pretend i didn't misspell disastrous in the title card, and let me know what shows i missed/any corrections i should issue! one notable omission is November 27th, 1991 for their Top of the Pops performance, when the band were forced to play to backing tracks, and made a complete joke of it
The people who create al theses tour dates are responsible for artists flipping and ending up in rehab for me. Humans in general need down time to recover and space out for a while. I heard Kurt was coughing blood from screaming the songs out every night and that his record label and his wife where pressuring him to play that Lollapalooza festival as he'd receive 10 million dollars for doing so. It's clear that he was surrounded by vultures who only saw dollar signs when they looked at him. I think he was either taken out as the label knew that he was worth more dead than alive. It was reported that he was divorcing Courtney so there was a lot on his mind. It's also rumoured that he was seeing Kristen Pfaff a bassist in Courtney's band Hole and how Courtney went into a jealous rage after discovering this only to plot Kristens death. She was seen at Kristen's apartment the night she died of a supposed overdose in her bathroom. I personally think Kurt was fearing for his life in the end and because he had spoken about suicide before, Courtney had to perfect reason to be able to take Kurt out and make it look like another suicide attempt. I think in the end, Kurt's own mouth let him down in the end, he gave his wife the perfect way to plan his murder and get away with it.
Fyi the "t" in Krist's name is silent, & is pronounced identical to "Chris", which was his given/birth name. He only amended the spelling at the suggestion of Slovakian relatives he met on tour (94 I think)...
I think he screams “you’re a prick” if you listen closely. At that time some people didn’t really like him or Courtney due to the drug stuff and them getting their baby taken. And then, the public basically knowing he was still on drugs and a father. So it does make more sense someone would yell that I guess. But maybe you are right I don’t know.
I think he was actually laughing because someone underneath the stage tripped or something along the lines of that and was taken away by bouncers I think it's because said person tried to run on stage but slipped face planted and was escorted out, because you can kind of see Kurt looking downwards and then laughing Don't quote me on this though
I remember seeing that when it aired and thinking for years: "Ummm....did that just happen?" Then finally looked it up during lockdown in 2020, almost 30 years later. Dave had a great story of finding Krost with ice on his head later while hanging with Keith Richards or Brian May or something.
Kurt forgot his briefcase, but never his sarcasm, honesty and serene violence at times... Kurt knew what he was doing at all times in doubt. In confidence.
Excellent compilation. The most notable omissions are their TV appearances in France and Italy in 1994. They are great and enoyable for us fans, but were clearly painful disasters for Cobain. At least the Italian TV appearance is covered in "Come as you are" and worth a read in this context.
7:52 i feel like personally kurt had it coming to him for destroying the bounces friemds property. imagine if you were the friemd of somebody and you just watched a guy destroy their equipment.
@@RoddyPipersCorneas We all have acted inappropriately at times. But fact of the matter is the bouncer was the first to get physical when he grabbed Kurt by the hair to reel him in from the crowd.
@@RoddyPipersCorneasno shit he was an angry person. Most rockstars are. The difference is he took it out on equipment, and the bouncer got physical with him
@@Onlyspacemangood! I bet if he got knocked out a few times for the BS he pulled he might have actually taken a hard look at himself and wouldn't have been such a pansy and offed himself.
7:46 Kurt also bashed his guitar into this dudes head full force. Intentionally or unintentionally hit in the head, it is a very bouncer reaction to wack someone in the head after being hit like that. Dude literally grabbed his head after he got hit.
Well pretty sure he starts hitting the guy after he starts pulling him in by the hair. Not saying it's a correct response, but I would also try to stop the dude doing that
Yeah Kurt had to do anything to get away from this jackass because he was alot bigger and stronger than Kurt. I don't blame Kurt for hitting that bouncer in the head with his guitar after he put his hands on him. Kurt was just defending himself.
@@krispo2879 It is a correct response if a guy that is bigger and stronger than you tries to attack you and grabs your hair. I would have done the same thing to try and stop the guy. Kurt was defending himself.
in the day of the band's last show, at Munich at march 1st '94, the mand members had respiratory symptoms, Kurt struggled a lot to hit higher nots during the songs, losing his voice at some points, and because of that, the band couldn't even perform Teen Spirit. also the venue had an electrical shortage during the performance of "Come As You Are", and the band had to start over minutes later. at another point, when Krist went to talk to the crowd, he said a whole melancholic speech about grunge being dead and Nirvana being over. nobody knew it was to be the band's last performance. some see this show as disastrous, i think it belongs here and by the way, the footage of the outro is from this performance 🧐
Wow thanks for sharing. My husband used to jam with these guys in Olympia back in late 80's , early 90's. Evergreen and Rignall hall out on Steamboat Island and where I still live...memories. There are some videos of them on youtube at Rignall Hall. Fun and wild times. It's amazing that I meet kids that are still moving here from all over to go to Evergreen after all these years.
One could argue the power outage at their final show should have been in here (I was expecting it) but hey, great little snippets of chaos regardless. No complaints here.
One of my favorite shows, and I don't remember where or when it was, has an audience member yelling out for "About A Girl" and also "play songs about girls, man," and Kurt mocks him relentless the entire show. Also, any show where Kurt's guitar goes out and he has to stop and mess with it so Krist is left singing is a gem in my book. Finally, while not a disaster at all, I love the Austria show where Kurt says they saw a kangaroo and thanks the audience by saying "donkey show."
