In some of the unforgettable moments of Saturday Night time Reside’s fiftieth anniversary live performance, Nirvana’s surviving members—Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear—reunited to carry out “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with devoted Nirvana superfan Put up Malone on lead vocals.
The shock efficiency at New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on Friday evening (February 14th) was launched by SNL alum Adam Sandler, who exclaimed, “Women and gents, Put up Nirvana!”
Malone has been recognized to ship spectacular covers of Nirvana songs, and he definitely didn’t disappoint on the SNL50 live performance, providing up an exciting model of the game-changing “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and garnering an enormous hug from Grohl on the finish of the efficiency.
The SNL gig marked the second shock Nirvana reunion inside just a few weeks, and Grohl, Novoselic, and Smear have been joined by Joan Jett, St, Vincent, Kim Gordon, and Violet Grohl on the latest FireAid profit live performance in Los Angeles.
Earlier than that, the band reunited on the Cal Jam fest in 2018, and on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony in April 2014, in addition to a secret after-party on the tiny St. Vitus Bar in Brooklyn that very same evening.
Friday evening’s SNL gig marked Nirvana’s first main televised or streaming efficiency with a male singer because the passing of Kurt Cobain. The band did play with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis and Deer Tick’s John J. McCauley on the aforementioned Rock Corridor after-party, and with McCauley once more on the Cal Jam fest.
Malone earned widespread approval for a Nirvana tribute set he carried out at the start of the pandemic again in April 2020. He just lately introduced that he’ll launch that 14-song set on vinyl for Report Retailer Day on April twelfth.
Followers also can catch Put up Malone this spring on his “Large Ass Stadium Tour,” that includes assist from Jelly Roll (who additionally carried out on the SNL50 live performance. Get tickets to his upcoming exhibits right here.
Watch Put up Malone performing with Nirvana beneath.
The SNL50 live performance additionally featured performances from Jack White, Miley Cyrus, Eddie Vedder, Robyn and David Byrne, Fugees, The B-52s and Devo, plus Girl Gaga sang “Dick within the Field”
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