Nirvana - Rare - VPRO Radio Session (Nov 25 1991)

[@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009]

So bluesy where did you sleep is. So much soul, he blended punk rock and traditional folk. How fucking innovative. 2 genres who don't fit in the respective category of 90's yet bring punk and folk back. Kurt was something else man. Fuck

[@LizordSword]

folk punk is a thing but its a whole lot more abrasive (usually)

[@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009]

@@LizordSword Hank Williams the 3rd makes some good punky folky type music

[@SCRUMMMMM4858]

ricky mullen makes the best folk punk

[@SouthPhilaMilla]

Rite Kurt was singing his heart n soul out

[@theonlywaytofly]

First time hearing Here She Comes Now acoustically and WOW. He really was a talented dude. RIP Kurt.

[@lorianncasserly]

rip my ass we need that lil mofo wake all tf up

[@MAnd-ld4op]

lol

[@vivienwiener]

Miss him so much!!!!

[@camacaron06]

Time stamps: 0:01 Virginia (Unknown Song) 1:03 Where Did You Sleep Last Night 6:32 Here She Comes Now 12:10 Horrified

[@YouAreNotThisBody]

Virginia sounds like about dave grohl mom.Her name is virginia and she is from virginia.

[@camacaron06]

David Gurung Most likely

[@coontachi]

@@YouAreNotThisBody also she is virgin

[@dougbowser50]

@@coontachihow on earth is dave grohls mom a virgin if SHE GAVE BIRTH TO DAVE GROHL

[@coontachi]

@@dougbowser50 immaculate conception

[@KaykyStiliano]

Info ----------------------- -The performance took place in Jingle Production Room 2. -The session was a co-production between the Dutch radio stations VPRO and VARA, recorded for their shows Nozems-a-GoGo and Twee Meter De Lucht In, respectively. -The band reportedly played/jammed for about three hours. Since the studio crew did not know when the songs started, they recorded intermittently throughout the session. -The band was asked to play "Polly" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit," but Kurt didn't want to. -Kurt reportedly arrived at the studio later than Krist and Dave and kept walking in and out of the studio during the session. -The jam featured Dave on guitar and vocals by himself. -At the end of the session, after Kurt and Dave ran away, Krist said, "We know when we fuck up," and left. -Picture is from the session -Later in the day they also performed at the Paradiso

[@No_Ghosts]

Krist said, "We know when we fuck up," and left LOL

[@AlexCitroen-zt8xv]

I can't believe that with all this technology no one's has dare to make a cd of Kurt Cobain in Nirvana with all the recording sessions? Beatles did it and so many ppl, the world deserve to hear his voice and forever be remembered. But then again I'm just a fan.

[@joseaquino8773]

Because almost everything is already available on bootlegs and most of what was left took a long time to prepare, clean up, produce and release as the "With The Lights Out" boxset. The Beatles stuff on Anthology and such was properly recorded radio, studio material back when bootlegs didn't exist or had horrid quality.

[@tinamariemiller.96]

No man, ur not just a fan ur fuckin right too is wut u also r, along with many other things I’m sure [I meant along with many other things as in ur a bunch of other things too I’m sure, u know?] Anyway but yeah that’s fuckin true!! It needs to be shared & heard!! It’s important specially cuz he’s not here anymore which is SUPER FUCKIN UNFORTUNATE… R.I.P Kurt!!🤙🏼🖤 We love u maan!!!🖤🎸☠️✨

[@WCWThunderRosa]

We just gonna ignore how incredible to this version of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is???

[@tristanantell9920]

This about the Pines of perinton

[@philpants44]

apparently you arnt

[@lightbeforethetunnel]

Damn this version is unbelievable. Can't believe I never heard this before

[@nicholaskruger9460]

No we aren’t. Speaks for yourself.

