guy.
I love this venue, and especially when Kurts guitar breaks. I don't know why but its so cool to see him sing like that. Plus we all know the scream is probably the best in Nirvana's history.
Kurt was just on vocals for once concert in 1989 while Jason was on guitar, I forgot which one it is but there's a whole live bootleg (audio only) of it. EDIT: It should be July 15, 1989.
@@Kokurorokuko wasn't shot on film, it's just that they probably have the original video tapes or a good copy of them. Also, it was recorded in Europe so the PAL format was used. It's higher resolution than the NTSC format. On top of that, this video was encoded at 25 frames per second, so it can be a little higher quality compared to NTSC's 30. It really should probably be 50 frames per second but I digress...
As a 55 year old man watching men of my generation, in the prime of their youth, express their passions with such power, it makes you regret wasting a moment of one’s youth. As a middle age man soon to be an elderly man in the coming years, how I would long to savage the drums as a muscular Dave Grohl does here. There is nothing like the rage a man of 25 can feel in his heart and seeing Cobain, Grohl amd company constructively express these feelings 30 years ago is nothing less than amazing.
Everything in this video is the definition of the best rock show ever: - Kurt singing without the guitar - Kurt's scream - Dave just taking off his tie and practically joining in spirit with the drums
@@dangotorres jagstang has a cool hourglass offset hybrid and the mustang of course has the mustang body. looking closely you can see the guitar on kurt is a mustang from the thicker I guess waist of the body than a jagstang. jagstang pickguards are very close to the top of the body as well.
Dave has actually said that because he knew he was like the sixth drummer Nirvana had and how demanding Kurt was because of that, he was always in that state of rigorousness, so its actually very accurate how you put it
Same here. It was my first time seeing Kurt doing only nothing but singing. Well he kinda did that too in unplugged where he let the Meat Puppets and I guess Krist guitar away while he was swiveling in his chair, singin'.
Carter Hayes same , I only listen to live performances they just have something that keeps Drawing me back like this one which IMO is his best scream ever
I’ve never ever felt power in a song except drain you, the chills are insane it honestly makes me wanna cry bc of how insane it is it’s just perfect I will never stop loving this song.
My AP English teacher at military school grade 12 put on this song & we dissected the lyrics as a class - it meant the world, it was "different" - but not for kids like us. I felt at home. I was comforted, safe to say 10 years later Mr. Sloan & I still talk, what a scholar, sire.
Dave played those drums so brilliantly omg! Amazing performance. Love how they really start rockin out hard 1:35. Then the epic scream Kurt does. Probably my fav performance of "Drain You".
Kurt wasn't going to play guitar on the next album. That was his way of saying goodbye to guitar. Don't any of you read or remember interviews from the 90's??? He said he wanted to focus on his vocals and try other instruments. Fuck this generation.
He still is. I saw him play drums live ~10 years ago and my dumb ass didn't wear ear plugs. My ears rang for three days and I now have tinnitus. Was is smart? No. Was is worth it? Yes.
@@maluorno or maybe you are just a snobby elitist, almost everyone uses "grunge" to describe this kind of music. Only people who wan't to act like they're superior and want to feel special act like you.
I like how everybody in the band looks not ready for the sudden start of the song by Kurt, here is Dave starting to taking off his tie, at the paramount live concert Kurt starts the first song "jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam" seconds before Krist plugs his bass guitar, some other performances sililar stuff, idk why, but that little thing always added to their charm or something, love it
Remember listening to incesticide when I was 14 years old. Watching this in 2021 you realise nobody else ever sounded like him, played like him, wrote music like him or carried themselves on stage like him. He really was a legend.
This was the first Mp3 I downloaded in 97, by mistake. I was searching the information superhighway for how to unblock a drain with live running water, and saved what I thought was a document exe file, about a week later I got a program and opened the file. Was hooked! I ended up smashing the bath out with a Sledgehammer while listening to this song, so it worked, was able to drain it then, so thanks Kurt, was quite an introduction figuratively and emotionally. Replaced bath with a shower recess. The next mp3 I found was Notorious BIG Going Back To Cali. I never downloaded another Notorious BIG file, ever again.
What I think: Kurt was very, very, very shy, depressive, introvert, low self steem. This way, his guitar was like a shield for him. At the moment he was without it, he didn’t know what to do at the stage. You can realize it in this performance. A great artist!
He wasn’t depressed, that’s a narrative of someone else. To connect not knowing what to do without a guitar to being depressed is a stretch. Yes, he was an introvert, a very funny and clever one
@@Julia-zz1gq Kurt wasn’t depressive? Oh come on. Everybody knows it. Why do you think he killed himself? He was very happy and decided it? And besides his disease, he was very shy and introverted. And the guitar was like a shield for him at the stage. PS: Some days after this show, he killed himself. He was on the edge!
