Recorded performance: | 08-30-92 - Reading Festival - Reading United Kingdom |
Recorded performance: | 11-25-91 - Paradiso - Amsterdam The Netherlands |
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Live Nirvana Bootography Rating: A 97%
Live Nirvana Bootography Review:
All of the discs with the '92 Reading performance are incomplete. "The Last
UK Show" contains the second FM broadcast with an extra 2 songs, "About A Girl"
and "Blew", taken from the TV and first FM broadcasts, respectively. "Tourette's"
from this show can be found on the Muddy Banks album.
Reading '92 is arguably the bands best ever performance. The setlist was long,
featured rarities (though they don't appear on this disc), is filled with energy,
and Kurt even talks to the audience! The band teases the audience and tells
them it's their last show. At the start of the show Kurt was rolled onto the
stage in a wheelchair wearing a wig and a gown... he feebly stood before the
microphone and uttered the first two lines of "The Rose" before collapsing onto
the stage. He was obviously mocking the press. For laughs, the band covers Boston's
"More Than a Feeling" for a while before kicking into "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
There is also an early version of "All Apologies" which contains alternate lyrics.
Kurt tells the crowd that "there have been some pretty extreme things written
about us (himself and Courtney)" and that Courtney felt like everyone hated
her. He asks the crowd to say "Courtney we love you!" on the count of three...
the crowd obliges and is treated to an early "All Apologies". Kurt spices up
"Sliver" with some additional screaming in the lyrics. The early version of
"Dumb" is just icing on a already magnificent show!
"The Last UK Show" is the preferred disc for this show, but all of the FM broadcast
discs are good. "The Complete Reading Festival" is a rough, edited audience
recording, thus isn't considered as good as any of the FM broadcast shows.
A complete professional video of the show has surfaced, making all these bootleg
CDs virtually obsolete for the average listener. Serious collectors still have
an interest in the FM broadcasts, as the sound mix is different to that on the
professional video.
The Paradiso tracks, as always, are chopped and edited in between. You can
hear Krist singing "Macho Man" during "Love Buzz".
Other Disc(s) Containing These Dates:
08-30-92
- Reading Festival - Reading United Kingdom
Complete
Reading Festival 1992
Dumb
Europe 1992
Into
The Black - Disc 4 - Reading Festival
Live At the Reading Festival 1991
Nirvana Reading 1992
Reading 8/30/92
Pissing
in Action
Louder
11-25-91
- Paradiso - Amsterdam The Netherlands
Amsterdam
91
European
Tour '91
Hardcore
Act
Live
Nirvana Live Vol. 1
Paridiso
Amsterdam Love Buzz November 1991
Porch
Songs
Radical Action
Seventh
Heaven
Sliver
Smells
Like Nirvana
Smells
Like Success
Smells
Like Teen Spirit
The
Live Spirit
What
Wild
Tales
Paradiso
Lost
Come As You Are
Live
Vol. 1
Live; In Bloom
The Last American Concert
Shock
Treatment
On
Stage In Europe