Live Nirvana | Concert Chronology | 1990 | November 25, 1990

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NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Dave Grohl (drums, backing vocals)

Craig Montgomery (sound engineer)

Jeff Holmes

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jam
Cobain - Good evening
Grohl - Hi
Aneurysm
Oh, The Guilt
Mr. Moustache
Stay Away
Novoselic - Thank you
Breed
Grohl - Thank you
Floyd The Barber
Montgomery - 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
Cobain - ???
Montgomery - That's better! Tell those girls not to fuck with the microphones
Grohl - Don't fuck with the microphones
Montgomery - I mean they're pretty and everything, but they still can't fuck with the microphones
Grohl - Yeah
Montgomery - Is the guitar line on there? Okay
Grohl - This song is about love
About A Girl
Verse Chorus Verse
Grohl - Thank you. That's okay
Cobain - This is another new song
In Bloom false start
Grohl - This one's so new
In Bloom
Cobain - Gotta go get it
Grohl - This is a new, old song
Swap Meet
Novoselic - More alcohol ???
Grohl - Hey, hey check, John. Huh?
Novoselic - ???
Been A Son
Stain
Grohl - Woo-hoo-hoo. This song goes out to Chris and Ralph
Blew
Grohl - Hey Craig, is everything loud out there?
Montgomery - Yeah
Novoselic - Is this still on?
Montgomery - Hey see if you can make these people over here turn that speaker back in the right direction
Novoselic - Which one?
Montgomery - The one over the mains over here, to your right, up front Chris
Grohl - That one?
Montgomery - 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
Montgomery - Yeah
Grohl - Hey, Kurt
Sappy
Grohl - Thanks, thank you, that was a new song
Novoselic - Lotta new songs
Cobain - And here's another
Grohl - but yeah, but yeah, yeah!
Lithium
School
Grohl - Son of a bitch
Cobain - Do you like my Rail t-shirt?
Grohl - Ronnie Rail. Go, go, go
Cobain - This song was written by the Wipers
D-7
Cobain - Thanks
Here She Comes Now
Holmes - Testing, uh, this is the booth, we're taking over a second here. Hang on one second Chris
Novoselic - Jeff Holmes
Holmes - Woo! Mr. Stud! No, listen, we're, gettin' real close to two o'clock folks and we to have your cooperation. We can run it a few more minutes, but as soon as it's over we gotta get you to clear out, uh, okay? Sorry. So, it's more than last call folks
Novoselic - So, let's do, uh, Sliver
Grohl - Thank you for your patience
Holmes - We can go late, but we have to have 100 percent of the alcohol cleared out prior to two 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 part of
Montgomery - Hey, hang on, the mains are out
Grohl - The mains are out?
Montgomery - We lost the mains again
Cobain - Why are all these lights on permanently now?
Montgomery - Jeff, Jeff we lost the mains again
Grohl - Fuck the mains, fuck the mains up, he-hey
Novoselic - You're talking main, you're talking mainstream you fuckers
Grohl - Fuck the fucking mains, man
Montgomery - Try that. Nope
Novoselic - I bet there's a Gremlin at the fuse box. Let's just play with the mains off
Grohl - Yeah
Cobain - We don't have the mains at all?
Grohl - What the fuck is going on?
Cobain - Yeah
Grohl - Jesus Christ
Cobain - Uh
Montgomery - Still no mains
Grohl - Okay, we're gonna go and play
Cobain - Fuck, what are you waiting for?
Montgomery - We're wating for someone to turn the circuit breaker back on
Grohl - Fuck a bunch of ???
Holmes - Chris, Chris look at me, Chris over here in the booth, Chris
Montgomery - It's 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
Holmes - Okay, 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 another little thing. Do you wanna do that?
Novoselic - Okay, okay we'll do that
Holmes - Okay, you guys, everybody listen up for just a second, we are gonna close the place down for about 10 minutes, everybody needs to leave out of an exit, for just a minute
Novoselic - Smoke pot
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 pot
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 uh, we're gonna uh, take five and come to do another set so make sure to tip your bartender
Cobain - Goodbye
Grohl - Thank you
Cobain - Intermission, intermission
Grohl - We're gonna take a brief break and uh...
Holmes - Okay, please co-operate, I'm trying to do this for you guys, so is the band. So please make your way to the re-, out, 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
Novoselic - It's 'cause of those fucking lawyers, it's gotta be lawyers there, because 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...
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/VENUE CLEANING
Montgomery - Hey, hey, hey, hey
Cobain - Don King is missing the rest of his wallet with his life and his keys and in his car
Holmes - 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 after hours, etcetera, etcetera etcetera, welcome to Nirvana part two. Check, check
Cobain - Check, check, check, are the mains on?
Montgomery - Jeff, Jeff we're still waiting for the mains to be turned on
Cobain - Oh, Christ
Montgomery - If you could help us out with that it would be really cool
Holmes - Contact, mains on
Montgomery - Hi, hi, hi, hello, hello, hello, calling Jeff. Hello, hello, hello, nope
Cobain - Does that sound like the mains?
Montgomery - Yeah, you're on now
Cobain - Ready? One
Dumb
Cobain - ???
Polly
Something In The Way
Negative Creep
Cobain - Thanks, goodnight
Montgomery - Guys
Voice - Mexican Seafood!
Cobain - Oh come on now. I can't remember the words
Love Buzz
Cobain - Yep, it's a banjo
Montgomery - Craig wants to hear Dive. Craig says go
Grohl - What did Craig say?
Montgomery - Dive. No? You lazy fucks
Grohl - Hey, we write the setlist you fuck
Cobain - Yeah let's play Dive then, we started it, I guess we'll gonna finish it
Grohl - Oh yeah man, fuckin' aye
Cobain - Illegal, illegal
Grohl - It's a predator pipe ho ho ho, ??? so hard to find, where did you get it? Fuck. Don't pocket it, such a jerk
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? jam
Cobain - We can only do so many ??? tonight ??? Spank Thru?
Spank Thru
Molly's Lips bass line
Molly's Lips
Son Of A Gun
Sifting guitar line
Sifting
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