The second gig in Brazil that's mentioned here, Kurt was certainly using a lot more than Cocaine. Layne Staley from Alice in Chains hired people to get heroin into Brazil which he would share with people who were also heroin addicts. The night before the show, Mike Starr had been in Kurt's hotel room shooting up heroin and cocaine, then Mike went to Layne's room where he shot up more and overdosed. He was unresponsive for around 9 minutes, probably dead towards the end. Layne in a panic gave him some form of adrenaline and was screaming at him to wake up. Mike ended up waking up in the bathtub, soaking wet with Layne sobbing. Laynes completely blew out his voice which is obvious at the show the following day. So not only was the Hollywood Rock festival a disaster for Nirvana, but was also a disaster for Alice in Chains and was actually the last show Mike Starr performed with the band.
I was at that gig in São Paulo - My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I think they switched instruments that night, and I remember thinking; either this is the worst gig I've ever watched or these guys are geniuses - but people did get really awkward, not knowing if they were supposed to clap or boo - I was just sixteen back then, had never had any drugs at that time, but it felt kind of like a psychodelic acidy experience. Still don't know what to make out of it...
They switched instruments for a cover of "Seasons in the Sun" towards the end of that show. Kurt on drums, singing pretty slurred and purposely off, Krist on guitar and Dave on bass. Sloppy but weirdly beautiful. A great song. Here's the video: th-cam.com/video/YP3kc9kMGnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZZ0GDPHwvwazeimw
Saw them at the Michigan State Fair Coliseum Oct, 29 93. Near the end of the show Kurt took a shoe to the head. He stops playing, drops his head, takes his guitar off and throws it down and walks off the stage.
I was there too! My first concert ever. I always wonder if they would have played You Know You're Right if Kurt hadn't shut down the set. Isn't it also weird how there's like no photos/recordings/information about the Kalamazoo show that was two days earlier?
The incident in Dallas is squarely on Kurt. Love his art but that doesn't give him a pass to destroy someone else's property - especially at a venue welcoming the band to play at all. He was fortunate the bouncer didn't fuck him up.
I wrote about this in a couple other videos but, I saw them in Davenport Iowa during the InUtero tour. There was a RollingStone reporter following along. The show had two opening acts-Gumball(?) and Mudhoney. When Nirvana came on I was in the squish at the front row. Kurt didn’t look like he was having any fun and he didn’t speak to the audience really at all. I’m pretty sure Kurt had ringworm on his cheek-so, he didn’t look very healthy. He still beat the isht out of us and it’s the best single performance I’ve ever personally seen-and I’ve seen some real pros. The arena-or whatever you wanna call it had a ton of shows in the 90s. The mosh pit never made it past halfway through the crowd-soundgarden, Alice, Pantera….. When Kurt started blasting away with Breed-the mosh pit went all the way through to the back of the arena where they were selling keg beer. Lasted the entire song. I had been forced to abandon my front row position in a panic due to the crush-so, I was in the stands and saw it all. Amazing. Never happened again. The rolling stone reporter would later write that it was after this show in friggen crappy Davenport Iowa that everyone knew the in Utero tour was going to end in disaster. The reason why I bailed from the front row was because I was dying from heat. I was getting a steady cool breeze though on my back that kept me in the game. When I decided to investigate where the cool breeze was coming from i noticed the biggest set of nostrils I’d ever seen right over my head. It was some huge drunk dudes nose breath that was cooling me down. I kind of think that was the last mosh I ever participated in but I might be wrong.
the brazil shows are by far my favorite nirvana sets by far. the rio show is so chaoticically beautiful, and the São Paulo show has all their 80s covers. I love those two concerts so much despite how fucked up they were. it's come to the point where I listen to them whenever I'm studying or writing
Freaking awesome little video dude thank you so much for making this I am a huge fan of Nirvana and grew up in that area and it's nice to see you keeping this Nostalgia alive it put my day in a good way and I'm going to get the band back together hahaha no way it'll kill me this time if I do
One honorable mention is Paradiso Amsterdam 1991 when they perform Come As You Are, but Kurt tuned his guitar out of tune on purpose and screams the lyrics. That was amazing 😅
He didn't do it on purpose, it came out of tune during Breed, the previous song. He tried to retune it but then got lazy. You can see him start cracking up when he hears Krist's bass is out of tune as well
@@--thatbih No. He did that on purpose, because he was bummed out about some bad reaction of the audience, that he took time to fix his mic first (after he put it down on Breed) and then retune his guitar and screaming as a reaction.
@@--thatbih It wasn't due to laziness. He was trying to tune with his chorus pedal on, which is pretty much impossible. You can see him realize that it is fucked and decide to go with it anyway, which is a pretty cool moment.
you are a very good narrator. So many videos like these the guy can't even pronounce basic words and puts the emphasis in weird places which but this is like listening to Peter Coyote narrating that Vietnam war documentary
@@rarestnirvanalmao that’s fucking great! Glad to have found your channel. I’ve seen the video where Kurt gets attacked by the bouncer. Now the story makes more sense. I thought he was weird and grabbed Kurt’s hair for no reason.
I feel like the bad reception at the Aragon Ballroom might've been because of a joke that Bobcat Goldthwaite made while opening for them - for context, Michael Jordan's dad died, and Michael retired from basketball. Bobcat then made a joke to the effect of "I feel bad for Michael Jordan, but for 80 million a year I'd shoot my own dad in the head," he pissed off so many people he had to he escorted off stage with a cover over his head, about the only person who laughed was Kurt
I think even Krist said something like this recently, on the 30th anniversary of his passing. That he could be really mean. I wonder who he would have grown I to over time, and what he would have said about his younger antics were he still alive.
