a brief history of disastrous nirvana performances
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Published 2024-06-15
00:00 - intro
00:44 - Kurt goes acapella
03:12 - breakdown in Rome
04:29 - no stage diving
05:14 - Iggy Pop
06:01 - poor Dave
07:15 - Kurt gets decked
08:14 - Nirvana’s revenge
09:50 - the Valium gig
11:33 - the most infamous show
13:15 - Nirvana vs. crowd
14:01 - Kurt Hansen
15:03 - outro
All Comments (21)
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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
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my favorite little mishap is when kurt laughs during pennyroyal tea when some dude screams YOURE ON CRACK
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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!”😂
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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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A cool fact about the Aragon ballroom show in 1993 is that nirvana played You Know Your Right for the first and only time
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6:43 dave still playing while kurt was destroying his drums was aura
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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.
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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.
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I love how krist was there for him when the bouncer was about ready to get himm
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Your normal voice is awesome
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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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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.
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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 😅
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smashing that board was a piece of shit move. how pretentious.
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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.
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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...
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Great video. Well done.
