Live Nirvana | Concert Chronology | 1991 | October 31, 1991

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NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Dave Grohl (drums, backing vocals)
Nikki McClure (dancer)
Ian Dickson (dancer)

Monty Lee Wilkes (tour manager)
Craig Montgomery (sound engineer)
Myles Kennedy (monitor engineer & drum technician)
Nic Close (guitar technician)

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- Chris Monlux

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Drain You
Rape Me

Grohl - Happy Halloween
Cobain - This song was written by a band called The Vaselines, they're from Edinburgh, Scotland and they're very punk rock
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
Aneurysm
Novoselic - Thanks a lot
Grohl - Thanks
Drain You
School
Grohl - Thank you very much. So like, two percent of you people are in costumes, and personally I think it's very lame. Unless you're all supposed to be punk rockers
Novoselic - You know who I came as? I came as John Jacobs, 'cause I John Jacobs will bust one hundred bass guitars over my, knee. you don't like John Jacobs? But, he rips up phone books for God. You're very polite
Floyd The Barber
Novoselic - Well, obviously we're doing one of those, film the band, for a type, video trips tonight, so you know. We haven't added any new members
jam
Novoselic - White boy funk sucks!
Smells Like Teen Spirit
About A Girl
Grohl - Kurt. Polly? Do Polly?
Polly
Breed
Grohl - Thanks
Novoselic - I've been hypnotized!
Sliver
Novoselic - Smile, you're on candid camera. There's more cameras in here than in a 7-Eleven
Love Buzz
Lithium
Grohl - This song's called Been A Son
Been A Son
Negative Creep
On A Plain
Cobain - Goodnight
Blew
Novoselic - See you backstage, Mom
ENCORE
Novoselic - Thank you
Grohl - You're beautiful, you're beautiful. Queen of rock is here tonight
Novoselic - So tonight is uh...
Grohl - No, what were you, the high priestess of rock? Was that you?
Novoselic - No, she's the queen of the reich
Grohl - Yeah, she's, Queensryche's here tonight
Cobain - This song is about hairy, sweaty, macho, redneck men... who rape
Rape Me
Territorial Pissings
Novoselic - Since it's Halloween, we thought we'd play the secret song
Endless, Nameless

AUD #1

Equipment:: Sonic Studios DSM-6P > Casio DA-R100
Lowest Generation:: DAT(M) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 73 min / 9.0
Notes:: • Circulated in May 2007.; • Commonly mislabelled as Sonic Studios > Sony WM-D3.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

AUD #2

Equipment:: Sonic Studios DSM-6P > Sony TCD-D3
Lowest Generation:: DAT(M) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 69 min / 8.0
Notes:: • Circulated in June 2005.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

AUD #3 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: ANA(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 49:47 min / 6.0
Notes:: • Circulated in April 2017.; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Missing everything before "Drain You", small cut in the banter between "School" and "Floyd The Barber", "Sliver" cuts in due to a tape flip and "Rape Me" cuts out.

AUD #4 incomplete

Equipment:: Sony ECM-909 > Sony WM-D6C
Lowest Generation:: ANA(M) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 52:32 min / ?
Notes:: • Circulated on October 31st, 2023.; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • There are short volume drops in the left channel during "Aneurysm" and "Floyd The Barber".; • Missing everything after "Blew", which cuts out.

SBD #1a

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: ANA(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 72:57 min / 9.5
Notes:: • Circulated in October 2021.; • More complete, but lower quality than SBD #1b, SBD #1c, SBD #1d, and SBD #1e.; • Wallace copied and pasted Kurt's chiming guitar to cover up a bum note on "Smells Like Teen Spirit".; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Professionally mixed by Andy Wallace.

SBD #1b incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official Promo CD [Nevermind It's An Interview]
Length / Sound Quality:: 20 min / 10
Notes:: • Less complete, but higher quality than SBD #1a.; • Includes only "About A Girl", "Aneurysm", "Drain You", "On A Plain", part of "Endless, Nameless", and "School".; • Has talking over the beginnings of all songs except "Drain You" and "On A Plain".; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Professionally mixed by Andy Wallace.

SBD #1c incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official CD [Come As You Are]
Length / Sound Quality:: 10 min / 10
Notes:: • Less complete, but higher quality than SBD #1a.; • Includes only "Drain You" and "School".; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Professionally mixed by Andy Wallace.

