Kurt Cobain - Live Songs Performed Solo (Opinion, Lithium, Dumb, Been A Son) @ KAOS Radio 1990
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- Kurt performing live songs (Opinion, Lithium, Dumb, Been A Son) at KAOS Radio on September 25th, 1990 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA.
I enhanced the audio from lossless sources. I boosted the EQ spectrum, expanded the dynamic range, and on and so forth. The audio sounds great. No clipping. No squashed audio. - Hudba
-What's going on, baby?
Not a damn thing.
Yesmrq
Haha love it just 2 dudes hanging out
1:16 Opinion
3:30 Lithium
5:23 Dumb
7:50 Been a Son
Thanks
Gennady Sergeev Unfortunately the full recording hasn't surfaced, only those songs, D-7 was recorded in this session with Calvin Johnson as a duet (he was the other guy there) and probably other songs
@@camacaron06 D7, Polly and 2 more songs. KAOS FM still has a tape with the full recording. Its a shame they don't want to share... Nirvana radio recordings are nearly complete.
@@pedrorodriguez2755 Maybe a raid is in order
🙌🏼@@didimean❤
Love his voice cracks.
Yea man I feel like that's why nobody can sound like him
@@st_tech0687 if youd ever tried to sing like that, like, jumping from one note to another through a voice crack, its not hard but so cool and unique. Really couldnt tell who did it too except from Kurt
yess that makes it even more perfect for some reason. More unique
they define who he is
It is VERY likely the pitch was impacted by the tape bootleg/copy etc
Obviously lower during the interbits and probably higher during the performance 👍
HOWEVER, this is now part of the magic ahah ❤️
Only Kurt could drive with one foot and write Lithium in the meantime
😂🙏✌️❤️♾J
Mania changes a man
Only Kurt could drive with one foot, wanting to be spontaneous as possible
Yup n walk with hand too
and then some...
He sounds so cute and nervous a rare interview where he has his guard down thank you for uploading much appreciated
Miruden Yeah I love the innocence and naivete here!
You're most welcome and glad you're enjoying the upload 😊
Kurt stayed that way - he always had great manners and no ego
A couple of the secrets to success 😉 I think ego is an unfortunate part of the human condition. Especially with Kurt having so famously achieved what he did. It's something though that he seemed to be very conscious about, and tried to keep in check. Unfortunately in many unhealthy ways: "beat me up". 😑
+JazzMartian yes - but for Kurt, he had not one bit of rock star ego, and it would have served him well to have some - he gave/shared too much, too often to those who didn't deserve it, but I'll quit there lolz
Actually read the lyrics of a lesser known nirvana song if you must its what he does to get a rockstar ego and is full of his doubts as well as his "rockstar psyche"
Kurt Cobain was such a gifted acoustic musician.
It's amazing to me to think that not one fucking songwriter could top this guy in the 90s
As far as the mainstream I totally agree, and add that not just the '90s, but to this day. For me personally though, I feel that one songwriter since Kurt has at least been on the same level. That is Elliott Smith. But many days my opinion of Elliott Smith is that he is the the flat out 🐐. That's how good I think he was. That includes everybody from Lennon/McCartney, to Dylan, to Hendrix, to Waters/Gilmour, to Kurt and every other songwriter ever.
Shockingly, despite his Oscar nomination for best original song in a film (Miss Misery), from Good Will Hunting, and live Academy Awards performance of it, he remains in relative obscurity. Not that Miss Misery is generally regarded by core fans or critics as his strongest musical effort, just his most famous. Though it is an incredible piece of work.
He was an indie artist for all but 2 of his studio albums, so that sorta explains it. But considering his level of talent, the always consistently strong quality of his body of work, and him being a "favorite songwriter's favorite songwriter" the fact he never "went viral", continues to surprise me. However when I consider many factors (which I won't list cause this post is long enough) it does actually make sense. So I guess I reasoned this mystery out well enough for myself with my own post. Thanks @Jazz Martian. 😉
Jazz Martian dude, not many know of Elliot Smith 😳. But I agree!!