@@TheRealSuperwiesel C'mon... You need to smell the roses.... Today is the best time in history to be alive. If you are not happy, look at yourself and stop blaming others..
i wanted to go to a nirvana show when i was 7, saw it in the newspaper and asked my dad but he wouldn't do it. he liked rush and the rolling stones, which are fine bands but i really wish i got to go to that show. i think mudhoney was there too, hard to remember it was 30 years ago.
When you're in your 20's and one of the biggest acts in the world, all eyes are on you. You can't always do everything wrong ot right, we weren't in their position.
@@johnnylightning1967 That's true, if he got clean felt like he could've gone solo. Even then his depression from childhood trauma wouldn't still been there.
A buddy of mine was one of the bouncers at Trees that night in Dallas. He said Kurt deserved what he got. The strap lock on Kurt’s guitar cracked that guys head open when he hit him with it. I almost went to that show , but I bought weed instead. Lol. Big mistake in hindsight, but at that time , we didn’t know what they were going to become. I had , (and still have) the Subpop “ Bleach “ cassette at that time. I figured that I’d see em again at some point. I never did .
@7:37 so interesting with this bit as before this moment in time of watching I had always interpreted that incident completely differently: I can’t remember which book on Kurt or Nirvana it would have been but it was stated that the bouncer was just trying to “help Kurt back on stage” and Kurt mistook him for attacking and then whacked him with the guitar whilst he tried to pull him back on stage and that was what made the bouncer deliberately attack him afterwards. But actually when you put the friend’s mixing desk situation in there, it’s obvious it’s an intentional attack from that moment. Just amazing after all these years to realise it was different than had been read before. ❤
Also should be noted that members of Silver Jews / Pavement (Stephen Malkmus, David Berman, and Bob Nastanovich) attended the Pyramid Club performance, and could be heard heckling the band in audio recordings of the show
Regarding the infamous bouncer fight show, I never knew that the sounboard Kurt smashed belonged to a friend of the bouncer's. There's always 2 sides to every story.
Try to look for the one played in Bilbao in 4th july 1992. That day Courtney was hospitalized while she was pregnant, and that makes Kurt wanted the show ends earlyer (obvius) and he made It easy by destroying instruments too.
I realized how odd it was that all my old musical heroes were degenerate drug addicts and just like that, I didn't have musical heroes anymore. The music industry promotes degenerate drug addicts.
@@rarestnirvana Quite the opposite. Praising and worshipping degenerate behavior only keeps them in that behavior. In fact if people called out this behavior many would change that behavior and lifestyle and live a physically and spiritually more healthy life. Peer pressure would have worked on me in the 90's. Nobody did. I had to figure it out myself.
@@rarestnirvana I was a drug addict. There's no skirting around the fact that all drug addicts are degenerates. You could be the King of Morocco and be a drug addict yet still you would be living a degenerate lifestyle.
As a huge music fan and kid in the 60s/70s I grew up w punk. I recognized immediately when I first heard grunge in the very 90s it was just another iteration of punk from my youth.
Considering left handed guitars are harder to come by, you'd think he maybe wouldn't brea them, especially when he was broke. Although he did complain about having to play and sing all the time so maybe there was a hidden motive.
I remember the Nirvana show at the Piper Club in Rome in 1989. I was on the guest list but for some reason I opted not to go. The next day my friends told me full of marvel that Kurt had smashed his guitar, Who-style, whilst on stage. I regretted not going, especially three years later, when they became the biggest band in the world and I could've garnered kudos by saying that I saw them when they were just a small Sub Pop indie band....oh well....
Exactly...i would have cried a little bit more after the Show to get a little bit more Money to buy a even Better Piece of Equipment but i wouldnt get ANGRY at all.......
The night the band recorded the infamous Top of the Pops show they were due to play in Birmingham UK. They were really late getting to the gig, we had to listen to Shonen Knife for what seemed like forever. When they finally showed up they played for less than an hour and were really poor. Some of us booed them off. They played Wolverhampton a few weeks earlier and were amazing.
I watched the Hollywood Rock show in Brazil live on TV. I was 20 and a big fan of Nirvana at that time. From that absolutely disappointed day forward, I decided Nirvana was a band with a perfect sound but with a behavior that didn't match my values, which I keep the same until today (when I'm 51).
only one I can think of that you missed...they did an appearance on a French tv show in 93/94, Kurts amp stopped working so he just slammed his guitar to the ground on finished the song singing while pat played the guitar parts
12:20 kurt and layne were both out ofnit this night. a well known thing about this show is mike starr overdosed right before alice in chains took the stage and nearly died. he was resuscitated and was able to play, but that was mike starrs last show.
THAT'S THE STORY OF "NOBODY KNOWS IM NEW WAY"??? God I loved the energy of the short impov but never knew this, makes me appreciate and understand the anger more.
It’s actually a song that Kurt wrote called ‘Poison’s Gone’ I’d check it out, it’s a great song but it’s cut off by a phone call so unfortunately we can’t hear the full song
Terminal Einz, their very last show. It was cut short, with Kurt saying he didn't feel well, his voice hoarse. They did a few cover songs by the Cars that night towards the end.
