Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene

[@kilburncounty]

I was there - Reading Festival 1991. Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Nirvana. Iggy Pop headlined. I remember almost crying on the way home because I realised I'd never see anything that good again.

[@formality5006]

no joke.

[@p0isonabyss]

I’ll forever be sad I didn’t get to experience that because I was born too late

[@joelwabeke2701]

truth

[@eldridgedeets]

Wow babes in toyland aswell... thats awesome

[@RedAss-yw8xj]

I'd cry if I had to watch fucking sonic youth too

[@ThePurpleDolphin9001]

There was a concert in NYC a few days ago with Dinosaur Jr, Kim Gordon, Lee Renaldo, Black Francis, Johnny Rotten, and Johnny Marr. I'd say that exceeds the epicness level.

[@Lemonhead86]

this version of Freak Scene blows away any other version of this song. i love when the crowd sings along at "cuz when i need a friend it's still you." then J & Murph go nuts. :)

[@gayasthedayislong]

This is the most incredible thing I’ve seen on KZbin for a long time. Dinosaur jr just letting loose and tearing it up back in 1991... Back when grunge was cool, and bands played loud and messy music that spoke to outcasts, but could still attract huge crowds... If you were there in 91 you’d soak in that noise, forget your worries, fall in love and just ride the storm. This footage captures all that, it’s remarkable. Freak Scene was always a favourite for me, and what a performance of it here. Ive really stumbled on something special today, amazing to think I can enjoy this almost 30 years later. I’m actually so moved by this video, it’s beautiful. J Mascis was the coolest guy in the world in 91!

[@LSUOdyssey]

This is from the 1991 film The Year Punk Broke

[@Gtag4444]

1991 : The year that punk broke. What a fantastic documentary that was. Still got it on video. God Bless proper music

[@jacobfiil5918]

Ehm ... 1976 'twas...

[@killerbunyip]

Brilliant live track, can't believe how fast and tight Murph is. DJ in their prime.

[@joelwabeke2701]

no doubt

[@trymhimself]

Dinsaur Jr, Sonic-Youth AND Nirvana!? Damn..

[@Lemonhead86]

1:45 - 1:57 gives me chills every single time.

[@RebelThoughts82]

That dude at 1:17 got killed shortly after this. He was a friend of Henry Rollins and got murdered during a robbery in his home. Name is Joe Cole.

[@heartslimes1825]

The Sonic Youth songs "100%" and "Dirty" are about him, he was a close friend of theirs as well

[@christhomasmusic]

Duuuuude mind BLOWN. THAT IS JOE COLE.

[@BudLightBeerOfStarCommand]

I had no idea that was Joe Cole. That’s spooky

[@Lemonhead86]

:/

[@FaxanaduJohn]

His chick was hot as all fuck.

[@muzza9001]

looks like lee ranaldo skulking around backstage at the start

[@sciencekiller7689]

Probably the best guitar player in the alternative "grunge" genre.

[@bonzettobonobo]

The slacker Hendrix! (J would hate it, though)

[@kamikazywatermelon]

I FUCKING LOVE WHAT J DOES WITH THE PHASER PEDAL IN THE CHORUS!!!! Very creative and saves energy. :)

[@JoyGrenade]

This clip has always made me suspect that the song was written as a vehicle for the flanger.

[@NK2151978]

Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh! Saw them last summer in NYC. They're still great. It's great to see Barlow back in the mix.

[@Gtag4444]

Cracking video called 1991: The year punk broke that this was filmed for, as long as loads of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Mudhoney as well as back stage interviews footage. Can't believe that was 19 years ago.

[@blauvampyroski]

Love this song. rocked then with the crazy film clip. Still rocks now. Has that "fresh, hip sound" the young kids of today like so much :P

[@Languisnoise]

Amazing guitar solo

[@guyplay]

Best version of this song!

[@dnzg66]

Now THIS is what I'm talking about! Thanks for this great vid!

[@las10plagas]

wow! a video from a time before I joined youtube ^^

[@biaggi150]

Just love Murph’s style! Head down, no drama, just solid drumming. Awesome 3 piece! 👍

[@SquallMonteZ]

Yes. All the best in one tour.

[@jerryrigging]

excellent post thank you

[@porkpiepaul]

Thanks so much for posting this. I' ve been looking for sometime.