AUD #1 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: ANA(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 72:05 min / 7.5
Notes:: • Circulated in April 2017.; • Missing everything after the beginning of "Dive".

AUD #2a incomplete

Equipment:: Aiwa > Aiwa
Lowest Generation:: ANA(M) > MP3 > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 30:40 min / 7.5
Notes:: • Circulated in December 2005.; • Less complete but better quality than AUD #2b.; • Missing everything before "Dumb" and everything after "Sifting", which cuts out, as the tape ran out at this point.; • The source is currently only available in MP3 format (320kbps) as the taper destroyed the master tape after converting it to MP3.; • The recording commences with some on-street banter recorded by the taper when the club had been cleared after the first set.

AUD #2b incomplete

Equipment:: Aiwa > Aiwa
Lowest Generation:: ANA(x) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 47:08 min / ?
Notes:: • Circulated in Ocotober 2021.; • More complete but lower quality than AUD #2a.; • Missing everything between "Breed", which cuts out and "Dumb,".; • Missing everything after "Sifting", which cuts out, as the tape ran out at this point.; • "Oh, The Guilt" has a cut.

AUD #3 incomplete

Equipment:: unknown > unknown
Lowest Generation:: ANA(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 46:59 min / ?
Notes:: • Circulated in December 2020.; • Missing everything before "Stay Away" and everything after "Sliver" which cuts out.; • Also missing "Verse Chorus Verse" and "Sappy".

SBD #1 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: ANA(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 73:03 min / 8.5
Notes:: • Circulated in May 2007.; • Missing everything after the beginning of "Dive".; • "Sappy" cuts in.; • Soundboard on the left channel, audience on the right channel.; • The audience level is too high during the first songs and during just about every song the soundboard level gets extremely loud for a few seconds.

AUD CLIP #4 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Unknown > MP3
Length / Sound Quality:: 20 sec / 7.5
Notes:: • A very brief clip of "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter".; • This clip mysteriously appeared on the internet in December 2002 in MP3 format and is believed to be from this show.; • This source is believed to be complete, but only a clip of "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" is circulating.

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It is rumored that the club video taped the show from the back of the venue.

The band only played the beginning of "Dive," then stopped so the venue could be cleared of alcohol before they continued to play.
It was rumored that Kurt played "Dumb", "Polly" and "Something In The Way" with a semi-acoustic guitar or it was just a low-fi version.

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LIVE NIRVANA Concert Chronology November 25, 1990 - The Off Ramp, Seattle, WA, US

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