They played a show at The Astoria London in 89, where Kurt broke a string early on in the set, I think he then spent a while re stringing it. For some reason I seem to remember hearing the rest of the show was a bit of a disaster.
Jason is now in “Silence & Light”, which includes a former Delta Force member who was involved in Black Hawk Down. Needless to say, probably want to behave at their shows.
I saw them in Akron Ohio Halloween night Kurt was dressed as Barney. ❤ Someone hit Kurt in the face with a shoe during In Bloom... There's no video of that night, some photos exist of the costumes. You can hear Kurt chastise the guy after. I heard he pissed in the shoe and threw it back to the guy, but I didn't see it. I was in the top bleacher of a school gym- type situation at Akron University.
pretend i didn't misspell disastrous in the title card, and let me know what shows i missed/any corrections i should issue!
one notable omission is November 27th, 1991 for their Top of the Pops performance, when the band were forced to play to backing tracks, and made a complete joke of it
The people who create al theses tour dates are responsible for artists flipping and ending up in rehab for me. Humans in general need down time to recover and space out for a while. I heard Kurt was coughing blood from screaming the songs out every night and that his record label and his wife where pressuring him to play that Lollapalooza festival as he'd receive 10 million dollars for doing so. It's clear that he was surrounded by vultures who only saw dollar signs when they looked at him.
I think he was either taken out as the label knew that he was worth more dead than alive. It was reported that he was divorcing Courtney so there was a lot on his mind. It's also rumoured that he was seeing Kristen Pfaff a bassist in Courtney's band Hole and how Courtney went into a jealous rage after discovering this only to plot Kristens death. She was seen at Kristen's apartment the night she died of a supposed overdose in her bathroom. I personally think Kurt was fearing for his life in the end and because he had spoken about suicide before, Courtney had to perfect reason to be able to take Kurt out and make it look like another suicide attempt. I think in the end, Kurt's own mouth let him down in the end, he gave his wife the perfect way to plan his murder and get away with it.
Fyi the "t" in Krist's name is silent, & is pronounced identical to "Chris", which was his given/birth name. He only amended the spelling at the suggestion of Slovakian relatives he met on tour (94 I think)...
Many times, TOTP, lip singing BIG time!i And "Dive", a forgotten track oh so many times!
But you didn't spell it wrongl
Oh woah. I need to go find that top of the pops performance now. Can't remember if I've seen it.
my favorite little mishap is when kurt laughs during pennyroyal tea when some dude screams YOURE ON CRACK
I think he screams “you’re a prick” if you listen closely. At that time some people didn’t really like him or Courtney due to the drug stuff and them getting their baby taken. And then, the public basically knowing he was still on drugs and a father. So it does make more sense someone would yell that I guess. But maybe you are right I don’t know.
I think he was actually laughing because someone underneath the stage tripped or something along the lines of that and was taken away by bouncers I think it's because said person tried to run on stage but slipped face planted and was escorted out, because you can kind of see Kurt looking downwards and then laughing
Don't quote me on this though
@@stereosanctity7 One of the bootlegs before that concert was officially released has it as "You're a prick".
No....kurt was laughing as about 4 people surfed over the barrier and took out the security. Fact.
@@andyacropopolis5815Really? Proof/evidence? Wonder who that guy was who said that.
Kris throwing his bass 10ft in the air and smashing down on his face at the MTV awards, was gnarly. “Hi Axel! Hi Axel! Hi Axel!”😂
^ This, thought for sure it woulda gotten some mention here. Right in the face with he headstock.
I remember seeing that when it aired and thinking for years: "Ummm....did that just happen?" Then finally looked it up during lockdown in 2020, almost 30 years later. Dave had a great story of finding Krost with ice on his head later while hanging with Keith Richards or Brian May or something.
@@AndyAckerHe was drinking champagne with Brian May
This is a gem of a channel to come across in this day and age. I hope all the Nirvana fans get to spend some time here.
This day in age*
Ah mate, Watch Markbutevil. He makes amazing little docs about bands. Including one about Nirvana
@@neonada.officialday and age *
@@neonada.official I can't find a source that says "this day in age" is correct
@@neonada.official go outside
A cool fact about the Aragon ballroom show in 1993 is that nirvana played You Know Your Right for the first and only time
One of their best choons I'd say.
Wow they played that live? Never knew that
Iowaaa
best slipknot album as ur pfp is amazing
@@StrikerSML ?
Kurt forgot his briefcase, but never his sarcasm, honesty and serene violence at times... Kurt knew what he was doing at all times in doubt. In confidence.
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"serene violence" AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what a joke
I feel like this is something Kamala Harris would come with 😂
@@krisfrederick5001 "Serene violence?"
Kurt didn't know what he was doing. That's why we liked him. None of us knew what the f*** we were doing.
Is serene violence similar to happy slaughtering?
I love the rawness of Nirvana over the polished performances.
Oh he was Polish? I thought he was from Seattle
Excellent compilation. The most notable omissions are their TV appearances in France and Italy in 1994. They are great and enoyable for us fans, but were clearly painful disasters for Cobain. At least the Italian TV appearance is covered in "Come as you are" and worth a read in this context.
7:52 i feel like personally kurt had it coming to him for destroying the bounces friemds property. imagine if you were the friemd of somebody and you just watched a guy destroy their equipment.
Not only that, he deserved worse. Guy was a very selfish and angry person. That fact tends to get lost in the idol worship people lavish on him.
