LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:04/18/90 - Man Ray's, Cambridge, MA, US
Transcript:
Dwayne Bruce - "Good evening and welcome to Man Ray, my name is Dwayne Bruce from WFNX radio, would you please welcome fudge packin, crack smoking, satan worshiping motherfuckers Sub Pop recording artists Nirvana!"
SCHOOL
Novoselic - "Thanks a lot, they say turn up louder"
FLOYD THE BARBER
LOVE BUZZ
Novoselic - "This here's a new song"
DIVE
Novoselic - "[in a southern accent] Thank you kindly, shore is nice to be here, lovely Boston, it's a great place!"
SCOFF
Cobain - "Can we have some more house lights up here somewhere, so we can see! Mr Promoter?"
ABOUT A GIRL
Novoselic - "Alright, chicken fights, do we need a contender? We need a contender now, we could have a pillow fight right after that. Then we're gonna tell stories about making out and going aaaall the way, then our dad's gonna come upstairs and tell us to calm down!"
SPANK THRU
Novoselic - "Next up, we've got a really new song, it's gonna be out on our next record, it's gonna be out in September or summat like that. It's gonna rock, a rock 'n' roll record, it's gonna have all your rock favourites and it's gonna be a blast!"
BREED
Cobain - "This is another new one"
IN BLOOM
Novoselic - "Thank you very much, it's very kind of you all out there, you all have hearts of gold, I can tell I know, you smell gold! I don't smell, so I don't care"
BIG CHEESE
Novoselic - "Thanks a lot. Have you guys ever heard of a band called the Vaselines, they're from Scotland and er ... they're a great band. Do you drive a monster truck? That was great yeah! Take my wife please! Does anybody have any suggestions and then I can say something witty and entertaining, to show that I'm, I'm just erm ... I'm sharp you know! Oh, I'm sorry wrong band! That's right, you come to a Nirvana show, you name the song and we'll play it, Wink Martin Dink, what's that? Like a Prayer by Madonna?"
Audience - "Yeah!"
Novoselic - "How does that go? Does it go Someone Else is that it? No? I know Like a Virgin is that the same song? [singing Madonna's 'Like A Virgin] Like a virgin, hey, touched for the very first time, hey"
[Novoselic jams a bass solo]
Novoselic - "I read guitar player magazine, that was a demonstration of hack bass playing, so if you want to become a hack bass player, those are the lines to play. Those are the only bass lines I know so I must be a hack bass player! What were you expecting John Entwistle mainly or something? We will try to make you as happy as much as we can, we're coming along, we'll just take our time!"
MOLLY'S LIPS
Novoselic - "C'mon you son of a bitch, you fucking son of a bitch, c'mon you yellow red bastard, c'mon I can't hear it you fucking son of a bitch, Jesus fucking Christ!"
BEEN A SON
STAIN
NEGATIVE CREEP
Channing - "[screams] Thanks"
Novoselic - "Thanks a lot, you guys are worth your weight in gold, I mean you're the best, the best. Well thanks for coming, you guys are ... just wonderful people, I can just feel it, I really mean that, really thanks. Love your brother, brother!"
Channing - "And your sister!"
BLEW
STAY AWAY
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, April 2003
Updated/amended: January 2006 (thanks to Dave Ewing and Erik Sieckman)