This incredible set from 1992 is one of the most widely bootlegged rock tapes of all time. It’s the stuff of legend: the brash buy shy American band in the heady days of their meteoric rise, setting fire to the English countryside with this incendiary set at the famed Reading Festival. The tapes may be well known, but the Live at Reading DVD is the first time the world will see the video of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoscelic and Dave Grohl, taking the crowd to Nirvana.
Here’s a look at one of the tracks off Live at Reading, this is School
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The photographs from the Reading Festival set are as breathtaking as the performance itself. We miss you Kurt…
ON STAGE AT THE READING FESTIVAL 1992
REVIEW OF REVIEWS
If you need another example as to why Nirvana is so great, just take a look at the band’s 1992 performance at the equally legendary Reading Festival. Be it Kurt Cobain’s stage antics (coming on stage in a wheelchair and playing in a white hospital gown), to the trio’s awesome covers of Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” and the “Star Spangled Banner”, the former grunge legends put on a show for the ages.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: “All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourettes.” The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-�80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7″ by The Wipers.
TRACKLIST
1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings
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