Nirvana's Most Disastrous Show (Hollywood Rock Festival)
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- In January 1993, Nirvana played the Hollywood Rock Festival, which gave birth to the band's most infamous show; their São Paulo gig on January 16th. The Rio performance on January 23rd was rather troubled as well, but is generally regarded as being much better.
Nirvana was known for their intense and chaotic live shows, but their São Paulo performance somehow managed to break new ground. Incredibly sloppy performances, incomplete songs, substandard covers and destruction plagued this show.
But there is an explanation for the disaster of São Paulo.
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I was there. there were two great shows Apoteose and Estádio do Morumbi. The show where Kurt was wearing the white shirt in the video was at Morumbi, it was incredible, Kurt played the drums (season in the sun), they played the Clash. It wasn't a horrible show like the media says these days. We had a great time, many of us went to the hotel door. Kurt was very kind to all of us, I was without my notebook to get an autograph, and he said: Give me that lighter in your hand. I have this lighter signed by him, kept with great care to this day. They were a little lost with the huge stage, and with the legion in the audience. There were more than 100,000 people. It was super cool that they made fun of the cigarette brand that was the sponsor. Kurdt singing while smoking, Krist telling young people to smoke that it's super good for your health hahaha
If you sell that its some cash 😂
Do you remember (New Wave) Polly being played at this concert?
@@levy1102. I do remember, this favorite version of mine, soon after came the unexpected D-7. Unfortunately, the full media of this show is not available. A few years ago I looked for Molly's Lips but couldn't find it. I know that two TV stations here (TV Cultura and Rede Globo) recorded the show in its entirety and must have the raw tape. But they never released it in full.
I wish I was alive when nirvana was around. Would’ve been a dream to see them and experience it for real, and better yet, have something like a signed lighter to remember it by. That’s amazing! I’m so jealous😅
Fun fact their Buenos Aires show was fucked up on purpose because the all girl band that played before them were booed off stage which Kurt was not happy about (I wouldn’t have been either)
Calamity Jane. I heard that, too. That was his way of giving a middle finger to the crowd for being disrespectful to the all girl band
Well that's because L7's garbage.
We’ve heard..
Was it possibly because they were terrible?
@@naciremasti L7 played in Rio not Buenos.... But, Having said that, You're still right 😂
I’m really surprised that neither band had a handler to take care of that for them.
This puts another exclamation point on what a massive blessing that we all got the masterpiece that was Nirvana Unplugged.
Even keith richards said he had to buy his own heroin everywhere on tour in the 70s, some of his stories about it are extremely tall though and im not sure I believe that
@@Ukraineaissance2014
Fair point. Keith just needed someone who frequented Studio 54 🪩 and had a small plane. I think that’s maybe every 20th patron since 1977. lol 🕺
The early and mid-90s was flush with the stuff, but that’s in the U.S., like our esteemed host mentioned. So sad. Also, a pain in the aß.
Kurt never had handlers around him. Countney did- but Kurt never had even bodyguards, much less handlers. He bought his own drugs himself like most other Seattle musicians at the time.
Wow, totally unprofessional. These guys were in a state of suspended adolescence.
@@michaelmblog Yes, and/or functioning in a weird AF situation - each with varying levels of coping skills.
We all know that managers have been making sure their product can get on stage well before Chet Baker and Billie Holliday.
And yeah, I agree, but they were young, having fun, dizzy from the whiplash of success, etc.
They weren’t all Kurt.
Kurt’s internal struggle of performing a cig band fest, while puffing cigs
Dave looks sick with the bass
dunno, he looks kinda healthy to me. even has his shirt off.
Kurt hated the big sponsor music festivals but loved the money they paid him.
Did he buy a lot of cars? Or other bullshit luxury items? He didn’t care as much about money as you seem to think.
