LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:03/??/87 - 17 Nussbaum Road (a house party), Raymond, WA, US
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[soundcheck, cuts in]
Novoselic - "That's enough for now man!"
Female voice - "yes, look like you earned?? ??"
Novoselic - "or like the more people show up"
Cobain - "Whatever" (in reply to female voice)"
Novoselic - "It sounds, sounds pretty good from like, right about here, is that all you hear the guitar though?"
Male voice - "I think it sounds a helluva lot better than usual"
Novoselic - "'cos all I hear is bass"
Male voice - "Get the fuck out! get the fuck outta here"
Male voice - "I think you guys should like buy a decent PA"
Male voice (Aaron?) - "We do have a decent PA, it just keeps blowing up!""
Male voice - "You just need decent speakers, that's it"
Male voice - "Fridge, beer"
Female voice - "hey"
[tape cuts]
[music cuts in from stereo]
Cobain - "Pissed"
Female oice - "Cale, Howie ??"
Male voice - "anything new?"
Male voice - "Hey, Cobain!"
Female voice - "Get off your ass"
Male voice - "What's with the hat?"
Female voice - "I knew like, given you the time you, I'd never ever…"
Male voice - "boys, snuck right in here in ignorance"
Male voice - "I had …??"
Chris plays the bass line to Hairspray Queen
Male voice - "Michelle, how's the… ?? "
Male voice - "pull that one there"
Female voice - "Ryan, he's doing fine, I got him in the Elementary school, he's getting all A's, oh, …oh, ha ha, oh"
Male voice - "look at you"
Male voice - "Look at ?? like just, just too poleaxed"
Female voice - "Good God! "
Male voice - "Fresh soup, when you're tired of the ?? "
Male voice - "it's the drop…??"
Female voice - "…Tony…."
Female voice - "Jeffrey Cox on the new Levis"
Female voice - "I gave it to you! "
Female voice - "??"
Female voice - "Right here"
Female voice - "This? "
Female voice - "Listen to the song" (singing)
Female voice - "??"
Female voice - "Chris, keep your pants on! "
Kurt - "there's a Soupy Sales in my fly"
Female voice - "I still had the microphone"
Female voice - "yeah, oh, haha"
Female voice - "yes"
Male voice - "I sleep alone at night… no life"
Male voice - "no life! "
Female voice - "he doesn't like killing bugs at all"
Male voice - "??"
Male voice - "alright, lets… ok you guys"
Female voice - "…microphone…"
Female voice - "let's go in the other room"
Female voice - "pull things together…"
Female voice - "(shouts something)"
Female voice - "There's some snakes over there"
Male voice - "snakes? "
Male voice - "that's alright, I've got one right here"
Female voice - "yes, together on the microphone. BEASTIE BOYS"
Male voice - "OH, that's angry"
Female voice - "what if you knock the lamp? she's so funny"
Cobain - "B…Beastiality Boys"
Female voice - "I know…"
Male voice - "completely punk rock"
Male voice - "yeah!"
Female voice - "first she, first she comes ?? oh ??"
Male voice - "the radiator!"
Male voice - "Nooooo"
Male voice - "I could ?? I'll use the microphone from the mains?? "
Female voice - "yes"
Female voice - "…except for her hair which looks like…"
Male voice - "oooohhh"
Male voice - "She was wasted"
Cobain - "Hey, that'd be cool to jam, but I don't know if we play for ourself"
Male voice - "We were back in Tacoma"
Female voice - "asshole"
Male voice - "That's great, I'll go"
Male voice - "that's not on the list"
Cobain - ""I really don't know how to look at that one though"
Male voice - "only a minute"
Male voice - "I don't know"
Cobain - "I don't know how hard it is you know, whatever, it's really improvised. I only like to improvise when I'm drunk that way I'm ?? "
Male voice - " Yeah, haha"
Cobain - "We went to a party up Wishkah, Lewis Fargler's (??) went out there for about a month ago (?)"
Novoselic - "well, I don't know"
Cobain - "Let's just ride this one, let's just figure it out how we're gonna play it"
Novoselic - "We'll just play it by ear"
Cobain - "well, we'll just figure out the timing and then decide on how we play it"
Male voice - "I dunno"
Cobain - "Well, I mean there's only so many times we can do it(?)"
[Band start to play]
Male voice - "my old man"
AERO ZEPPELIN
Male voice (Burckhard?) - Pen Cap Chew. Pen Cap Chew"
Cobain - Well, let's just play it just like that"
Male voice - "Yeah"
Male voice - "superb"
Screaming voices
Male voice - Pen Cap Chew, ready?"
