Guest Post via 1984
Today, long-time Kill Screen enthusiast, 1984, reviews Nirvana’s Live at Reading DVD. I received the following sequential texts Saturday night.
Text message #1:
- Nirvana live at reading. Maybe greatest live official bootleg ever. Simple as that.
I haven’t seen it yet. I need to do my homework. That’s a bad job by me. But, let’s not get carried away and forget about The Songs Remains the Same.
Text message #2:
- Original live all apologies pre in utero is an absolute steamroller
So dark. During the pre-song stage banter, he references his wife and newborn child and then goes into a song about how he’s sorry he’s going to kill himself. Fittingly, these YT links will probably soon be dead:
Text message #3:
- So pre encore kurdt clearly bumped coke. Cuz during dumb 1st encore he starts majorly grinding teath
Good call by 84. Check the lower jaw twitch:
Song Remains the Same is def my favorite official bootleg all time, i’ve watched it at least 1000 times. i watch it every time its on vh1, i dont care what part its on, i just watch….
The machine-like efficiency of kurdt cobain really suprised me on the reading concert. I expected alot of punk-rock thrashing about, guitar smashing etc, but basically he just grinds out every tune, barely moving from the microphone, sometimes the only thing moving is his jaw grinding away.
james 1984
February 9, 2010 at 8:46 PM
The pre- In Utero Reading version of “All Apologies” Cobain says “All my thoughts are Grey” instead of “All my friends are Gay” …. I prefer the Grey lyric better, it really adds to the darkness of that beautiful haunting melody….and how often do my thoughts, ideas, plans, hopes, aspirations, feel kinda “grey” …all the time…
meanwhile like none of my friends are “Gay” unless you mean in a pejoritive seventh grade (Cris R) kinda way.
james 1984
February 9, 2010 at 8:51 PM