Nirvana - Lithium (Live at Reading 1992) 

Only the guy who's jumping around is playing the distortion

Nevermind

😆😆

The Evangelicals stole this guys dance moves

They guys called pat smear

I am force to agree

this performance makes lithium a 10/10 for me everything that was good about lithium in the nevermind version becomes a greater version than its studio version

I was there!!!!

@@mattjammy9884 Nice

no its not

So lucky dude, i feel so jealous

Wish I was you

You are so lucky. Congratulations! Greetings from Argentina.

Lucky

im so jealous of you...ur incredibly lucky

yeet - Millions sang his songs, but that didn't help him much...

@@pit2ryan3 imagine singing a song that people scream their heart! but you don't feel it at all

@@ipi223 - So you have to sing it bad, haven't you?

@@pit2ryan3 if you don t feel something don t do it

@@ipi223 - Great tip ipi223, hope to be able to take it into consideration, cheers!

Daniel Ward they should of hit him a thing with that hip scotch game to jump on but that’s funny

Too bad that's not an option anymore...

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That's not moshing

His name was Dancing Tony. He appears in a lot of Nirvana's live stuff.

ear plugs

Jorge el cholo You can feel music in more than just your ears.

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RebelThoughts82 The stage is generally the quietest place.

RebelThoughts82 ThinkSmallOrBig Yea i can agree that as a stage musician. Me and my band were afraid to put up the volume since it would effect us. But in the first song it was so quiet i stopped the song and put the master volume up.

Hes a monster and was just simply and happily overshadowed by 2 generational talents. This guy in the 90s was almost 7 foot tall, a giant man with huge hands and a big heart and personality and those characteristics shone through his playing, which is basically unmistakable like his bandmates.

@@SlowerRiot Krist is such a wonderful person. He didn’t deserve to lose his best friend the way he did

He was the anchor and a true friend to Kurt in every sense of the word. It’s always been apparent that a piece of him died along with his band mate.

Frrr

true-ish statement. krist is a filthy bassist, if you just try and zone in on him, he is fantastic @@SlowerRiot

of course

Thanks I was one of those voices🤘

@@neilmcgarrity178wow you are so lucky

@@neilmcgarrity178 Hell yeah

@@neilmcgarrity178YEEEE🎉

hit the nail on the head with that

Personally this song never makes me feel depressed. It's one of those songs which makes me feel better if im feeling down.

antroidi you mean when you're down is up?

This is a gold comment!

word

dolphinmeat or to end it

@@guycroxford8192 :-)

@@guycroxford8192 I see what you did there, nice one ;)

Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi? that’s the point, lithium is a bipolar medicine

Start and end depending on the dosage

Keep discovering more songs, you will love them.

My Favorite song is radio friendly unit shifter

Check out "Do Re Mi (Home Demo)" by them, last song he wrote

Get a guitar and play. It’s easy.

Welcome to the club

Same, except “smells like teen spirit” i just don't like the live versions of it, especially the fact that kurt switches the word “group” for “tribe”.

​@@RenegadeInTheDarkOfficialkurt would intentionally butcher teen spirits on lives as he hated it bc it was the most "famous" song in the band and would shadow other songs

@@ringo5721 and even in the studio version of the song i agree with kurt, it became repetitive, there is a limited number of times that u can play it until it becomes anoying

Explosion of pure art❤ kurt Legend foreva

​@@RenegadeInTheDarkOfficial No even the Paramount one?

Killer__Rage id pay him

I'd ask if he was high or some shit

f**k ill do it free of charge!!!

Me: ... Kurt: "free drugs"

Bruh that's Dancing Tony

Same like in brazil concert

I was there 😀😀😀😀😀 19 years old right in the thick of it Reading 92 will forever be etched in my memory

@@onechopbuddy3849 omfg

British audiences are amazing

My favourite

No that's dancing Tony he's been dancing for them since 1990 he's been in Leeds polytechnic 1990 and reading 1991

that is dancing tony

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hodgkinson

So many people know about tony dancer that you are the stranger here, not the sulfur discoverer.

I think that dude did that their entire set. Drugs and endurance!

ses S Awwwh that’s so sweet!!

No I just feel happy for them tbh

I wasn't even alive... But whatever

@@Kevin-it4fh I was there, as a wide-eyed 17 yr old It was f*cking fab, as i sort-of remember as i was well gone by the time they played. Don't recall any Porto-shitter incidents though lol....

@@01782644468 lol, that's good for you man. At least you got to experience it

CKG He is my inspiration

I thought he was gonna knee himself in the head.