Female voice - "That's a good song"
Novoselic - "We'll just wait a while"
Male voice - "Pen Cap Chew"
Novoselic - "let's play it up! "
Male Voice - "Pen Cap Chew! "
Female voice - "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves right out loud"
Novoselic - "No… ok"
Male voice - "Pen Cap Chew, Pen Cap Chew"
Novoselic - "if I haven't…ok"
Male voice - "yeah"
Male voice - "?? aware of ?? "
Male voice - "Ready? "
Cobain - "No, huh"
Male voice - "You've missed the red"
[Lots of background talk]
Male voice - "it's like you guys get along with the Masonic gopher head?? "
Male voice - "Play that song"
Novoselic - "Our new song? "
Cobain - "That new one"
Novoselic - "?? (wee wah??) "
Novoselic - "He said that… that song is kinda insane, the one in E, you know what I mean? "
Cobain - "Yeah"
Novoselic - "It's kinda insane"
IF YOU MUST
Cobain - "well, that's it"
Female voice - "Don't get attacked"
Male voice - 'ah, whoops"
Male voice - "Rock and roll you"
Male voice - "play it, play it"
(tape cuts)
Male voice - "lazy ass"
Male voice - "Yawn, haha"
Male voice - "Do your set"
Male voice - "Let them do their set"
Male voice - "Have you got anything…Have you got anything to put in this? haha"
Male voice - "You don't need anything"
Novoselic - "Hey, who's got all the pot? "
Male voice - "alcohol all night long, it's all you need, you should drink alcohol, right? "
Novoselic - "Where's all the pot? "
Female voice - "Acid acid, acid, acid"
Novoselic - "All I… all I want is pot"
Male voice - "there's one in that little room in there"
Male voice - "I'm gonna pot you in about five minutes ?? ?? "
Female voice - "I've already seen you"
Male voice - "You see, I was a mellowman manager back in them thar days! You know who's hanging out with Nico now?... "
Male voice - "Hold it (farts) haha"
Male voice - "…Brett Walker is hanging out with Nico brother Sam (??)"
Male voice - "Really? "
Male voice - "…I faxed the…"
Cobain - "He's still got the butchered head, you know"
Male voice - "Totally. I told them, I said, man, you've gotta listen to this band Scratch Acid, yeaaaaah! He was like… his eyes were about this big, you know, he goes…. Scraaatch Acid. They must be… reeeealy cool! "
Cobain - "maybe start at the next…"
Novoselic - "This song's a soundcheck song"
Cobain - "What's that? "
Novoselic - "Huh? "
Cobain - "What's that? "
Male voice - "yeah man, they're great, you gotta buy their album, I'm serious c'mon Brett let's go to the store. I'm like yeah yeah, yeah I'll be there tomorrow, leave me alone, poor guy. I think that shocked him"
Male voice - "What else? "
Male voice - "play some covers, play anything, just play, I'm sick of you guys acting dumb"
Cobain - "acting what? "
Novoselic - " Let's play Heartbreaker"
Male voice - "Dumb, dumb! "
Cobain - "like Aberdeen retarded? "
Male voice - "Retarded, you fuckers are worse than ?? in western state, I'm almost as bad as you guys"
Burckhard - "Let's play Heartbreaker"
Cobain - "I have spina bifida"
Male voice - "Break up that… play Heartbreaker with it"
Male voice - "Play it, do it! "
Male voice - "Are you guys drunk?, just go do do do do do"
Male voice - "You play it like Zeppelin do? "
Male voice - "do do do do do" (blowing through tube)
Male voice - "From the other side"
Female voice - "You gotta it from the other end"
Male voice - "hey! "
Male voice "Do you like gold zeppelin too?(??) "
Male voice - "That's my guitar right there"
Male voice - "do do do do do"
Novoselic - "??"
Male voice - "do do do do do"
Cobain - "don't what? "
Male voice - "I don't know what's been played"
Novoselic - "turn the PA on! "
Cobain - "What? "
Male voice - "Jeez, you're always in my face"
Female voice - "I'm sorry"
Cobain - "?? that page I'm short of"
[PA gets turned on and somebody sings into the mic to test]
Male voice - "There's nothing connected to this"
Male voice - "Play Heartbreaker, Heartbreaker"
Female voice - "plaaaay, plaaay!"
Male voice - "A friend of mine is gonna play with you guys, he's a nice guy"
Novoselic - "OK"
Female voice - "Play, play White Room"
Male voice - "Heartbreaker, Heartbreaker, let's go"
Female voice - "Play White Room"
Male voice - "Woah, woah! "
Novoselic - "Shelli, Shelli"
Male voice - "??"
