In one of the crucial unforgettable moments of Saturday Night Live’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 Post Malone on lead vocals.
The shock efficiency at New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on Friday night time (February 14th) was launched by SNL alum Adam Sandler, who exclaimed, “Girls and gents, Publish Nirvana!”
Malone has been identified 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 had been joined by Joan Jett, St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, and Violet Grohl on the recent FireAid benefit concert 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 night time.
Friday night time’s SNL gig marked Nirvana’s first main televised or streaming efficiency with a male singer for the reason that 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 originally of the pandemic again in April 2020. He lately introduced that he’ll release that 14-song set on vinyl for Record Store Day on April twelfth.
Followers can even catch Publish Malone this spring on his “Big Ass Stadium Tour,” that includes assist from Jelly Roll (who additionally carried out on the SNL50 live performance). Get tickets to his upcoming reveals here.
Watch Publish Malone performing with Nirvana under.
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 Lady Gaga sang “Dick in the Box”
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