a brief history of disastrous nirvana performances

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @rarestnirvana
    @rarestnirvana  7 месяцев назад +231

    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

    • @iwannadrinkfromyourwideeye2635
      @iwannadrinkfromyourwideeye2635 6 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @billepperson2662
      @billepperson2662 6 месяцев назад +5

      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)...

    • @TheSportsNoodle
      @TheSportsNoodle 6 месяцев назад +1

      Many times, TOTP, lip singing BIG time!i And "Dive", a forgotten track oh so many times!

    • @icemaster-
      @icemaster- 5 месяцев назад +2

      But you didn't spell it wrongl

    • @AndyAcker
      @AndyAcker 5 месяцев назад +1

      Oh woah. I need to go find that top of the pops performance now. Can't remember if I've seen it.

  • @satanism_rocks
    @satanism_rocks 6 месяцев назад +952

    my favorite little mishap is when kurt laughs during pennyroyal tea when some dude screams YOURE ON CRACK

    • @stereosanctity7
      @stereosanctity7 6 месяцев назад +92

      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.

    • @mrgoatguy7828
      @mrgoatguy7828 6 месяцев назад +17

      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

    • @CTjacob13
      @CTjacob13 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@stereosanctity7 One of the bootlegs before that concert was officially released has it as "You're a prick".

    • @andyacropopolis5815
      @andyacropopolis5815 6 месяцев назад +5

      No....kurt was laughing as about 4 people surfed over the barrier and took out the security. Fact.

    • @jamesvancam
      @jamesvancam 6 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@andyacropopolis5815Really? Proof/evidence? Wonder who that guy was who said that.

  • @crazyralph6386
    @crazyralph6386 6 месяцев назад +443

    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!”😂

    • @blueskky9996
      @blueskky9996 6 месяцев назад +15

      ^ This, thought for sure it woulda gotten some mention here. Right in the face with he headstock.

    • @AndyAcker
      @AndyAcker 5 месяцев назад +12

      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.

    • @BlynD-ChetahS
      @BlynD-ChetahS 3 месяца назад +2

      @@AndyAckerHe was drinking champagne with Brian May

  • @job2k6
    @job2k6 7 месяцев назад +189

    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.

    • @neonada.official
      @neonada.official 6 месяцев назад

      This day in age*

    • @LightningJosue
      @LightningJosue 6 месяцев назад

      Ah mate, Watch Markbutevil. He makes amazing little docs about bands. Including one about Nirvana

    • @ThatGuy-mj6jm
      @ThatGuy-mj6jm 6 месяцев назад

      @@neonada.officialday and age *

    • @JordyBoothy
      @JordyBoothy 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@neonada.official I can't find a source that says "this day in age" is correct

    • @BurnBot_TV
      @BurnBot_TV 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@neonada.official go outside

  • @Moldych33se832
    @Moldych33se832 6 месяцев назад +324

    A cool fact about the Aragon ballroom show in 1993 is that nirvana played You Know Your Right for the first and only time

    • @johnycache
      @johnycache 6 месяцев назад +6

      One of their best choons I'd say.

    • @Rando_Shyte
      @Rando_Shyte 6 месяцев назад +2

      Wow they played that live? Never knew that

    • @StrikerSML
      @StrikerSML 6 месяцев назад +2

      Iowaaa

    • @gunkmx1
      @gunkmx1 4 месяца назад

      best slipknot album as ur pfp is amazing

    • @StopSomething
      @StopSomething 4 месяца назад

      @@StrikerSML ?

  • @jacquibarnden7135
    @jacquibarnden7135 Месяц назад +16

    I love the rawness of Nirvana over the polished performances.

    • @bp2352
      @bp2352 Месяц назад +1

      Oh he was Polish? I thought he was from Seattle

  • @retrospiel
    @retrospiel 7 месяцев назад +70

    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.

  • @ilikethebandnirvana88
    @ilikethebandnirvana88 6 месяцев назад +160

    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
      @RoddyPipersCorneas 6 месяцев назад +51

      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.

