September 23rd, 2011
Zoom Nirvana at the Reading Festival, 1991 (photo by Steve Gullick). From the New York Times Magazine’s What They Were Thinking feature:DAVE GROHL (LEFT): There were 30,000, maybe 35,000 people at Reading. I’m not sure, but it was a lot bigger than any show I had ever played. I think this picture was taken before the gig, and the reason I can tell the difference between pre- and postgig is that Kurt was seriously injured by jumping into my drum set. That bottle he’s holding out toward the camera was some kind of incredibly potent cough syrup, and he was carrying that thing around like a flask. So this is preshow, and he was drinking that cough syrup, which led him to dive into my drum set, which put him in a sling for the rest of the night. That gig was definitely a triumph.Read Krist Novoselic’s recollection of this moment here.

Nirvana at the Reading Festival, 1991 (photo by Steve Gullick). From the New York Times Magazine’s What They Were Thinking feature:

DAVE GROHL (LEFT): There were 30,000, maybe 35,000 people at Reading. I’m not sure, but it was a lot bigger than any show I had ever played. I think this picture was taken before the gig, and the reason I can tell the difference between pre- and postgig is that Kurt was seriously injured by jumping into my drum set. That bottle he’s holding out toward the camera was some kind of incredibly potent cough syrup, and he was carrying that thing around like a flask. So this is preshow, and he was drinking that cough syrup, which led him to dive into my drum set, which put him in a sling for the rest of the night. That gig was definitely a triumph.

Read Krist Novoselic’s recollection of this moment here.

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