Male voice - "No, I wanna do it"
Male voice - "Oh, OK, you do it, ha ha"
Novoselic - "Heartbreaker ?? c'mon let's go"
Male voice - "That's great, that's the way you guys play anyway"
Male voice - "play some Tony Iommi"
Male voice - "are you hooked up?"
Male voice - "Do some Black Sabbath"
Male voice - "Hey Ryan, Ryan can you give me a strap please?"
Ryan - "Yeah, looking, no, I got one in my keys"
Male voice - "Alright"
Male voice - "Heartbreaker, Heartbreaker" (during feedback) Heartbreaker
Female voice - "Fartbreaker"
Cobain - "Follow him, just follow him"
Male voice - "Heartbreaker, Heartbreaker"
Male voice - "I don't know how to play it"
Male voice - "go on, play it! "
HEARTBREAKER
[Led Zeppelin cover]
Male voice - "check, check, check, check" (during song)
Male voice - "26"
Male voice - "Solo! "
Male voice - "go solo, go solo! "
HOW MANY MORE TIMES
[Led Zeppelin cover]
Cobain - "?? ?? just do it, just do it"
Male voice - "alright, alright"
Burckhard - "Mexican Seafood, ready? One two three four"
MEXICAN SEAFOOD
Cobain - "Check, check, check" (During the song)
Male voice - "?? ??, play the ?? c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon"
Male voice - "Lets tune up"
Cobain - "??"
(Female voice shouts)
Male voice - "Look, look, remember ?? "
Novoselic - "??"
Male voice - "What's the next song? Pen Cap Chew"
Male voice - "?? look at that drum set, wait, look at it! "
Female voice - "No way"
Male voice - "Pen Cap Chew, all ready? "
Burckhard - "One two three four"
PEN CAP CHEW
Female voice - "Where's your ??? "
Female voice - "Chris"
Novoselic - "Huh? "
Cobain - "More and more"
Female voice - "You don't need it"
Female voice - "There's one right in front of you"
Cobain - "Hey Chris do you wanna tune?"
(Somebody burps)
Cobain - "Do you mean another one?"
Male voice - "we're gonna…"
Cobain - "probably, what do you think?"
Male voice - "You wrote them"
Male voice - "Let's fucking do it, huh!"
Male voice - "Lyrics?"
Female voice - "yeah"
Male voice - "??"
Female voice - "The words"
Male voice - "You have to read them"
Cobain - "This next song's called Breaking the Law!"
SPANK THRU
Male voice - "One more..?? "
Male voice - "They fucked up!, you guys are getting drunk!"
Male voice - "Wait, wait"
Male voice - "Do something…cool!"
Female voice - "Tony!"
Female voice - "Bass is a killer!"
Novoselic - "What?"
[Chris plays 5 notes of Floyd the Barber]
Voice - "yeah!"
Cobain - "wait a second, wait a second, oh Hairspray Queen"
Novoselic - "Hairspray, OK"
Female voice - "Yeah"
HAIRSPRAY QUEEN [Attempted]
Female voice - "Oh, c'mon"
Male voice - "That was a fake"
Novoselic - "I need a coffee table! whatever"
Male voice - "This is a prime time ??"
Male voice - "More!"
[Chris plays the start of Louie Louie]
HAIRSPRAY QUEEN [Attempted again]
Male voice - "play the fucker"
Novoselic - "what the fuck? "
Voice - "do it, do it, do it!, do Hairspray Queen"
[Chris starts to play the bass line for Louie Louie]
Cobain - "I'm sorry"
Voice - "do Hairspray Queen"
Male voice - "?? I think Nate has got a hold on you"
Cobain - "Hello darkness my old friend"
Male voice - "More! "
Cobain - "I've come to talk to you again, because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping and the vision"
HAIRSPRAY QUEEN
Male voice - "thank you, thank you, thank you"
Male voice - "Out of my underwear drawer! "
Novoselic - "here we go"
Female voice - "Chris"
Male voice - "congratulations Chris"
Male voice - "don't phone me on rare occasions! "
Male voice - "Get out of my underwear drawer! "
Male voice - "Huh? "
Female voice - "What? "
Male voice - "Get out of my underwear drawer! "
Female voice - "Oh, OK"
Female voice - "Yeah, Chris"
Male voice - "Wait, oh"
Cobain - "I got an idea"
Female voice - "Is that a song? "
Cobain - "let's do that"
Male voice - "She Sells Sanctuary! "
Male voice - "Are you guys ?? "
Female voice - "Hey"
Male voice - "What? "
Male voice - "I got an idea"
Female voice - "Chris"
Cobain - "They have a list that they play for…"
Novoselic - "Censor"
Female voice - "OK, where are we at? "
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, April 2003
Amended: October 2003, thanks to Adam DeLoach and Pat Sexton