Live Nirvana | Concert Chronology | 1991 | April 17, 1991

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

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Lobotomy Talent Group
- Robin Taylor

Load In: …:…
Soundcheck: …:…
Doors: …:…
Bikini Kill Showtime: …:…
Fitz Of Depression Showtime: …:…
NIRVANA Showtime: …:…

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Pennyroyal Tea Cobain solo part of
Polly
Cobain (during Polly) - Dave's gonna sing back up harmonies
Grohl (during Polly) - Will you turn my vocals up, sir?
Cobain - Thank you. Hello, we're major label, corporate rock, sellouts
Big Cheese
Cobain - This is a Devo song
Turnaround
D-7 guitar line
Love Buzz
Cobain - Thanks, we didn't write that song. We didn't write this song either
D-7
Grohl - Thanks for coming out on such short notice. We'd like to, we'd like to thank Fitz Of Depression, from Olympia, and Bikini Kill, from Olympia as well
Blew
Novoselic - So, Fitz Of Depression drove up today, in this van with expired tags and they got pulled over and they got a 400, or $550 ticket
Cobain - We're embarrassing
Grohl - This song is called Been A Son
Been A Son
Stain
Grohl - Take it easy
Negative Creep
Voice - Thank God
Grohl - What was that, dude?
Cobain - ??? microphone ???
Grohl - Hey, can we have our microphone back so we can play some more songs?
Voice - ??? It's broken!
Grohl - It is?
Voice - There you go
Libido jam
Wild Thing jam
Novoselic - That was Wild Thing, not Louie Louie
About A Girl
jam
Novoselic - ???
Voice - STP!
Novoselic - STP
Grohl - ???
Breed
Novoselic - ???
Floyd The Barber
Cobain - Everybody say hi to Dave
Novoselic - So, I went to the doctor and they asked me if I excessively used alcohol or recreational drugs and I said, 'oh sure, alcohol and anything else I like er er er, pot? Yeah yeah yeah pot pot'. 'Is there anything else? This is purely confidential'. I rattled them off, he prescribed more, yeah at least, prescribed LS-, prescribed LSD, but I described LSD
Cobain - I need a Soloflex, I'm a bit out of shape
Verse Chorus Verse
Cobain - This song is called Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Cobain - This is our rock star encore right now, but we're not gonna go to the back room, we're just gonna stand up here for a minute, 'kay? Let's just wait a little
Novoselic - ...I couldn't make it to the door, it was an awful expirience, but it was good ha-, it was good drugs
Voice - Free high! Free high!
Novoselic - Free high! Free love, free high, sieg heil, free. Free Canada
Voice - Just play a song!
Novoselic - Chill, alright, it's an encore. ???
ENCORE
School
Voice - Are you ready for Negative Creep?
Novoselic - We already played that song, and there's allllllways somebody's gotta yell 'play Negative Creep' like, we played it, we'll play it, okay? Piano piano. Okay, so there's gonna be T-shirts for sale after the show, of course, you know, this is a, g-... this is a Nirvana glorification benefit show, thank you, we'll be on the sunny sands of Maui, Hawaii, thanks to you all, sipping pina coladas and making love at midnight and getting caught in the rain
Dive
Cobain - Okay, okay, two more songs. Okay
Sliver bass line
Territorial Pissings
Cobain - Goodnight
Sliver

AMT #1a incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: VHS(1) > DVDR/FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 64:10 min / 8.5
Notes:: • Circulated in August 2012.; • The circulating DVDR was remastered.; • Amateur video, shot from the front left of the audience.; • Less complete, lower quality but has less sound dropouts than AMT #1b.; • Missing "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Polly" cuts in.; • There is also a cut right before the beginning of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which means Cobain's banter introducing the song is cut and the song is very slightly cut into.; • There is a small drop out in "Love Buzz".; • Part of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" appears on the official video release Hype!

AMT #1b incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: VHS(M) > DVDR(1) > Reauthor > DVDR
Length / Sound Quality:: 64:21 min / 9.0
Notes:: • Circulated in December 2020.; • Amateur video, shot from the front left of the audience.; • More complete and higher quality than AMT #1a but has additional sound dropouts during "Love Buzz", "Blew", "About A Girl", "School" and "Dive" which are not present on AMT #1a.; • "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Polly" cuts in. Includes a five-second clip of "Pennyroyal Tea" and four extra seconds "Polly" that are missing from AMT #1a.; • There is also a cut right before the beginning of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which means Cobain's banter introducing the song is cut and the song is very slightly cut into.; • There is a small drop out in "Love Buzz".; • Part of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" appears on the official video release Hype!

AMT #2 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official DVD [With The Lights Out]
Length / Sound Quality:: 15 min / 7.5
Notes:: • Multi camera video, with open mic audio.; • Made up of three camera shots, one of which is that used to make AMT #1.; • Features "Pennyroyal Tea" (slightly cut in), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (with Cobain's introductory banter to the song) and "Territorial Pissings" only.

AMT #3

Shot from Kurt's side of the stage. Some of this video's footage appears in AMT #2.

AMT #4

Shot from the center of the back of the venue. Some of this video's footage appears in AMT #2.

AMT #5

An additional person can be seen taping onstage near Krist.

AMT #6

At least one more person taped the concert.

Kurt performed "Pennyroyal Tea" by himself.
Kurt stopped "Pennyroyal Tea" after the second chorus.
After "Negative Creep," the band jammed on "Libido" by Naked Raygun and "Wild Thing" by The Troggs.