Nirvana Plays The Forbidden Riff

I can’t believe this 😳
“No Stairway! Denied!” -Wayne From Waynes World

[@Eli76055]

Damn. Kurt was so good, he didn't even have to sync up to the music to play it.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

That’s why he’s my favorite guitarist, didn’t follow the laws of music and still made it sound good

[@Green--X]

He's so damn good he was able to pick every string individually by strumming the guitar off tempo. Most underrated guitarist ever.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@Green--X exactly

[@skylar5257]

He was just putting delay on his guitar (prolly 10 seconds), and the tuning was some custom tuning. Nothing too special. 6/10

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@skylar5257 dang

[@polkaputo3226]

kurt: “fuck you all this is the last song of the evening” audience: laughs kurt: they think i’m kidding

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

He was withdrawing all day before this concert. MTV had someone go out and try to find him something. They found some weak heroin so he got through the show by taking a handful of valium. He felt just good enough to not be a total asshole.

[@offkeychris]

I want to like your comment but its on 666. So ill just do this 🤘🏻

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

This was confirmed by the director and sound guy from the show. If he had been caught with the heroin could he have sued MTV for sending him out to get it. Idk.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

@@anthonyfuqua6988 who cant get good heroin in New York when they work at MTV? Also an addict wouldn't leave home without a solid scoring plan. Imagine having flu x100 except you are shitting like a tap and hallucinating as well. Nobody is doing a gig in that state

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

@@Ukraineaissance2014 Just going by what the employee from MTV said in an interview.

[@sstaners1234]

The closest thing they played to the forbidden riff was sweet home Alabama. And that was the Kirkwood brothers.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

I guess that’s true, i posted a video about them playing sweet home alabama, cause I thought it was funny, (but then took it down).

[@kevenrowe2958]

No it was Krist actually play that lick on guitar , one brother had a bass and the other brother was waiting for his guitar to be tuned

[@ernestt5703]

Would’ve been awesome if they covered the song actually in my opinion.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@ernestt5703 true

[@quackquack7537]

@@nathansrandomyt1406 where do you get these videos?

[@cantaloupe6715]

He had such a chill stage attitude. Acts like he’s just hanging out with friends and playing songs

[@jw3384]

Heroin lol

[@Bruh..669]

Yea cuz he was busy being on another planet from heroin and bathsalts

[@iTzic21]

​@@Bruh..669 "bathsalts" urmom is on bathsalts

[@kevinvolchok14]

@@jw3384 i heard it does help to have a chill attitude

[@jw3384]

@@kevinvolchok14 heroin helps too

[@GlingusHaunts]

Man that picking technique is incredible, he did an incredible job playing this riff.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Incredible guitar playing, 10/10

[@Alejandro-rg4ly]

WTF he plays like shit, I love him but he suck as guitarist

[@Nichwar19]

He was a shitty guitar player and a shitty singer.

[@TheVividestPeak]

Didn’t even have to strum his guitar to play, absolute legend

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

So good he defied the laws of guitar playing

[@Fighting4sCss03]

Watch Bollywood and South Indian movies, he is a baby compared to those 😂😂

[@cesynb]

I love Sweet Child O' Mine! The best song of Foo Fighters

[@jacestephenweatherall1732]

Lol no that’s by guns n roses

[@whiteboyfunksucks]

@@jacestephenweatherall1732 woosh

[@jacestephenweatherall1732]

@@whiteboyfunksucks woosh?

[@whiteboyfunksucks]

@@jacestephenweatherall1732 it's the sound of the joke going over your head

[@jacestephenweatherall1732]

@@whiteboyfunksucks never heard that one

[@paulmorphy6187]

I knew a guy who was very proud he could play the opening riff to 'ain't talking about love' by Van Halen...it was his piece la resistance

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

I can tell, that riff is sick!

[@tempviduse]

I mean that intro is dope. I always wanted to learn it

[@XxTheShootingStarxX]

@@tempviduse still can :)

[@MattRTGB]

@@tempviduse like palm mute am g bend

[@SyNKevN]

It's one of the easiest, yet cool sounding riffs to learn when you start guitar. Put a little reverb and phaser on, or flange... Good to go. The palm muting is where it's at 😎

[@sssenatorarmstrong3280]

I was listening to this in public, i think everyone around me heard the earrape, thanks

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

You’re welcome?..