@@RoddyPipersCorneas We all have acted inappropriately at times. But fact of the matter is the bouncer was the first to get physical when he grabbed Kurt by the hair to reel him in from the crowd.
@@RoddyPipersCorneasno shit he was an angry person. Most rockstars are. The difference is he took it out on equipment, and the bouncer got physical with him
@@Onlyspacemangood! I bet if he got knocked out a few times for the BS he pulled he might have actually taken a hard look at himself and wouldn't have been such a pansy and offed himself.
@@Minortough1034my guy is your "n" key on your keyboard alright?
7:46 Kurt also bashed his guitar into this dudes head full force. Intentionally or unintentionally hit in the head, it is a very bouncer reaction to wack someone in the head after being hit like that. Dude literally grabbed his head after he got hit.
Still unprofessional to lose your temper on the talent though. Anyone who's worked security knows this.
@@AndyAckerno dude lmao it’s a random ass bar what professionalism is needed
Well pretty sure he starts hitting the guy after he starts pulling him in by the hair. Not saying it's a correct response, but I would also try to stop the dude doing that
Yeah Kurt had to do anything to get away from this jackass because he was alot bigger and stronger than Kurt. I don't blame Kurt for hitting that bouncer in the head with his guitar after he put his hands on him. Kurt was just defending himself.
@@krispo2879 It is a correct response if a guy that is bigger and stronger than you tries to attack you and grabs your hair. I would have done the same thing to try and stop the guy. Kurt was defending himself.
guitarist for one of the most famous bands ever and then a special forces soldier! insane
Awesome man! Def sounds better than text-to-speech for sure, keep up the good work!!
in the day of the band's last show, at Munich at march 1st '94, the mand members had respiratory symptoms, Kurt struggled a lot to hit higher nots during the songs, losing his voice at some points, and because of that, the band couldn't even perform Teen Spirit. also the venue had an electrical shortage during the performance of "Come As You Are", and the band had to start over minutes later. at another point, when Krist went to talk to the crowd, he said a whole melancholic speech about grunge being dead and Nirvana being over. nobody knew it was to be the band's last performance.
some see this show as disastrous, i think it belongs here
and by the way, the footage of the outro is from this performance 🧐
Wow thanks for sharing. My husband used to jam with these guys in Olympia back in late 80's , early 90's. Evergreen and Rignall hall out on Steamboat Island and where I still live...memories. There are some videos of them on youtube at Rignall Hall. Fun and wild times. It's amazing that I meet kids that are still moving here from all over to go to Evergreen after all these years.
One could argue the power outage at their final show should have been in here (I was expecting it) but hey, great little snippets of chaos regardless. No complaints here.
One of my favorite shows, and I don't remember where or when it was, has an audience member yelling out for "About A Girl" and also "play songs about girls, man," and Kurt mocks him relentless the entire show. Also, any show where Kurt's guitar goes out and he has to stop and mess with it so Krist is left singing is a gem in my book. Finally, while not a disaster at all, I love the Austria show where Kurt says they saw a kangaroo and thanks the audience by saying "donkey show."
I love how krist was there for him when the bouncer was about ready to get himm
Then Krist gave the bouncer his shirt to help with the bleeding
@@thesvtguy what a gentleman..
he totally helped the bouncer calm down too. love it.
Oh’ Spare me… he was an overrated, arrogant, out of control punk who herald the downfall of modern rock music.
@@nigel900 Kurt was?
The second gig in Brazil that's mentioned here, Kurt was certainly using a lot more than Cocaine. Layne Staley from Alice in Chains hired people to get heroin into Brazil which he would share with people who were also heroin addicts. The night before the show, Mike Starr had been in Kurt's hotel room shooting up heroin and cocaine, then Mike went to Layne's room where he shot up more and overdosed. He was unresponsive for around 9 minutes, probably dead towards the end. Layne in a panic gave him some form of adrenaline and was screaming at him to wake up. Mike ended up waking up in the bathtub, soaking wet with Layne sobbing. Laynes completely blew out his voice which is obvious at the show the following day.
So not only was the Hollywood Rock festival a disaster for Nirvana, but was also a disaster for Alice in Chains and was actually the last show Mike Starr performed with the band.
damm
I was at that gig in São Paulo - My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I think they switched instruments that night, and I remember thinking; either this is the worst gig I've ever watched or these guys are geniuses - but people did get really awkward, not knowing if they were supposed to clap or boo - I was just sixteen back then, had never had any drugs at that time, but it felt kind of like a psychodelic acidy experience. Still don't know what to make out of it...
They switched instruments for a cover of "Seasons in the Sun" towards the end of that show. Kurt on drums, singing pretty slurred and purposely off, Krist on guitar and Dave on bass. Sloppy but weirdly beautiful. A great song. Here's the video: th-cam.com/video/YP3kc9kMGnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZZ0GDPHwvwazeimw
That’s just plainly a shitty bad terrible show
You missed Kurt’s biggest freak out? Wtf? lol. When he started hurling his effects pedals, shattering them into the stage floor as hard as he could. 😂
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Biggest freak out has to be when he broke his lake placid Mustang over the pa in Dallas and whacked that bouncer in the head with his guitar
Do you remember the show that this happened at?
