Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck: See early Nirvana concert and Krist Novoselic in documentary clip (VIDEO).

Watch Nirvana Perform for a Two-Person Audience in One of Their First Rehearsals

Watch Nirvana Perform for a Two-Person Audience in One of Their First Rehearsals

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April 17 2015 5:30 PM

Watch Nirvana Perform for a Two-Person Audience in One of Their First Rehearsals

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Kurt Cobain, as seen in Montage of Heck.

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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.”

Jay Deshpande is a former editor of WatchTime and writes about literature and the arts for Slate, the New Republic, and others. Follow him on Twitter.