    • @Minortough1034
      @Minortough1034 6 месяцев назад +27

      @@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.

    • @Onlyspaceman
      @Onlyspaceman 5 месяцев назад +17

      ​@@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

    • @Ray-b7r
      @Ray-b7r 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@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.

    • @flarskyblarr3271
      @flarskyblarr3271 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Minortough1034my guy is your "n" key on your keyboard alright?

  • @Sonic-gy7kq
    @Sonic-gy7kq 6 месяцев назад +77

    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.

    • @AndyAcker
      @AndyAcker 5 месяцев назад +4

      Still unprofessional to lose your temper on the talent though. Anyone who's worked security knows this.

    • @mclovinpo
      @mclovinpo 4 месяца назад +22

      @@AndyAckerno dude lmao it’s a random ass bar what professionalism is needed

    • @krispo2879
      @krispo2879 4 месяца назад +1

      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

    • @Fender178
      @Fender178 3 месяца назад +1

      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.

    • @Fender178
      @Fender178 3 месяца назад

      @@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.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 7 месяцев назад +414

    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.

    • @matthewatwood8641
      @matthewatwood8641 6 месяцев назад

      🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

    • @RoddyPipersCorneas
      @RoddyPipersCorneas 6 месяцев назад +10

      "serene violence" AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what a joke

    • @actionjacksondan
      @actionjacksondan 6 месяцев назад +6

      I feel like this is something Kamala Harris would come with 😂

    • @matthewatwood8641
      @matthewatwood8641 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@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.

    • @suur-turku7806
      @suur-turku7806 6 месяцев назад +2

      Is serene violence similar to happy slaughtering?

  • @vitinios
    @vitinios 6 месяцев назад +45

    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 🧐

    • @TJ-id6ee
      @TJ-id6ee 5 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @RinostarGames
    @RinostarGames 6 месяцев назад +65

    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."

  • @philatio3535
    @philatio3535 6 месяцев назад +14

    Awesome man! Def sounds better than text-to-speech for sure, keep up the good work!!

  • @Aiden819
    @Aiden819 6 месяцев назад +112

    I love how krist was there for him when the bouncer was about ready to get himm

    • @thesvtguy
      @thesvtguy 6 месяцев назад +18

      Then Krist gave the bouncer his shirt to help with the bleeding

    • @Aiden819
      @Aiden819 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@thesvtguy what a gentleman..

    • @mysteradio
      @mysteradio 6 месяцев назад +7

      he totally helped the bouncer calm down too. love it.

    • @nigel900
      @nigel900 6 месяцев назад +5

      Oh’ Spare me… he was an overrated, arrogant, out of control punk who herald the downfall of modern rock music.

    • @thesvtguy
      @thesvtguy 6 месяцев назад

      @@nigel900 Kurt was?

  • @rondo666
    @rondo666 6 месяцев назад +73

    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.

    • @drd8974
      @drd8974 5 месяцев назад +6

      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?

  • @KurisuYamato
    @KurisuYamato 7 месяцев назад +72

    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.

  • @avery2896
    @avery2896 6 месяцев назад +19

    guitarist for one of the most famous bands ever and then a special forces soldier! insane

  • @Joemcncheese
    @Joemcncheese 4 месяца назад +12

    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.

  • @cristianopinheirodidonato9014
    @cristianopinheirodidonato9014 6 месяцев назад +39

    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...

    • @joshrohrmayer9744
      @joshrohrmayer9744 5 месяцев назад +3

      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: ruclips.net/video/YP3kc9kMGnA/видео.htmlsi=ZZ0GDPHwvwazeimw

    • @mclovinpo
      @mclovinpo 4 месяца назад

      That’s just plainly a shitty bad terrible show

  • @mateop607
    @mateop607 4 месяца назад +8

    What is so cool of them being so unwell that they can't even perform?

