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Kurt Cobain would have been 52 years old today. (Imagine!) All over the world, surely, fans are sharing memories and videos and music from the days when Nirvana stood atop the rock ‘n’ roll summit for a brief moment in history.

We’ll never forget his daughter, Frances Bean’s nice little memorial to her father on Instagram back when he would have turned 50.

With that in mind, here’s Nirvana performing at Empire Concert Club on East 9th Street in 1991. Check the setlist below.

Youtube video

Setlist:

Another One Bites The Dust (jam)
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
Aneurysm
Drain You
School
Floyd The Barber
Smells Like Teen Spirit
About A Girl
Breed
Polly
Sliver
Love Buzz
Come As You Are
Pennyroyal Tea
Negative Creep
Been A Son
Blew
Rape Me
Lithium
Territorial Pissings

This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2017.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

7 replies on “Kurt Cobain Would Have Turned 52 Today; Here’s Nirvana Performing in Cleveland in 1991”

  4. Too old to care in ’94, don’t care now. But it’s ALWAYS sad when someone offs himself. RIP, dude.

  6. missed this show with Urge Overkill opening.. bad last minute decision. was able to catch them in akron on Halloween though….

  7. I was at the alter house the night of the show & recall folks coming in after with the ubiquitous smiley face shirts, if my then 17 year old brain recalls correctly. That was a great time to be young & alternative in CLE

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