[@GetSicRiCH]

🤣💨💥🎼

[@seanfowler1374]

I love that they were asked to play certain songs and just told them “we okay what we want” and played some nirvana songs probably no one had heard at this point ever before that never made it onto a main record and a cover

[@mediokay]

Here she comes now is a cover too there's a fuller version on the with the lights out box set

[@magraretsbane6274]

Well Here She Comes Now is also a cover, it’s a Velvet Underground song, but yes I totally agree

[@mienzy72]

Kurt never leaves my spirit

[@dirkdarwin2571]

He never leaves my Teen Spirit

[@chucktouchton398]

Ditto

[@shadowhunter2846]

Well said

[@frodiesel0]

Kurt IS my Teen Spirit

[@chadpittman3025]

Because Kurt is us.......trippy ain't it.

[@dirkdarwin2571]

About 12 hours before this, Kurt & Courtney did heroin together for the first time. He's had next to no sleep. Later the same day, Nirvana play The Paradiso. Kurt and Courtney's paths cross two nights earlier (23rd Nov) Nirvana and Hole sharing the bill in Ghent... Nirvana left for Amsterdam and Hole for Nijmegen. After Hole's gig on the 24th, Courtney paid Nathalie Delisse 150 guilders to drive her 1hr 30m to Amsterdam in Delisse's Citroen 2CV to be with Kurt. They got high etc.... and Courtney left that morning on a train for France to continue Hole's European tour. This is also when Frances was conceived, being born 9 months later.

[@LucasAlvesMusic]

They met for the first time two days before this?

[@dirkdarwin2571]

@@LucasAlvesMusic Nah, they first met in 1989. They saw each other quite a few times before this... Even played gigs on the same bill in October of '91.

[@jmtrainz2582]

@@dirkdarwin2571 No, a user "American spy fox" found they met in 1991. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2fCf2mobpqbh9U&ts&ab_channel=AmericanSpyFox

[@dirkdarwin2571]

@@jmtrainz2582 There's a photo of Courtney at a Nirvana gig in 89.

[@jmtrainz2582]

Dirk Dickens Doesn’t mean they met.

[@Guitcad1]

OMG! Every time I think I've heard all there is I stumble across something like this.

[@startreknitpickers5838]

misunderstood genius. i'm so glad he recorded this instead of teen spirit again

[@TengoIdentidadPropia]

Es la primera vez que escucho Horrified. Está sesion es unica, rara y genial.

[@nersesgarabed781]

Man that voice in “HORRIFIED”. He can play just about damn anything and when he opens his mouth, it’s instantly sick and iconic.

[@Zapie020]

thos the horrified thing was said by dave

[@brunoflugel7963]

I Really believe it is the ideia to become Milkt It latter .. the bass line is pritty similar

[@Ghetto-Yeti]

The interesting thing about this VPRO session is the total iconic photo of Kurt with the acoustic guitar looking like an angel while being obviously (from knowing the story and hearing peoples takes who were there) dope sick… fortunately for the show later that night it’s pretty easy to scor3 in Amsterdam.

[@sarahcaldarazzo8237]

That he showed up dope sick says alot about him

[@VanishedPNW]

It's funny. You could never really pinpoint when someone is high if they're not obvious about being high, nodding out, drooling, slurring words, etcetera. If they're using a constant maintenance amount, it's almost impossible to tell unless you really know (pupils, redness). However, when the moment they're clean and don't have anything in their system, you can instantly tell. It's always an "OH there you are!!" feeling as you realize you haven't seen them totally clean in ages. Sad stuff. Cobain is very clearly sober in these shots.

[@Ghetto-Yeti]

@@VanishedPNW very true. You get used to playing it off. I recently listened to mark lanegans autobiography “Sing Backwards and Weep”… that dude was crazy and all those guys really pushed things. He tells a terrifying story about Kurt being so wasted he took like 3hours to crawl across the floor to open a door and Mark and co thought he was dead. Kurt overdosed a lot of times. He overdosed in NYC in 1993 the morning of the Roseland Show and later did press junkets and that night played an In Utero teaser set

[@ewazielinska9249]

Where Did You Sleep Last Night- Kurt's amazing voice. Polished to perfection in Unplugged NY after Dave was muted.