Nirvana live in Texas
biggest freakout gotta be in the greenhouse above his garage
Saw them at the Michigan State Fair Coliseum Oct, 29 93. Near the end of the show Kurt took a shoe to the head. He stops playing, drops his head, takes his guitar off and throws it down and walks off the stage.
I was there too! My first concert ever. I always wonder if they would have played You Know You're Right if Kurt hadn't shut down the set. Isn't it also weird how there's like no photos/recordings/information about the Kalamazoo show that was two days earlier?
The incident in Dallas is squarely on Kurt. Love his art but that doesn't give him a pass to destroy someone else's property - especially at a venue welcoming the band to play at all. He was fortunate the bouncer didn't fuck him up.
I wrote about this in a couple other videos but, I saw them in Davenport Iowa during the InUtero tour. There was a RollingStone reporter following along.
The show had two opening acts-Gumball(?) and Mudhoney.
When Nirvana came on I was in the squish at the front row. Kurt didn’t look like he was having any fun and he didn’t speak to the audience really at all. I’m pretty sure Kurt had ringworm on his cheek-so, he didn’t look very healthy. He still beat the isht out of us and it’s the best single performance I’ve ever personally seen-and I’ve seen some real pros.
The arena-or whatever you wanna call it had a ton of shows in the 90s. The mosh pit never made it past halfway through the crowd-soundgarden, Alice, Pantera….. When Kurt started blasting away with Breed-the mosh pit went all the way through to the back of the arena where they were selling keg beer. Lasted the entire song. I had been forced to abandon my front row position in a panic due to the crush-so, I was in the stands and saw it all. Amazing. Never happened again.
The rolling stone reporter would later write that it was after this show in friggen crappy Davenport Iowa that everyone knew the in Utero tour was going to end in disaster.
The reason why I bailed from the front row was because I was dying from heat. I was getting a steady cool breeze though on my back that kept me in the game. When I decided to investigate where the cool breeze was coming from i noticed the biggest set of nostrils I’d ever seen right over my head. It was some huge drunk dudes nose breath that was cooling me down. I kind of think that was the last mosh I ever participated in but I might be wrong.
I'm from IA lol
6:43 dave still playing while kurt was destroying his drums was aura
Your normal voice is awesome
Thanka
Amazing video I loved every second
Keep em’ coming 🤟🏼🏜️
the brazil shows are by far my favorite nirvana sets by far. the rio show is so chaoticically beautiful, and the São Paulo show has all their 80s covers. I love those two concerts so much despite how fucked up they were. it's come to the point where I listen to them whenever I'm studying or writing
Great video. Well done.
Freaking awesome little video dude thank you so much for making this I am a huge fan of Nirvana and grew up in that area and it's nice to see you keeping this Nostalgia alive it put my day in a good way and I'm going to get the band back together hahaha no way it'll kill me this time if I do
One honorable mention is Paradiso Amsterdam 1991 when they perform Come As You Are, but Kurt tuned his guitar out of tune on purpose and screams the lyrics. That was amazing 😅
He didn't do it on purpose, it came out of tune during Breed, the previous song. He tried to retune it but then got lazy. You can see him start cracking up when he hears Krist's bass is out of tune as well
@@--thatbih No. He did that on purpose, because he was bummed out about some bad reaction of the audience, that he took time to fix his mic first (after he put it down on Breed) and then retune his guitar and screaming as a reaction.
@@--thatbih It wasn't due to laziness. He was trying to tune with his chorus pedal on, which is pretty much impossible. You can see him realize that it is fucked and decide to go with it anyway, which is a pretty cool moment.
@@brandonobrien7239 yea but at some point he even turned off the chorus and tried tuning it til eventually he probably said fuck it
Great video! Nice one for making this
you are a very good narrator. So many videos like these the guy can't even pronounce basic words and puts the emphasis in weird places which but this is like listening to Peter Coyote narrating that Vietnam war documentary
fun fact i used to be neighbors with Peter Coyote. thank you!
@@rarestnirvanalmao that’s fucking great! Glad to have found your channel. I’ve seen the video where Kurt gets attacked by the bouncer. Now the story makes more sense. I thought he was weird and grabbed Kurt’s hair for no reason.
@@rarestnirvanaPeter Coyote made bumpers for a project I worked on, and they were great. Good guy.
@@AndyAcker That's cool I love him too. Great narrator.
7:53 -- Someone, please, give that bouncer a BEER!
I saw Nirvana Oct93.
@Memorial Hall.
Kansas City. I was 16
How was it
What is so cool of them being so unwell that they can't even perform?
I feel like the bad reception at the Aragon Ballroom might've been because of a joke that Bobcat Goldthwaite made while opening for them - for context, Michael Jordan's dad died, and Michael retired from basketball.
Bobcat then made a joke to the effect of "I feel bad for Michael Jordan, but for 80 million a year I'd shoot my own dad in the head," he pissed off so many people he had to he escorted off stage with a cover over his head, about the only person who laughed was Kurt
Kurt WAS a jerk. A brilliant jerk, but still a jerk.
A beautiful, brilliant jerk. I’d still do ‘im.
I think even Krist said something like this recently, on the 30th anniversary of his passing. That he could be really mean. I wonder who he would have grown I to over time, and what he would have said about his younger antics were he still alive.