Well alot of the European gigs were shot with great top of the line cameras and recoding methods that were NOT only great quality for their time but even by today's standards & plus the footage & recordings could be edited/restored to gloss polish them up to an even better! & more! clearer! quality!.... leave it to the European's to be able to record something in in 1993!/1994!((or earlier! in some cases!)) that rivals things lirterly! shot! & recorded! just! "yesterday!"...... some! really! super! smart! .M.F.'ers! they! were!/are!...... ; )
I've been listening to Nirvana since I bought Bleach, day four after the release to public. I LOVE this performance. This shows the true nirvana in Nirvana. Dave ripping his tie off. Kurt struggling with sound issues. (Yet again) He tries to continue when it cuts out, twisting his volume knob on the guitar and strumming to no avail, with Pat's flat sounding rhythm in the background. Dave, Pat and Krist all have that "Oh shit" look, and Kurt is ready to go in beast mode. At about 2:03 Pat turns up his guitar to help fill in the sound while looking at Kurt, hoping something happens soon. Kurt throws the guitar and the other three are in a state of ".........", then Kurt goes back to the mic, belts out the best YEAAAAAAAA they ever did live, and it is like new energy sweeps over them and play with enough passion to make you forget Kurt is sans guitar, and is just doing vocals, which puts him in the vulnerable position he hates. "It is now my duty to completely SLAY you" Slay it you did, my friend.
"Nulle Part Ailleurs" was a TV show on Canal +, the first cable channel in France. This sh*t was ahead of this time. They used to play live EVERY night at 20 pm. Has a kid, I saw Nirvana, Body Count or Sepultura just before dinner. RESPECT.
Honestly, the best "Drain you" performance in the history of this song.
His scream though 😯😯
@Revolution Ronemus Lemme see it
I feel like the 1993 live an loud is the Performa of the song
Agreed
Thats the MtV videos version of this song where he has the kool aid dyed hair.
2:03 Pat realizes the Kurt guitar is out of action and responds by turning up his volume knob to cover up. You can clearly hear the volume difference as well.
Goof eye and ear.
Um yea, no. Soudman.
Wow yeah I didn’t catch that you can even see it in the video. What a legendary performance!
Nice catch!
Well spotted
In my opinion, it's the best live video of "Drain you"
You're absolutely right
yes
They were getting better and better, then kaboom! 🙄
big ups
this and paramount 1991 are the best
The scream at 2:26 is so raw and real. Dude was in alot of pain and it showed. What a talent, what a loss.
I reckon his frustration with his guitar have added more passion on that scream too lmao
JEEEESSSS❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢
Kurt was knocked off by his wife according to detective Tom Grant.
i missing this raw energy in music
@@abdero lotta good new acts
I love how Kurt just improvises after his guitar fucks up and Pat realizes that he has to do all the guitar parts rest of the song. Such a professional band.
Pat had plenty of practice improvising after being in a band with the unpredictable Darby Crash
taking nothing away from pat smear but that song got played hundreds of times with only one guitar before pat joined the band
Pat is always happy when he has to do the guitar parts
@@omfug7148 Good Point
Nirvana always prided themselves as a hardworking and extremely well rehearsed band after all.
Pat was like "Holy Shit, I just (temporarily) became the lead guitarist of Nirvana!!!!" \m/
Yep Pat saved the day in this one
Part of the reason Kurt got rid of his guitar he knew he had that back up ha
@@light_year6964 es verdad haha
@@light_year6964 yeah excatly can you imagine if that would have been in 91 with just the 3 piece. Lmao yikes
His cable was broken anyway so he didn't really have a choice@@light_year6964
In spite of what some people have said during all these years, Pat Smear was indeed a great addition to the band. They started sounding bigger and tighter, and Kurt played with less stress since he wasn't the only one in charge of guitar and vocal duties anymore. In this particular case, Pat saved the performance, literally.
I highly agree
They had that backup with Jason everman way back. And he was so fuckkng energetic, headbanging like he was in fucking slayer.
Someone said that? He only got to play guitar on tour. I'm sure he would've added more had Nirvana had the chance to continue.
Nobody has ever criticized the addition of Pat Smear to the band. Stop being so desperate to have a contrary opinion that you literally create the opposition within your own head.
@@Natef89 sure thing, master.
kurt’s scream is literally the most majestic scream i’ve ever heard, gives me goose bumps. nirvana will always be my favorite band🤗
Same
you can see him close to tears after, so it must have hurt
@@benkirbyy especially because he said he "sang/screamed right from his stomach pains"
I just wish that Kurt knew how loved and admired he was before he died
@@swisscheeseplease97 He did he said in his suicide note
If he was still alive, Kurt would have lived twice his life by now (happy 54th birthday Kurt)
you don t have to live twice when all is said and done. "there's nothing i could say that i haven't thought before". like most of good visionaries artists, he needed just some years to explode in the face of this stupid mercantil grimm world.