[@md902A]

Saw Dinosaur Junior at Sheffield Arena 1994 with Blur, My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain. Loved Dnr Jr. Awesome. Loved MBV. Loved JMC. However must add Blur were really rocking and almost loudest that night as well!!!! Dnr Jr mind. :-)

[@ludvik199t]

love the solo with the flanger

[@johnnywhitechapel]

I was at this concert, 20 years later I am still listening to this tune and it is still as awesome as it was in 1991

[@Paulopaulie_]

1991, reading festival footage... i miss my youth.

[@Huelogy]

Man I have that exact shirt J is wearing lol

[@ryanlevin1912]

damn they’re playing fast

[@papercuts500]

wow. what an amazing concert!! i would probably give up a limb to have been there!!!!

[@sam16071997]

excellent guitarist;this guy can really fucking play

[@dischargedarrowgetback4322]

この怠け者の無気力人間がギターを持って大爆発している感じスゴイネ。

[@wolfvanhooydonck5476]

You’ve said it bro

[@freekasaur]

Out of tune at the end of his solo. Sure sign of a solo well done!

[@Languisnoise]

Was the first song i met of this genial group

[@Gtag4444]

I don't know if it's still available but there was a documentary of the Sonic Youth tour 1991 - The Year punk broke. I had it on VHS - brilliant live footage and also all the bands (mudhoney, nirvana, SY, Dinosaur to name a few) Great days. Will never be bettered.

[@robynfreaks]

Love this!

[@blakewhitmore99]

Wow that would have been the best tour in history dinosaur Jr. , sonic youth and NIRVANA! THOSE ARE MY FAVORITE BANDS WOW

[@halifuckinfan]

Goddd I would have killed to see this tour! Nirvana, SONIC YOUTH and DINOSAUR JR.

[@miroman5803]

I wish i was at this concert. Unfortunately i wasn't alive in the time of good music

[@bitbat9]

J is amazing

[@lMaximumlHeat]

underrated as shit. I mean they are known quite a bit, but the fact that their influenced bands overshadow these originators so much sickens me. Fantastic song by the way.

[@nutts2020]

i was there! missed nirvana on the friday afternoon - hadn't heard of them... ...saw them top the bill the next year though!

[@dannymartin7858]

Would have loved to see this. I have seen all of them on differant tours, actually saw Sonic Youth opening for Neil Young...I thought they were great, but the crowd was huge and the venues were large...they seemed out of their element! Neil just seemed so much bigger than SY...it was like the building swollowed them up. Saw Dino Jr. just last year in a small club that I have played in Castaways in upstate NY.

[@Lugak14]

I like it even more fast.

[@mollyshithead]

i wish i was in that crowd

[@vshopskater]

1:14-1:20 happiest guy i have EVER seen. :D

[@fymarchan6476]

Vinyl Storm he died

[@lesvegas5]

now thats what i'm talking about that day was a good day . . . i even liked chapterhouse .. !! thee first day of my first festival - i knew you would care

[@FLUFFdoomful]

unstoppable headbang!

[@progressiveRAMONETTI]

and then Pixies, Radiohead, R.E.M. and Smashing Pumpkins

[@pulikino]

DIO MIO!

[@pauljmeyer1]

Fuck they're just an amazing band! I loved that video. Hope it gets a DVD release sometime. Henry Rollins' best friend and old Black Flag roadie, Joe Cole, can be seen on the side of the stage with a big smile on his face. This was possibly not long before he was tragically killed. R.I.P. Joe

[@theghostsofgiants]

@PeripheralSenses This might be the best thing ever posted in a comments section on the internet. Ever.

[@Whicol2]

damn.....when are they going to release 1991 TYTPB on DVD? I still watch my old VHS from time to time...

[@qomovirus]

that place was the heaven, absolutely!

[@robynfreaks]

Always love DJ!

[@bluemoon9uk]

Too good. Make a song as good as freakscene and I am a fan for life........

[@54spiritedwill54]

so awesome ..

[@Lugak14]

My face is melted.

[@lmelanie]

@PhilJamesTaylor I just got so giddy even thinking about that...

[@dormirenonpotest]

@PeripheralSenses you are awesome.

[@MA3POLO]

I wish I was old enough back then, to be aware of such a concert. I was only 2 when this film came out. Damn, Most of my generation's biggest alt. artist are underground. But since my generation is currently being inundated with Lady Gaga, I have a feeling that some alt rock band is gonna come up and change the course of music for our generation, somewhat similar to what Nirvana did in the early 90's at a time when Gnex was being inundated with HairMetal. I'm 21 right now, I wish for this NOW!!

[@kittenkraze13]

Oh my God. I wish I could have gone to this tour... too bad I wasn't alive yet...