Bruh alice in chains people really sleep on jerry cantrell
@@JazzMartian I think other kind of songwritter that can compare maybe is Jeff Buckley, maybe he didn't write much song as Kurt, and he has difficulty to materialize the song but he "compensate" that by made covers his ways, like Nina Simone or Dylan ones
Um Pixies? He even says after Lithium, "it's a rip off." He's said that when writing Teen Spirit he was trying to write a Pixies song. He was a fan boy whose band made it with songs he felt were just rip offs; but the public was too dumb to notice and instead praised his "genius." A good musician and songwriter still. He was one of us and the imposter syndrome was very real.
So cool that a radio station let someone come on and perform never before heard songs
Another example of this would be the recordings Jeff Buckley did form WFMU, a free from radio station in New Jersey, before the release of “Grace” (1994).
Check them out, some of them are on CZcams.
College radio use to be just like this sad to think of it's current state
Well it does happen quite often at least here in France and I assume a lot of radio around the world, thanks to the small foot print of having a girl or a dude come with an acoustic (or just the one laying at the radio booth)
The problem is to have Kurt Cobain coming..... Ahaha
@@o_ofigures yes it would be so nice that twitch / CZcams big music channels would invite more musicians guest
It would work perfectly fine and probably even better!
(except for the fact that there is millions of channels now... But still there where already thousands of radios so it's OK,)
@@Aniki82 good luck with that sweetheart because you could potentially play endless amounts of music and do all the covers you want without having to worry about copyright
You just paid a fee back in the day to BMI or ASCAP and would be able to play copyrighted music
Those entities listed above are royalty collection services essentially every time a musician's music is played in a club, dinner jukebox, any public setting or on the radio an artist has to get paid for that
Even if somebody else is doing a cover on the radio the original artist still has to get compensated for them doing a live cover of their original material
‘I’ll play it... is it sounding ok? good’ idk why I want to cry just hearing him talk, so soft.
Bloody Brilliant!
Kurt also played D-7, Polly and two other songs but unfortunately the rest of the session is unsurfaced starting after Been A Son.
How did You know that?! O,O
I mean I know about d7 but Polly and rest?? O,O Would love to hear them
Piotreq Ytrewqwe Calvin Johnson (the host of the radio session and the other person talking) said that, he doesn’t remember the two other songs played and he knows there’s a full version of the recording out there, he just doesn’t have it, the radio station has it in a vault and doesn’t want to be bugged about it so they just say it doesn’t exist but that’s obviously wrong
Piotreq Ytrewqwe Here are the notes from LiveNirvana.com for more info regarding it
In June 2002, whilst on their US tour, the owners of this website chatted to Calvin Johnson backstage at a K-Records showcase in New York City. After the show they asked Johnson some questions about this much sought-after radio session, recorded for his Boy Meets Girl radio program.
When asked which other songs were recorded besides Opinion (a song Johnson unsurprisingly did not recall) and Lithium, Johnson confirmed that D-7 and Polly were aired. Whilst he could not remember precisely which other songs were played, he insisted that eight songs were aired in total because this was the format his show took (four songs/interview/four songs/interview). Johnson was surprised that the complete session had not surfaced among collectors and lamented this on account of a duet he performed with Cobain on D-7 which he remembers as being rather good. Johnson insisted that his tape of the session was blank but thought that someone had to have a copy. (1)
However, independent LN research reveals that KAOS are indeed in possession of a tape of this broadcast, but for obvious reasons they do not wish to be hounded and therefore deny its existence.
Cobain intended this session to be a showcase for some new material; indeed, Dumb was also debuted at this session. (2) The song was penned in summer 1990, just before NIRVANA signed with Geffen. Cobain also wrote Pennyroyal Tea in winter of 1990, after the band signed. During the interview segments, Cobain announced live on air that Dave Grohl was to be the band's new drummer and that he had not yet informed Bruce Pavitt (Sub Pop co-founder). (2)
surely an intern or someone at KAOS can get a hold of the tape and copy it or digitize it.
There's so much greatness in Kurt's songwriting. He was able to express extreme sorrow in his songs that modern day songwriters cannot.
They can they just don't get signed anymore because music is now worth 0.0000001c.
