Krist Novaselic, the former bass player of Nirvana looks back at the Nirvana performance taken place at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards. He finally explains the secrets behind that performance 16 years later.

He says, while Nirvana was waiting backstage for their performance that night, Krist explains that Axl Rose was being a dick to Kurt and Courtney, when Courtney tried to praise Axl for Guns N’ Roses by saying “Axl, you’re the godfather”, Axl ignored them and walked off like if he didn’t care if Kurt and Courtney were fans of Gn’r.

When it was time for Nirvana to finally hit the stage, Kurt badily wanted to play “Rape Me” off the “In Utero” album. The MTV officials weren’t liking the idea and wouldn’t let the band play the song, so the band decided to play “Lithium” instead. Remember that performance when Kurt started playing chords to “Rape Me”, then they kicked off to “Lithium”? Many people assumed that was a mistake. That’s the trick, it wasn’t a mistake, it was a prank played by the band. A little joke.

Krist then explains, the reason Krist threw the bass in the air was not because it would be cool for the performance. He did it because he was angry and frustrated that he couldn’t hear his bass while playing the song. When the bass came down and landed on his head, he was actually faking it and pretended to be knocked out when he landed on the floor. Krist was fine when it happened although he did have a little blood coming down his forehead.

Read the rest of this interesting story here:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2008/11/what_really_happened_at_the_19.php

I miss the old days of the classic MTV Video Awards during the 90’s. That’s when the MTV Video Awards were really good back in those days. Today’s MTV Video Awards are obviously crap. It’s good to see Krist open up more about the Nirvana past. I enjoy hearing old Nirvana stories from Krist and Dave Grohl.

Kurt Cobain would be proud for Dave for the Foo Fighters.

Kev