Live and Loud (Nirvana video album)

With Pearl Jam's cancellation, Nirvana's extended set resembled a typical concert from the In Utero tour, although it excluded the two quietest set list regulars, "Polly" and "Dumb." Also absent was the band's 1991 breakthrough single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The concert featured material from the band's 1991 sophomore album, Nevermind, and In Utero most prominently, along with three songs from their 1989 debut album, Bleach, and the 1990 single, "Sliver." It also included a cover of "The Man Who Sold the World" by English rock musician David Bowie, which they occasionally performed during the In Utero tour, including their MTV Unplugged appearance the previous month. The show ended with a rare In Utero-era performance of the Nevermind hidden track, "Endless, Nameless."

The performance featured second guitarist Pat Smear, who had joined the band at the start of the In Utero tour, and cellist Lori Goldston. As with other shows on the tour, the stage was decorated with winged anatomical models and fake trees.

At the end of "Endless, Nameless," the band smashed their instruments and stage props, with Cobain decapitating one of the winged models with his guitar. As McCarthy-Miller recalled, "There's a shot where [Cobain] walks up to the camera guy on stage, a guy named Charlie Huntley, and I'm in the booth directing, telling [Charlie] 'Stay with him!' And then Kurt ends up spitting in the lens. It was a moment."[1] Finnerty added, "I was standing on the side of the stage, it was an incredible view, the way they built the set the fans were able to get really close, so, at the end of the show, Kurt was grabbing their hands and pulling them onto the stage. I've seen them trash a lot of stages, and they did it again here, but that one was pretty amazing because the audience was just so close to it all."[1]

The concert, which began with the Breeders' set at 5 p.m., was filmed in front of approximately 2,000 fans. Nirvana's set ended at 8:15 p.m.[5]

The original broadcast first aired at 10 p.m. on December 31, 1993.[5] It featured an edited version of the show, omitting the songs "Sliver," "All Apologies," "Blew," "The Man Who Sold the World," "School," "Come As You Are" and "About a Girl," and including only part of the final song, "Endless, Nameless." It also featured short skits by Anthony Kiedis and Flea, of the American rock band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a New Year's countdown by American singer Janet Jackson.[6]

In October 1996, the Pier 48 version of "Scentless Apprentice" appeared on the live compilation From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, the only commercially-available official release from the concert prior to the release of the DVD.

• Kurt Cobain – lead vocals, guitar
• Dave Grohl – drums, backing vocals
• Krist Novoselic – bass guitar
• Pat Smear – guitar, backing vocals

• Lori Goldston – cello

LP1[15]

1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
2. Drain You
3. Breed
4. Serve The Servants
5. Rape Me
6. Sliver
7. Pennyroyal Tea
8. Scentless Apprentice
9. All Apologies
10. Heart-Shaped Box

LP2

1. Blew
2. The Man Who Sold The World
3. School
4. Come As You Are
5. Lithium
6. About a Girl
7. Endless, Nameless