October 1992 marked the beginning and end of Nirvana’s history in Argentina. The band was playing a show on October 30 at a 50,000 capacity venue in Buenos Aires, their biggest concert to date. But they never played Buenos Aires again after that, and it all came down to how the crowd treated their opening act.Calamity Jane were underrated pioneers for women and queer people in grunge, forming in Portland, Oregon, in 1989. The band released one album in 1991, followed by several singles, and supported contemporaries like Scrawl and Fugazi on tour. They opened for Nirvana on two occasions during their 1992 tour, following the release of Nevermind, and the show in Argentina became infamous.When Calamity Jane took the stage, the tens of thousands of Nirvana fans were already in a sour mood. Another band had already played before them, local art-rockers Los Brujos, and then Calamity Jane was prepared for a 30-minute set. But the people were impatient for the main event, and they made that very clear almost immediately.Vocalist and guitarist Gilly Ann Hanner, who co-founded Calamity Jane, recalled the infamous concert in 2023. In a post on her website, she described what she remembered from the incident. From her point of view, the crowd wasn’t thrilled to see “a scrappy looking band of non-traditional looking female/queer/trans punk rockers from Oregon” come out on stage after waiting all day for Nirvana.
The band got through their first song and into the second before they noticed something off with the crowd. They were shouting back at them, loud boos and angry cries of “Putas!”, meaning “whores.” Additionally, the crowd started throwing mud, bottles, ice, coins, anything they had available. “It didn’t really compute until I looked down at the stage and noticed a circle of spit around us,” Hanner recalled. “Spit coming from the crowd, and past that I could see the faces and middle fingers, even a few penises that had been flashed at us.” She added, “They were not happy, they did not like us, and they wanted us to get off the stage.”Calamity Jane retreated at first, then went back out at Courtney Love’s urging. They got through a couple of songs before Hanner ended the set with a roaring scream into the mic. She recalled smashing her guitar, and her bandmates followed suit. After such a disastrous reception, Kurt Cobain was prepared to cancel the rest of the show. Instead, Nirvana still went out there, but they devised a torturous punishment for the unruly crowd. The fans had gathered because they wanted to hear all the hits. But they lost their privileges when they trashed Calamity Jane.Nirvana played a set almost entirely of rarities and deep Nevermind cuts. They also teased the audience constantly with the opening riff of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. But they never played it all the way through, not once in the entire show. Cobain even opened the set with a song he allegedly made up on the spot. It was long considered the only remaining unreleased Nirvana song. But many music historians and grunge experts theorize it was totally impromptu. Fans affectionately refer to it as “Nobody Knows I’m New Wave”, with lyrics like “I promise to s—t on your head / I’m new wave / I’m old school”.
As for Hanner, she explained that Calamity Jane didn’t play another live show together after that. Not for more than 20 years, at least. However, she added, “It was a bit of solace to feel that our comrades cared what happened to us, yet it confirmed that we as musicians are subject to the audience, and the bigger they get, the worse it can feel when the hurricane of negative public opinion storms you.”
Thirdies don't deserve nice things like a Nirvana performance.
>>130390185>Calamity Jane were underrated pioneers for women and queer people in grunge
I'm kinda glad Cobain died when he did he would've been insufferable on social media today had he lived.
Kurt probably would've become a massive chud like Morrissey and Johnny Rotten if alive today.
Argentina is based they just hate little soft lad bands (as anyone should)as you fookin werehttps://youtu.be/VnuUs3Z3AM0?is=iKmycfELt041eiRRohohohooooohhhhhoo
>>130390858Says who?
>underrated queer women in grungeWhat a hack phrase. L7 were lesbians. It just always works out where men outnumber women in bands by a 100:1 margin because women aren't very good at sharing the spotlight and want to be the center of attention.
>>130390249Spic audiences are pretty cool. It was Nirvana who didn't deserve them.
>>130390185That band and incident seem pretty gay
>>130392275>L7>lesbians
>>130390185>92If what I'm hearing is correct that's not the only awful thing that happened to Kurt that year>>130390858Moz is a Chad. Fuck you.>>130392300No lies detected
>>130392315L7 is a euphemism for lesbian sex. They were lesbians back then, but most lesbians realize their bodily anatomy prefers dick lol
>>130390858Kurt would have been all about the vaxx, he loves needles and being gay afterall
>>130390858He would have trooned out
>>130392275>because women aren't very goodYou should have stopped here
>>130392354Pixies were good, as were the Breeders. I really like Elastica for mid 90s brit rock. There's tons of great female bands and musicians, if Calamity Jane sucked they shouldn't try to blame that on their gender or sexual orientation.
He was probably murdered for revealing too much about the trafficking business with songs like "In Bloom."
>>130392336Yeah I thought it was just some shtick of theirs
>>130392427Those bastards.
>>130390853He would have become very right leaning. He hated autoritary figures and the hive mind thinking system, back in the 90s being left leaning was the underground cool thing to do, it was punk, it was standing up against the machine. Now the system itself is very leftist, every major view in the world is ruled by a leftist. So he would revolta against that and be a chud.
>>130390185Based ArgentiniansFuck Portlanders even their own country hates them. They should have war declared on them just for fun.
>>13039085845% TDS chance, 45% chud chance, 10% chance he got tired and wanted to live a quiet life with no public declarations
>>130390858You think he was a good guy? Maybe.
>>130393821not necessarily, he could have become establishment a la ratmhe may have seen it as a victory
>>130390185it's been 30+ years, unc. get over it.
>>130390858Nah, Morrisey was always a chud and Johnny Lydon never cared much about anything beyond being shocking or provocative or whatever.If Kurt was alive today he'd be using they/them pronouns
>We are going to punish you by having you hear the debut of an original song and a bunch of cool rarities we never play Why was Nirvana so retarded?
>>130398927>is that... sprank thru?! dios mios AHHHHH
>>130390185>Calamity Jane didn’t play another live show together after thatThey must have sucked and known the angry crowd was right then
