LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:08/17/90 - The Palladium, Hollywood, CA, US
Transcript:
[Soundcheck starts]
IN BLOOM
Crover - "Just a little more of both. Just... hey!"
[Lots of speaking off mic]
FLOYD THE BARBER
Voice - "How are you doing?"
Cobain - "Fine"
Crover - "Fine"
Novoselic - "Great"
Cobain - "Do we… are we running behind?"
Voice - "No"
Cobain - "Can we do one more?"
Voice - "Not that I know of…yeah, go ahead"
Cobain - "OK"
[Cobain strums the opening chords of 'Stay Away', then 'Sliver']
[Novoselic strums the bass line to 'Verse Chorus Verse']
Cobain - "Oh, that one, yeah, OK"
VERSE CHORUS VERSE
[Soundcheck ends]
[Show starts]
Cobain - "We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal!"
LOVE BUZZ
FLOYD THE BARBER
[Cobain loses all volume on guitar towards the end]
Crover - "Just a little out of control. Ready?"
SCOFF
Novoselic - "Thanks a lot"
Crover - "Hold on Kurt! OK. No Dive"
Cobain - "This is new"
DIVE
ABOUT A GIRL
Novoselic - "We gotta new song"
SPANK THRU
Novoselic - "back there on drums, we've got Dale Crover from the Melvins. Roar, roar " [crash,crash]
Crover - "Yeah, I'm a slut drummer for hire, so ..."
Cobain - "What? It was what?"
Novoselic - "Basically it's a new song, right here!"
BREED
Novoselic - "Who the hell is that?"
Crover - "This song's called Negative Creep"
Cobain - "Tune up, tune up. Oh, this is a new song, it's called In Bloom, it's about reproduction"
IN BLOOM
Cobain - "What?"
SCHOOL
[Somebody makes kissing noises into the mic]
Novoselic - "Ready?"
Cobain - "OK"
Crover - "Ready, ready, ready"
BEEN A SON
NEGATIVE CREEP
Cobain - "Thanks"
Novoselic - "Well, thanks a lot, you guys are really great!"