Brow Beat has moved! You can find new stories here.
Watch Nirvana Perform for a Two-Person Audience in One of Their First Rehearsals
Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen’s new documentary about Kurt Cobain, will air May 4th on HBO, and the New York Times has a short, moving excerpt that shows Nirvana in the earliest days of their career.
In the clip, we see Nirvana performing for a tiny audience. “We played together in the house for a couple of hours and if two people stopped by,” Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic remembers, “we considered that a gig.”