You would never expect to see bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins making fools of themselves on stage by playing a game of Crisco Twister, would you??? Well, on September 23, 1991 the day before Nirvana would release “Nevermind”, Nirvana and The Pumpkins were booked to play Boston’s FM 101.7 WFNX Birthday Bash at Axis Nightclub.
Jason Everman is on the cover of the Nirvana “Bleach” debut album and is also credited as guitarist despite the fact that he did not actually play on any of the albums tracks.
This crappy bass guitar owned by Kurt Cobain as a teenager sold for $43,750 at an auction in 2009. Cobain used the bass on two early demo recordings he made at his aunt Mari Earl’s house near Seattle during his pre-Nirvana days.
In between song during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert Kurt Cobain asks the audience if they have any requests. During this one minute clip Dave Grohl plays the drum part of “Scentless Apprentice“, Krist Novoselic plays the bass line to “Sliver” and after some guy yells out “In Bloom”, Kurt says, “How are we supposed to […]
Nirvana filmed the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on August 17, 1991. For the video shoot, Dave Grohl used a special bass drum that had “CHAKA” written on it, leaving many people to wonder what “Chaka” meant. Here’s a screen shot from the video…
On August 17 1991, Nirvana shot the video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ below at GMT Studios in Culver City, California, on soundstage number 6 with the shoot starting at noon and lasting the entire day.
When Nirvana was asked to perform their new hit single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on England’s Top of the Pops television program, they were asked by show executives to sing live to an instrumental backing track of the song. Nirvana refused and asked to play live, but the show executives would not let them. As a result, Nirvana turned in one of their most memorable performances ever.
In 1993, Wal-Mart adopted a policy of not carrying any objectionable materials in their stores. While they continued to sell guns, cigarettes and movies (containing bad language, sex and violence) they made many musicians alter their albums before they would sell them, resulting in “clean” and “dirty” versions of many albums.
Nirvana’s last show was on March 1, 1994 at Terminal 1 in Munich, Germany. Terminal 1 was the international airport of Munich, Germany until it was closed down on May 16, 1992, the day before the new airport opened. SInce then it has been used for concerts and raves.
