With Malone subbing in for Kurt Cobain, the band a.k.a.
Post Nirvana played the classic 34 years after making their “Saturday Night Live” debut with it.
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Nirvanacame back together Friday night, but with a new vocalist filling in forKurt Cobain.
Pat Smear, Dave Grohl, Post Malone, and Krist Novoselic perform ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ as Post Nirvana at ‘SNL50: The Homecoming Concert’.Credit:Peacock
“It changed it all.
But the music will live on forever.
Ladies and gentlemen: Post Nirvana.”
Nirvana perform on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1993.Gerry Goodstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Gett
Nirvana’s firstSNLappearance saw the band play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Territorial Pissings.”
They returned to the show in 1993 to perform “Heart-Shaped Box” and “Rape Me.”
Grohl has returned to the show nine times with his band Foo Fighters.
In 2016, he covered “Lithium” fromNevermindat Coachella during an impromptu set with producer Andrew Watt.
He also sang “All Apologies” fromIn Uteroat a Boston show in 2017.
Most notably, Malone performed 15 of the band’s songsduring a 2020 livestreamthat raised funds for COVID-19 relief.
Novoselic reacted to the livestream in real time on social media.
“So proud of @PostMalone and crew,” he wrote.
“I don’t think these fellows can play any better.
They are on fire!!!!”
Courtney Love, who was married to Cobain until his death in 1994, also praised Malone’s set.
F— YES.
Go have a margarita, @postmalone.
Nothing but love from here," she wrote at the time.
Vincent, “School” withKim Gordon, and “Territorial Pissings” withJoan Jett.