@@peoplearedumbnow3886 true
Peter Theodoreis have you heard of lil peep or juice wrld
@@rainystone607 bro, these are the poppiest paid artists of last 10 years
BRO HE RESLLY WROTE LITHIUM AND DUMB IN A CAR IN ONE EVENING
In his simplicity he was levels above of all the rest..
Heard this on radio in 95 I recorded it on a tape ..lol holding it up to radio being quiet as possible.. I years later lost the tape .. I wondered if I'd ever find it or hear it again and today I'm back in 95. And it not lost to time..
RIP KURT COBAIN 🎸🎶❤
WOW! 3 reasons this is so precious:
This is just before he made NEVERMIND!
Kurt is anxious, fresh, & positive & all because he’s not on Heroin yet!!
It’s just such a beautiful session w the hands down greatest songwriter of my generation (I’m 50 now) & a few others as well!
Thanks so much 4 sharing this lovely history
He did heroin in 1988 before bleach, and the named bleach came off a herion poster in san fransisco
@@sckare_zaxh3229 he was not addicted then
XD
@@sckare_zaxh3229 he had only done it a few times (i believe 10) before he got hooked in 91-ish
@@rebelfriend6660 yea ik, he had a book saying when and where he did it, the first time i think was in 87'
Bloody Brilliant :D
It's hearing Kurt like this and you know he was a GENIUS !!..
Man oh man this segment never gets old but I remember listening to this back in the late 90s to early 2000s from bootlegs of course but man I love how Kurt does his deep hum for dumb bc it’s gives that cello hum we are all use to.. goes to show Kurt knew what he wanted an shows even then Kurt wanted to do more acoustic stuff in his future an was going that way til he was killed sadly
Nice!
kurt cobain in acoustic mode that raw and good is the greatest musical prophet in history
lithium in this has so much soul wtf
Wish opinions was on an album
This genius had all these songs the whole time. Really incredible
i remember hearing this way back when i was in high school
lol so happy to still be able to hear it
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Bloody brilliant
Back when I was listening to nothing but Nirvana, mid 90’s or so, the only song I knew from this radio show was Opinion and I had sooo many bootlegs. I thought he came to play this one song. So thank you for sharing this!
You're welcome :)
Yeah I don’t know why Opinion was the only song common from bootlegs from this, obviously some bootlegs have others, but mainly only opinion. I’m glad this video came out lol. I was so tired of hearing opinion on every CD (not cause I don’t like it I just feel they milked it)
Us Gen Xers were so spoiled being the same age as all these great musicians...every week there was another great album released...so much so we got blase about it lol
rip kurt we will forevermore miss you
His voice is my drug. I love you Kurt💔
Love him songs, baby
2022 still rowan with KING KURT GRUNGE MASTER....The Greatest
3:30 Kurt sounds so sweet
Thank you so much for posting this!
You're welcome, no prob. :)
Jazz Martian do you do all remastered on the rare nirvana stuff ? Bro I have been looking for A lot of concerts & even this one but had no luck
+Emiliano Tamez Sorry for the late reply. You're welcome. 😊
You're welcome :)
B_side1986 T Oh hey sorry, I missed your comment til just now for some reason. PM me your preferred email address and I should be able to help you out.
Early version of dumb love it 👍
CHE MERAVIGLIA!!!❤❤❤
Pretty sure “it’s a ripoff” is referring to Dumb being a ripoff of Lithium because the guitar chords are similar (both start out on the E chord). Might be some dialogue missing prior to him saying “it’s a ripoff” as well.
Nirvana had quite a few songs with similar melodies. "SLTS" and "Rape Me" being an example.
I thought he was referring to polly, But then I remembered that polly didn't come out till 91 lol
I think it was about The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill by The Beatles
@@duo5817 he actually already wrote polly at that time and he refers to dumb as a ripoff to polly. this is validated in their MTV unplugged performance when he says polly and dumb are basically the same song
Lithium and Dumb have a similar picking style and Smells Like and Dumb are using the same chord progression 🙂
3:33 That kinda wrecked me cause you can just hear the radio station host is just like ‘no no it really does.’ ✨
It’s unfortunate we don’t have all of this show yet.
Agreed. Weird that it doesn't seem to be available.
Let's hope somebody dig it out.