@@deathrowlemon7367 for the drugs!!!!! drugs are not CHEAP
If Mike Starr got kicked out of Alice In Chains because of drug issues then he must've been a mess
briefly dying on tour does tend to cause a band issues
He was clinically dead for a few minutes and had to be revived by Layne. Needless to say all the rigamoro that comes with that would do a number on your performance the next day.
@@a1saucin221 damn
I think Kurt is the last person to protest the promotion of a cigarette brand considering he smoked them non-stop.
Kurt was a walking contradiction.
Or... he understood that they are addictive and harmful.
Would drug addicts also go around recommending its benefits to children?
There is no problem nor contradiction about smoke but protest on the promotion of a cigarette.
Personaly I smoke 25 years, I'm smoking right now, and I dont promote them, I have no problem to say tobacco is a scam.
One of the last (video) interview of Kurt Cobain, a question about drugs, he says that : after 6 months any drugs are as boring as breathing.
I dont know any song of Nirvana which promote drug use. There is some with lyrics : "Gimme back my alchool", means more about addiction than promote this stuff.
This is the dumbest shit I’ve heard recently.
What's interesting is that by late 1993 they put out some of their best shows. Late In Utero tour is phenomenal and of course in November they performed MTV Unplugged. Kurt was energetic and humorous as ever. You could tell he really got it together after Frances was born.
Late ‘93 did spawn some amazing shows. Like you said, MTV Unplugged. Also Live and Loud which is one of my favorites.
@@TheMusicNarrative They were definitely at their tightest live-wise in the In Utero period. A lot of the Nevermind era shows were sloppy and chaotic, but for example, you watch the Live And Loud show and they sound like a finely tuned unit. Partially helped by Pat Smear.
Kurt Cobain
Energetic
Pick which one
He was going threw withdrawals winded up finding Valium and took a bunch of those
joão gordo said in some podcasts that layne was crazy, he said layne asked him for coke at like, 10 am (I'm from brazil and I loved the nirvana performance)
🎶He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola🎶
Something you didn't mention about the Alice in Chains show is that Laynes voice was completely blown out from his attempts to wake up Mike from the night before. Despite how blown out it is, it does kinda add to some songs like Love, Hate, Love
The incident happened AFTER the show
They were against the "capatalist" nature of the show but made sure to play 90 minutes to get paid a boatload of $$. Sounds about right.
Yeah, they really needed the money
They were paid for their labor, not their capital. They were there to play a show not endorse a cigarette.
@@mwmatthews1 Bullshit. Endorsements are part of the show. Those cigarettes are helping to pay those bands. Typical rock star hypocrisy.
Being paid for labor is not capitalism. Funding a show to profit from the labor of the people you hire, is capitalism. I'm not saying that's good or bad, I'm saying you're confused about the terms you are using. @@Boudica234
dude, what are you REALLY angry about???
it's not rock stars, idk what it is but it's def YOUR issue and no one else's.
as it almost always is😅
João Gordo's band is not "local"...Ratos de Porão (RdP) was huge in Europe and still is to this day. Also he was the one who told the band "Hollywood" was a cigarrete brand and the festival didn't bother to hire independent bands such as RdP.
And the trip wasn't all that bad since they took some time in between shows to practice and record some early demos for In Utero. That clip of them playing Season in The Sun was done in a studio in Copacabana that still exists. They also recored Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip on thoses sessions
Interesting, thanks for the comment man. Didn’t realize Ratos de Porão was as huge as they are.
Wow. Kurt and Layne literally had heroin imported into the country so they could have their fix. That is some serious addiction there.
They were on top of the world at the time 🤷♂️
To be fair, when someone is addicted to a substance you will do literally anything to avoid the pain of withdrawal.
bro That's nothing lol.... That's really not that bad.
you should hear what ive witnessed girls do for 20 bags of dope bro
@@eatassonthefirstdate do tell lol
Anything worse than eating a shit sandwich?
Thanks for talking about this concert. The São Paulo setlist is unique in the band's repertoire.