[@gabriela_hugh2553]

well thats ur fault isn't it

[@HandsOfTheFather]

Holy hell its him funny nanomachines man

[@gotham_knight1091]

Jesus dude I had my earphone at full volume and read your comment and turned it down right before the earrape, you saved my ears bro

[@sssenatorarmstrong3280]

@@gotham_knight1091 🤝

[@turbopower130]

He's such an open minded person....

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Exactly

[@yoboisteven1741]

Not that he had much of a choice. . .

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@yoboisteven1741 well, I mean….you’re not wrong…

[@ArthurCowboy06]

@HELLHOUNDS Frosto damn

[@mcdonaldization]

@HELLHOUNDS Frosto was murdered doofus

[@adamsalek0011]

Actually thought this was legit first few seconds

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Ayyy I did good then

[@adamsalek0011]

You did

[@BigManNoah.]

it is real

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@BigManNoah. without a doubt

[@aldeayeah]

First few seconds sounds a lot like the beginning of Renholder by A Perfect Circle, check it out

[@penguinguy1814]

He played it so accurate that he can even play the forbidden riff in the left ear just like the original song

[@vitkoone7794]

Could you say me please, from where is this riff?

[@bardockthesaiyan5388]

@vitkoone7794 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

[@wil.makesmusic]

Really glad I wore headphones to hear this work of art.

[@jakejasperfox8368]

My earssss

[@ninothebossproductions1613]

My ears just went through hell and back

[@demon-huntergaming3387]

damn i'm using earphones with high volume this shit scared the shit outta me😂

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Those first chords in the video sounded really cool

[@racheltvaccount9775]

Almost sounded like heart shaped box lmoa

[@frankieg3409]

I couldn’t hear heart shaped box, it sounded a hell of a lot closer to the beginning of Diary of a Madman

[@mojoarmstretch7261]

Twilight zone I think

[@EliSpectrum]

It sound like the start of clean up before she comes and the second one was like the first chord of whether did you sleep last night

[@serotonin7128]

He’s so good that he doesn’t even have to match what he’s strumming. And people say he was bad at guitar smh

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Talent only true fans would recognize smh

[@blue-calla]

@@nathansrandomyt1406 lol

[@buddharecordz]

What a legend, he doesn't need to time his strums

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Can Hendrix do that?… Didn’t think so…

[@elijahimperial7437]

Frick men, I was wearing earphones at near max volume. No ear-r*pe warning?

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Yeah, sorry about that one mate…

[@clauddeduncan5227]

Lucky me i saw ur comment, i immediately decreased my volume haha. Thanks bro🤣

[@TheCatOfAges]

I immediately increased mine

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@TheCatOfAges this guy’s a chad

[@MarkusFeetus]

@@TheCatOfAges what a guy

[@rainyeyesparty]

I feel like Kurt's fingers would cramp at just the idea of playing the forbidden riff

[@takumifujiwara1998]

The last part had me on the ground. ☠️

[@harunaGD]

Same, it was 3 am and it was in max bro

[@zambonijones350]

It's funny that he said that he was offered Lead Belly's guitar for 500k while holding the guitar that currently holds the record for "most expensive guitar ever purchased".

[@houstonmontgomery6619]

Kurt Cobain seems like he would be cool

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

He would!

[@brabiz67]

Yeah you could shoot up with him and just chill for hours. Would be epic

[@Nabil_Khori]

Already

[@SaulGoodman97]

Top 10 Nirvana's of all time Number 10: Stairway to Nirvana

[@YoshidaSPECL]

We've Been Tricked, We've Been Backstabbed and We've Been Quite Possibly, Bamboozled

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

I’m sorry man, but this video is nothing but a silly prank 😔

[@aarushb6296]

dude i was wearing earphones

[@coltoncorley4343]

Bruh im sittin in my truck at the grocery store😂 not only my ears, but the elderly lady getting in the car beside me also caught the business

[@solocao9339]

Ngl I was not expecting it to be a meme. It just made it that much more hilarious.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

😎

[@midnightcanyon23]

Clicked on this, not knowing what the forbidden riff was, only knowing what Nirvana was, and I expected it to be a completely normal video. I did not see that coming.

[@BigFatBoom]

All jokes aside he was such great dude man. In his letter he wrote he didn't enjoy the feeling of performing but he really looked like he loved and enjoyed what he was doing. It's sad. Check up on your loved ones and hold them thight. Because in an instant they can be gone. So enjoy it while it last. God bless you all. RIP Kurt Cobain. You fucking legend.

