Nirvana - Very Ape (7-23-93, Soundboard Audio)

[guitarFAIL]

hey Idiotska, uploader, why do u say "....with Big John Duncan on the guitar." ? I can see there are 2 guitars on the music, i assume one is Kurt and the other is this John Duncan? Why? Isn't supposed to be Pat Smear? You know the story? Plz share :) Thanks

[Idiotska]

@guitarFAIL Pat Smear joined sometime around September, before the In Utero tour and their SNL appearance. How they got a guy like Big John Duncan to play some songs is a mystery to me.

[kurt5000yh]

@Idiotska big john was actually a tech for nirvana for a while. He had john play a few songs to test how being a 4 piece would sound again.

[fernando101101101]

Krist is so funny xD

[PearlJammer07]

Wow this live version of Very Ape rocks. It sounds very raw. Guitars are very powerful here. This show should be released officially with the 20th Anniversary Edition of In Utero.

[LukeHonorary7]

Kurt OD'd on Heroin that very morning.

[ak2pa2hk2hi]

and "Los Brujos" diddled it from Jack London.

So who had greater intellectual property rights, two it?

-- "a grey horse and a travelling preacher"

[TheHaHaHaHahaaaaaaaa]

kurt is off his head at this show!

[TheOfficialGatlin]

So amazing...The guitar tone here is really raw and Kurt's vocals are supreme.

[bechovaandnirvana]

BECHOVA..THE NEW NIRVANA OF.BRAZIL,CHECKIN IN YOUTUBE,,GRUNGE IS BACK..FUN FUN FUN.

[kurtcobanito]

KURT YOU MUSIC ARE THE BEST 4 EVER REGARDS FROM ARGENTINE

[mykakma]

out of the ground in to the sky out of the sky into the dirt

[kumberbear]

seventeen years later and this is hot out of the oven!!!

[maurin]

@kumberbear hahahaha i liked that

[GRUNGEKING77]

lol Krist " John was in a contest. Write a 500 word essay on what grunge means to you and you can jam with Nirvana" haha priceless humor

[stagmanchester]

I was here first

[biipolaar]

that's what you young people have to call POWER :]

[kevankw]

l love this version so raw. The guitar and backup are insane.

[KennethKaniffFromCT]

They sounded really good as a four-piece with Smear.

[moonijuana0]

intense.

[Dumpsterbaby1991]

I like how you can tell Big John that big John wasn't actually taught this song and probably only listened to it once or twice before playing here. And that the song just fucking trucks through all the slight fuck-ups.

[hydrocodone1]

@Dumpsterbaby1991

kurt OD'ed bofore the show and had to be revived.

[RolexTharsus]

Nirvana with Big John on guitar. Fantasy band line up right there!

[lolurmom1]

imagine if he didnt die :)

[EnterFeared]

one of the best very ape versions !!!! Punk-Grunge for life

[hollywoodwolfpac]

this is the best live version of very ape!!!! nirvana 4 life!!!!!!!

[Idiotska]

I totally need to be told repeatedly that the riff is taken from Los Brujos.

[kurtcobanito]

@Idiotska IT STOPS WE GIVE THEM IN TOPIC WE DID NOT LIKE IT SO MUCH IN THAT OF THE WIZARDS BUT KURT I HAPPEN TO HIM WITH THIS SONG

[fairdathm]

@Idiotska Omg, you're right--kanishka! I had no idea. Nirvana's rendition is so much better, though.

[0urdreams]

LOS BRUJOS fueron teloneros de NIRVANA en argentina antes de que nirvana haga su recital kurt entro al camarin de los brujos y le pidio si le regalaban un disco

un año desp sale Very Ape

Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

[manoebo]

This song is too similar that Kanishka - Los Brujos (91)

[surrealsound]

this performance had ''big'' john duncan of The Exploited on guitar....awsome....

[101Volts]

You know what else, He (Big John Duncan) Played a Mosrite Mark V guitar in this show. Awesome. Now I have to check his music out.

[101Volts]

I have to say this as well. Dirty Mustang tone + Slightly distorted Mosrite tone = Win.

[Lunatykowaty]

good..

[disaster2112]

return of the rat?

[JaredTuozzo]

I've noticed that verse chorus verse, Lithium, and Polly all have the same type of beginning.