  • @ericquitugua5546
    @ericquitugua5546 6 месяцев назад +10

    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.

  • @lilfryy5614
    @lilfryy5614 7 месяцев назад +8

    Amazing video I loved every second

  • @shucksful
    @shucksful 6 месяцев назад +143

    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. 😂

    • @nancybsyb
      @nancybsyb 6 месяцев назад +3

      😂

    • @tricktaylor
      @tricktaylor 6 месяцев назад +27

      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

    • @apollo_gen
      @apollo_gen 6 месяцев назад +1

      Do you remember the show that this happened at?

    • @michaelkoutr3364
      @michaelkoutr3364 6 месяцев назад

      Nirvana live in Texas

    • @massaki323
      @massaki323 6 месяцев назад +28

      biggest freakout gotta be in the greenhouse above his garage

  •  Месяц назад +2

    7:53 -- Someone, please, give that bouncer a BEER!

  • @archaic1
    @archaic1 6 месяцев назад +34

    6:43 dave still playing while kurt was destroying his drums was aura

  • @dathorndike4908
    @dathorndike4908 6 месяцев назад +8

    Great video. Well done.

  • @peterhopqk
    @peterhopqk 6 месяцев назад +33

    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 😅

    • @--thatbih
      @--thatbih 6 месяцев назад +6

      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

    • @peterhopqk
      @peterhopqk 6 месяцев назад

      @@--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.

    • @brandonobrien7239
      @brandonobrien7239 6 месяцев назад

      @@--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.

    • @--thatbih
      @--thatbih 6 месяцев назад

      @@brandonobrien7239 yea but at some point he even turned off the chorus and tried tuning it til eventually he probably said fuck it

  • @jasonpeters9865
    @jasonpeters9865 6 месяцев назад +16

    I saw Nirvana Oct93.
    @Memorial Hall.
    Kansas City. I was 16

  • @AnthonyZbierajewski
    @AnthonyZbierajewski 6 месяцев назад +6

    I love this channel!

  • @turtle7633
    @turtle7633 6 месяцев назад +14

    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

  • @Flame-Bright-Cheer
    @Flame-Bright-Cheer 3 месяца назад

    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

  • @chili_phil
    @chili_phil 3 месяца назад +1

    Great video! Nice one for making this

  • @PinkPolYass
    @PinkPolYass 4 месяца назад +3

    I love how during the whole video I was facepalming at Kurt, and then, my favorite moment appeared: the OUT! thing

  • @right_on_riggins
    @right_on_riggins 7 месяцев назад +9

    Keep em’ coming 🤟🏼🏜️

  • @Vedder6852
    @Vedder6852 7 месяцев назад +59

    Your normal voice is awesome

  • @ProudhonKropotkin
    @ProudhonKropotkin 6 месяцев назад +9

    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.

  • @Bulletdude
    @Bulletdude 6 месяцев назад +3

    @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. ❤

  • @jimfromdiscord.8904
    @jimfromdiscord.8904 6 месяцев назад +12

    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

  • @willdenham
    @willdenham Месяц назад +1

    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.

  • @ELWaller0388
    @ELWaller0388 6 месяцев назад +23

    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

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  6 месяцев назад +10

      fun fact i used to be neighbors with Peter Coyote. thank you!

    • @EmptyDude111
      @EmptyDude111 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@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.

    • @AndyAcker
      @AndyAcker 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@rarestnirvanaPeter Coyote made bumpers for a project I worked on, and they were great. Good guy.

    • @TJ-id6ee
      @TJ-id6ee 5 месяцев назад

      @@AndyAcker That's cool I love him too. Great narrator.

  • @davegsux
    @davegsux 6 месяцев назад +25

    rome and kurt cobain was like oil and water

  • @johnnylightning1967
    @johnnylightning1967 6 месяцев назад +62

    They seem like rebellious children

    • @AlejandroSanchez-z1v
      @AlejandroSanchez-z1v 6 месяцев назад +10

      They were indeed

    • @jamesvancam
      @jamesvancam 6 месяцев назад +4

      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
      @johnnylightning1967 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@jamesvancam you don’t have to do drugs

    • @jamesvancam
      @jamesvancam 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@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.