[@rockvocalist7007]

Hes not missed. He was a no talent loser junkie POS. Nirvana is UNIVERSALLY considered one of the worst 5 bands in all recorded music history.

[@XxStonedImmaculatexX]

LMFAO I thought he was really gonna play it and I was like, WTF, I don’t remember him doing that back then lol

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Lol

[@mechellesmale3055]

Waiting for someone to get r/woooooshed

[@ikhwanmusicstudio6404]

if i didn't play guitar i would think this is real

[@spirosfilippopoulos6316]

i needed an excuse to buy new headphones. Thanks uploader. Though now i am deff on my left ear

[@1nfius948]

Technically speaking Smell Like a Teen Spirit is also a forbidden riff, although he'd probably kill me for suggesting it.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Probably so lol

[@jonahanema48]

Why did I think he was actually gonna play it 💀

[@wheepe_]

BRO EXPLODED MY EARS LOL

[@snakemaster2017]

damn, he strumming that shit

[@creamsaroyan7358]

I love his voice so much I love how he talks.

[@JoHn-if6wy]

Get a grip.

[@LUNE.44]

As someone who doesnt really know much about Nirvana I have absolutely no idea whats going on

[@---wc2zp]

"He was a musical legend" ~ My Grandma

[@saultfry501]

I was watching this at two in the morning and when it got loud it scared the shit out of me, dude.

[@francisbegbie1008]

It's the Mandela effect

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Naw, this is 100% real

[@kirkhammettismydaddy]

I WAS SO CONFUSED HAHAHAHAH

[@connorhicks6938]

Damn dude you had your fingers in all the wrong places but all the right shit just spilled out

[@mrbobawesome]

This is simultaneously the dumbest and funniest thing I've seen on KZbin in a long time. Thumbs up to the creator.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Thanks mate, it means a lot

[@lisabarr6535]

Guitar center employee busts into MTV and grabs Kurt's guitar.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

**points at No Stairway sign**

[@justinhamilton8647]

my favorite person in the whole world i wish i could have talked to him for just 5 seconds, goodbye kurt

[@Leo-pk2rm]

Pov: Kurt strumming all the strings while jimmy page plays one string at the time in the audio of stairway to heaven💀

[@sondaaahhhh]

that was so good, he didn't even need to play any notes

[@Jaylin756]

The fact that this vid literally jumped scared me and I almost screamed because it's like 2 a.m.

[@jacksonthealien2789]

The speed from my hand to the arrow at the top of the screen was faster than light

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Probably for the best

[@Rohit_Rana11]

me too brother.

[@jimterryberry6507]

They was the stupidest thing but also the funniest 😂

[@Potholestray]

Why was I expecting to get Weezered?

[@sonnyandreotte5721]

"does anybody remember laughter?"

[@Charlesworthe]

Had us in the first half...

[@fudomyoo9762]

Thanks for blasting my eardrums you fabbot

[@decent2613]

That was amazing pewds

[@Uubbfippk]

So talented 😍 sounds exactly like the recording!

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Sarcasm?

[@Uubbfippk]

@@nathansrandomyt1406 No just a joke lol

[@Abenson1983]

@@Uubbfippk do you know what sarcasm is?

[@allroundlad]

@@Uubbfippk it was a sarcastic joke bro, that's what he means.

[@whattabirb637]

I look away for one second and....

[@aquaslinky-gaming]

*zÆlŒm BiG sHoW*

[@cellokid5104]

SOTW is the real forbidden riff

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Trust me, if I used smoke on the water, I probably would’ve been bullied off of KZbin

[@cellokid5104]

@@nathansrandomyt1406 you can't say that out loud!!! It's like Voldemort's name

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@cellokid5104 thank you for the advice, I’ll use it carefully

[@snow-puppetsofficial360]

Chalice of Blood is a Forbidden riff!