[@berkeskaya]

Wish Foo Fighters did the same

[@geaca3222]

I'm glad there aren't comments in this thread that the song supposedly is about a philandering girl. (because it is not.) Anyway, with songs I focus on rythm, melodies and expressiveness more than on song lyircs.

[@PollySpin]

This is wonderful I cant even begin to express how I dont want it to end

[@Laquaciousboy127]

For real

[@Goatchild90]

"we play what we want" Fuck yeah

[@StephenAndrew777]

I heard that recording of here she comes now a million times many years ago. I had no idea it was taken from a radio session. It reminds me of what I was thinking while I listened to it. And who I was discussing it with. And what they had to say about it.

[@MrChromeblue24]

Me neither. It still sounds awesome.

[@shucksful]

Hey, it’s me….the guy you were talking to! Surprise! 🪵

[@StephenAndrew777]

@@shucksful I meant girlfriends I had as a kid and bandmates more than anything, really. 25 to 30 years ago

[@alinazaranska9135]

Nirvana nigdy mi się nie nudzi. Mogłabym jej słuchać cały czas

[@onwerslament]

Thats the best song dave ever did Like wow

[@FrostGamingCSGO]

Have u ever heard of the Foo Fighters?

[@robertharrison7161]

@@FrostGamingCSGO Do you know what irony is?

[@nesta8518]

Even knowing the foo fighters I agree

[@all_invite_0hm]

The Foo Fighters (for the past 10 years anyway) SUCK.

[@likeabumblebee]

@@all_invite_0hm They do

[@tristenspindler2428]

The world was so much better when Kurt was around. Let's be real. Greatest loss for all of generation x

[@julienrossi1128]

En quoi était il meilleur ?

[@eduardoborcsh]

@@julienrossi1128 oh who are you ?

[@smathfury]

People have often questioned what was so great about Kurt. He was brimming with soul. All the great singers back then .. Kurt, Chris Cornell, Layne, Weiland, Vedder, Scott Lucas.. they all had that same badass soul.

[@aleksandardevic5585]

What say...this is Nirvana!!! Great band,great performance!

[@SoftDrinksOfChoice]

"Horrified" is a very unique song

[@GetSicRiCH]

The *candid photography* in this studio session really catches some interesting, vulnerable shots. For instance, 5:22 shows a shapeshifted Kurt, an angle of him almost unrecognizable. He looks like a different person. Then, at 11:22 and even closer, 11:37 - Dave Grohl is wAtChing Kurt, with a clear expression of a sad clown. At 15:00 - Kurt looks a lot like his daughter, Frances Bean. _Would love to see and hear all of this entire session._

[@dark2959]

It’s kinda sad that they only released 3 songs like cmon just fucking release all of them

[@legatomodi3522]

They rented almost everything they played that day. Cobain joked in his bio that he didn't like the pictures because he was using such high tech equipment with the acoustic. He had a alot of embarrassment about being seen as one of those "old unplugged washed up musicians" like Eric Clapton even though he was interested and experienced with the acoustic for jamming. He said in the same bio he said wouldn't do "unplugged" on MTV cause it was pitiful looking for real. He must have changed his mind completely cause he did it. Rented his guitar that night too. An already at the time a impossibly rare Martin electric D-18E with knobs and a electric guitar pickup (that really didnt work and had a bypassed bartolini sound hole pickup doing everything) He decided to buy it after the show. This takamine may still be at the studio it was rented at.

[@cooliofoolio]

this is the highest quality version I could ever find!

[@KristNovoselicFan]

Horrified... great jam man! got the bass cover finally for that song, Krist deseved it ty sir!

[@losalmacigosmusic8737]

i'ts Kurt on bass (in Horrified)

[@1leisure1]

This version of WDYSLN has an incredible southern Gothic feel to it.

