Nirvana - Palaghiaccio di Marino, Marino, Italy, 2-22-1994

I've never posted a Nirvana album until now. That hasn't been deliberate, I do like their music. But it seems to me there's a huge amount of attention on the bootlegs of just a few musical acts, like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, and so on. I figure other websites are taking care of them, and I'd rather post more obscure stuff that's getting neglected. But if I can post something from those big acts that's different, I will. Recently, I got a request to post this Nirvana concert. I looked into it, and realized there were things I could do to improve the sound quality, so here it is, hopefully sounding better than ever before.

In late 1993, Nirvana released the album "In Utero." It was a big hit, going on to sell about 16 million copies worldwide. This appears to be the only truly excellent sounding live recording from the tour to promote the album, due to it being broadcast on Italian radio at the time. (That's not counting the "MTV Unplugged" concert, which was a different type of concert.) 

It's also important because it was one of the very last concerts Nirvana performed before the band's leader Kurt Cobain committed suicide, ending the band. This concert took place on February 22, 1994. After that, the band had one TV show appearance, plus four more concerts, with the last one on March 1st. On March 4th, Cobain very nearly overdosed on drugs, resulting in a canceling of the rest of the tour. About a month later, he was found dead of suicide back in Seattle, Washington. Apparently he died on April 5th, though his body wasn't discovered until three days later. So this concert is close to the last word from the band.

In terms of sound quality, this was almost too good. What I mean by that is the recording made for radio focused so well on recording what was happening on stage that very little audience noise was recorded. So I used MVSEP to split the tracks into crowd noise and everything else. Then I greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise, and put the tracks back together. The crowd noise is still rather low sometimes, but at least now the songs get an expected crowd reaction. While I was at it, I noticed the vocals were also relatively low in the mix, which I've noticed is all too common for live recordings. So I fixed that too, using the same MVSEP method.

This recording already sounded excellent. But it should sound even better now, due to those two fixes. 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long. 

01 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Nirvana)
02 Drain You (Nirvana)
03 Breed (Nirvana)
04 Serve the Servants (Nirvana)
05 Come as You Are (Nirvana)
06 Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
07 Sliver (Nirvana)
08 Dumb (Nirvana)
09 Run to the Hills [Instrumental] (Nirvana)
10 In Bloom (Nirvana)
11 About a Girl (Nirvana)
12 Lithium (Nirvana)
13 Pennyroyal Tea (Nirvana)
14 School (Nirvana)
15 Polly (Nirvana)
16 talk (Nirvana)
17 Very Ape (Nirvana)
18 talk (Nirvana)
19 Lounge Act (Nirvana)
20 talk (Nirvana)
21 Rape Me (Nirvana)
22 Territorial Pissings (Nirvana)
23 All Apologies (Nirvana)
24 On a Plain (Nirvana)
25 talk (Nirvana)
26 Scentless Apprentice (Nirvana)
27 Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
28 Instrumental Jam (Nirvana)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UYMnAkbw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/VUoUXk0iyzJhI6t/edit

The cover photo of Kurt Cobain isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It's a concert in Milan, Italy, that took place just a couple of days later. I actually tried to use a screenshot taken from this exact concert, but I decided the quality was low and it was better to try something else.