Nirvana Dallas 10/19/91

Wow thanks for this - great footage and the music suits my mood this morn, LOL. 

I first saw Nirvana at Portland's Satyricon club in 1989.. I had just returned from living in Spain / France for most of the prior 5 years...Mudhoney opened. I was like, "whoa, music has taken an exciting turn!" Had no idea who they were.  Then I moved to Seattle and won a job working at the ACLU -- and in our work to fight local censorship efforts of music lyrics, we recruited local grunge bands to support our campaign, speak at events, etc.  

We were also educating students about their rights when stopped by cops. One of the best ideas I've ever had in my life: I organized volunteers to distribute bill of rights / cop stop wallet cards at Seattle shows at a time when nonprofits weren't doing that sort of thing... I couldn't believe how easy it was to coordinate, and getting in for free was the bonus.  

The highlight of that era for me was Nirvana's 1994 In Utero tour -- they played a 2-night show at Seattle's Mercer Arena (smallish arena at Seattle Center) before heading to Europe.  I went backstage before the show and the manager said -- "why not stand behind so and so" -- I asked him where that was, and it was on the side of the stage!!  I may still have the setlist that was taped to the floor below Kurt's mic.  

Seattle in the early 90s was amazing.

I'm enjoying this. Thanks! 

TURN IT THE FUCK UP

(((( Morbid Angel ))))

I love some good hardcore loud music.

Miami in the 80's had an incredible punk scene. Out on south beach was a derelict broken down shit hole then.

Flynns Ocean 71 then Cameo took over the scene on Collins. Crack, Heroin, prostitutes an occasional dead body.

Circle Jerks, Government Issue, Black Flag, Gang Green, Agent Orange, Bad Brains, The Exploited, Dead Kennedy, DOA, just to name a few.

Every weekend.

I would go see 4 or 5 Dead shows and come back with a sheet and go down for an old fashion slam with 50 hits and stage dive with the best of em, trippin balls. Those skinheads sure liked the paper.

My crew never had to worry about them sneak attackers.

Fun time to be alive.

I never saw Kurt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pUlNfdnsAM

Saw Bad Brains a dozen times......We hung with the band one night at Dennys.....HR smoke a J right in there.

I was never a fan. I always thought they were a little too basic musically, but I never saw them live and that might well have made a real difference.

The power of this type of music live, loud and raw in the room with the energy of all the rocking people is something that just doesn't transfer to recordings, tapes or videos.

Still, I've always liked bands that had a bit more musical dynamic, more technical skill. In '91 if Jane's Addiction were playing the same night or multiple nights in the same town as Nirvana there would have been no question where I would have been every night. Of course I probably would have picked JA over any band in '91.

But Nirvana definitely had a sound, they wrote a handful of really good songs and they've lasted over time, so there must have been something more to them than I ever got.

I wish I had seen them at least once.

Agree, heathentom -- it's not like Kurt was a stellar guitarist -- but they were our NW boys who made it big and wrote some songs that stuck. 

The Ramones

THE Ween!!!