NIRVANA IMPORTANT 1992 BUENOS AIRES DAVE GROHL HAND WRITTEN CONCERT SET LIST.
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8-1/2x11-5/8" on thin white stock. Handwritten set list in red felt tip marker by drummer Dave Grohl for the Oct. 30, 1992 concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Verso has printed "Nirvana Catering." Two well flattened horizontal folds. Otherwise only light handling. Exc. Pulled from the backstage area to be used as the set list master by Grohl. Research indicates that this handwritten set list was photocopied with the resulting prints being used in production making this a truly unique one of one artifact. Comes with Roger Epperson REAL LOA.
Keeping it real in Argentina: By this Oct. 20 1992 concert, the final Nirvana gig of '92, they were arguably the biggest band in the world. Their album Nevermind and its lead single Smells Like Teen Spirit had spent a little over a year redefining not only the rock music landscape but the popular culture- the effects of which continue to this day. The first and last time the band entertained an Argentinean crowd playing in front of the largest crowd to date at over 50,000 spectators. The one off gig needed an opener so the boys invited Portland, OR all girl punk rockers Calamity Jane along. The girls were met with a violent crowd uninterested in their music suffering an onslaught of toxic masculinity and violence from the crowd eventually abandoning the stage in tears. This enraged lead singer Kurt Cobain, an espoused feminist, who threatened everything from self-immolation to abandoning the show entirely. Talked back from the proverbial cliff by bassist Krist Noveselic, the power trio pulled the ultimate punk move- sabotage. Rather than play their relatable hits they launched into a snarky set of deep cuts playing with a vengeful swagger best explained by Kurt himself from the book The Chosen Rejects-
"When we played Buenos Aires, we brought this all-girl band over from Portland called Calamity Jane," Kurt recalled. "During their entire set, the whole audience-it was a huge show with like sixty thousand people-was throwing money and everything out of their pockets, mud and rocks, just pelting them. Eventually the girls stormed off crying. It was terrible, one of the worst things I've ever seen, such a mass of sexism all at once. Krist, knowing my attitude about things like that, tried to talk me out of at least setting myself on fire or refusing to play. We ended up having fun, laughing at them (the audience). Before every song, I'd play the intro to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and then stop. They didn't realize that we were protesting against what they'd done. We played for about forty minutes, and most of the songs were off Insecticide, so they didn't recognize anything. We wound up playing the secret noise song ('Endless, Nameless') that's at the end of Nevermind, and because we were so in a rage and were just so pissed off about this whole situation, that song and whole set were one of the greatest experiences I've ever had." -Kurt Cobain
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