LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:11/25/90 - The Off Ramp Cafe, Seattle, WA, US
Transcript:
Grohl - "Good evening"
Cobain - "Hi"
ANEURYSM
OH, THE GUILT
MR MOUSTACHE
STAY AWAY
Novoselic - "Thank you"
BREED
Grohl - "Thank you"
FLOYD THE BARBER
Craig - "Hey, hey can we get the microphones put back on the guitar amp and the bass amp, did they get fucked with? That's better! Tell those girls not to fuck with the microphones"
Grohl - "Don't fuck with the microphones!"
Craig - "I mean they're pretty and everything, but they still can't fuck with the microphones!"
Grohl - "Yeah"
Craig - "Is the guitar line on there? OK"
[Cobain tunes his guitar]
Grohl - "This song is about love"
ABOUT A GIRL
VERSE CHORUS VERSE
Grohl - "Thank you. (laughs) "that's OK"
Cobain - "This is another new song"
[Somebody blows a raspberry into the mic]
Grohl - "Hey Craig, is everything loud out there?"
Nocoselic - "Is this still on?"
Craig - "Yeah, Hey see if you can make these people over here turn that speaker back in the right direction"
Nocoselic - "Which one?"
Craig - "the one over the mains over here, to your right, up front Chris"
Grohl - "that one?"
Craig - "No the main speakers out here, it's like pointing toward the bar and I can't hear it"
Grohl - "That's where all the losers are!"
Craig - "yeah!"
Grohl - "Hey Kurt..."
SAPPY
Grohl - "Thanks, thank you, that was a new song"
Novoselic - "A lot of new songs"
Cobain - "And here's another!"
Grohl - "Yeah, the yeah, yeah"
LITHIUM
SCHOOL
Grohl - "Son of a bitch!"
Cobain - "Do you like my Rail T-shirt?"
Grohl - "Ronnie Rail" [or is this Johnny Rail?]
Cobain - "This song was written by the Wipers"
D7
Cobain - "Thanks"
HERE SHE COMES NOW
Jeff Holmes - "Testing, er this is the booth. We're taking over for a second, hang on one second Chris"
Novoselic - "Jeff Holmes"
Jeff Holmes - "Wooh, Mr Stud, No, listen we're getting real close to 2 o'clock folks and we have to have your co-operation. We can run it a few more minutes, but as soon as it's over we've gotta get you to clear out erm ... OK? Sorry? So, it's more than last call folks!"
Novoselic - "So let's do er... Sliver"
Grohl - "Thank you for your patience"
Jeff Holmes - "We can go late, but we have to have one hundred per cent of the alcohol cleared prior to 2 o'clock"
Novoselic - "Well I would have left at 1:30 just to catch 7-11 and would have got some beer for the rest of the night, why I appreciate you guys, that shows me something, that really does and I appreciate it"
SLIVER
Novoselic - "Thanks Dan Pe..., Dan Peters helped us write that song"
DIVE
[song cuts out due to a power cut]
Craig - "Hey, hang on the mains are out"
Grohl - "The mains are out?"
Craig - "We lost the mains again"
Cobain - "Why are all these lights on permanently now?"
Craig - "Jeff, Jeff we lost the mains again"
Grohl - "Fuck the mains, fuck the mains"
Novoselic - "You're talking main, you're talking mainstream you fuckers!"
Grohl - "Fuck the fucking mains man!"
Craig - "Try that"
[Dave drums]
Craig - "No"
Novoselic - "I bet there's a Gremlin at the fuse box. Let's just play with the mains off"
Grohl - "Yeah"
Cobains - "We don't have the mains at all?"
Grohl - "What the fuck is going on?"
Cobain - "Yeah"
Grohl - "Jesus Christ"
Craig - "Still no mains"
Grohl - "OK, we're gonna go and play"
Cobain - "Fuck, what are you waiting for?"
Craig - "we're waiting for someone to turn the circuit breaker back on"
Grohl - "Fucking bunch of..."
Jeff Holmes - "Chris, Chris look at me, Chris over here in the booth, Chris"
Craig - "It's Jeff"
Jeff Holmes - "over in the booth, do you guys wanna play for... how much longer do you guys wanna play for?"