Always had that slight feeling he could be jerky. But normal when you face a world like this one
@@TheRealSuperwiesel C'mon... You need to smell the roses.... Today is the best time in history to be alive. If you are not happy, look at yourself and stop blaming others..
i wonder how much of it came down to him being depressed and miserable. i was a terrible person when i was suicidal
I love how during the whole video I was facepalming at Kurt, and then, my favorite moment appeared: the OUT! thing
I love this channel!
rome and kurt cobain was like oil and water
Lmao
smashing that board was a piece of shit move. how pretentious.
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@404TVfrStill not justifying for breaking a expensive piece of equipment
@@Goggo_Bo bruh quit defending it, the soundboard was shit.
@@BurnBot_TV You're probably just saying that because he said it was shit, I don't think you would've heard a difference otherwise.
Cheap ass soundboard anyway.
i wanted to go to a nirvana show when i was 7, saw it in the newspaper and asked my dad but he wouldn't do it. he liked rush and the rolling stones, which are fine bands but i really wish i got to go to that show. i think mudhoney was there too, hard to remember it was 30 years ago.
They seem like rebellious children
They were indeed
When you're in your 20's and one of the biggest acts in the world, all eyes are on you. You can't always do everything wrong ot right, we weren't in their position.
@@jamesvancam you don’t have to do drugs
@@johnnylightning1967 That's true, if he got clean felt like he could've gone solo. Even then his depression from childhood trauma wouldn't still been there.
@@jamesvancam what kind of drama as a kid ?
A buddy of mine was one of the bouncers at Trees that night in Dallas. He said Kurt deserved what he got. The strap lock on Kurt’s guitar cracked that guys head open when he hit him with it. I almost went to that show , but I bought weed instead. Lol. Big mistake in hindsight, but at that time , we didn’t know what they were going to become. I had , (and still have) the Subpop “ Bleach “ cassette at that time. I figured that I’d see em again at some point. I never did .
@7:37 so interesting with this bit as before this moment in time of watching I had always interpreted that incident completely differently: I can’t remember which book on Kurt or Nirvana it would have been but it was stated that the bouncer was just trying to “help Kurt back on stage” and Kurt mistook him for attacking and then whacked him with the guitar whilst he tried to pull him back on stage and that was what made the bouncer deliberately attack him afterwards. But actually when you put the friend’s mixing desk situation in there, it’s obvious it’s an intentional attack from that moment. Just amazing after all these years to realise it was different than had been read before. ❤
Also should be noted that members of Silver Jews / Pavement (Stephen Malkmus, David Berman, and Bob Nastanovich) attended the Pyramid Club performance, and could be heard heckling the band in audio recordings of the show
new sub here- loved the video my man! Thanks for the upload 🤝🖤
you left out the mtv performance of krist throwing his bass in the air and knocking himself out after it hit him
Regarding the infamous bouncer fight show, I never knew that the sounboard Kurt smashed belonged to a friend of the bouncer's. There's always 2 sides to every story.
Yeahh I cant help but side with the bouncer on that one
@@wyntonexistingthinking the same thing tbh. Minor in retrospect but that’s your friend. Wtf u supposed to do after witnessing that? Lol
Destroying someone else's equipment is always a dick move.
Regardless of that he had a job to do still and he shouldn't have been pulling his hair and pushing him back into the crowd
Overall, very nice footage and storytelling! But lack a bit of editing, quite a lot!! Good job man!
Try to look for the one played in Bilbao in 4th july 1992. That day Courtney was hospitalized while she was pregnant, and that makes Kurt wanted the show ends earlyer (obvius) and he made It easy by destroying instruments too.
Did Kurdt smash that Gibson SG deluxe?
I realized how odd it was that all my old musical heroes were degenerate drug addicts and just like that, I didn't have musical heroes anymore. The music industry promotes degenerate drug addicts.
why is your heart so cold?
@@rarestnirvana Quite the opposite. Praising and worshipping degenerate behavior only keeps them in that behavior. In fact if people called out this behavior many would change that behavior and lifestyle and live a physically and spiritually more healthy life. Peer pressure would have worked on me in the 90's. Nobody did. I had to figure it out myself.
You do remember that story Kurt told about the mentally handicapped girl he "met" in highschool, right? That behavior should be called out.
@@slow-mo_moonbuggy call kurt out all you want, i'm taking issue with you classifying drug addicts as degenerate
@@rarestnirvana I was a drug addict. There's no skirting around the fact that all drug addicts are degenerates. You could be the King of Morocco and be a drug addict yet still you would be living a degenerate lifestyle.
U forgot the show that made nirvana play their songs on the album recorded tracks. They didn’t allow the band to play raw live music
That wasn’t really disastrous
That wasn’t a gig that was a promo
Dont confuse him
As a huge music fan and kid in the 60s/70s I grew up w punk. I recognized immediately when I first heard grunge in the very 90s it was just another iteration of punk from my youth.
Same idea, different riffs and singing. I don't mind it but I actually love the 80s shredding Kurt was rebelling against.
Considering left handed guitars are harder to come by, you'd think he maybe wouldn't brea them, especially when he was broke. Although he did complain about having to play and sing all the time so maybe there was a hidden motive.
I remember the Nirvana show at the Piper Club in Rome in 1989. I was on the guest list but for some reason I opted not to go. The next day my friends told me full of marvel that Kurt had smashed his guitar, Who-style, whilst on stage. I regretted not going, especially three years later, when they became the biggest band in the world and I could've garnered kudos by saying that I saw them when they were just a small Sub Pop indie band....oh well....
This is a great video! I've seen this altercation at 7:44 before- I always wondered what the beef was and what caused it.