[@stephenbartush2237]

YES.... SO TRUE... Which.... Kinda in a roundabout way... BEGS the question.... Will Marilyn Manson decide to cover this eventually??? Just an opinion though.💯 Most interesting 🤔... RAW and Gnarly demo version I've heard... Great blend that solidifies Nirvana's place in the grunge world... Kinda a " Domino effect" from Lead Belly, Hank Williams Sr., Crazy Horse era Neil Young and eventually to Nirvana who then covers this song... This demo is... " A DOWN TO THE GRASS ROOTS" Awesome!!! Interesting 🤔 version to me!!!💯🎸🎸🎸🎸 Referring to WDYSLN.

[@owenmccarthy4636]

This is beautiful holy shit, thank you for posting

[@Gabrielishere]

I'll never forget being at Castaic Lake California, and watching a surprise appearance by Kurt sat on a humble chair, performing the Leadbelly song. For a second I refused to even believe it was him, but it was. Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, etc... played that night. There's video of it on here somewhere.

[@ahappybungalow6506]

This is cool. I've heard all these individually, but not connected together. Thanks for putting this up!

[@williamgoodacrjr2744]

Soo raw and beyond beautiful.

[@ericportillo8277]

An acoustic teen spirit would sound kinda funny

[@ThePROMusikGroup]

There's a live acoustic version that Kurt played on The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah.

[@featheryfemme]

@@ThePROMusikGroupNot sure if you're joking, but I can't find it.

[@nelliesilvers1210]

@@ThePROMusikGroup Yup. I actually don't mind the acoustic version. He made it sound quite haunting

[@christopheduret451]

You may listen the cover made by the godmother of punk: Patty Smith

[@jules8159]

10:32 Sounds so good, jamming !!!

[@nortus7078]

This is the best version of horrified i have ever found

[@Guitcad1]

OMG! I can't believe all the recordings of Kurt I keep stumbling across that I've never heard before! Jesus *_CHRIST!_* When did he ever find time to shoot heroin? 😮

[@jules8159]

f you 😘

[@LardLadLoser]

If you dose heroin right, you're pretty euphoric and have a lot more focus than usual. It's not like you can't do anything when you do it

[@vae]

@@LardLadLoserwhere did you found that info? people can trust you keep it in your mind. there's no way to use heroin properly

[@Theeletricminers]

4:03 is incredible ... rip Kurt ...

[@alinazaranska9135]

It's a really wonderful 🎵 session ! 👰🏻 💝

[@josetrigueros5909]

Tha's why i love Kurt

[@geaca3222]

Wow really great, special session and recording, thanks for the upload 👍❤

[@geaca3222]

I'm glad there aren't comments in this thread that the song 'Where did you sleep last night' supposedly is about a philandering girl. (because it is not.) Anyway, with songs I focus on rythm, melodies and musical expressiveness more than on song lyircs.

[@jules8159]

What the hell was that with Dave Grohl I was not ready. It’s really good-

[@alekseynesterov3996]

we miss you Kurt.

[@Bigfatzombie658]

Nirvana is a great band! Love it!

[@blood_sausage9620]

It all makes sense now. RIP Cobain. The King 👑 of Rock 🎸

[@chrisram2198]

Fuck man, those screams send goosebumps all over my body

[@17d26]

this version of 'here she comes now' makes my stomach curl

[@seanwayburn402]

Its insane this only has 19K hits.

[@camacaron06]

Sean Wayburn 47k now

[@surrendersaeth]

beautiful

[@carajoadoroperu7708]

Está versión de Where Did you sleep last nigth me parece simplemente increíble, en mi opinión le hace competencia al Unplugged. This version of Where Did you sleep last night seems simply incredible to me, in my opinion it competes with Unplugged.

[@cartermccart]

Hey you should type it a 3rd time 💀

[@matthewryan1185]

Thanks, I thought this was pretty cool hearing songs they rarely play!

[@aaronmason3086]

that velvet underground cover shows how good kurt was actually at the guitar

[@DavidFrancis24824]

Beautiful...