Max Cavalera (then of Sepultura for those who don't know) said in a 2016 interview that Kurt actually called him during Nirvana's stint in Brazil to ask him if he knew where he could score any herion. On the surface, it's hilarious, because it seems like such an absurd notion. But in reality, its pretty heartbreaking. Because he was still struggling so bad during that point, as a recovering addict myself, when youre thet sick, you wave any sense of decorum, because you're body is so desperately trying to avoid getting sick. This was a very big concern of his once they got to Europe the following year. After the Vanity Fair scandal, he couldnt handle another public shaming being busted with drugs going over a border.
Between October 1992 to July 1993 Nirvana only played every 3 months.... They played October 30, 1992 in Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Then January 16, 1993 Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo (Hollywood Rock Festival), Sào Paulo and
January 23, 1993 Praça da Apoteose (Hollywood Rock Festival), Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Then they played on April 9, 1993 at Cow Palace, (Tresnjevka Woman's Group Benefit), Daly City, CA.
Then they played July 23, 1993 Roseland Ballroom (New Music Seminar), New York, NY.
Then after that...
Nirvana played August 6, 1993 At King Performance Center, (Mia Zapata Fund Benefit), Seattle, WA.
Kurt Cobain performed solo with his wife Courtney Love on September 8, 1993 at Club Lingerie, Hollywood, CA.
Then SNL Rehearsal on September 23, 1993 Studio 8H, NBC Studios, New York, NY.
Then played on SNL on September 25, 1993 Studio 8H, NBC Studios, (Saturday Night Live), New York, NY.
Then th start of their North American In Utero Tour on October 18, 1993 - Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Arizona State Fair), Phoenix, AZ.
I had a chance to see them at The Arizona State fair!! I was starting a new job(it didn't work out) but when I did get to the venue, they were turning people back. The venue was already at capacity and still people were showing up!!! I wish I had gone there instead of the shitty job opportunity. I would have seen NIRVANA the last time they played in Arizona !!! I just figured like everyone else that they'd be back another time!! Then I would see them!! He killed himself(or someone else did) not too long after that show... Such a waste of talent..
He actually asked Max Cavalera from Sepultura for drugs when they were in Brazil
This is true. Should've added that detail
and? ....did give him?
Kurt literally smoked cigarette's man was a amazing artist but my goodness was he a hypocrite sometimes man
Why is that hypocrisy? I also used to inject drugs, you think I wanted to see that advertised to young people due to that fact?
I mean a lot of people who do drugs will tell you not to do it. Not to be a hypocrite, but to serve a warning. What did you want him to do, advertise killing your lungs or be transparent about it?
excellent video
I think kurt was really ill at around that time. He seemed emotionally drained and was probably looking to escape hence his rapid drug use post nevermind. He was caught in a whirlwind and was probably under unbelievable pressure from management, his wife and his label to deliver all the time. A blow out was inevitable.
Nothing can ever top the debacle of the Trees show here in Dallas where Curt hit the huge bouncer in the head for pulling his hair when pulling him back onstage from crowdsurfing and melee ensued. The band took a break and Curt finally got his dope fix and then finished the gig. He tried to sneak out the back to a waiting cab but the bouncer spotted him and busted out the cabs passenger window where Curt was sitting terrified. They managed to pull off before Curt got pummeled by the bouncer. Good times!!!
Unlike the 20,000 other people who claim to have been in a venue with a max cap of 500-700 people, I was outside listening to the ensuing chaos and had a front row seat for the daring escape via cab waiting in the rear alleyway where we smoked pot.
I once played that venue with a pop punk/ emo band of mine
@@Rand_al_Thor372 so did he get beat up by the bouncer or not?
@@iggmeister4137 watch the video and decide for yourself..
