Transcript:

Floor Manager - "That's the nature of TV, I apologise in advance if we have to do a song over, but if we do do a song, we just need you ... never heard it, never heard it before, the magic of TV, so anyway we're gonna start in a few minutes, thanks again for coming and er ... let's hear it for the band. I also wanna play it up, you guys back here especially, you're on the camera the whole time, so ... Mike is just going to get some audience claps real quick, so then we can start whenever, you guys ready, so Mike is gonna take over and enjoy the show!"
Mike - "OK, er ... the one thing we do every time is we er ... try and set levels for audience applause so ... on the count, you all give me the loudest round of applause you have ever given anybody, it's most appreciated, so any ... one, two, three"
[The crowd applaud]
Mike - "That guy, that just said word ... that was great, so if you could try it one more time, on the count of three, thank you, one, two, three"
[The crowd applaud again]
Voice - "Kashmir"
Voice - "What"
Voice - "Kashmir"
Cobain - "Mohair! Plectrum"
Grohl - "Pat, you got any cigarettes?"
Cobain - "Good evening, this is off our first record, most people don't own it!"
• ABOUT A GIRL
• COME AS YOU ARE

Cobain - "Thank you, our friend Lori Goldston on cello"
Grohl - "And this is our new guitar player Pat"
Cobain - "He's a, a certified honorary punk rocker"
Grohl - "Thank you"
Cobain - "But he like Queen better, this was written by the Vaselines, at least it's a rendition of an old um ... Christian song, I think, but we do it the Vaselines way"
Grohl - "One, two, three, four"
• JESUS WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM

Cobain - "I guarantee you, I will screw this song up so ..."
Grohl - "What song is it?"
Cobain - "Yeah, well, I at least know which part I'll screw up"
Grohl - "Yeah, like he only screws one up!"
• THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD

Cobain - "Thanks, that was a David Bowie song"
Grohl - "What's next?"
Cobain - "I didn't screw it up did I?"
Grohl - "No"
Cobain - "OK, but here's another one I could screw up"
Grohl - "What is it?"
Cobain - "Am I gonna do this by myself?"
Novoselic - "Yeah, do it by yourself"
Grohl - "What is it?"
Cobain - "Pennyroyal Tea"
Novoselic - "Do it Kurt"
Grohl - "Are you gonna not sing? Do it by yourself"
Cobain - "OK, well, I think I'll try it in a different key, I'll try it in the normal key"
Grohl - "Yeah"
Cobain - "If it sounds bad, these people are just going to have to wait!"
Grohl - "Do you have a smoke?"
• PENNYROYAL TEA

Grohl - "That sounded good!"
Cobain - "Shut up! What? Really erm ... well let's do it now, oh, we could play those two after that can we? Oops, OK, yeah but On A Plain's tuned down to a D. Let's just play them back to back, who cares, they can edit it different, this is a television show! We're gonna do erm ... Dumb now dummy, John"
Grohl - "Ready? One, two, three, four"
• DUMB

Cobain - "The reason we didn't want to play these two songs in a row is because they're exactly the same song, so ... ready?"
• POLLY

Cobain - "Could I have a little more monitors Ian? The vocals"
Grohl - "Ready? One, two, three, four"
• ON A PLAIN

Cobain - "Oh yeah, I need you to do a little beat, so I can keep time"
Grohl - "OK, do that?"
Cobain - "Yeah"
• SOMETHING IN THE WAY

Cobain - "Thank you, I only have had three cups of tea already, but thank you. Hurry up! Is that what you said?"
Novoselic - "Remember the little black bird on the ??"
Cobain - "The little what?"
Novoselic - "The little black bird on the ??"
Cobain - "No, I remember the little bird, remember that really evil episode where, where he was really mad at this kid, he had all these visions of how he was going to first, I'm going to take him up to a hill and tie him to a tree and tar and feather him! It was evil! That wasn't Christian at all!"
Novoselic - "It's all interpretation"
Cobain - "Yeah, what's next? oh, lets play the Meat Puppets, OK, Brothers Meat come up on stage"
Grohl - "Pat"
Cobain - "That was an evil show, it scares me, always did when I was a kid"
Grohl - "That last one, was last week"
Curt Kirkwood - "Should I go up on a ..."
Cobain - "These are the brothers Meat Puppets, we're big fans of theirs. Strap on your gee-tar, what?"
Curt Kirkwood - "... down"
Cobain - "You want us to play Nine Inch Nails songs?"
Audience - "Freebird!"
Cobain - "I've been waiting for that"
Curt Kirkwood - "I got a free bird for you right here!"
[The band all start to play Freebird]
Cobain - "Oh"
[Cobain joins in mumbling the words to Freebird]
Novoselic - "Tommy ?? today"
Cobain - "OK, do you wanna do Plateau first? What are they tuning a harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band, we should have a whole bunch of extra guitars!"
• PLATEAU

Novoselic - "That's Curt, that's Cris"
Cris Kirkwood - "No, no"
Cobain - "I'm Kurt"
Chris Kirkwood - "That's Kurt"
Curt Kirkwood - "No, I'm thing one, that's thing two!"
Cobain - "Cover your hair in your eyes then, OK, this is called Oh Me"
• OH ME

Cobain - "One more, this is called Lake of Fire, all these songs are off their second record"
Grohl - "Ready y'all?"
• LAKE OF FIRE

Chris Kirkwood - "Thank you, thank you kindly, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Nirvana"
Cobain - "That was the Meat Puppets"
[Grohl drums the intro to Scentless Apprentice]
Grohl - "What now?"
Novoselic - "Are we done?"
Cobain - "Any requests?"
Grohl - "Sliver, that's a good one"
[Novoselic plays the intro to Sliver as the audience shout out for songs like In Bloom, Love Buzz and Marigold]
Cobain - "Leadbelly? How are we supposed to play In Bloom acoustically?"
[Novoselic plays In Bloom and pat joins in]
Cobain - "I need a plectrum, yeah"
[Cobain plays the start of All Apologies then stops]
Cobain - "Alright?"
• ALL APOLOGIES

Cobain - "Thank you"
Grohl - "What are we doing now?"
Cobain - "What?"
Grohl - "Sliver?"
[The band talk off mic and the crowd start shouting for more songs including Negative Creep]
Cobain - "Oh, I'm sorry, this is the last one"
Grohl - "Sure"
Novoselic - "How much time have we got?"
[Cobain starts to play Negative Creep]
Cobain - "Neither do I ... that's ... I mean everything they've been putting out"
Voice - "Rape Me!"
Grohl - "Look Kennedy!"
Cobain - "I don't think MTV would let us play that! um ... fuck you all, this is the last song of the evening!"
Grohl - "What is it?"
Cobain - "This was written by ..."
Grohl - "What"
Cobain - "... my favourite performer, our favourite performer isn't it? all of us, do you like him the best?"
Novoselic - "Oh, who's that? ... wants to buy Leadbelly's guitar"
Cobain - "Oh yeah, this guy representing the Leadbelly estate wants to sell me Leadbelly's guitar for $500,000"
Novoselic - "We'll be passing a bucket later"
Cobain - "Yeah, I even asked David Guest ... Geffen personally if he'd buy it for me, he wouldn't do it! OK"
• WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?

Cobain - "Thank you"

Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, August 2003

Please email any additions/corrections to Michael Sanderson.

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