[@bonnieheinzmann5784]

I just have to say.. how perfect Dave’s timing is… among other perfection of course

[@coleyounger2809]

At around 11:29 you can hear kurt say "isn't that three?" And dave or krist says something like "yeah, six songs" if you listen on a better quality version. This just makes me think that the Opinion we hear on montage of heck is from this very session, if I heard correctly.

[@jules8159]

Might be, dangerously close ! For the ones who don’t see this Opinion bit, kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5TZlJWwnMiaqJo

[@BobHarley]

so that was the same day they played in Amsterdam

[@jbilly24]

This is a little gem of a recording. Was that Kurt singing in vibrato? Haunting.

[@SuicideSeason4545]

Yes that was! His vocals eventually became shredded after nonstop touring So he most likely lost the ability to do that

[@bludwigfam]

@@SuicideSeason4545 Don't know anything about singing, can you explain to me what is special about vibrato and in which song he is doing it?

[@Camtcan]

@@bludwigfam in Where Did You Sleep Last Night his voice does a sort of wobbly things, it's not the craziest of techniques but for Kurt Cobain this is something special.

[@ImworseatwhatIdobest1]

​@@bludwigfamlike here when he sing "shiver" 3:30

[@lukehudson4482]

Its crazy how he's not even a particularly skilled singer but his voice is just so fucking good. Still never get tired of it.

[@TammyFox1989]

KURT... OHH HOW I MISS YOU & THE MUSIC!!😢 R.I.P. YOU SWEET GENTEL SOUL...💕😇💕

[@Clawfist23]

Maybe this session sucked at that moment, but I think it was a special session after all. The weird thing is that they play a really good show at De Paradiso in Amsterdam that same day.

[@camacaron06]

Clawfist23 Probably because they used this as a sort of warm-up

[@RicoLee27]

Also rare that Dutch radio stations play rock/metal music in the first place

[@patrickrock27]

When I have a hand. When I have a hand. When I need a wrist. When the letter read I know that I've had Come back to our cell And I know I have

[@eyesurg100]

Something about Kurtz voice is existential?

[@NaturTierfreund]

Thanks Man!!! :)) I feel and love him! Peace @ all.... ... .. . :-)

[@thetaurak]

Awesome share Shaun!!!

[@haphapp7282]

This cover of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” sounds like if Kurt Cobain did a collab with Neutral Milk Hotel

[@RomualdNicolle-m8l]

C'est le meilleur.poin

[@youtubeofcindy4001]

It Sure is Beautiful

[@DrRawBalls_TheDummy]

I’m like 100% sure that’s actually Dave saying I stand Horrified lol

[@Mediocremakekout]

i like how he says it, sounds like he could be a voice actor

[@Bigfatzombie658]

R.I.P Kurt!

[@mystery_1155]

horrified is a bad end version of desire. it's pretending that you're okay with who you are instead of changing it like you can. like it's all you can do.

[@markxv2267]

Lol dude

[@WCWThunderRosa]

Just gonna throw this on the pile of evidence that Kurt was trans lmao

[@dhnyl]

@@WCWThunderRosa weird thing to speculate about, just saying. the man’s dead and can neither confirm nor deny your head-canon.

[@leadbelly1495]

Holy cow !

[@j_man7573]

I was born in Virginia too Portsmouth actually

[@cremetangerine82]

Same here! Because Dave Grohl was born in Virginia, quite a few radio stations played “Smells Like Teen Spirit” before “Nevermind” was released.

[@user-bp2is5dj3h]

@@cremetangerine82 Grohl was actually born in Ohio, but moved to Virginia at a young age

[@MajicFreeman]

So these are the real pictures!? Cuz I've always loved the pictures of the guys with the Warwick Dolphin bass as I'm a huge Warwick fan and I've owned 4. :D

[@ShaunC1989]

Majic Freeman yeah these are all photos from the session

[@myownsongs100]

No this pics are from IN UTERO Rehearsals.

