LIVE NIRVANA Concert Chronology October 16, 1991 - Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MO, US

Soundcheck

1. No Info

Set incomplete

1. Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
2. Aneurysm
3. Drain You
4. School
5. Floyd The Barber
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit part of
7. Smells Like Teen Spirit
8. About A Girl
9. Breed
10. Polly
11. Sliver
12. Love Buzz
13. Come As You Are
14. Been A Son
15. Negative Creep
16. On A Plain
17. Blew

Stage Banter Short Jams

Set Range

Circulating Recordings

No Info

Uncirculated Recordings

AMT #1

It is rumored that the show was recorded.

AUD #1

It is rumored that the show was recorded.

Notes

• The set above comes from the band's handwritten setlist.
• The songs "Lithium" and "Territorial Pissings" may have also been played, according to a review.
• Nirvana had destroyed some of their equipment, including Dave's drums, four nights prior in Chicago, so they borrowed some of opening band Urge Overkill's equipment for this show.
• Toward the beginning of the show, the crowd repeatedly erupted into frenzied slam dancing and people were being launched into the air. The bouncers on the stage were trying to absorb the flying crowd members and were being quite rough on them. When Kurt was eventually hit by someone from the crowd, he stopped playing and could be heard cursing off mic. Krist pleaded with the crowd to "mellow out." After this scenario repeated itself about four times, Kurt stopped the band and yelled about a bouncer stepping on his distortion pedal and breaking it. Once a replacement was found, the show resumed, but the crowd didn't mellow out. When the band had to stop playing a fifth time, Kurt yelled, "Fuck it! You all want to get up on the stage? Well come on up!" The entire crowd swept up onto the stage, and the bouncers and Dave left the stage, leaving Kurt and Krist clutching their instruments against their bodies as the equipment was slammed back against the wall. After about 15-20 minutes of chaos, Krist asked the crowd to leave the stage so they could play some more. The crowd started filing off the stage, and the house lights came on. Eventually, everything was set back up, and the band played for another 45 minutes without further problems. The club stayed open late so they could finish their set. Dave later claimed the band had repeatedly and unsuccessfully requested the security guards to stop being rough with the crowd, so they retaliated by inviting the crowd onstage.
• Krist Novoselic came up on stage with a mask and told to the crowd “Don't be like the GnR crowd because shit attracts flies”, referring to the GnR riot at Riverport.
• The band stopped playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit” because the security was being rough with the crowd.

Press Reviews

• Review from a US newspaper called "Just Rock", published in 1991.
• Review from an unknown newspaper, published in 1991.
• Review from a US magazine called "Sample" published in November, 1991.
• Review from a US newspaper called "The Daily Illini" published on October 18th, 1991.

Memorabilia

Images

---