[@purplehalfstack]

haha!!!!! you crack me up. omg haha. thats so funny when people tell me that one day ill grow out of liking the music that i like and will realize how it is crap. and im not under the impression that speed and musical ability is better than good songwriting. i listen to plenty of bands that have slow, easy to play songs that i like. it doesnt have to do with whether the songs are hard to play, it has to do with the song being good. if your gonna base an argument on a selected few of my fav bands

[@ryanlysne3695]

Thats it, he's a god

[@lladsbid]

That's a good line up!

[@lethrneck4]

seein the year punk broke when i was in high school in the early 90s....changed everything

[@TheMrEMeat]

@PeripheralSenses I love this comment you summed it up beautifully.

[@rIcKyShItPaNtS]

Mike V - Speed Freaks. Good times.

[@porkpiepaul]

Oh yeah murph is on in this. Remember in the movie when Thurston namedrops Murph to the guy customizing his scooter after GOO. I remember after seeing that (at 15 mind you) always thinking dinosaur jr. when I see a scooter. HAHA thurston is funny.

[@kanzukun]

Awesome vid. Perhaps it's a little corny and stage-showy, but I like J's movement from 0.22 - 0.36. As a whole, the boys had great stage presence that day.

[@VCK9009]

From Reading 1991, about two or three hours after Nirvana's legendary set.

[@jojo-gy9pp]

Yeah it's kind of an exploit of pop and noise but this song is as much an anthem of grunge as there ever was

[@djbert1]

true

[@sunburstdj]

1992 Reading Festival. I am somewhere near the front in that crowd.

[@MegaMumbles]

@JediJoe22 Too true, mate. The ironic thing is that if they knew music like this existed, at least 75% of my school would fall in love.

[@darkxhino]

wooow nice use for phaser!

[@lasquish552]

this inspires me to practice my scales

[@lessthanpinochet]

@spicyMcHAGGIS9green Hahaha, "Ticklesack", that's hilarious!

[@Whicol2]

This is my FAVORITE Dino Jr. performance & song. Better than the album, even. J is just on top of his game. Does anybody know exactly what pedal J uses to get that whooshing Jet sound at 0:32 and 0:35 ? I could never figure it out. Sounds like a Phaser of some kind..

[@Stigmakind]

@whatamess1789 im not a guitar wiz or sumthing but I guess its a phaser pedal if you want that sound on your guitar go to your guitar shop and test some

[@herny69]

1991 the year punk broke! also the year i was born :(

[@nikhils29]

saw them at shepherds bush empire, were awesome, my ears fucking killed after though

[@geekfreaklover]

Best guitarist of his generation.

[@heinzb8219]

Pure Joy!

[@Phippstickman]

@PhilJamesTaylor Don't need to imagine mate,cos I was at that Reading Festival

[@mattisprettycool]

MAN Murph's drum fill at 1:20 is fucking awesome.

[@fantasykissass]

@catguyauble NO. Same event, just a different year. Pavement played Reading four years later.

[@kanzukun]

However, I get your point, and it is a good one. I would make a couple of modifications to the analogy. Instead of the generic (and somewhat of a stereotype) "cute," I would say "intellectual and sexy." I like the reading weird comic books bit, but Nirvana were definitely more of the couch-pissers than Dino Jr..

[@skeletalwreck]

lol killkenny14, what a funny thing to say on a track that uses an abondance of phaser pedal on the guitar !

[@spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

@purplehalfstack You probably have never listened to Husker Du, The Replacements, Killing Joke, or Guided By voices.

[@nymetsrock]

@GDhaenens i believe the ramones showed up at one gig also

[@drlaut]

@PeripheralSenses damn i miss that friend

[@cdopa]

@89Bleachyourworks - with a phazer and a wha pedal...

[@nolwells]

what a killer performance. this is the song and video that got me into dinosaur. is that joel cole rocking with his lady on the sida of the stage? hope it is... love how much you can see them enjoying the band!

[@RuBbErRoOmChAoS]

d JUNIOR IS THE LAST OF MANY GREATS! ENJOY WHILE YOU CAN!

[@heimerz]

so fuken awesome ..

[@nymetsrock]

thank you, most people dont get this

[@ph1i1]

checking the vid info, dinosaur jr, sonic youth and nirvana! fuck I wish i was there/old enough to know what music was rather than being 6 years old

[@TheTrainRex]

@PeripheralSenses I had a friend like that. He's a blood now and won't talk to me.