[@dylangajdosik964]

Ufo Alien Austrian News Wahrheit und Dokumente they absolutely are not from the In Utero sessions. Kurt was just starting to grow his hair back out during February 1993 and it was brown.

[@rhiannonmckay6719]

​@@myownsongs100no theyre not

[@Ernesticoful]

Uffff, qué maravilla!!!!

[@Teekay617]

Amazing

[@paulovitorrodriguesbarreto3058]

Top! Viva Nirvana! Viva Kurt Cobain!

[@inspyre.design]

Wow, they were tuned to C# for WDYSLN? I love it.

[@stephenbartush2237]

DEFINITELY 💯 ... C# is the official grunge tuning to me!!!💯

[@stephenbartush2237]

Well C# or Drop D ... Whatever you want to call it!!!💯

[@christinejautee2308]

Splendide, Dave very good

[@dae1en]

"We play what we want." Way to stick it lol

[@blase4408]

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? With that bass tone, kind of shitty mic quality, and the loud and clear drums with that thingy guitar makes it sound like a deep western song.

[@blase4408]

Ringy*

[@christinejautee2308]

Innoui! Magnifique

[@gabrielvazquez661]

Excelente!!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@BetterTheDevilYouKnow]

4:35 Kurt's vocal here ❤

[@christinejautee2308]

Ta girl est présente!!!

[@Lowadkin]

Nick Cave style song Where did you sleep last night. Круто!

[@lucasRem-ku6eb]

i remember this night, we were trying to ride to the studio, kids on bikes, close, FM radio on, it was LIVE, Jan Douwe Kroeske, he did try to do his lyrics, lol, remember it, we hated him on TV, on Radio he was good. We, die hard fans, their first single release was my father's best song by Shocking Blue, NOT venus, i only knew before it after searches in his old 78 records, one year before the great cover. This Radio show on KZbin, EPIC !!! this was my Youth, Thanks !!!!

[@MinecraftGamingSF]

if i knew they wouldve came to hilversum I wouldve gotten born 9 years earlier.

[@alinazaranska9135]

Kurt wygląda tutaj naprawdę pięknie

[@anymahlsevynn4209]

good thing they played what they wanted

[@sweetwoman6444]

♡

[@thecannaviking]

There's a photoshoot book of this session. I bought it to myself as a xmas gift together with the whole session.

[@tbeat03]

Name of the book?

[@thecannaviking]

​@@tbeat03 same as the session

[@thecannaviking]

​@@tbeat03 bought 1st edition in mid 90s lost it in 2009 during a moving...😢

[@thecannaviking]

​@@tbeat03 If you didnt know,the picd used here is from the the photo book. I have looked online for years after it.. It had a other title above the VPRO Radio sessions 1991. I'd appriciate if U reply if you find it. Some posters are made from the same book/booket. Around 30-35 pages with just pics. Man Kurt looked good on every pic ,not just those but all that I seen from 1991-2023... Made poster out of the one where he's resting his head on the guitar

[@christinejautee2308]

Je vous avais déjà vu comme cela et superbes, magnifique!!!

[@luucas1882]

live at paradiso was on the same day

[@sandyrose1890]

Angels don't live on the earth...

[@christinejautee2308]

Ta girl : bonjour cher ami!!!! Like and share!!! Good day!!! Kiss!!!

[@frogs4335]

dave grohls jam is not able to be found

Gracias por subir esto!!!

[@ghostieishere]

rest in peace kurdt

[@delhidelirium9091]

another great spontaneous heroin fuelled session , bring more of these ! Hell yeah man, thanks !. Horrible how that drug brings the worst traits in us to the surface ,withdrawal is truly a fair payback .

[@brasero20000]

Did the other 40 minutes of this session have ever came out?

[@markxv2267]

Yep it recently surfaced

[@brasero20000]

MarkXV would you have a link ?

[@omardcastrod]

MarkXV that’s great! I’d love to hear the entire thing myself.