I think his name is tony but I'm not sure

Can anyone tell me where is he now?

a medical prankster. :)

+ElPrimoBenja man i no that my favorite part of the show when the crowed sings lithium with him give me shivers

It'd be a beautiful thing if I had been there, beautiful music surrounding my soul, shaking my core, as we sing like a family. Sadly I wasn't born yet lol

TALKINGtac0 yeah i no what your saying, how ever i was born in 1990 tho so i was alive but far form old enough to going to a show lol didnt even know of nirvana till i was like 10 or so maybe older, how ever i do remember when i was small there was this song that was always on the radio and i loved the opening riff and it stuck with me forever untill i was older and my buddy came over and was playing my guitar that i barely could play at the time and played smells like teen spirit riff and i was like "WAIT.... WAIT.... what song is that! " and hes like smells like teen spirit by nirvana and that was the start of it aoways new there was this dope band out there and i loved that sound and riff but couldnt figure out who it was or the song name untill he played it fell in love with the band almost immediately

+CHUCKYLOSTIT Nirvana has the power to change many people's lives in many different ways. Few bands can do that. It changed my life. Before, I just listened to and played music (I only played piano) to relax, and move on to another world for a little while. But when I heard Nirvana, evertthing changed. They inspired me to play the guitar, the first full song of theirs that I played was Lithium. I also began to consider music as a possible career. I started taking my guitar to school, playin gn at lunch. Now, music was not just a temporary escape. No... now it was a way of life, it took a tenacious grip of my heart. I breathe music now. My past self would not understand what I'm talking about if weren't for Nirvana. Nirvana literally changed my whole life.

+CHUCKYLOSTIT I can't let go of my guitar now. It literally hurts lol

Same. I told her that and my science teacher had no idea what I was talking about.

If your teacher made you remember it was number 3 on the atomic chart, just think nirvana had 3 albums.

lithium is an element

ajaxgotpwnd And an anti depression drug

My freshman year in HS (last year lol) science teacher is 68, 69 now I guess lol but she's shared so many stories from the Cold War era and we ask her about bands and whatnot and she remembers The Beatles (when she was a teenager) and Nirvana, but she was an adult during Nirvana's era so she didn't really listen to them but she remembered all the hype. Pretty cool. She told us about how during the Cold War era, and the Cuban missile crisis, people thought the soviets were gonna nuke us (I live in Rhode Island USA btw) and they thought the world was gonna end litterally...scary time but interesting. My favorite era in history.

+boo boo true as fuck

he couldnt move the mic he was holding his guitar

jazzblaster some people manage to do so i've seen it a hundred times

+boo boo Got that right

+Samuel Gonzalez exactly people came to fucking see him sing not hear the audience sing

so true !

Anastasia Kelly I highly doubt it mats you sound like an edegy 7 year old

Anastasia Kelly It's a joke I just don't like when people do cool things and I don't get to

Anastasia Kelly it is.

Anastasia Kelly you haven't tried heroin

God dam right 👍

*_This_*

or put more effort into finding good music instead of listening to only the most popular shit

EXACTLY

Callum 246 that’s the plan

im working on it mate

same here lol

And drink a beer! :)

Glass of wine relaxing

That's basically my life 😂

Nikki B this chips for u.. for Kurt

I know Dave always did. He says it now, its his best part of a show when the crowd sings the songs. And I feel he really means it.

@@adambutta188 wow

@@adambutta188 you stole his thunder

you are blessed with good taste then! :)

@@hashem5957 bvbbbjkllkklo

Bless you young people. This is my gospel. I'm 38. Kurt is amazing. Go listen to "where to did you sleep last night". His pleading screaming is hauntingly beautiful.

Dream job

tap22 not just lithium, all the songs on the set

yup

Probably didn't get much though, Courtney love probably took 90 percent of his pay too (you may understand the joke if you're informed on the royalty bullshit she pulled on Nevermind)

tap22 /Actor

UK crowds do it the best

right?? ahah Kris always been the man xD

he should have kept his long hair.

@@thebootywarrior1308 he would have lost it anyways

And a dancing Tony 😉

1992 ...

There were no cellphones because it was 1992....

Well I mean, In Come As You Are I'm pretty sure Kurt used a backing track but ok.

I don't see how recording a moment you want to relive makes you a dishonest fan.

Alvs Notes yeaah 😍

Alvs Notes agree 100% m8!.

don't wanna ruin thouse 69 likes

Agreed. They are timeless. Nirvana has to be spoken in the same sentence as Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. They ushered in and defined an era (whether they wanted to or not)

Alvs Notes My favorite version of Lithium is the one from Johnathan Ross show 😂

Yes you so do know that you have made it when crowd is singing along with you. Very well put and cheer for band and give it large at the beginning of concert. Maedbh ❤️

i hate that he suicides 2 years later

Not when you are a coverband

MTV VMAs are a close second

Darren Claxton absolutly

Tienes toda la razón ... no hay por el momento otro lugar donde encontrar tus videos del recuerdo

Darren Claxton ❤️❤️❤️❤️

We both did kind sir. I call you that because thats me

The best time machine until it's cancelled by corporations.