@@jebstuart4004 ok maybe but you can't deny that he would have made way more amazing things if he lived another 27 years
@@a.georgopoulou Not sure at all. The Best poet in the world, Arthur Rainbaud change the face of poetry between the age of 16 and 20. Write nothing after that. Michel-Angelo, william Burroughts, Tennessee Williams, and many more were artistically dead after just a few years. Kurt was very anxious about a "somewhere else" after In Utero. Thinking he could be a sort of Johnny Cash but big.....No seriously, i think he was over. The great Game was over. I saw them in RENNES feb 94, the concert was long but not really good. After his death, i understood his words, i have no passion anymore. That night, there was no Kurt on stage. Not a bad concert, but....a sort of 'fed up'
@@jebstuart4004 he wasn't over he was just fucking stressed out from touring and needed a break
that's all
paul mccartney is still making good music at age 78
you just listed some names from history and made assumptions of kurt being creatively burnt out
he was just extremely stressed and had a lot of physical problems
@@jonasrmb01 🤣🤣🤣 only one new song came out in 12 months "you know you re right" nothing more and you talk about créativity ??🙄 . No songs were found even 20 years after, no studio take out, nothing at all.......He sais it twice in his letter too.....Face the truth, he was fed up with all.
Wow, I realized this is the first time in 20+ years that I ever saw Kurt standing and singing without a guitar in his hands. It’s great to see what his stage posture was like without one. What an impactful image.
My thought exactly. 🤘🏼😉
How about the Meat Puppets songs on Unplugged In New York?
@@snooootch I meant BESIDES the sitting down, low-key, Unplugged set.
Its sad. Its basically him mailing it in. The passion is gone
there’s a show with Tad in 1989 where he does vocals on “High on the Hog” and he has no guitar
That screeching scream he belts out at 2:27 is one of the greatest vocal based screams ever
Kurt is sorely missed to this day…
Its my single favorite scream in all of rock and roll that i can think of.
@@gretasstolendreams2154 its even crazier tho because his stomach problems were at his worst at thus time
@@cameronwhitemusic6 probably why it was such a raw scream
Yes it's mucking awesome! But the scream at the end of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is even better!!
I think his guitar not working only furthered his anger to amplify his scream . Turn a minor negative into fuel for positive
I love how hard Pat goes once he realizes he’s all on his own 😂
It's bc Pat is the best backup and he's just cool like that
It's a shame he wasn't able to make it into any full albums before the band broke off :(
He's cursing leaving the chorus pedal in the car.
Just fun to think how necessary he was to the band. If he wasn't added it would have just been bass and drums for the rest of the song.
@@organgrinder9922i think in some of the deluxe versions of albums, he's included in them
in serve the servants in the deluxe or remastered version (i forgot which one) you can definitely hear him over the solo
Pat held it down man, brothers keeper
I love how unusual it looks to see Kurt singing without a guitar
Yeah, it’s weird but cool but weird
Yup.
I still don't know if I love it or hate it
He did it one other time, either in the middle of June or July 1989. I forgot which one, probably June, since Everman was still with them and he played guitar for that whole show. No video, though audio exists.
He did it on MTV Unplugged in New York, when the Meat Puppets came on stage and played “Plateau” “Oh Me” and “Lake of Fire”
Props to their manager at Olive Garden for letting them leave early to play this show!
Chill 😂😂
underrated comment !
They had to get back and quick! Look at Kurt just zip off the stage haha
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02:12 it was at this moment that Pat Smear was glad that he didn’t lie on his resume
hilarious!
Omg underrated! Haha
Hes wonderful
Fucking legendary comment
@Matthew V. why are you listening to nirvana then?
Right at the 3:00 minute mark, the harmony between Kurt and Dave is beautiful 😭✋
Kurt's guitar crapped out just in time! Pissed him off just in time to help him belt out that killer scream.
this lead to a very iconic and historic moment. the one time kurt sang live without a guitar. i was actually a little surprised
CarPlanet com I think this was one of those times he was asked not to play live but fake it... ? Then said f you
Billy Gildark no, you can see that his guitar stopped working and that Pat Smear took over as lead guitar. The input for his guitar kinda stopped nothing else.
@@billygildark4565 that happened at another concert i think. ive seen that though. it was hilarious
estersfffeJr heytouas - Yeah, you’re thinking of the Top Of The Pops show. It was hilarious, from start to finish. Nirvana were the best trolls, ever!
2:26 the best
yes
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The best part of this video, besides all of it, is when Kurt's guitar takes a shit, Pat turns up the volume and just seamlessly takes the role of lead guitar. True professionalism right there.
Kevin, Canal + was and is still a Major french boardcaster so it's not surprising
also even at that time Pal secam was giving better result than NTSC for the colors etc
and 1994 is not prehistoric please xD ahah
As for Paramount this an al other story.... it's Film... so yes
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Vitor Oliveira can you not do that?
