LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:01/23/93 - Praça da Apoteose (Hollywood Rock Festival), Rio de Janeiro, BR
Transcript:
Novoselic - "Hello. How are you? Have you been alright? Through all those lonely lonely lonely nights"
Grohl - "Oh, telephone line, give me some time ????? And now I will do my impression of the Swedish Chef"
L' AMOUR EST UN OISEAU REBELLE [JAM]
Grohl - "Thank you, thank you very much, thank you, thank you"
SCHOOL
DRAIN YOU
Grohl - "Obrigado!" [Thanks]
BREED
Grohl - "Thank you"
SLIVER
Grohl - "One, two, three, four"
IN BLOOM
Grohl - "Huh, what?"
Novoselic - "So I'm supposed to say witty things to get you people all whipped up and get you all cookin' what do you think of that huh? You guys ready for something like that? And that in itself is a kind of a witty thing to say, it's kind of like you know, you know? It is but it isn't!"
COME AS YOU ARE
Grohl - "Thank you"
Novoselic - "it's yellow smoke coming out of that, that's a giant Hollywood cigarette, with all kinds of nicotine and enough tar to tar a parking lot this size and while we're on the issue of astrology, we'll speak about the zodiac, I wonder if Jesse Helms' sign is Cancer? What do you think happened here ?? ?? venue ??"
[Audience begin to chant]
Cobain - "I think "oho oh" means shut up Chris!"
Novoselic - "??"
LOVE BUZZ
POSSIBILITIES JAM
Grohl - "Thank you very much, thank you, thank you"
Novoselic - "How was that?"
Grohl - "Thank you"
LITHIUM
Grohl - "Thank you"
[Audience begin to chant "Nir-vana, Nir-vana"]
Cobain - "?? smoke up!"
Grohl - "Kurt Cobain for Hollywood Rock cigarettes"
Cobain - "A cool refreshing flavour"
Grohl - "A taste you can't deny, Hollywood Rock, the cigarette"
Novoselic - "I don't smoke, but if I smoked I'd smoke Hollywood cigarettes, because they're the best!"
Cobain - "when I'm in diarrhoea de Janeiro, I like to have the freshly cut dried leaves of a palm tree. I just can't get enough of that smoke man, I just gotta smoke all the time, I'm a rock'n'roll star and rock'n'roll stars put their cigarettes right… here" [Kurt puts a cigarette between the low E string and the headstock of his guitar]
POLLY
[Cobain changes the lyrics to "got to smoke Hollywood smoke and Hollywood smoke is a smoke and let me take a drag of your cigarette" and makes other cigarette references]
[Novoselic jams to 'About A Girl']
ABOUT A GIRL
[Cobain changes the lyrics to "I need a costume change, so I would not be so lame, I do wish I was more rock, I do suck you?? my cock"]
Cobain - "Hey, where's Flea?"
Grohl - "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Flea! The one, the only the man with the horn, he was born to play the horn!"
Novoselic - "Hey, did you guys see Johnny Carson last night, it was pretty good, erm… oh no he's cancelled these were repeats er ... er ... Lola Ferlana (?) with Nipsey Russell, it was really good, did you or or a… um, do you know there's a sale down at Safeway, bananas are a ... two dozen for, for er ... three dollars, it's a really good deal!"
[Flea blows a tune on his trumpet and Kurt joins in on a tune that sounds like Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood']
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
[with Flea from the RHCP on trumpet]
Grohl - "Thanks"
ON A PLAIN
NEGATIVE CREEP
Grohl - "Hey, hey there's the guy that gave me the hat, the guy that was jumping up and down. He gave me a hat"
Novoselic - "Remember to buy your unauthorised Nirvana head bands from the front gate"
Grohl - "Hey guy, remember this is the hat that you gave me, right here. That's the hat that you gave me right there, it's that guy jumping up and down, he gave me this hat, well we traded, he didn't really give it to me, we traded!"
Novoselic - "That guy in the Slayer shirt fall asleep during that last song"
Grohl - "Yeah, excellent! This song's called Been A Son, Been A Son"
BEEN A SON
Grohl - "Thank you, don't… take it easy, Calma, calma, calma, calma!" (take it easy)
BLEW
Grohl - "I have a hole in my shorts, look! Actually, I'll make it a little bit ... hey, hey, look at my butt! Gorba la butt! Everybodies getting naked!"
Novoselic - "It's easy to play"
HEART-SHAPED BOX
SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
Cobain - "Thank you, good night"
Grohl - "Thanks a lot"
SWEET EMOTION JAM
[a jam on an Aerosmith song]
Grohl - "Kurt looks like the deaf little old lady in Playboy magazine"
Cobain - "In what magazine?"
Grohl - "Playboy"
Cobain - "Oh, the little old lady from Pasadena"
Grohl - "... or Impanema or whatever. I have pubic hair like a Brillo pad!"
Cobain - "Uh, my water's breaking"
Grohl - "Congratulations"
Novoselic - "This is your head motherfucker, you're gonna die, this is your head motherfucker, I'm gonna kill you, this is your head motherfucker, I'm gonna kill you, you fucker!"
TERRITORIAL PISSINGS
Grohl - "Thank you good night"
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, July 2003
Amended, thanks to Felipe Souza, Jeffrey McCormick and Adam DeLoach October 2003