Damn, that freestyle at the start was lit
Is anyone else completely amazed by how well he plays. Listen to how clean lithium and been a son are. I’ve tried to recreate that acoustic sound many times, so clean
This is so special
similar to other commenters here I had 'Opinion' on the Ultra Rare Trax bootleg - I wasn't sure if it was a home demo - amazing to have it in context now with the patter between him and the DJ. Oh and the other songs!
Dumb was absolutely PERFECT in this.
Lithium and the others were great, too, but DUMB in this?.... Wow. Perfection....
Been a son. Damn, what a beautiful rendition.
Outstanding, love the songs and the banter - I'm picking up my guitar right now!
Really happy this dosnt any dislikes at this moment of time.
+Trevor Standley Yeah it's definitely nice to see people people like it rather than not.
+Trevor Standley Yeah I hear ya. Likes = encouragement to continue posting content. Dislikes, well, the opposite. It's also nice to see that others out there appreciate some of the same things. ☺️
wenever someone says this i look up and notice theres 1 dislike. im sure someone saw your comment and thought "im gonna be a dick"
kurtis mcneese pretty much
Yeah so far 4 have struck lol. It's ok. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. 😝
Thank you so much for posting this songs !!!! :)
Just their talking at the start and between songs makes this so relaxing for me, i love it.
I LOVE HIM
💓 Kurt to bits.
See a sun
Can't go on
Weigh it down
Wear a frown
She has said
Have been hit
Wouldn't wanna
Beat me up
Amazing♥️👌
I fucking love this. Its just like all the noise and lights stripped away. Great music from a very talented man
Thank you so much
You're welcome!
This is truly, truly an incredible snippet of musical history ❤
i love you kurt !
The first time I heard these songs was in 95. I always thought this was him in his room. I just heard in a podcast that this was on the radio. Blew my mind. I never heard the intro or the talking in between each song
“Is it sounding okay”? He’s so cuteee and soft spoken🥺🥰 3:33
Best version of been a son
In this picture Kurt’s strings look so thin...
Never noticed that before. They do, now that you mention it. Light strings are easier on the fingers to play on, and make the sound "brighter". They break easier though.
Not gonna lie I think he used heavier electric guitar strings instead of acoustic
I don't know. Maybe he did. Anyways, very underrated guitarist imo.
he is left handed and guitar isn't
Yeah a lot of left handed guitarists just flip around and string a right handed guitar accordingly. One reason is that left handed guitars are are relatively rare. Finding one they like, when they want it, is often tough to do. Kurt especially had this problem when he was poor.
@: “This one’s off our new album”. Commentator: “Whose new album?”> Kurt: Nirvana’s new album, it’s called Lithium.” I've been reading "Journals" By Kurt, he mentions this encounter in his writings but I didn't realize the recordings were out there. And acoustic. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??! This is how it sounded in his bedroom as he was writing it. He and Krist were killing it trying to get a gig and this radio opportunity was HUGE for them. Crazy kids. “Dumb” feels weird without the bass line but this was Kurt’s vision, love it.
It was a small town college radio station in the town Kurt lived in at that time. So not a huge opportunity. He knew the host.
thanks for this God-blessed record
Wow thanks impressive never heard this
i really like the acoustic versions
Legend!
no hay palabras para describirlo¡¡
i love his voice
my heavens- this is Mr. Kurt and this stuff is rare fans/pals :}
i miss you kurt
Too cool
Amazing. God.
gold shit right there
I could listen to Kurt talk all day I just love his voice!
Justice is Coming Soon My Friend...
R.I.P. KURT⚘😪🥀
let it go
#justiceforkurt
Hopefully very soon
@@spaceofmind4962 Been🙏'n for 29 1/2 years!!
Joya!
Bloody brilliant ! Haha Kurt doing a British accent yes please 🇬🇧✨
Fuck, lithium sounds so good.
My fucking spine
I’m jealous to all the kids who got to hear this in real time. Now people have to hear “Hiiiii I’m (enter celebrity name) I’m selling this totally cool new album please buy it omg I worked sooo hard I totally did the work myself please purchase this album”
Also I like how when the celebrity says they worked “hard “on their album, you can tell they didn’t do a damn thing. Half them don’t even write their own songs.
