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The first concert on Nirvana's tour for their third and final studio album, In Utero, was on October 18, 1993, at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] However, on September 25, 1993, the band had performed on television for Saturday Night Live at NBC Studios in New York City .
The discography of Nirvana, an American rock band, consists of three studio albums, twenty-one singles, five live albums, two extended plays, four compilation albums, and three box sets. Nirvana was formed in 1987 by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic , with the position of drummer being filled by various musicians.
Nirvana added an extra guitarist, Pat Smear, for the In Utero tour. In February 1993, Nirvana released "Puss" / "Oh, the Guilt", a split single with the Jesus Lizard, on the independent label Touch & Go. [65] For their third album, Nirvana chose producer Steve Albini, who had a reputation as principled and opinionated in the American indie ...
The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [49] Reviewing the MTV Unplugged in New York DVD release in 2007, the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "deserves a place on the rock TV history shelf alongside the informal, sit-down section of Elvis Presley's epic comeback special in 1968". [17]
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Describing the tour in his 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, American music journalist Michael Azerrad wrote that "No one was happy about Nirvana playing second fiddle to the Peppers, but they had already committed to it during the chaos of the American tour. At any rate, Nirvana stole the show." [13] The full show ...
When Nirvana Came to Britain is a 2021 documentary about American rock band Nirvana's time in the United Kingdom from their first tour there in 1989 up to their headline performance at the Reading Festival in 1992 and their cancelled UK tour of 1994.
Album production proliferated in the 1990s, with Christgau approximating 35,000 albums worldwide were released each year during the decade. [64] In 1991, Nirvana's album Nevermind was released to critical acclaim and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, leading to an alternative rock boom in the music industry. [49]