Elizabeth Danger Sorry!! It was my 4 years old boy who did it. Didn’t realise till I saw your message...
Vitor Oliveira it’s alright, but I’ve seen people do that for no reason a lot lately, and then be able to properly construct a sentence a minute later.
This was Nirvana at their best! Kurt, Krist, Dave, and Pat were just perfect together. Kurt left this world just 2 months later. It's just so hard to believe looking at these vibrant performances from Feb. 1994.
Well he was forced from this world. Just read the autopsy.
He looks so well here as addict looking at other addict he doin well ❤rip often happens but yh his earth has lot holes
Wow, I didn't realize this was only 2 months before he died. Thanks for that info.
This performance was simply too good for Kurt to be suicidal. this is clearly not a suicidal man. I'm sorry, but when people become suicidal they lose interest in life, lose passion, stop caring about little things, etc. Kurt clearly has passion here. This just doesn't align with the claim he was suicidal in any way, shape, or form.
@@lightbeforethetunnelyou never know what someone is going through behind the scenes
@Jakejakejake-k2j That's true. We can never know for sure what is going on in someone else's mind. I'm just very suspicious of the official story regarding how he died for a bunch of reasons I won't get into here. And he just doesn't seen suicidal here, to me, for it being 2 months prior to his death. Of course outward image isn't going to tell the whole story but there are a lot of combined factors that make me suspicious of how he really died.
I think this is the most important song they ever made, not for fame, for Kurt, he always played it, said it was his favourite nirvana song and I think is one of the reasons the band didn’t end earlier
When did he say it was his favorite song I see a lot of people saying that but how did you find this out ?
@@sippintea5658 an interview that I forget the name of, but he played it at almost every show
@@Wiget02 yeah I always knew it was in his fav list
It's about his heroin addiction
But I think it'd my favorite song or one of them, but it kinda makes me sad for some reason
That drum set up has to be the simplest I’ve ever seen for a multimillion selling rock band. So pure and still in the punk spirit.
Exactly!!!!! People don’t understand nirvana was punk till the end
What got you there, keeps you there.
Grunge
@@youreokayboah2128 "Grunge" was just Punk Rock Ver.2.0... Everyone in the 90s considered it "punk rock"... Grunge was an industry term for posers and TV video jockeys.
It's just a standard five piece, plenty of drummers in big name bands use such a set up.
His guitar stopped working on purpose because it knows what happens to guitars after a Nirvana show
PeaceLoveHappiness haha good one
😂😂😂
TheMrkaninja expensive at the time
Very true lol😆
It still got thrown on the floor though
I love this part at 1:57 when kurt is just "The Fuck?"
LMAO 😭 that's how yk it was actually not working
Yeah he’s like : “you fuckin with me?” lol
Fun fact :
The reason the guitar stopped working in the first place is because during the In Utero tour, Nirvana tried bringing as little personal gear as possible. So, Kurt rented a cable but it was damaged so the cable to his pedal failed which cut all signal to his guitar
Yavait juste des problèmes de son avec sa guitare...
Neville Longbottom killing it with the bass
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Groovus Totalus
Lol
😂🙌🏻🤣😂👏🏻
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Nirvana changed my life. Kurt will always have a special place in my heart!
Mine either i started to play guitar cuz of him he will always be my idol
Fernando Braghiroli me to
Agree love him till I die and proud of it❤️
I like other bands too but like they dont hit me with as much energy and passion like Nirvana. Nirvana is the reason why I even started guitar in the first place.
Me too, started playing guitar because of Kurt
Pat Smear be like "it's my time to shine!"
You need an award for this😂
Yeah jahhaaha lol
Hahaha and he did it =)
hahahah lol
shit, i thought the same hahah
2:25 KURT'S SCREAM SO VISCERAL
He's like: "DDDDDAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVV VVEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Yes 😂😂
Me to my crush: I like you
My Crush: I like you too
Me: Oh... Really? :D
My Alarm Clock: 2:27
CJ Killem same feelings
You made my day 😂
😭😂 you resume my Life
hahahah thats so relatable and funny but its also sad
Jajajaja 👍
Whenever I have a bad day I watch this. Kurt’s scream just expresses everything in a way I can’t and I’m so grateful.
That scream is so, so powerful. There's so much truth in it. It's almost too much for me.
At 2:13, Dave, krist and Pat instinctively knew that they had to rock their pants off for the remainder of the song. Absolutely smashed it 🤘
@@vitalogynevermind6829 what part ?
@@kevenrowe2958 the noisy one that Kurt Cobain usually do before the drop
This is why the band was so much more than just Kurt. If you’ve ever played in any kind of band There is a connective tissue and instinct that gets developed between musicians when they practice over and over again that becomes like muscle memory. You could see them fall right back into it after over 20 years when the 3 surviving members occasionally play together.