You will never understand the golden age when we were then and there, it's like a total different life experience

My God, it was glorious...

@@MARKINAU8 the 90's for me were - raves, concerts, gigs, parties, raves, concerts, gigs, parties, raves, concerts, gigs, parties... and a bit of college!

A couple other unbelievable things happened before you were born, but if you celebrate them like this here, you're blessed anyways.

@@stuartgoswell1193 And lot of sex and soccer

+FunnyVideoMaker77 Very true. You put it well!

FunnyVideoMaker77. BC. Wax UN

NEW YORK SPORTS FAN fcccvv. Fx

NEW YORK SPORTS FAN Yes!!!

I love when a crowd sings along, must be the best feeling ever for a band to hear the appreciation and passion sung back to them, NIRVANA are forever. Yeeaaaaah yeeeaaaaaaahh

It would be rude not to

+BlackDiamond1774 damn it, i would have sang. damn it.

+BlackDiamond1774 Kurt only liked it when the public who singed along showed signs who undertsood what he said.

Me too! You should watch green day doing boulevard of broken dreams at reading in 2013. I'm not a fan of green day but the crowd reaction is unbelievable

+joe foley Too right man on that one Green Day's reading 2013 was brill

So cool that Anthony Kiedis joined in to dance on stage

then you must be cool! ( :

My mom was born in 1947. She loved Nirvana so much we actually buried her in her Kurt Cobain t-shirt. :D

Haaaa, thanks! The moral of this story- "age ain't no thang". :)

He'd be correct.

This is so cute :)

Wesley same

Wesley same

Wesley same

Wesley same

Wesley U damn right

Correct me if im wrong but i think Kurt wrote the bass lines too. Krist is a great bassist, though, thats for sure.

I think kurt wrote those too.

I agree

Krist is vastly underrated. Totally agree, really great, hooky basslines. Melodic, almost beatle-esque. Kurt and eventually Dave Grohl were more popular, but he was key in that band. Apparently he was the one who came up with the final Teen Spirit arrangement when Kurt brought the riff to rehearsal (all of them co-wrote the track).

Kurt wrote some of them but Krist wrote most of them. He also said, "I learned everything Paul McCartney."

He is. Dancing Tony is a Nirvana member

Its a girl actually

he is the one who wrote all of their songs

@@fanceapa6355 true

@@LiamgamingYT It's a guy

It had been playing since like 30 seconds in you just couldn't hear it.

@@variklane7032 not in any substantial way.

+John Uskglass Truth brother!! He acted on what people wanted to see.

He’s putting his jaw into it too

coke, MDMA few things that'll make your jaw swing haha

Kirk Purdy yes he actually tried when the crowd got into it

Mr.RU-vid you know most of the people have same rhythm feeling

@Gengar Phantom '92 man.

o M absolutely man

youtube is a time machine

We're currently building it, man. We all gonna go back time.

when i get a time machine that concert is the first thing i visit

o M if I had a time machine I'd stop Courtney love from killing him

ikr

It's remastered.

They put visual effects to make it look MUCH better

it does, but live at the Paramount is still the best looking nirvana concert

Mostly in comparison to the autotune and lipsinging of today

if its nirvana ... live is always the way to go !!

I like the live version better too

For me it is the best show they did and the best version of this music.

I was also born in 99, and it only sucks because people don't have ambition. We need to be the change!

Me and you both need to go back! I would be screaming in the crowd!

Yeah, sucks being born in 98... Missed out on being able to see a ton of great music live... Nothing is even close today :/

2000 here. Being here woulda been just phenomenal. And it was just 8 years earlier...think about it that's pretty short..8 years ago today it was 2007 and it seems far yet close

Go see royal blood live it's pretty phenomenal

It legit sounds like an army was out there singing Lithium

You can kinda hear the audience in his performance of Teen Spirit in the same show which makes sense considering it’s his most popular song. I think the distorted guitar and the intensity drowns a lot of it out

Also it’s kinda hard to understand and learn the lyrics compared to Lithium considering you just can’t look them up compared to today.

That may even be true. Doesnt make it less powerful

Stewart Ross Same dude!

Because the tune of the guitar?

Because he practices the riff before each song.

Kurt Asa Yeah I notice it, it's because for nevermind the tune was standard and Kurt decided to low the tune to be because that way he don't get that tired

In Nevermind it was mostly E. Come As You Are, Lithium, and Drain you were in D standard. On a Plain was Drop D.

You've clearly never heard "lucky charms" by biz markie then

+Captain Doob he literally said "for me"

Aww cute 😘

@@luisr.6543 Thank you😊

"You changed my life" ¿¿??¿¿?¿??¿¿??

Can we meet?

@@ezequielroris8963 What?

McCaroni they do now

It was mental. Gf lost her shoes in the crush

Tf r u talkin 'bout?

His feet were too big.

YEAH

👍 burn baby burn by Ash is another good one