a brief history of disastrous nirvana performances

pretend i didn't misspell disastrous in the title card, and let me know what shows i missed/any corrections i should issue! one notable omission is November 27th, 1991 for their Top of the Pops performance, when the band were forced to play to backing tracks, and made a complete joke of it

my favorite little mishap is when kurt laughs during pennyroyal tea when some dude screams YOURE ON CRACK

Kris throwing his bass 10ft in the air and smashing down on his face at the MTV awards, was gnarly. “Hi Axel! Hi Axel! Hi Axel!”😂

A cool fact about the Aragon ballroom show in 1993 is that nirvana played You Know Your Right for the first and only time

Kurt forgot his briefcase, but never his sarcasm, honesty and serene violence at times... Kurt knew what he was doing at all times in doubt. In confidence.

This is a gem of a channel to come across in this day and age. I hope all the Nirvana fans get to spend some time here.

One of my favorite shows, and I don't remember where or when it was, has an audience member yelling out for "About A Girl" and also "play songs about girls, man," and Kurt mocks him relentless the entire show. Also, any show where Kurt's guitar goes out and he has to stop and mess with it so Krist is left singing is a gem in my book. Finally, while not a disaster at all, I love the Austria show where Kurt says they saw a kangaroo and thanks the audience by saying "donkey show."

7:52 i feel like personally kurt had it coming to him for destroying the bounces friemds property. imagine if you were the friemd of somebody and you just watched a guy destroy their equipment.

Excellent compilation. The most notable omissions are their TV appearances in France and Italy in 1994. They are great and enoyable for us fans, but were clearly painful disasters for Cobain. At least the Italian TV appearance is covered in "Come as you are" and worth a read in this context.

I was at that gig in São Paulo - My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I think they switched instruments that night, and I remember thinking; either this is the worst gig I've ever watched or these guys are geniuses - but people did get really awkward, not knowing if they were supposed to clap or boo - I was just sixteen back then, had never had any drugs at that time, but it felt kind of like a psychodelic acidy experience. Still don't know what to make out of it...

One could argue the power outage at their final show should have been in here (I was expecting it) but hey, great little snippets of chaos regardless. No complaints here.

Your normal voice is awesome

in the day of the band's last show, at Munich at march 1st '94, the mand members had respiratory symptoms, Kurt struggled a lot to hit higher nots during the songs, losing his voice at some points, and because of that, the band couldn't even perform Teen Spirit. also the venue had an electrical shortage during the performance of "Come As You Are", and the band had to start over minutes later. at another point, when Krist went to talk to the crowd, he said a whole melancholic speech about grunge being dead and Nirvana being over. nobody knew it was to be the band's last performance. some see this show as disastrous, i think it belongs here and by the way, the footage of the outro is from this performance 🧐

Awesome man! Def sounds better than text-to-speech for sure, keep up the good work!!

Amazing video I loved every second

smashing that board was a piece of shit move. how pretentious.

Great video. Well done.

Saw them at the Michigan State Fair Coliseum Oct, 29 93. Near the end of the show Kurt took a shoe to the head. He stops playing, drops his head, takes his guitar off and throws it down and walks off the stage.

I love this channel!

You missed Kurt’s biggest freak out? Wtf? lol. When he started hurling his effects pedals, shattering them into the stage floor as hard as he could. 😂