    • @johnnylightning1967
      @johnnylightning1967 5 месяцев назад

      @@jamesvancam what kind of drama as a kid ?

  • @zackkorth2410
    @zackkorth2410 5 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @quinnrollen
    @quinnrollen 6 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @jessemontano762
    @jessemontano762 6 месяцев назад +109

    smashing that board was a piece of shit move. how pretentious.

    • @fart7361
      @fart7361 5 месяцев назад +1

      💯

    • @Goggo_Bo
      @Goggo_Bo 4 месяца назад +13

      @404TVfrStill not justifying for breaking a expensive piece of equipment

    • @BurnBot_TV
      @BurnBot_TV 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Goggo_Bo bruh quit defending it, the soundboard was shit.

    • @Goggo_Bo
      @Goggo_Bo 4 месяца назад +11

      @@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.

    • @stevepalpatine2828
      @stevepalpatine2828 4 месяца назад +1

      Cheap ass soundboard anyway.

  • @miyake-1477
    @miyake-1477 6 месяцев назад +3

    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

  • @micahrutland9021
    @micahrutland9021 6 месяцев назад +38

    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.

    • @wyntonexisting
      @wyntonexisting 6 месяцев назад +24

      Yeahh I cant help but side with the bouncer on that one

    • @EmptyDude111
      @EmptyDude111 6 месяцев назад

      @@wyntonexistingthinking the same thing tbh. Minor in retrospect but that’s your friend. Wtf u supposed to do after witnessing that? Lol

    • @221b-l3t
      @221b-l3t 5 месяцев назад +16

      Destroying someone else's equipment is always a dick move.

    • @Nate-h8z
      @Nate-h8z 4 месяца назад

      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

  • @officialnaplava
    @officialnaplava 7 месяцев назад +7

    new sub here- loved the video my man! Thanks for the upload 🤝🖤

  • @antonchigurh3794
    @antonchigurh3794 2 месяца назад +3

    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 .

  • @Itsmejimflowers
    @Itsmejimflowers 2 месяца назад +2

    you left out the mtv performance of krist throwing his bass in the air and knocking himself out after it hit him

  • @bikepacker9850
    @bikepacker9850 6 месяцев назад +60

    Kurt WAS a jerk. A brilliant jerk, but still a jerk.

    • @Rachel_Ryder
      @Rachel_Ryder 5 месяцев назад

      A beautiful, brilliant jerk. I’d still do ‘im.

    • @AndyAcker
      @AndyAcker 5 месяцев назад +5

      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
      @TheRealSuperwiesel 4 месяца назад +3

      Always had that slight feeling he could be jerky. But normal when you face a world like this one

    • @bikepacker9850
      @bikepacker9850 4 месяца назад +4

      @@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..

    • @jaylamo
      @jaylamo 4 месяца назад +2

      i wonder how much of it came down to him being depressed and miserable. i was a terrible person when i was suicidal

  • @Rescoase
    @Rescoase 5 месяцев назад

    Some very cool things I've never heard before. Thanks!

  • @vinzclorthokey3716
    @vinzclorthokey3716 6 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @johnnypk1963
    @johnnypk1963 6 месяцев назад +3

    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.

    • @221b-l3t
      @221b-l3t 5 месяцев назад +1

      Same idea, different riffs and singing. I don't mind it but I actually love the 80s shredding Kurt was rebelling against.

  • @elijahpunkay7263
    @elijahpunkay7263 6 месяцев назад +14

    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

    • @kevinhart3371
      @kevinhart3371 6 месяцев назад

      That wasn’t really disastrous

    • @mclovinpo
      @mclovinpo 4 месяца назад

      That wasn’t a gig that was a promo

    • @ward9306
      @ward9306 Месяц назад

      Dont confuse him

  • @robertdog
    @robertdog 6 месяцев назад +4

    I have never seen Krist successfully hit or catch an instrument or a piece of an instrument.