That's why it was the best/most PRIMAL "Drain You" Scream Baby! \m/
2:22 that scream. Wow. When I first heard Nirvana, i thought there's no way someone could scream on pitch like that live, so i thought it must've all been in the production. This scream is live, yet it's better than even their produced material. This man had serious talent
kurts scream is so raspy and emotional it’s so amazing the amount of energy he releases and how much you can see music means to him.
Grohl is rocking out so hard on the drums 🤘🏽
Dave Grohl Smashes those drums !!!
The legend has it that if you walk around the mountains of france you can still hear kurts screams in the distance...
lol kkkkk
Awesome comment 👍😁
im heading to france!
I imagines that and gave me goosebumps
Flying there in a second
0:01 Dave goes into sport mode
Best moment in rock history when Kurt threw down the guitar and grabbed the Mic was a rare moment to see him just grabbing the Mic only
nah
Nah
For the way he grab the mic and with his clothes he looks like Johny rotten ....hell yeah!
@@SuperRizzoman I was thinkin the same!! It gave me Sex Pistols vibes
He played a whole show in Mid-1989 without a guitar, while Everman played. I forgot the exact date, something like June or July, and the 14th or 16th of either month that year. Why? He had no guitar, he smashed it the night before. No footage exists that I know of, but audio exists of it.
I have NEVER seen Kurt perform without his guitar AND. IT. IS. AWESOME.
He did it for lake of fire and plateu during the unplugged show
He did it for a show in mid 1989, too. Jason Everman played guitar for that performance. I don't think there's any video.
@@grungeisdead8998 and Oh Me :)
@@tfox32101 I forgot about that one
He did it 15th July 1989 at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, MA. He broke his guitar, then give it To Sluggo Cawley who gave him his in exchange...Sluggo sold it 100,000$ later, which helpt him a lot ( not a good time for Sluggo)
Prime example of how to continue when something goes wrong in a show
Or in life
@One O One ikr thoughtful of Kurt for hiring him...
Things have a bit of a habit of going wrong on NPA for some reason, so he probably prepared for it.
What went wrong
@@malachiminiard1624 i am really wondering...I saw it, I remember like it was yesterday, they played few songs and it was just so perfect, nothing went wrong...
It’s crazy how no one in the band seemed to recognize Kurt was having trouble with his guitar. Just shows how zoned in they were to playing the song.
Professionals don't stop, they carry on regardless of wrong notes or broken strings etc.
@@MarcusBlueWolf There’s a video on here of Local H playing Fritz’s Corner. Someone in the audience knocked the mic stand into Scott, who jumped down and starting beating the guy before getting back on stage. All the while the drummer plowed ahead like nothing was going on.
pat must have noticed, because he picked up kurt's parts as well as playing his own. legend
Pat noticed, he turned up his volume and picked up lead
You have to just keep going! I play drums and have had issues with cymbal stands and whatnot on stage. Have to just keep playing and fix it when the song is over! Especially if you don’t have a drum tech.
Honestly Dave Grohl did so much for Nirvana, he was the engine that pushed them up another level and drove them through performances. He gets Kurt back on tempo when he goes off and when you see concert performances he backs him up vocally when he misses. The pair of them together worked perfectly and while I think the Foo Fighters are incredible in their own right, I think their songs need that melody drive that Cobain instinctively had. It's what made Nirvana songs so memorable.
Exactly!
I think Kurt would have hated foo fighters, but I agree Dave was the driving backbone nirvana needed to push them over the top.
He is of note because of Nirvana otherwise they are a dime a dozen...He was a fine drummer but wanted the spotlight.
@@casaraku1 Wha? Yea sure Dave has the Foo Fighters but the guy has been in so many different projects it's funny you say he was (still is) a fine drummer who wanted spotlight. The man constantly stepped aside and let other people shine. Take Probot for example, Dave was the drummer, and brought in a bunch of famous friends and such to just make some damn good songs (including one where the foo fighters producer was on bass). That's only one example of the guy.
Dave is a good drummer but lets settle down he wasn't that special. Kurt was what made Nirvana
I love this venue, and especially when Kurts guitar breaks. I don't know why but its so cool to see him sing like that. Plus we all know the scream is probably the best in Nirvana's history.
I personally like the one at their last show in Germany.
Mtv Live n loud...
Yea seeing him sing like that was so cool
Kurt was just on vocals for once concert in 1989 while Jason was on guitar, I forgot which one it is but there's a whole live bootleg (audio only) of it. EDIT: It should be July 15, 1989.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure he smashed his Greco Mustang and didn't have his Univox Hi-Flier
The quality and clarity of this makes it look only a couple of years ago
Right!? I am soooo thankful for all the surprisingly amazing quality Nirvana footage there is to devour on youtube! ♥
makes it look like yesterday
guess it was shot on film and that's why it's hq
@@Kokurorokuko Just like the Paramount show
@@Kokurorokuko wasn't shot on film, it's just that they probably have the original video tapes or a good copy of them. Also, it was recorded in Europe so the PAL format was used. It's higher resolution than the NTSC format.
