RARE VINTAGE VIDEO: NIRVANA & SMASHING PUMPKINS IN 'CRISCO TWISTER'

Back in 91, before all the glitz and graphics and manipulatively salacious voiceovers, all we had at MTV were great bands, board games and a huge amount of lard. Thats no clever wordplay. I literally mean that we had a ton of Crisco on hand. Or so it would seem from the very lo-fi production below, in which Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic strips down to briefs and gets a full body Crisco massage from Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl, before playing slippery Twister with Smashing Pumpkins.

Billy Corgan has long hair. I forgot that was even possible. Also, pre-peroxide James Iha looks so nervous, its amazing he didnt die. Watch as a very lively (read: alive) Kurt Cobain playfully launches globs of Crisco across the room as a quiet audience inexplicably barely looks up from their beers and cigarettes. It looks like its about one in the afternoon. What?! The nineties officially made absolutely no sense.

Category:

Comedy

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• nirvana
• kurt
• cobain
• krist
• novoselic
• dave
• grohl
• smashing
• pumpkins
• billy
• gorgan
• james
• iha
• rare
• 1991
• finland
• suomi
• vintage
• crisco
• twister

[975mas]

2 of my favorite bands of all time, together. Total. Mind.fuck.

[wwa4tna]

Billy Corgan and Kurt Cobain both banged Courtny Love... dose that make them wiener cousins?

[thetroller121]

best 2 bands of 90s no doubt about it

maybe rem or radiohead are up there but these two are my favorite :)

[DaveySkate]

@youknowyourrite1 *before kurt married the bitch from hell.

[DaveySkate]

@youknowyourrite1 well i don't know everything, and i exaggerated a bit. They didn't see eye to eye... at least that's what I heard. However now I think Billy respects Kurt as a musician (naturally he wouldn't disrespect the memory of a dead legend). Also, they met each other quite a few times I'm sure. In fact, Kurt married the bitch from hell, Billy had been in a relationship with Ms. Love for quite sometime and they re-kindled this relationship after Kurt had died.

[youknowyourrite1]

@DaveySkate would you mind elaborating that?? before i saw this vid awhile back i never even new both of them had ever even interacted..

[Homebody44]

Where did you get this footage? This was filmed at Axis nightclub in Boston -- probably upstairs. Nirvana did 2 shows at Axis, one on Sept 23rd, and an all ages the next day on the 24th. I was at both shows! I can't remember if the Pumpkins played both shows too. The Pumpkins had opened for Nirvana at one or both of those shows. I didn't see the Crisco Twister. That must have been after the show. It may have been part of a Nevermind record release party, as I believe it was released that day. :D

[ak47popper]

liked for the description :p

[thijs199]

very nice to see kurt playing a game.. right?

[Athenaxxx3]

...And he's a politician now.

[loganarchermusic]

Oh Krist...

[DaveySkate]

It's a shame Billy and Kurt hated each other