Id say the bouncer (Turner Scott Van Blarcum local metal front man) got the worst of it via the strap button on the butt of the guitar Curt hit Turner with full force, drawing blood but it was a pussy bitch move IMO
KURT with a K
"...But, I'm certain that a very good majority of the people had no idea what the f*** we were doing. Yanno? They had no idea we were doing new wave covers, and trying to have fun, and trading off instruments, and just trying to have a party atmosphere. Because most people attend those kind of arena, large, rock shows, and they expect a very clean, professional preformance, from a band..."-Kurt Cobain interview. January 21st 1993 BMG Ariola Ltda Rio de Janeiro
One of my favorite nirvana concerts
Strangely this show was one of mine and other fans favorite shows
Rios the best performance of a band who didn't wanna be famous anymore.
I really enjoyed this,I knew most of this but also learnt knew things ,as a. H user I can understand the initial bullshit off not being able to find it,this the bad mood and shit playing
Yeah also as an ex heroin addict myself I cannot believe they went on tour without getting this stuff organised, I just wouldnt do it without a huge stash hidden with me or methadone. I would no way be pissing around finding a new decent dealer in every new town every day, it was already enough of a hassle when they lived on the same street as me.
I freely admit i was pathetic about withdrawals though, couldnt take them for even 10 minutes. He possibly wasnt a constant all day iv heroin user at this point to be able to get through that and actually play shows
If only the name, 'The Pretenders' hadn't been taken already.
For someone who hated Capitalism ( which has lifted more people up out of poverty than any other system by the way) he sure didn't mind the millions he was raking in to support his Heroin addiction. If he hated Capitalism so much, he should have refused the money and just played for free.
That's a dumb argument. It's like that meme where the guy in the well is telling the peasant "if you hate the system so much, why are you a part of it?"
It's impossible to leave. Also, you can't attack Rome without using the roads Rome paved.
Sao Pauloo?
He was just a kid. Id hate to see the footage of me during my crazy days they would think i was mental
Where are these live shows on youtube?
Kurt in Chains
Alison Cobain
Nirvana's most disastrous show was was still way better than Nickelback any day.
True!
Such an accurate statement 🤣🤣🤣
I was at that concert in Sao Paulo, it was great.
Kurt was killed.
I enjoy your videos but some important facts were left out. The first day they got there they had a Brazilian tour guide aka a guy some guys in the nirvana camp knew. Kurt wanted to score heroin the minute he touched down, but all he could find was really good cocaine. Courtney love had valium's and the first night they were all drinking even though it's an opiate addicts worst nightmare to drink while your dope sick. Kurt and Layne Stayley talked that first day and both singers who died on the same day 8 years apart realized they weren't going to be able to perform without heroin. They both thought they could find it as both camps had connections but heroin was dry that week. I only know these facts from books and interviews I've watched. Anyways Layne has a friend who was a female drug dealer that Kurt also went through as Layne and Kurt both went through the same people and sometimes shot at the same dope houses in the capital Hill area. Anyways Layne paid for his friend to bring a pancake size of heroin to Brazil along with a lot of needles and I could only imagine how she snuggled all of that gear and heroin on a 16 hour flight. The bands were the happiest they've ever been it was probably one of the best memories like a Christmas morning to them being way out on a tour and getting your drug or choice delivered to you. Anyways I could go on and on with stories on what happened once the heroin got there but a big story is Mike starr the basist of Alice in Chains had Layne shoot him up and then went next door to kick it with Kurt, and Kurt wanted to hit Mike's neck not knowing Layne had already shot him up with a very potent load. Mike Starr ODed that night and it freaked everyone out and ruined everyone's high and Kurt and Layne had to throw freezing water on him as narcan wasn't a thing back then people had on them like a break here when needed. not long after this tour Mike was kicked out of the band. Kurt and Layne did a lot of coke mixed with heroin shots and the performance where Kurt only gets like two words right and just smokes cigarettes spitting at the camera and putting his junk on the lenses probably was because he was enjoying a bender where he was on no sleep for a week just like Layne. most of who used as Jerry did come back then and was shooting it, Sean didn't use, he drank and smoked weed like Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl did not use. But Kurt Kourtney Layne and Mike all spent time before their on stage performances shooting as much drugs as they could into their body's and taking the little anxiety pills Kourtney brought
How do you know all of this?