  • @slow-mo_moonbuggy
    @slow-mo_moonbuggy 6 месяцев назад +12

    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
      @rarestnirvana  6 месяцев назад +3

      why is your heart so cold?

    • @slow-mo_moonbuggy
      @slow-mo_moonbuggy 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@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.

    • @slow-mo_moonbuggy
      @slow-mo_moonbuggy 6 месяцев назад +1

      You do remember that story Kurt told about the mentally handicapped girl he "met" in highschool, right? That behavior should be called out.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  6 месяцев назад +4

      @@slow-mo_moonbuggy call kurt out all you want, i'm taking issue with you classifying drug addicts as degenerate

    • @slow-mo_moonbuggy
      @slow-mo_moonbuggy 6 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @whirl
    @whirl 4 месяца назад

    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.

  • @Metallederr
    @Metallederr 4 месяца назад +1

    I just now noticed that at 13:06, you can actually see his tip

  • @neonada.official
    @neonada.official 6 месяцев назад +4

    Last show of their EU tour in Rotterdam was apparently also hectic af

  • @neonada.official
    @neonada.official 6 месяцев назад +9

    Back when there was still hella money in the rock n roll scene so destroyed gear could be replaced without a hitch

    • @WalterHeinzGiese
      @WalterHeinzGiese 3 месяца назад

      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.......

    • @WalterHeinzGiese
      @WalterHeinzGiese 3 месяца назад

      I mean this was Kurt Cobain destroying that thing and not Justin from the Gas station!

  • @starcraftonline
    @starcraftonline 6 месяцев назад +1

    Overall, very nice footage and storytelling! But lack a bit of editing, quite a lot!! Good job man!

  • @fuzzypeach
    @fuzzypeach 3 месяца назад

    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.

  • @Gipsy_T.
    @Gipsy_T. 7 месяцев назад +7

    Great video

  • @giorgiocurcetti4001
    @giorgiocurcetti4001 5 месяцев назад +1

    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....

  • @DotM68
    @DotM68 5 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @beyondobscure
    @beyondobscure 2 месяца назад +2

    this video got me into nirvana

  • @Painkillerrrrrr
    @Painkillerrrrrr Месяц назад

    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

  • @fuzzypeach
    @fuzzypeach 3 месяца назад

    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.

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
    @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 6 месяцев назад +1

    0:30 wow I had no idea those mini Marshalls were around back then

  • @ChristianGhamaliel
    @ChristianGhamaliel 5 месяцев назад +1

    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).

  • @darthtortugas
    @darthtortugas Месяц назад

    December 29, 1993 San Diego, CA Kurt walked over to his effect pedals hit one with his foot then made an audible groan saying "That's the grunge pedal" ripped it off the pedal board and threw it into the crowd. Might not be a disastrous moment but given the fact a few months later he was gone, I look back on that moment and think.

  • @DrumRoody
    @DrumRoody 6 месяцев назад +4

    I miss musicians like this

  • @davidschaadt3460
    @davidschaadt3460 6 месяцев назад +6

    I saw some videos of Kurt butchering songs sarcastically ,but it just seemed disrespectful to the fans.

  • @theboi5411
    @theboi5411 6 месяцев назад

    For the Oct 19th show in 1991, the main reason the bouncer attacked Kurt is because his guitar smashes his head badly when he comes back from the crowd surfing which is why he attacked Kurt. Krist even takes off his shirt to try and reason and bandage his head.

  • @matthew-thomasplant3542
    @matthew-thomasplant3542 5 месяцев назад

    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

  • @fawesse
    @fawesse 6 месяцев назад +7

    the perfect video to eat my meal to

  • @0culprit
    @0culprit 2 месяца назад +1

    This wasn't disastrous- this was just Nirvana

  • @CamInABand
    @CamInABand 6 месяцев назад +6

    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

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  6 месяцев назад +5

      me either! i think it's just so infamous because of how publicized the Hollywood Rock Festival was, but honestly a solid performance

  • @Meerkatx5
    @Meerkatx5 4 месяца назад

    I've always head about the infamous Tree's show growing up in Dallas but never saw footage or know exactly what happened. Crazy.