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@snow-puppetsofficial360 so many forbidden riffs, so little time

[@jezreelbenliro9373]

reminding everyone not to use earphone with spatial sound to play this in the middle of the night

[@jamesdulin6420]

I feel as if I was Rick rolled…

[@redhoodm2227]

it was a miracle i turned down my volume by 50% before that shit

[@shadicgamer2124]

IMPOSSIBLE KURT, WHYYYYYYYYY I WON'T YOU GET HURT

[@oscarg.3330]

Ha ! I needed that laugh

[@AzzaBazza06]

I got so into the start of the video listening to the conversation I was like what the f- when stairway to heaven came on lol

[@chrisc6497]

HAHAHAHAHAAHAH this is actually hilarious. was so sure smoooooke on the waaaaateRRrrr was coming up

[@elzueiromemes]

Impressive very nice now let's see puddle of mudd's forbidden riff

[@SaintHierophant]

I was wondering why it was so quiet. Beautiful.

[@Smokey_____]

I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING HAHAHAHAHAH 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@baglyfe2877]

u being sarcastic

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@baglyfe2877 most likely, but I just like to think of it as a genuine compliment to boost my self esteem

[@levihecho007]

Only Nirvana can play rhythm guitar while sounding like lead guitar

[@LR-420]

More like a hangout than a concert

[@vincenticyfiregeetar7656]

ok i think that was the last possible outcome my brain would predict

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Lol

[@chumon1992]

I was so confused at first but in so glad I stuck it out. What an edit.

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

Somebody that finally understands that this video is a meme and not meant to be taken seriously lol

[@chumon1992]

@@nathansrandomyt1406 lol have people taken it seriously?

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

@@chumon1992 unfortunately

[@josephcunningham3790]

Thanks for blowing out my car speaker

[@adityagupta5386]

bro that lowkey scared the shit out of me

[@SnnowY.]

Caught me of guard 😂 i got so scared for a moment😂

[@sub-mm8uz]

we all knew what it was the second we saw the title

[@Drumyguy]

This looked like a comedy show at first

[@FigFelix2009]

WE KILLIN' OUTSELVES WITH DIS ONE!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣💀💀💀💀🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@Jamescreaney]

Smells like Heaven

[@ThisLeprechaunWrites]

He was so mocking Dave Grohl's shallowness at agreeing with anything for popularity when he said 'Our favorite performer. All of ours.' Turns directly at Dave with a sarcastic nod - 'You like him? THE BEST?' Kurt saw through him in the end, sadly Ghoulish Grohl and Courtney Love and David Geffen sacrificed Kurt Cobain, just like Grohl went on to sacrifice Taylor Hawkins.

[@Uberfluous404]

I was expecting stairway to heaven. Typed to soon😂

[@Nmitchellediting]

I WAS WEARING HEADPHONES 😭

[@gilmoregirls_]

“fck you all, this is the.. last song of the evening”

[@Oddstories]

Christ. I'm old enough to know wayyyyyyy ahead of time. Lol

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

True lol

[@UltiTheBand]

Ironically, he created a forbidden riff

[@man_boy.]

MY VOLUME WAS ALL THE WAY UP

[@alejandroberrios4756]

I do love a good shitpost when I stumble upon it

[@manuelpedro9706]

five hundred thousand dolars, now his guitar coasts 4.5 MILLION DOLARS, omfg he was the best

[@nathansrandomyt1406]

He was

[@lynskyrd78]

Your Right it did sell for 4.5 mill. I think his guitar is the most valuable guitar ever sold. It did sound nice

[@ahsanabbas5178]

Yo this genuinely made me laugh

[@TaylormightbeCobain]

I HAD HEADPHONES ON THAT SCARED ME I ALMOST PUNCHED MY COMPUTER IN FEAR HOLY SHIT

[@LymLevolveon]

Me too mate me too 💀

[@aldeayeah]

First few seconds sound a lot like the beginning of Renholder by A Perfect Circle, check it out Sounds like an arpeggiating 1-#5-6 (augmented) or maybe b7-#4-5 (lydian dominant) sound which is pretty cool

[@danejurus69]

I thought this going to be when the Meat Puppets goofed around with Skynyrd.

[@charlesdjones1]

Okay, okay, okay, you got me. 🤣

[@aidenthornton9036]

Bruh it's 1 in the morning and my volume was all the way up

[@noela.rodriguezjr1169]

David Geffen connects them all

[@TheMarskmanMMA]

Lol Kurt really loves the forbidden riff

[@phunsensenlamongan4877]

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[@gwen_pcid1331]

LMFAOOOO I WASNT EXCPECTING THAT 😭

[@LincolnJohnson-u9s]

had me in tears 😢