LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:12/13/93 (Rehearsals) - Pier 48 (MTV Live And Loud), Seattle, WA, US
Transcript:
DAVE JAMMING
Grohl - "It sucks!"
DAVE JAMMING
Grohl - "Kurt"
Grohl - "Hey, two, hey, two, two"
VERY APE
Grohl - "Ian"
Cobain - "What did Alex say?"
?? - "Hey guys, run through the set"
Cobain - "Is it ready?"
Grohl - "Ian, Ian"
Ian - "What?"
Grohl - "can I have more vocals in my monitor"
Ian - "Yeah"
Cobain - "Check, check, check. Shall we play now? We're just going to stand here until someone tells us to play ok? Ok?"
RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER
DRAIN YOU
Novoselic - "You kinda forget that we had vocals"
Grohl - "I can't hear shit man"
Cobain - "I can't hear his vocals" (pointing at Dave)"
Ian - "what's that?"
Grohl - "I can't hear anything"
Cobain - "run through the whole set"
BREED
Cobain - "The vocals sound perfect now Ian, don't touch anything. My vocals sound perfect, don't touch anything"
Grohl - "Have you had a look at the setlist? We're doing the whole set? OK"
Cobain - "Just a half hour of it, we've only got half an hour"
SERVE THE SERVANTS
Cobain - "Hey Pat, do you want to sing this… the chorus to that song, with me, or somebody"
Grohl - "What?"
Cobain - "someone wanna sing the chorus with me, because the range that its in, I barely can get it out loud enough, you know what I mean"
Cobain - "sing exactly the same notes as I am, you don't have to sing it really loud either, just to help it. Let's…let's just practice that, just one chorus OK?""
Grohl - "Hold on a minute, hold on" (as he ties back his hair)
Cobain - "one, two, three, four"
SERVE THE SERVANTS
[false start as Dave still isn't ready]
Cobain - "one, two, three, four"
SERVE THE SERVANTS
[with Pat singing backing vocals]
Cobain - "I need to hear Pat's vocals"
Novoselic - "Me too"
Grohl - "me also a tad"
Corey - "This is Corey, you gotta sing straight into those particular microphones otherwise I just get tons of guitar"
Smear - "OK, how's that?"
Cobain - "one, two, three, four"
SERVE THE SERVANTS
Cobain - "Craig, did that sound alright, I mean Scott"
Scott - "Yeah, that's much better, because always on that part I have to turn your vocal way up"
Cobain - "Right"
Scott - "or even double it to get that chunkiness and I gotta do that man"
Cobain - "Well still… still double it anyhow though"
Scott - "OK don't worry, don't worry"
RAPE ME
Grohl - "Ian! I don't have any monitor vocals or Kurt vocals, no monitors"
Cobain - "out here too, lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala. Lalalalalala eh, eeeehhhh better?"
Grohl - "I need a bit more"
Cobain - "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Laaaaaaaaaaaaa, ayyyyyyyy ooooooooo a e i o u a e i o u"
Grohl - "mine's just as loud as yours, ooooo"
SLIVER
Cobain - "Right there, that's where I mean"
Grohl - "Oh"
Cobain - "It's in your monitors too, right there"
Grohl - "put that ?? back on"
Cobain - "?? all mellow, yeah, what?"
Grohl - "let me do the chorus, then after that"
Cobain - "no, we start in the verses"
SLIVER
[part of]
Cobain - "I couldn't hear it at all"
Grohl - "Did you do it?"
SLIVER
[part of]
Cobain - "I still can't hear you, I still can't hear it at all"
Ian - "it's 'cos, I'm doing it"
Grohl - "Ian…ho ho, Ian, turn on my monitor, oh oh, OK nevermind"
Cobain - "check, check, my monitor's, gone too, check, check, check, check, ok, now it's on"
Grohl - "I'm on"
Cobain - "Go"
SLIVER
PENNYROYAL TEA
Novoselic - "buncha fuckers"
SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
ALL APOLOGIES
Grohl - "Ian"
Cobain - "Are you sure you can hear me?"
Grohl - "I can't hear anything"
Cobain - "Well get it fixed"
Grohl - "I'm tryin', I'm tryin' to fix it, but its not, its like I tried with your vocals and it comes out like arrrrr, and I got, your guitar's fine, but mine"
voice - "eh eh eh"
Cobain - "What can't you hear at that end"
Grohl - "Its just, everything is like booooo. I get so much of that out there and all the ?? out here and I cant hear like...?"
Cobain - "You can't hear what?"
Grohl - "I can't get high end out of it"
Cobain - "Out of what exactly?"
Grohl - "out of anything"
Cobain - "your voice or my guitar?"
Grohl - "Your voice"
Cobain - "Then have Ian turn mid range up"
Grohl - "I've been trying to"
Cobain - "do something"