On top of that, this video was encoded at 25 frames per second, so it can be a little higher quality compared to NTSC's 30. It really should probably be 50 frames per second but I digress...
The way Pat smiles at Kurt on 2:10 shows the excitement of what’s about to happen
As a 55 year old man watching men of my generation, in the prime of their youth, express their passions with such power, it makes you regret wasting a moment of one’s youth. As a middle age man soon to be an elderly man in the coming years, how I would long to savage the drums as a muscular Dave Grohl does here. There is nothing like the rage a man of 25 can feel in his heart and seeing Cobain, Grohl amd company constructively express these feelings 30 years ago is nothing less than amazing.
This is a great comment.
How can one be sure not to regret wasting his youth asking for a favor
@@manifestwealthandfreedom9118 find your soul purpose ASAP
@@blood_sausage9620 Appreciate That Brother 😎
damn youre the same age as kurdt
Everything in this video is the definition of the best rock show ever:
- Kurt singing without the guitar
- Kurt's scream
- Dave just taking off his tie and practically joining in spirit with the drums
Timestamp for Dave?
@@Ihave50yo.dadmusictaste Just at the beginning. See at the inferior left corner 00:01
Maybe the best Nirvana performance from 1994. And those outfits are really cool, oh and that red mustang too.
I'm thinking that's the Jag-Stang. It's got a single coil at the neck and a humbucker in the bridge.
crazy to see you here
@@dougvanhartesveldt5537 thats kurt's fiesta red mustang, not the jagstang
That's a jagstang I believe
@@dangotorres jagstang has a cool hourglass offset hybrid and the mustang of course has the mustang body. looking closely you can see the guitar on kurt is a mustang from the thicker I guess waist of the body than a jagstang. jagstang pickguards are very close to the top of the body as well.
2:19 that scream!! Omg this scream is top notch! Can’t stress it enough!
Dave Grohl played every Nirvana show like he just ran on to the stage and he knew security were about to snatch him. Drumming God.
That's funny..ha! I get it
Dave has actually said that because he knew he was like the sixth drummer Nirvana had and how demanding Kurt was because of that, he was always in that state of rigorousness, so its actually very accurate how you put it
hes so w
😂
❤😂
I love how Dave rips his tie off in the beginning. He is like: "fuck this shit I'm a rockstar I need oxygen"
cDark3r 😂
Watching Kurt sing without a guitar is weird. And cool.
I thought the same thing!!
How are you verified
dude, dude, dude he has a guitar in his hands and is actively playing
NvRMind 93 hey buddy.... 2:11 ..
how are you verified?😂
WHY WAS THAT SCREAM SO PERFECT...
THAT scream. Thanks for everything Kurt - for expressing my pain for me. I hope you are at peace where ever you are.
2:26 The best scream I've ever heard from Kurt Cobain in live. 2020 still here...
GETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Привет из 2022
DAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!
DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!
Rumor has it ,that scream is still traveling in and out of other galaxies for infinity. RIP Kurt
This one perfomance is better than the entire modern mainstream music industry
The best live version of ''Drain You'', forever in my heart...
BTW
Nice I love Nirvana and RHCP too!
Same here. It was my first time seeing Kurt doing only nothing but singing. Well he kinda did that too in unplugged where he let the Meat Puppets and I guess Krist guitar away while he was swiveling in his chair, singin'.
Nirvana + RHCP = Orgasm
Yup better than the real thing!
damn son, this is clearer than my future. looks like it was filmed yesterday and not in the 90's
40mm film has the capacity to look better than digital if developed correctly
Yeah someone defiantly earned their paycheck here.
Cuckerino Kripperino hello kripperino
" Clearer than my future " thats gold. nice one
There are better looking recordings from the 70's...
Krist Novoselic,
Playing like he knows he's the most underrated bassist ever.
messirve
@@infANciaZINE ta bien 👍
And the tallest
Without him, theres no band
Messirve
3:26 Kurt really said hmmm a microphone yummy
Nah wtf 😭
Crazy😂
this is timeless. probably my 100th time watching this and i still get shivers. never gets old
Carter Hayes same , I only listen to live performances they just have something that keeps Drawing me back like this one which IMO is his best scream ever
I’ve never ever felt power in a song except drain you, the chills are insane it honestly makes me wanna cry bc of how insane it is it’s just perfect I will never stop loving this song.
That scream captures frustration so beautifully. So frickin' cathartic. Thanks, Kurt!
I was in the audience, stand out part
Maynards scream when Tool performs the Grudge can't be beat.