@@nonameman7114 that’s a really big generalization tho man. There’s plenty of hardworking musicians out there.
@@pinzinkinzin4066 sure but the ones on the radio aren’t.
@@nonameman7114 hmm, I believe some of them work hard, most of them suck tho lmao
Kurt cobain 1994/2020 nirvana FOREVER
Espero que algún día antes de que nuera pueda escuchar el dueto de D7 con Calvin, y Polly.
Not, a damn, thing
Love that
5th april 2021
So many of Kurds songs are really difficult to play and sing at the same time. Been a son looks so easy and it is until you try and sing it lol.
Polly is probably the easiest
I typed in "September 25th, 1990" in the CZcams Search Bar, and sorted the results by "View Count", and this video was the top result, with 92,171 views as of 09/25/2021 at 9:24 A.M. Eastern Time(U.S. & Canada).
FOREVERxx
I like you opinión Kurt and cía.
Thanks for the comment ☺️
I've long wondered what Kurt's reference to "Herman's Hermits - One Little Packet Of Cigarettes" meant. Maybe the DJ was stressing him out? I can hear in the dialog how pretty much anybody would want a smoke at that point lol.
I just had a listen to it and possible that's what Lithium is a rip off of since he says that at the end.
He accidentally called it "Mr. Cigarette Man". Probably mixed the name up with their other song, "Mr. Moonshine Man".
He mentioned Hermans Hermits. I just checked them out go listen to them they are good.
like how he changed dumb on purpose lol
Omfg...
Okay, this totally shakes up my entire understanding of 'Opinion'!
Until now I had the impression that it was just something Kurt recorded at home on a cassette tape in his boom box, but now to hear that it was a live radio show is a revelation.
At 1:58 there is a *_glaring_* shift in the sound that lasts for less than a second. Before, when I thought this was a home recording, I assumed that Kurt recorded it on a cassette tape that for one reason or another was stopped at that exact point and then sat around for years and years without being played and that section of tape deteriorated from being exposed to dirt, crud, oxidation, etc. and produced the effect we hear there.
Now, hearing that this was a radio show and someone else was recording it, that throws my whole hypothesis into question. Granted, for all I know that might still be what happened, but the fact that it wasn't just Kurt hitting 'Record' on a boom box tape player brings all sorts of other factors into play.
Long story short: I don't even know who I am now!
he had his guitar plugged into an effect pedal, and his microphone was also plugged into that effect pedal. he accidentally pressed it with his foot and the guitar and voice change and then he turns it off
Notice how he doesn't sing the bridge for Lithium, probably out of embarrassment (I love you, I'm not gonna crack...) which was so obviously about Tobi Veil who used to go out with Calvin.
I used to hear the lyric as "crack" too. But found out it's "cry". I still hear it as "crack" sometimes though.
@@JazzMartian It's 'crack', not 'cry'. Stop spreading misinformation.
@@tothandrei "It's 'crack', not 'cry'. Stop spreading misinformation." The irony of you saying that to me kills me for multiple reasons. Go listen to an acapella of the studio version for one. Also stop believing that what you have always heard as the lyric (or preferred it to be) to be regarded as absolute proof. Also fan transcriptions are almost never 100% accurate. Another thing, the lyrics printed inside of the Lithium single are not all of the same lyrics that Kurt sang on the album. Lastly, it's 'cry', not 'crack'. Stop spreading misinformation.
maybe it's both
@@JazzMartian If you type in lithium lyrics into google and go into images you see in Kurt Cobain's journal the lyrics say "crack".
Still no Justice!
mannn kurt cobain
3:20 Our new albummmh, a Nirvana's new albummmh
ficou muito masa dumb
When he says, "while I was driving with one foot" he means he used his foot to also steer because he needed his hands to write down lyrics. Imagine Kurt driving and steering with one foot while writing down a song that he weirdly thinks resembles "Taxman." 😆
I can't tell if you honestly believe he literally wrote the lyrics on the drive there, and that he was using his foot to stear. It was a joke
Opinion reminds me of the Clash for some reason
If anyone has the full show or a link to it, that would be awesome
Avec ce genre de performances, comment aurait-il pu rester anonyme?
3:30
3:36