Despite their marriage lasting just over two years, Nirvana’s frontman and Hole’s frontman have only performed together on one occasion – and there’s a recording of it.
Although they were married for just over two years,Kurt Cobain It is courtney love They only performed together once. The presentation that brought together the frontman of Nirvana and the leader ofhole it was recorded in audio and took place in a very informal way.
As one would expect, a show like this could only have taken place under one special circumstance. The apparition took place during a charity event, called rock against rap (in free translation, “Rock Against Rape”).
O club lingeriein Hollywood, United States, was the venue for the performance, which took place on September 8, 1993. Before, the house had already hosted performances by Rage Against the Machine, Love and Tool; in the future, there would be concerts of Sublime, Korn, Weezer and Red Hot Chili Peppers before closing its doors in 1995.
cobain It is Love had not been announced as part of the event’s programming, which had concerts by 7 Year Bitch, Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) It is Exene Cervenka (X). The couple simply decided to take the stage by surprise and offer a historic moment to the few hundred people present in the modest nightclub.
The show that reunited Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
Because it was an occasion without so much rehearsalKurt Cobain It is courtney love they only played a short set in acoustic format. In fact, it started with Courtney herself, who played two songs on the Hole: “Doll Parts” It is “Miss World”which would be made available in the future on the band’s second album, Live Through This (1994).
the leader of Nirvana then took the stage under the following presentation by the wife: “this is my husband Yoko“, referring to Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon. Love he even asked the audience to follow the performance very attentively, as it would be “the first and last time” that that would happen.
With the couple reunited, two other songs were presented. One of them, “Pennyroyal Tea”would be released a few days later as part of In Utero (1993)), third and final studio album by Nirvana. The last song was “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”, originally from leadbellybut very well known for the version that the band Kurt recorded during the show on the board MTV Unplugged, at the end of that year.
In fact, it was never possible to watch the two together on the same stage again. Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994, aged 27. Outside of the presentation club lingeriethe most that could be had were backing vocals recorded by Cobain in Live Through Thisof hole – there are those who say that he composed songs for the album, but this information was never confirmed by any party involved.
Listen to the recording of the show below.
Source: Rollingstone
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