[rayolacer]

thats the chord E

[wiisports505]

nooo

[VeryApe28]

Search los brujos kanishka on you tube and you'll see. It doesn't sound anything like On a plain to me.

[facumalagon]

kaniiskka kniiskka

[inuterokurt94]

krist =)

[netuhplan182]

supremuhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kurt cobain \o/

[VeryApe28]

Yeah, the riff is borrowed. I like the los brujos song too. I win, again...

[WinstonLights87]

what a very ape statement. the los brujos is actually G. A. and the Nirvana version is G A A# or whatever that power chord is right next to A.

[101Volts]

It's a half step down so it goes F sharp, G sharp, F sharp and then A.

[rayolacer]

hey did nirvana actually admit that?? thatd be cool lol

[VeryApe28]

I doubt they would have advertised it. From what I've heard from my random readings is that Los Brujos opened for Nirvana in Argentina and Kurt liked the tune.

[mishgantuman]

bullshit, I listened to that. its a little similar but songs are completely different. Anyway nowadays you can blame any band in not being original or stealing and stuff like that.

[eatmyfun]

ohk, its not supposed to be a secret that nirvana "stole" the riff from los brujos...

listen to the lyrics

nirvana played with the band in 92 in argentina... the song and lyrics are a piss take on los brujos

[treintamillones]

the stole that riff for an Argentina Band .. call " los brujos - Kanishka "... search it,,, they were a support band

[0371998]

SkeletonVic - 1985 until 1994

9 years!!!! its very very very sad! only thats! GOD IS GAy he have Kill NirvanA!

[0371998]

BIG J yeah what is the feeling to relive after one overdose....!!huh talk about it !nada lol feel like local god!.nah...!VEry Ape really good Song !! Nirvana is ! Soo perfect! Alot of song in only 5 years..woaa! Modern King !

[SkeletonVic]

7 years

[despuesdelanada]

it is said that Very Ape is inspired the song "kanishka" from an argentinian band called "los brujos". When nirvana came to argentina in 1992 Los brujos played before Nirvana, and Kurt Cobain listened to them and he said it was cool.

it has sense to me....

[jimboallin]

5 dinastias rechazaste

que malo que sos!

KANISHKA

[teethgrinder07]

kurt overdosed minutes b4 the show and courtney revived him, and yeah its the only show with ex exploited guitarist big john, who was nirvanas guitar tech,

[RandyFoxKiller]

"If you ever need anything please dont hesistate to ask somelse first.

I'm to busy acting like I am not naive.

I need it all, I was here first.

Into the ground!

Into the sky!

Out of the sky!

Into the ground!

Out of the sky!

Into the dirt!!!

[franknirvana]

I've seen it all*

[SalandFindles]

someone else**

[PotatuhMan]

don't give me thumbs down, and im not being rude... but why wuz this show so legendary?

[kdckan]

because dude 4 us nirvana bootleggers this show is so hard to surface in pro shots

[Guard2008]

This show was so legendary because it was Nirvana.

Got it?

[0tacon]

Kanishka Kanishka!

[SalDOWN]

big john rulez, he was the best guitarist of the exploited.

[jonahjones87]

wasn't hard to be though

[redsxfn93]

thts ill this was on the day i was born

7-23-93

[dkityy]

did something just explode??????????????

[Keeheek]

this song is thunderous as hell. 

the lyric:

"if you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first"

might be my favorite Nirvana lyric

thanks for posting this. it's fantastic

[Guard2008]

NICE!

[losdestructo69]

wow, the main riff sounds awesome when the drums kick in! on the bootleg ive got, this song sounds awful (because its a bad bootleg)

[pared1986]

nope. the bootleg its really good, i have the "complete" one. it has a really good sound.

its because the upload or maybe the format conversion the cause of the bad quality here.

but this performance of very ape, its one of the best out there. no words about tourette's.

[AussieBas]

Wow! Thanks. Very Ape is one of my favorite In Utero tunes. It seems underrated to me. Can you post the rest of this show?

[danfro]

i was at this show....havent heard it since then....thanks for the audio....

[TheFunkyFuNkMonk]

@danfro YOU FUKING LUCKY BASTARD ITS MY DREAM TO GO TO THIS SHOW ITS MY FAV SHOW BY THEM EVER I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO GO

[argerich]

anymore soundboard songs from this concert?

[Rummy44]

cool.