LIVE NIRVANA INTERVIEW ARCHIVE October 6, 1989 - Cincinnati, OH, US
Personnel
- Interviewer(s)
- Mark Shafer
- Interviewee(s)
- Kurt Cobain
- Krist Novoselic
- Chad Channing
Sources
| Publisher | Title | Transcript |
|---|---|---|
| WAIF Radio | An Electric Fence | Yes |
Transcript
Mark Shafer: We're down here at Murphy's Pub, we just saw a pretty good show by Nirvana. They're at the end of a tour here, go ahead and say where you're going next and what's up with you.
Chad Channing: Kansas City. Lawrence to be exact, at this place called the Outhouse. I guess it's in the middle of a cornfield, like way out there.
Krist Novoselic: Oh, yee-haw!
CC: I think it's with 24/7 Spyz.
Kurt Cobain: Sounds like fun.
KN: 27/4 Spiders.
CC: No!
KC: 247 spiders.
KN: 250… Something spiders.
CC: One million guys in a van. I don't know.
KN: I saw them on MTV once.
CC: Have you ever heard of them? 24/7… Is it 247 Spiders?
MS: I've never heard of them.
KC: You haven't? You should have, they're supposed to have fantastic promotion, I think they're on a major label with a rip off of…
MS: That's a problem as well, I wouldn't have heard about it.
KC: Well, majors creep into every nook and cranny of the world. Even I cannot handle, I mean, I can't even get away from it.
MS: I've been pretty good about it…
KN: 'Cause you're a strong man.
MS: Well, it's 'cause I don't have cable.
KN: Oh, there you go! Y'know I like getting antenna TV.
MS: Is hmm…I was gonna ask you about your discography. I know you've got the “Bleach” album that came out a couple months ago. And I've got one of your white ones…
KN: Oh, really? Those are worth 50 bucks!
KC: Those are worth “50 Bucks!”
CC: 50 whole bucks!
KN: 50 bucks!
CC: You hear that Chris? I'm getting one right now!
KC: You can retire!
MS: Oh, really? Wow, I bought it for seven.
KN: Good, I'm glad.
KC: He bought it at the Sonic Temple, at that record store where we played?
MS: Dave's gotta run to the record store. Yeah, they're starting a new record store in Pittsburgh. They're starting a new record store and a place to play. Over in Pittsburgh.
KN: Yeah, thank God. I mean, crawling up three flights, four flights of stairs…
MS: That's a pretty rough deal…
KC: Well, they were willing to help us.
KN: We had a lot of helpers.
MS: Yeah, this is just one floor down. People'll play in the basement, I think.
KC: Our discography…
MS: Yeah, I know you've got “Bleach,” then the Sub Pop thing… “Teriyaki Asthma”
KC: We had a single out before that, which is “Love Buzz” and “Big Cheese.” And on our European release, it has… It replaced “Love Buzz,” which was on it…
MS: It was on Glitterhouse?
KC: No, it's on Tupelo. They replaced “Love Buzz” with “Big Cheese” on that and on the CD as well.
KN: We have a, uh, 12-inch EP coming out
KC: It's a promo EP for Europe
KN: Pretty soon! Just in Europe only, it's going to be out in a week or so.
KC: It'll have two new songs on it off a record, an upcoming record…
KN: Two new songs, plus “Love Buzz” from “Bleach” because I guess they're really popular in Europe. Like a four song EP. It's going to be released to coincide with our tour. We're doing really good in the charts over there too.
CC: We're really looking forward to going.
KN: We're leaving in a couple of weeks.
KC: A month and a half with TAD.
MS: Oh, really?
KC: In the same van.
CC: Tad 'n' us.
MS: TAD in the same van?
KC: Yeah.
MS: Uh oh… [laughs]
KC: We're going to rent him a U-Haul and put him in it.
MS: You gotta get a ventilation system in there.
KC: What?
MS: You'll have to get a ventilation system in there.
KN: He farts and laughs a lot.
MS: Yeah, I know! [laughs]
KC: And he snores really loud! Like this! [snores like a pig]
KN: Well he snores and then, he was on this floor on…
MS: The pig-man!
KN: …the lower Eastside in New York and he just… [snores] Just shooting, gee gosh! Gosh, b’gosh…He's a great guy though, I mean, y'know.
KC: Oh, yeah! The whole band, we're looking forward to it. Really fun to hang out with.
MS: Are you going to be on the mainland or round the isles? Both?
KN: All over the continent man, all over. We've got a week in the UK, then we're going over to the Netherlands - about four, five shows. Then we're doing Deutschland…
MS: You're playing Amsterdam?
KN: Yeah, we're doing Amsterdam.
CC: And Austria!
MS: Where are you playing there?
KN: We're playing… What?
MS: In Amsterdam, do you know?
KN: A place where they serve marijuana brownies, yeah…
KC: Hash brownies [coughs]
MS: That's just about everywhere. [laughs]
KN: We're going to Budapest, Hungary. Rome, Milano, Paree!
MS: They've talked to you about going behind the Iron Curtain?
CC: Yeah, that'll be fun!
KN: Hungary's cool. They just, er, they just loosened up there…
KC: I wonder if they can get our records there? It's like, you need water, you don't need records.
MS: There's probably one person in the world has one over there or something.
CC: We should sell bottles of water while we're out.
KN: Yeah, I'm going to wear like, four pairs of jeans and sell them for 50 bucks a piece.
CC: Get some extra money.
MS: You could sell Nirvana blue jeans or something, yeah. Get them printed off.
KN: They'd be bleached, stone washed jeans.
KC: False moustaches…
CC: Bleach shirts, bandanas ‘n’…
MS: Just say it's a conceptual thing?
CC: …Bottles of water and stuff…
MS: “We have our blue jeans on sale here…”
KN: Conceptual - cash-ceptual…
CC: Buy level - ting! Buy level - ting! Ting-ting-ting-ting-ting!
MS: This is probably the first interview I ever did where I'm shivering to death.
CC: Really? Wear a coat…
KN: And it's not because you're nervous.
MS: Trying to get used to the weather out here. Actually, I have my coat but it's kind of a pain to wear it with my arm the way it is.
KN: Oh, that's right! How’d you mess your arm up?
MS: Broke it, falling down.
KN: Drunk?
MS: No, was playing football.
KN: That's not funny, man.
MS: Got my movement back this week, so I'm happy.
CC: Yay!
MS: Well, I'll let you guys get going here. I appreciate you taking the time after the show, since it's quite late.
KN: Well thanks for the interview. Could we do the radio call, what station is it?
MS: WAIF.
KC: Goodnight WAIF and God bless.
KN: You're listening to…
All: You're listening to W - A - I…
KC: Or Y?
MS: I.
All: W - A - I - F.
KN: In…
CC: Cincinnati?
KN: Cincinnati. Is Loni Anderson…
CC: What's the call numbers? What's the call numbers?
KN: Is she your… Is she one of the receptionists at the station?
CC: What's the call numbers? Is it 90 something, or 80 something?
KC: Goodnight and God bless.
MS: Thanks a lot.
© Mark Shafer, 1989