SBD #1d incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official CD [Lithium]
Length / Sound Quality:: 05 min / 10
Notes:: • Less complete, but higher quality than SBD #1a.; • Includes only "Been A Son".; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Professionally mixed by Andy Wallace.

SBD #1e incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official CD [From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah]
Length / Sound Quality:: 05 min / 10
Notes:: • Less complete, but higher quality than SBD #1a.; • Includes only "Negative Creep".; • Does not include the soundcheck.; • Professionally mixed by Andy Wallace.; • Side four of the vinyl version contains additional stage banter not present on this source.

PRO #1 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: Official DVD/LD [Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!]
Length / Sound Quality:: 15 min / 10
Notes:: • Has different camera angles from PRO #2, PRO #4, PRO #5, and PRO #6.; • Includes only "About A Girl", "Polly", "Breed", and parts of "Endless, Nameless".; • Five-camera PRO-shot video, featuring soundboard audio with audience mics mixed in.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

PRO #2 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: VHS(2) > DVDR/VHS(2) > DVDR(1) > FLAC
Length / Sound Quality:: 08 min / 9.5
Notes:: • In December 2008 it was discovered that the VHS(x) tape was in fact a second generation tape.; • Has different camera angles from PRO #1, PRO #5, and PRO #6.; • Includes only "Endless, Nameless".; • Multi-camera edit made from the professional five-camera masters with soundboard audio.; • Footage is in black and white and has special effects throughout, except during the quiet parts of the song.; • Includes some additional shots added in over the live video from other parts of the song.; • This was to be used as a music video, but was rejected.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

PRO #3 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: Official DVD [With The Lights Out]
Length / Sound Quality:: 05 min / 9.5
Notes:: • Has different camera angles from PRO #5 and PRO #6.; • Includes only "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam".; • Two-camera PRO-shot edit made from the fix-camera masters, featuring soundboard audio with audience mics mixed in.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

PRO #4 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: Master > FLV
Length / Sound Quality:: 05 min / 10
Notes:: • Has different camera angles from PRO #5 and PRO #6.; • Includes only "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which has some special effects.; • Six-camera video with soundboard audio.; • Includes the five professional 16 mm angles along with black and white clips of the uncirculated Super 8 amateur video.; • Edited by Louis Marciano in November 1991, possibly for potential release as a music video.; • Circulating copies are sourced from an FLV video file posted on YouTube.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

PRO #5 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: DTV > TS
Length / Sound Quality:: 45 min / 10
Notes:: • Broadcast on VH1 and Palladia in September 2011.; • Has different camera angles from PRO #1, PRO #2, PRO #3, PRO #4, and PRO #6.; • Missing "Drain You", "School", "Floyd The Barber", the jam, "About A Girl", "Love Buzz", "Been A Son", "Negative Creep", and "Rape Me".; • Five-camera video with soundboard audio.; • Includes professionally remixed stereo audio and 5.1-channel audio by Nathaniel Kunkel, both done in 2011.; • Does not include the soundcheck.

PRO #6

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown (16 mm)
Lowest Generation:: Official Blu-ray Disc [Live At The Paramount]
Length / Sound Quality:: 72 min / 10
Notes:: • Has different camera angles from PRO #1, PRO #2, PRO #3, PRO #4, and PRO #5.; • Five-camera video with soundboard audio.; • Includes professionally remixed stereo audio and 5.1-channel audio by Nathaniel Kunkel, both done in 2011 for this release.; • At least one instance of an out-of-tune instrument was fixed during the production of this audio mix.; • This is evident with Krist's bass during "About A Girl", which sounds noticeably out of tune on other circulating recordings of the show.

AMT CLIP #1 incomplete

Equipment:: Soundboard > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: VHS(1) > DVDR
Length / Sound Quality:: ?? / ??
Notes:: • Silent clip of "Polly" broadcast on the "Nirvana Half An Hour".

PRO CLIP #7 incomplete

Equipment:: Unknown > Unknown
Lowest Generation:: Official Blu-ray Disc [Kurt Cobain - Montage of Heck]
Length / Sound Quality:: ?? / ??
Notes:: • Includes clips of "Drain You" from the soundcheck overdubbed with audio from the night show.

AUD #5 incomplete

Missing everthing after "Breed".

AMT #1

It is rumored that the show was recorded.

AMT #2

The brother of the professional video's director shot some Super 8 footage from the audience.

The show was originally supposed to be at the Moore Theatre, but had to be moved to a larger venue.

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Photo by Karen Mason-Blair

LIVE NIRVANA Concert Chronology October 31, 1991 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA, US

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