@@hotdoglover1573 years of research, hearing people tell stories there's a lot of books on nirvana I have a thick binder you can buy it's all of kurts music writing daily journals and stories random stuff etc photograph nirvana live the website has almost everything from photos to posters to interviews to just the band talking everything was documented in Nirvana it seemed
Caitlin?
The story that runs here in Brazil is that Kurt didn't know that the festival was named Hollywood Rock after a brand of cigarettes. When he discovered that before the show decided do sabotage it
Why would he when he smoked?
@@BlindingSun_ IDK... I do smoke also, but I would not like do advertise it to a million of kids
@@BlindingSun_probably because it isn’t ethical to advertise it to young audiences.
For example, people who do drugs probably know it’s bad and don’t want to influence kids doing drugs.
I’ve known people who smoke and advise against it. They continue because they’re already hooked or addicted, but might as well deteriorate younger people
from getting the bad habit.
Kurt was high on meth for the show.
For those who might be interested, here's a special Brazilian TV report on how Nirvana spent their time in Brazil: ua-cam.com/video/3a0pErFWc1M/v-deo.html
That’s the day I was born 😟
I really doubt heroin is hard to find anywhere
90 minutes is a long time when you're dopesick.
Kurt stayed up all night and was high on valium. Slowed him down significantly and made him off time with Dave. So he decided to create more of a "party atmosphere" than a rock concert. Shit gig, but so it goes.
and yet, they had there best show after that. Unplugged
I actually thought the Jan 23 show in Rio was pretty good/interesting. It was different and I feel like it added to their legacy and mystery...its Rock and Roll!
07:30 there comes the evil sl**t
Also of note, Kurt went parasailing one day between shows.
This addict rock star must have a bag full of or medicamentation for assur their shows
Gordo? Was he the guy from Ratos?
Woah kurt did coke? Never knew dat 1
(Still love ya tho cobain)
He seldom drank either. If he didn;t have heroin he liked to get high with cough syrup. He would get drunk occasionally if he couldn;'t get high but that wasn't his preference.
Kurt didn';t do coke, but he wasn't about to turn down a drug given to him either, especially if he couldn't find what he preferrred.
Makes since tbh
Damn i wish kurt was still here@@dathorndike4908
He was in severe heroin withdrawal and they just got a hold of what they could. With the help of AIC.
Of course and he shot crack and meth as well lol you think he's just going to do heroin? Most heroin addicts don't just do heroin if they have money they mix it with crack, same as Slash. Just doing heroin will do nothing for him after a while and be boring. Courtney love has talked about him doing crack, a speedball or snowball.
Finally someone who says the truth! The Argentina show wasn't the worst!
Their cover of the Clash was actually not that bad.
Funky i thought the second show was brillant, specially this crazy encore
you just don't understand rock n roll
Send a buddy into the crowd looking for dope
Most disasterous show?? Every show they ever had was disastrous (with the exception of Dave's drumming of course) well The Unplugged concert was pretty good
the LATAM. tour....was a beautiful mess...in retrospective...the awful..was his wife's company...exists many short vids in Río..of Courtney..yells..so loud..for be the center of attention...so Diva....
In Argentina..the music press.call her...snake...always around him..pushing him..controlling.him
.in all the situations....
When think in these days...
Ibelieve....
Cobain deserved be more happy
not miserable...
Just...that
Oh look at our comments! We're so cool because we laugh about how Kurt and Nirvana SUCKED instead of relishing the rare accomplishments of someone regular like us giving rock a real kick in the ass! Yeah Beavis! Kurt sucks!