Novoselic - "About 10 minutes! We'll do some mellow songs! You know, some mellow"
Jeff Holmes - "OK, here's what we can do, if we have everybody leave for a few minutes, we can clear the room and they can come back in. you guys can do whatever"
Novoselic - "OK, OK, we'll do that"
Jeff Holmes - "do you wanna do that? OK, you guys, everybody listen up for just a second, we're gonna close the place down for about 10 minutes, everybody needs to leave out of an exit, for just a minute."
Novoselic - "Smoke pot"
Jeff Holmes - "We're gonna clear the room of alcohol and you can come back, Nirvana will finish up the whole thing"
Novoselic - "go to your cars and smoke"
Jeff Holmes - "we will have a non alcoholic climax, can you guys handle that?"
Cobain - "I really feel like a bar band now!"
Novoselic - "Welcome to the Off Ramp lounge, er... we're gonna er... take 5 and come and do another set, so make sure you tip your bartender"
Cobain - "Bye bye"
Grohl - "Thank you"
Cobain - "Intermission, intermission"
Grohl - "We're gonna take a quick break and er..."
Novoselic - "It's 'cos of those fucking lawyers, it's gotta be lawyers there, 'cos if there's a lawyer here we'll tell 'em well everybody left so that we couldn't sue anybody. If I were, if I were president I'd have all the lawyers hanging from every lightpole in town to teach people a..."
Jeff Holmes - "OK please co-operate, I'm trying to do this for you guys, so is the band. So please make your way to the co… to an exit. We're gonna clear the room for just a minute and then we can come back and play for a long time if you want?"
[voice talks about water]
Jeff Holmes - "Please, we've got, we've got like 12 minutes to clear the room and then we can get you guys back in here, everybody can come straight on in, there's gonna be two entrances, you can come in on the entrance on Denny and Eastlake or you can come in the main entrance. Thank you for your co-operation, we hope you will have a good time"
ENCORE
Voice - "Hey, hey, hey, hey"
Cobain - "Don King is busy wrestling with his wallet and his life and his TV and his car"
Voice - "Mission control here. Thank you very much people for dealing with it, we're gonna do this more often. We're gonna start doing this on Friday nights on a regular basis"
Voice - "After hours, etcetera, etcetera etcetera, welcome to nirvana part two"
Voice - "Check check, check"
Cobain - "Check, check, check, is it on?"
Voice - "Jeff, We're still waiting for the mains to be turned on!"
Cobain - "Oh, Christ!"
Voice - "If you could help us out with that it would be really cool"
Cobain - "Contact, mains on!"
Voice - "Hi, hi, hi, hello, hello, line check. Hello, hello, hello, hello"
Cobain - "Does that sound like the mains?"
Voice - "Yeah, we're on now"
Cobain - "Ready?"
DUMB
Voice - "Something..."
POLLY
SOMETHING IN THE WAY
NEGATIVE CREEP
Cobain - "Thanks"
Grohl - "Good night"
Voice - "Guys"
[Audience shout for songs like Love Buzz and Mexican Seafood]
Cobain - "Oh, come on. I can't remember the words!"
LOVE BUZZ
Cobain - "Yep, it's a banjo!"
[Audience shout for Spank it Thru and Where Did You Sleep Last Night]
Grohl - "Craig wants to hear Dive"
Craig - "Craig says go!"
Grohl - "What did Craig say?"
Craig - "Dive ... no? You lazy fucks"
Novoselic - "Hey look, we write the setlist you fuck!"
Cobain - "Yeah let's play Dive then, we started it, we're gonna finish it"
Grohl - "oh yeah man! Fuckin' - A"
Cobain - "illegal illegal"
Grohl - "it's a predator pipe ho ho ho, that's a find so hard to find, where did you get it? Don't pocket it... such a jerk!"
WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT (JAM)
Grohl - "We can only do..."
Cobain - "Spank Thru"
SPANK THRU
MOLLY'S LIPS
SON OF A GUN
SIFTING (RECORDING CUTS OUT)
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson April 2003
Thanks to John Vullo for clarification
Encore transcribed November 2004
Amended thanks to Marc Melfi and Erik Sieckman, January 2007