@@shredder9536 really lucky
@Ben Williams no the scream is in the song already
My AP English teacher at military school grade 12 put on this song & we dissected the lyrics as a class - it meant the world, it was "different" - but not for kids like us. I felt at home. I was comforted, safe to say 10 years later Mr. Sloan & I still talk, what a scholar, sire.
Dave played those drums so brilliantly omg! Amazing performance. Love how they really start rockin out hard 1:35. Then the epic scream Kurt does. Probably my fav performance of "Drain You".
2:21 kurt: imma head out
Kurt throwing his guitar and letting Pat man the wheel was awesome! Shows how much Kurt appreciated Pat’s part in the band.
He kinda had no choice considering his guitar gave out lol
What choice did he have. And that was pats job anyway.
Kurt wasn't going to play guitar on the next album. That was his way of saying goodbye to guitar. Don't any of you read or remember interviews from the 90's???
He said he wanted to focus on his vocals and try other instruments. Fuck this generation.
He was testing Pat. Kurt‘s boss man. We all know how boss man likes to put pressure on us sometimes🤣🤣 way I gathered it
also Kurt's guitar was messed up ;))
2:37 you can see how red Kurt's face is after that scream. Dude gave it his all 😂
-Oh no the Kurt's guitar shuts Down...
-Pat: Hold mi tie...
Pat saved the show.
Man Dave Grohl was such a beast on the drums
was and is. have you checked out his stint in Them Crooked Vultures?
He still is. I saw him play drums live ~10 years ago and my dumb ass didn't wear ear plugs. My ears rang for three days and I now have tinnitus. Was is smart? No. Was is worth it? Yes.
He learned on pillows before he had a drum kit. Random fact from his book.
Still He is
Chad was just as good, if not........!
krist's bass tone is so beatiful
Kurt's eyes from 3:07 until the end, he looks so damn tired & out of it.
Probably because he need to scram
*Kurt throws guitar after it stops working*
Me: How very Grunge of you
only plebs, jocks and journalists used the term 'grunge'. poseur.
@@maluorno or maybe you are just a snobby elitist, almost everyone uses "grunge" to describe this kind of music. Only people who wan't to act like they're superior and want to feel special act like you.
@@droideca88 You nailed it.
Anemone he's lucky that was the last song they played
*punk rock
I felt he got very unsettled after his guitar stopped working. His voice got more agressive, his scream was a portrait of his frustration.
Obviously....
No shit.
It's called 'Deep Fuck'
Nice interpretation
"Pat Smear has entered the chat." No but seriously. He saved that. Go Pat!
Yup
Yeah pat underrated
They didn’t give him the job because he was shit 😆
@@Ooo0990 No, he started playing with them in 93' and Kurt died mid 94'. Moraless a year after
disagree
I like how everybody in the band looks not ready for the sudden start of the song by Kurt, here is Dave starting to taking off his tie, at the paramount live concert Kurt starts the first song "jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam" seconds before Krist plugs his bass guitar, some other performances sililar stuff, idk why, but that little thing always added to their charm or something, love it
Weird, who's the other guys playing with the Foo Fighters
Something Pressed Q1q
Wow an actual sarcastic comment without a woosh, must say I'm impressed
@@lancedanielarevalo3627 2.05 meters, extremenly tall i'd say
Pat Smear
I have no idea, the blonde girl do be cute tho
*guitar stops working*
kurt: thats not very cash money of you
@SideVolt
Also Kurt: *YEET*
SideVolt LMAOOO
SideVolt I’m pretty sure he was getting ready to scream.
Except he would have slapped someone for using the phrase cash $ around him.
Lol that made my day
Nobody:
Babies at 3AM: 2:27
Lol
They're telling each other they're happy to have met
HAHA
@@Cynder757 you won the internet bro
@@s.storumus8620 Why, thank you, sir
The scream so crazy and amazing!! 👌
Haha pat just enjoys being in nirvana so much
Hes looking so happy idk why dude xD
These were his first big shows.
@ nuncfluens, And last. Kurt was dead a month later after this show.
Drain yyou Pat's guitar version!!! Of course,Pat loved Nirvana,he still is in Nirvana!!! and Nirvana still rocks!!!
Finally someone who says something about Pat ;p
He is a forgotten person among the fans although he was a member of Nirvana ;p
Remember listening to incesticide when I was 14 years old. Watching this in 2021 you realise nobody else ever sounded like him, played like him, wrote music like him or carried themselves on stage like him. He really was a legend.
The quality of this video is so good, I thought Kurt was still alive :(
I thought the same thing =( it's kinda weird.
Someone went back in time and shot the show with a HD camcorder, LOL
+You are obsolete this commet made me laugh hard
you took the words from my mouth to yours .... in a passionate comment.
its because these would be from the actual tapes they filmed on, not through a recording of it
ive rewatched this video hundreds of times but kurt’s scream always hypnotises me i love it
DAMN!!! His scream had me goosebumped to another dimension. EPIC STUFF BABY!
Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Man Neville Longbottom can really play bass
Dylon Boyer im dead
☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Dylon Boyer no wonder it’s so magical
@Tommy McGuy make MORE.
Tommy McGuy when is this movie coming out?
Even to sing without a guitar, Kurt had a style of moving the microphone differently, that's fire
Pat at 02:26: its time to shine!
0:46 pro drummer move
I always loved that part of the song.
Daves playing drums so hard, his hairband comes off.
Yeah !
2:26 OMG THAT SCREAM GIVES ME LIFE
Alynov alyst when the ice cream truck comes
I want that as my alarm clock
The fact that if his guitar hadn't broken down, we wouldn't have heard that iconic scream
This was the first Mp3 I downloaded in 97, by mistake. I was searching the information superhighway for how to unblock a drain with live running water, and saved what I thought was a document exe file, about a week later I got a program and opened the file. Was hooked! I ended up smashing the bath out with a Sledgehammer while listening to this song, so it worked, was able to drain it then, so thanks Kurt, was quite an introduction figuratively and emotionally. Replaced bath with a shower recess. The next mp3 I found was Notorious BIG Going Back To Cali. I never downloaded another Notorious BIG file, ever again.
Lmao. Thanks for sharing this story. gotta love the internet
If true that’s hilarious. If not cool story
What happened with the biggie file? Was it a tupac song? Or was it big l?
How many hours it took to download it lol?
What I think: Kurt was very, very, very shy, depressive, introvert, low self steem. This way, his guitar was like a shield for him. At the moment he was without it, he didn’t know what to do at the stage. You can realize it in this performance. A great artist!
He wasn’t depressed, that’s a narrative of someone else. To connect not knowing what to do without a guitar to being depressed is a stretch. Yes, he was an introvert, a very funny and clever one
@@Julia-zz1gq Kurt wasn’t depressive? Oh come on. Everybody knows it. Why do you think he killed himself? He was very happy and decided it? And besides his disease, he was very shy and introverted. And the guitar was like a shield for him at the stage. PS: Some days after this show, he killed himself. He was on the edge!
Shit not true Kurt knew what to do he sung his fucking heart out more.
He’s rh negative they’re all very introverted people with ‘’mental health challenges”
@@Julia-zz1gq futuro meant in general that he was depressed, which is true… not just during this show
the quality is so good and kurt is so handsome i wanna cry
the contrast between the first and the second part is amazing i love it
This performance doesn't look old,,just like it was yesterday ♥★;-)
Stacy Almira VEVO😁
It feels like yesterday to me
Well alot of the European gigs were shot with great top of the line cameras and recoding methods that were NOT only great quality for their time but even by today's standards & plus the footage & recordings could be edited/restored to gloss polish them up to an even better! & more! clearer! quality!.... leave it to the European's to be able to record something in in 1993!/1994!((or earlier! in some cases!)) that rivals things lirterly! shot! & recorded! just! "yesterday!"...... some! really! super! smart! .M.F.'ers! they! were!/are!...... ; )
Great quality isnt it
@@thelordofdarkness141 No kidding, huh? The highest resolution is 480p here anyways. Timeless, that's why.
I've been listening to Nirvana since I bought Bleach, day four after the release to public. I LOVE this performance. This shows the true nirvana in Nirvana. Dave ripping his tie off. Kurt struggling with sound issues. (Yet again) He tries to continue when it cuts out, twisting his volume knob on the guitar and strumming to no avail, with Pat's flat sounding rhythm in the background. Dave, Pat and Krist all have that "Oh shit" look, and Kurt is ready to go in beast mode. At about 2:03 Pat turns up his guitar to help fill in the sound while looking at Kurt, hoping something happens soon. Kurt throws the guitar and the other three are in a state of ".........", then Kurt goes back to the mic, belts out the best YEAAAAAAAA they ever did live, and it is like new energy sweeps over them and play with enough passion to make you forget Kurt is sans guitar, and is just doing vocals, which puts him in the vulnerable position he hates. "It is now my duty to completely SLAY you" Slay it you did, my friend.
Holy shit, I really didn't notice the "slay you." Nice catch!
+literallyronnie yeah, he was expressing how frustrated he was lol.
I think pat was playing rythem so when his guitar went out he switched to lead which kurt was playing
I think pat was playing rythem so when his guitar went out he switched to lead which kurt was playing
Monel Funkawitz nice review of the video 10/10
I saw it live on tv.
That changed my life forever.
"Nulle Part Ailleurs" was a TV show on Canal +, the first cable channel in France. This sh*t was ahead of this time. They used to play live EVERY night at 20 pm. Has a kid, I saw Nirvana, Body Count or Sepultura just before dinner. RESPECT.