They were against the capitalist cigarette brand so they sucked 😆 yea sure they just sucked
I like Nirvana's songs but really hate their tradition of destroying their rigs. What's the fucking point? There is nothing cool about destroying your high quality guitar. You cannot recycle it, those are high quality woods. Why destroy the tools that enabled you to make music?
They aren't high quality, they were the cheapest guitars he could find, he did use expensive guitars but he didn't destroy those
@@semaforosargentina Fender Jaguars, Strats and Mustangs were the cheapest guitars he could find?
Even if we assume he only destroyed cheap guitars, what was the point? Btw he also destroyed his amps.
@@zeenedin9013 It's a Rock tradition 🤟
@@semaforosargentina oh come on don't call a result of drugs addiction a rock tradition. So many rock and metal bands out there, legends of their genres, never destroyed their gear. Not honoring a rock tradition?
@@zeenedin9013 So by breaking a guitar I'm a drug addict?
These shows still made history, and are considered great shows. Remember the guy for who he was. Attention videos are shameful
Not an attention video. Just shedding light on a show that’s largely considered to be their worst. I’m a big Nirvana fan, but I’d be lying if I said either show was great. They definitely had their faults.
u have to be glazing if you can’t admit they were shit at times
He was a miserable one.
Kurt didn't do it. Someone else un-alived him.
R.IP Cobain
Dude, NO! Look I was 16 when nevermind came out ill be 48 and lived through 25 years of my own opiate addiction and I really shouldn't be here at all and have had many friends die from the drugs and alcohol. Opiate addiction changes u deep inside and Kurt already had huge problems with depression and suicidal thoughts since he was a kid. Kurt needed long term drug rehab treatment and sadly he didnt get it. The downside of heroin is very very dark and many cant take it, suboxone helped me but i am dam near certain he unalived himself.
Watch the documentary that included the PI who Courtney hired. Someone definitely added words to the bottom of his "suicide note". Kurt was preparing to divorce her and she wasn't going to let that happen.
@@vicvega3614what do you mean unalived himself? Do you mean kill himself? We aren't robots! And your making out it's a bad thing, suicide is most common death for Kurt's age, it's not a shock!
Yeah I'm very skeptical of documentaries in general, but the circumstances around his travels and her lying about where he was that week, the forensic circumstances, lack of investigation, and just extremely suspicious and paranoid recorded words and behavior of Courtney Love, both before and after his death, and her addicted hangers-on, to me it is clear it was not suicide. The film is called "Soaked in Bleach" @@deemika
@@jimmymarsh2489you're 40 and still into conspiracy theories?
In Utero was terrible lol
My favorite nirvana show, they sound so heavy and powerful
Luckly for the band's reputation, Kurt looked very different from usual, the disguise to deal with a overhyped show, also helped to keep this shameful act hidden in Nirvana's history.
Yeah, you are right about that. Kurt's shabbier, dark haired appearence onstage makes him look like theres somebody else up there. He seemed camoflagued then, in a drug hazed walkabout on a massive stage that saw him swallowed up by an Ocean of people infront of him. Compare that, to the classic "Live and Loud" show at the years' end, which is a fantastic, fired up , faultless performance.
That, is how fans want to see and remember them live.
I saw a rough lookin bootleg video of the Rio gig when I was 15, only months after he passed away. Seeing any live footage anywhere of them was like having the Holy Grail at the time, so I initially loved Rio, not knowing what was happening within him and the band at the time. I was just over the moon to be watching them play.
People might see the South American shows and think "Yeah, thats brilliant. Total punk rock, not giving a shit." I watch those shows since he passed and think ,"Man if only the same excitement and fire from the Nevermind release was in him here, what gigs these could be".
I dont know why there was so many drugs around back then. I'm glad I didn't get involved. I was in a band that wanted me to tour with them around 1991 and I just wasnt into it. Thank God, because I already had issue with alcohol and I have no doubt back then I would have easily fallen into the drug scene and look what happen to all those guys, half of them are dead
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