Some very cool things I've never heard before. Thanks!
Great video
for the breakdown in time what song was in the background after the clip?
I just now noticed that at 13:06, you can actually see his tip
Back when there was still hella money in the rock n roll scene so destroyed gear could be replaced without a hitch
Exactly...i would have cried a little bit more after the Show to get a little bit more Money to buy a even Better Piece of Equipment but i wouldnt get ANGRY at all.......
I mean this was Kurt Cobain destroying that thing and not Justin from the Gas station!
The night the band recorded the infamous Top of the Pops show they were due to play in Birmingham UK. They were really late getting to the gig, we had to listen to Shonen Knife for what seemed like forever. When they finally showed up they played for less than an hour and were really poor. Some of us booed them off. They played Wolverhampton a few weeks earlier and were amazing.
I have never seen Krist successfully hit or catch an instrument or a piece of an instrument.
I miss musicians like this
I saw some videos of Kurt butchering songs sarcastically ,but it just seemed disrespectful to the fans.
I can't seem to find any footage from the Aragon ballroom show they did on 10/25/93, anyone have any links to that?
0:30 wow I had no idea those mini Marshalls were around back then
I watched the Hollywood Rock show in Brazil live on TV. I was 20 and a big fan of Nirvana at that time. From that absolutely disappointed day forward, I decided Nirvana was a band with a perfect sound but with a behavior that didn't match my values, which I keep the same until today (when I'm 51).
12:45 song name??
Drain You from the Hollywood Rock Festival on 1/23/93
@@rarestnirvana thanks man I found it last night but was too high to comment 🤣
@@rarestnirvana btw love the video, you have a new subscriber 🔥
What's the background song at 4:20? Seems sad and depressing, just like my life.
Its called "Poison's gone".Its from Kurt's home recordings
the perfect video to eat my meal to
Last show of their EU tour in Rotterdam was apparently also hectic af
this video got me into nirvana
me too man
Good video
Made by someone who enjoys the band
only one I can think of that you missed...they did an appearance on a French tv show in 93/94, Kurts amp stopped working so he just slammed his guitar to the ground on finished the song singing while pat played the guitar parts
12:20 kurt and layne were both out ofnit this night. a well known thing about this show is mike starr overdosed right before alice in chains took the stage and nearly died. he was resuscitated and was able to play, but that was mike starrs last show.
I've always head about the infamous Tree's show growing up in Dallas but never saw footage or know exactly what happened. Crazy.
I listened to Rio De Janeiro, and it’s actually a pretty solid performance. I don’t really think it deserves the title of worst Nirvana show
me either! i think it's just so infamous because of how publicized the Hollywood Rock Festival was, but honestly a solid performance
Way better with your real voice man, channel is a goldmine 👌
THAT'S THE STORY OF "NOBODY KNOWS IM NEW WAY"???
God I loved the energy of the short impov but never knew this, makes me appreciate and understand the anger more.
Also one of their last TV appearances, during Drain You, Kurt's guitar cuts out, so he throws it down and just sings the rest of it.
Why didnt they just let Kurt play the other guys guitar instead of making a new guy learn songs in 2 days? because he would have broken that too?
What song is playing in the background at 3:48? Sounds like a demo of Something In The Way.
It’s actually a song that Kurt wrote called ‘Poison’s Gone’
I’d check it out, it’s a great song but it’s cut off by a phone call so unfortunately we can’t hear the full song
they were never trying to be perfect. disaster was the point
Terminal Einz, their very last show. It was cut short, with Kurt saying he didn't feel well, his voice hoarse. They did a few cover songs by the Cars that night towards the end.
Not what happened. Show was full length and they played one Cars cover at the beginning. Kurt did destroy his voice though.
My best friends girl is the song mentioned here, I thought they did great job his vocals sound great on that song, voice blown and all…
10:16 that just how the song normally starts
The bouncer got it 100% right about Kurt: "He is an asshole"
They played a show at The Astoria London in 89, where Kurt broke a string early on in the set, I think he then spent a while re stringing it. For some reason I seem to remember hearing the rest of the show was a bit of a disaster.
Was that Kurt’s VMA strat 9:00
Never mind that’s rh
Why didn’t they just let Kurt use his guitar?
7:56 everybody gangsta till two meter bassist joins the fight
Take Mister White’s advice. “Act like a professional”.
Jason is now in “Silence & Light”, which includes a former Delta Force member who was involved in Black Hawk Down.
Needless to say, probably want to behave at their shows.
Fun fact:
Nirvana saw Nine Inch Nails at the 1991 lollapalooza, and right now I just learned that they also "share" scenario in De Doelen
anyone know the song at 0.37?
This wasn't disastrous- this was just Nirvana
I’m on the bouncers side, if someone broke my soundboard or my friends soundboard I’d be pissed. Shits expensive.
but isnt it like they are famous and they are going to pay for it anyway?
@@WalterHeinzGieseeven if u can buy a new one, doesn't mean to be a jerk. It was my opinion
That was shitty of Kurt, you still don’t sucker a guy like that
I saw them in Akron Ohio Halloween night Kurt was dressed as Barney. ❤ Someone hit Kurt in the face with a shoe during In Bloom... There's no video of that night, some photos exist of the costumes. You can hear Kurt chastise the guy after. I heard he pissed in the shoe and threw it back to the guy, but I didn't see it. I was in the top bleacher of a school gym- type situation at Akron University.