In Utero.

In Utero.

9/25/93 - Saturday Night Live, New York, NY. Nirvana performed “Heart-Shaped Box” & “Rape Me.”

9/25/93 - Saturday Night Live, New York, NY. Nirvana performed “Heart-Shaped Box” & “Rape Me.”

10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.
Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.” 
Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”
Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”

10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.

Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.”

Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”

Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”

Kurt on the “In Bloom” music video.

Kurt on the “In Bloom” music video.

 Lakeland, FL, 1993.

Lakeland, FL, 1993.

São Paulo, Brazil, 1993.

São Paulo, Brazil, 1993.

“”Scentless Apprentice” is about the book, Perfume, by Patrick Süskind. I don’t think that I’ve ever written a song based on a book before. I’m really interested in smells, I think I’d like to own a perfume someday.” - Kurt Cobain.

9/23/93 - New York, NY.
‘Nirvana becomes a four piece’, during 1993, Kurt Cobain calls Pat Smear and ask if he’d be interesting in joining his band, Smear immediately accepted and soon after would play his first show with the band [Saturday Night Live]. This photo was taken on the same day as the SNL rehearsals.
“We have a new guitar player. His name is Pat Smear, he was in an LA punk band called The Germs. He’s so great, he’s really, really good.” - Dave Grohl.

9/23/93 - New York, NY.

‘Nirvana becomes a four piece’, during 1993, Kurt Cobain calls Pat Smear and ask if he’d be interesting in joining his band, Smear immediately accepted and soon after would play his first show with the band [Saturday Night Live]. This photo was taken on the same day as the SNL rehearsals.

“We have a new guitar player. His name is Pat Smear, he was in an LA punk band called The Germs. He’s so great, he’s really, really good.” - Dave Grohl.

“I never wanted to sing, I just wanted to play rhythm guitar — hide in the back and just play. But during those high-school years when I was playing guitar in my bedroom, I at least had the intuition that I had to write my own songs.” - Kurt Cobain.

“I never wanted to sing, I just wanted to play rhythm guitar — hide in the back and just play. But during those high-school years when I was playing guitar in my bedroom, I at least had the intuition that I had to write my own songs.” - Kurt Cobain.

“Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip”

11/9/93 - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

11/9/93 - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

9/2/93, Universal City, CA.

9/2/93, Universal City, CA.

7/23/93 - Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY.
Kurt: “Have patience, we’re one of the biggest rock’n’roll bands in history!”

7/23/93 - Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY.

Kurt: “Have patience, we’re one of the biggest rock’n’roll bands in history!”