LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:09/23/93 - NBC Studios (Saturday Night Live rehearsals), New York, NY, US
Transcript:
Floor Manager #1 - "Seems to me, I only remember Jan crossing over after you"
Grohl - "Pardon me"
Cobain - "No, I start it off OK"
[The band tune up for Heart-Shaped Box and Cobain plays a small amount of Scentless Apprentice]
Voice - "Standby please"
Floor Manager #2 - "Ladies and gentlemen, Nirvana"
HEART-SHAPED BOX
[Take #1]
[Novoselic plays the start of Love Buzz]
Floor Manager #2 - "Who?"
Floor Manager #1 - "Stanley, Vice President of ..."
Floor Manager #2 - "Standby please, one more time, five seconds, four, three, two... Ladies and gentlemen, Nirvana"
[Cobain plays the opening chords of Rape Me and stops]
Floor Manager #2 - "Heart-Shaped Box"
Novoselic - "Heart-Shaped Box?"
Floor Manager #2 - "Yep, Heart-Shaped Box, Mike, Mike do you want John? One more time, standby please, five seconds ... Ladies and gentlemen, Nirvana"
HEART-SHAPED BOX
[Take #2]
Voice - "What are you doing?"
Floor Manager #2 - "Yeah, no, he's up here Ray, he's another, at least another foot above me, if he's here ... please, OK"
Voice - "Standby, four seconds to the intro"
Floor Manager #2 - "Once again, Nirvana"
RAPE ME
Grohl - "Not really"
[The band chat for a while but none of the mics are live]
Grohl - "OK"
Charles Barkley - "Me?"
Floor Manager #2 - "Yes, overflow into the monitor"
Voice - "Not just one person"
Floor Manager #2 - "Kurt, yeah, there you go, now what I wanna do is overlap shoulders here, there you go"
Voice - "Don't you want Charles on the mark? Joe, don't you want ..."
Barkley - "I don't think you're going to be blocking any ..."
Floor Manager #2 - "Just move to your right just a little, not too much"
Voice - "You know, you two are gonna ..."
Floor Manager #2 - "There you go ... that's his right, move to your right"
Cobain - "I'm trying OK, step on his shoes!"
Floor Manager #2 - "Step on his shoes"
Barkley - "Don't worry about it, it's one thing we won't worry about and it's shoes, we ..."
Voice - "One problem we have with the er ... striped shirt is ?? like crazy!"
Floor Manager #2 - "Dave, it's a chance we're gonna have to take!"
Voice - "OK"
Cobain - "The stripey shirt? I can button it up!"
Floor Manager #2 - "Button it up a little bit, 'cos on video its ... OK now everybody looks into that camera right there, let's see the card ..."
Barkley - "[laughs] I like that one"
Voice - "OK, better off the short, OK"
Barkley - "I like this, it must be fun"
Floor Manager #2 - "Baby steps just to your right, that's it, good"
Voice - "We got a light on 'em here"
Voice - "??"
Floor Manager #2 - "Standby, five, four, three, two ..."
Barkley - "Hi, I'm Charles Barkley, host of this season's premier of Saturday Night Live with Nirvana, look Mom, your favourite, Nirvana!"
Floor Manager #2 - "Right, let's do one more, er ... you got a little, you were a little rushed at the beginning, you've got a little more time"
Barkley - "OK"
Voice - "OK"
Grohl - "Jesus Christ, look at that camera!"
Floor Manager #2 - "Standby, five, four, three, two ..."
Barkley - "Hi, I'm Charles Barkley, host of this season's premier of Saturday Night Live with Nirvana, look Mom, your favourite, Nirvana!"
Voice - "Right, play it back"
Barkley - "Let's take a look at it"
Floor Manager #2 - "Five, four, three, two ..."
Barkley - "Hi, I'm Charles Barkley, host of this season's premier of Saturday Night Live with Nirvana, look Mom, your favourite, Nirvana!"
Cobain - "Do you want another one?"
Voice - "You happy with this?"
Grohl - "It's alright"
Voice - "OK, let's er ... next"
Floor Manager #2 - "OK, now where were we then? Let me have you right over right this way and, yeah you're good. Charles stay where you are"
Barkley - "Make me up"
Grohl - "Can I have a comb? I'm only kidding!"
Voice - "Can you have a what?"
Grohl - "A comb!"
Barkley - "Too much shine on it huh? It took me all morning to get my head to shine!"
Voice - "You want it shiney?"
Barkley - "Yeah"
Voice - "Can you come down for me? Thank you, it's just too much"
Novoselic - "You have to be experienced to do that, oh man! You get accustomed"
Cobain - "It hurts really bad, actually I have to admit I did that one time and it hurts really bad, don't risk it"
Floor Manager #2 - "Alright, standby please"
Voice - "Alright"
Floor Manager #2 - "Get to your marks, five, four, three, two ..."
Barkley - "Hi, I'm Charles Barkley, I'm hosting this season's premier of Saturday Night Live with Nirvana, I'm not a role model and these guys really aren't role models"
Floor Manager #2 - "Play it back"
Floor Manager #2 - "Five, four, three, two ..."
Barkley - "Hi, I'm Charles Barkley, I'm hosting this season's premier of Saturday Night Live with Nirvana, I'm not a role model and these guys really aren't role models"
Voice - "You OK with it or do you want another one?"
Grohl - "That's fine"
Voice - "You fine? Charles, you OK?"
Barkley - "Yeah"
Voice - "OK, wh ... what else we got?"
Floor Manager #2 - "That's done it for Nirvana? Thank you gentlemen"
Grohl - "Alright"
Cobain - "OK"
Barkley - "Thank you guys, alright"
Cobain - "See you"
Voice - "Getting used to it now"
Barkley - "Thank you, thank you"
Novoselic - "See you"
Barkley - "Left foot, right foot?"
Floor Manager #2 - "Left foot for now, 'til we see how they wanna arrange you, Adam, david por favour"
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, August 2003
Amended: April 2005 (special thanks to Henry Brown)