  • @maximejolicoeur4532
    @maximejolicoeur4532 3 месяца назад

    cool fact : Oct 19 , 1991 in Dallas , was the first time ever they performed Pennyroyal tea

  • @DanZero23
    @DanZero23 Месяц назад +3

    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?

    • @ripeysims1400
      @ripeysims1400 14 дней назад

      Kurt played left handed and the other guy was right handed and Kurt usually liked his guitars a specific way and he just didn't have enough time to get a fitting guitar

  • @Sonic-gy7kq
    @Sonic-gy7kq 6 месяцев назад +7

    "Kurt seemingly forgot to play blew" yep thats benzos for you

  • @TreborPaulson
    @TreborPaulson 7 месяцев назад +5

    Good video
    Made by someone who enjoys the band

  • @kimr45
    @kimr45 5 месяцев назад

    There was a time when Kurt's guitar malfunctioned mid-song and he threw it down and Pat took over for the rest of the song.

  • @haythammansour4742
    @haythammansour4742 2 месяца назад

    A friend of mine says he watched them live in Canada (toronto? Montreal? Cant remember) and that the performance was disasterous and people walked out. Kurt was high off his mind and slurred through his songs.

  • @EclipseColdfire
    @EclipseColdfire 4 месяца назад

    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.

  • @rmilton7196
    @rmilton7196 3 месяца назад

    “It’s fun to have power” absolute legend.

  • @AW33COM
    @AW33COM 3 месяца назад +2

    Bad band, bad music, but so influential back then AFTER his death. Nirvana broke out twice. First, during late 80's and then after Kurt's death. Live Kurt's guitar sounded like shit, but they had the energy during their shows and kids loved it.

  • @petere.9138
    @petere.9138 4 месяца назад

    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.

  • @michaelg8642
    @michaelg8642 6 месяцев назад

    destroying the monitor board is a pretty dramatic response to having a bad stage mix

  • @keili222
    @keili222 7 месяцев назад +6

    Way better with your real voice man, channel is a goldmine 👌

  • @seanmclaughlin9482
    @seanmclaughlin9482 Месяц назад +1

    Take Mister White’s advice. “Act like a professional”.

  • @kenm4116
    @kenm4116 5 месяцев назад +19

    I’m on the bouncers side, if someone broke my soundboard or my friends soundboard I’d be pissed. Shits expensive.

    • @WalterHeinzGiese
      @WalterHeinzGiese 3 месяца назад

      but isnt it like they are famous and they are going to pay for it anyway?

    • @vino033x8
      @vino033x8 2 месяца назад +4

      ​​@@WalterHeinzGieseeven if u can buy a new one, doesn't mean to be a jerk. It was my opinion

    • @c95w13
      @c95w13 Месяц назад

      That was shitty of Kurt, you still don’t sucker a guy like that

  • @zlounberg6958
    @zlounberg6958 4 месяца назад

    7:56 everybody gangsta till two meter bassist joins the fight

  • @burger173.
    @burger173. 4 месяца назад +1

    if Kurt was a gamer imagine how many keyboards he would smash lmao

  • @kentuckyproproductions1624
    @kentuckyproproductions1624 6 месяцев назад +2

    Why didn’t they just let Kurt use his guitar?

  • @guydammit3287
    @guydammit3287 6 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @Randomonium66
    @Randomonium66 Месяц назад +3

    Kurt seems like an overrated guy. I mean I love Nirvana and all, but Kurt was quite the douche to everyone.

  • @AL_KING777
    @AL_KING777 6 месяцев назад +3

    Did Kurdt smash that Gibson SG deluxe?