Nirvana - Live at Reading Festival (30th August 1992) in 4K
August 31, 2022 11:47 AM Subscribe
slyt Does as it says in the title.
Very cool, thanks. Who's that dude dancing around on the stage behind them? Just some random festival guy?
posted by star gentle uterus at 12:23 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by star gentle uterus at 12:23 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
Dammit, Kurt.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:04 PM on August 31, 2022 [12 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:04 PM on August 31, 2022 [12 favorites]
> The dancer is Anthony Hodgkinson
Should have added that as an aside in the post, the BBC recently caught up with him.
posted by Webbster at 1:20 PM on August 31, 2022
Should have added that as an aside in the post, the BBC recently caught up with him.
posted by Webbster at 1:20 PM on August 31, 2022
I lucked into being at both the 1992 set and their set at Reading the year before.
In 1991, they were on early in the afternoon and played so hard they justified being the headliners in 1992. Includes skuzzy punk dancing dude who gets tired and sits down for a fag halfway through.
posted by happyinmotion at 1:33 PM on August 31, 2022 [5 favorites]
In 1991, they were on early in the afternoon and played so hard they justified being the headliners in 1992. Includes skuzzy punk dancing dude who gets tired and sits down for a fag halfway through.
posted by happyinmotion at 1:33 PM on August 31, 2022 [5 favorites]
i saw the flyer for that posted earlier today and i REALLY want to know if Some Have Fins were an oingo boingo cover band
posted by Clowder of bats at 1:46 PM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Clowder of bats at 1:46 PM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
The first lines spoken/sung are in reference to a recent (at the time) Mudhoney cover of The Rose , most famously covered by (I guess) Bette Midler.
posted by The_Vegetables at 1:50 PM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by The_Vegetables at 1:50 PM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
With the constant chaos that swirled around them when they got big, and the personal drama, it is forgotten sometimes that when these guys were on they were a very good band, indeed.
This is great, by the way, thanks.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 2:24 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
This is great, by the way, thanks.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 2:24 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
Fantastic. God dammit surely there must have been some other way.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 2:28 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Sing Or Swim at 2:28 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
I was expecting some fan footage but this video/audio quality is amazing. It blows my mind that something shot on video 30 years ago looks as sharp as if it were shot yesterday.
I can't find any information on how this was shot, but regular standard definition video (SD), whether it is the US's NTSC or Europe's PAL, still has very good quality if you are actually looking at that original video. Most of the time you're looking at video that has been encoded, whether by the analog broadcast airing process or by the digital encoding to DVD or whatever. I remember the first time I saw SDI 525 video in a TV studio before air and was shocked at how good it was.
The title says it's "4k 60 fps" which is way beyond what the original video could have been, but at least today's digitizing process wouldn't make it worse. If it was shot on film, then it totally could have that resolution. Film is stunning, and you need 4k-8k to match it.
Surprised that nobody has mentioned the (better) Paramount show from a year earlier. OK, it didn't have the dancing guy, or 50000 people in the audience ...
I have stories
posted by intermod at 7:15 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
I can't find any information on how this was shot, but regular standard definition video (SD), whether it is the US's NTSC or Europe's PAL, still has very good quality if you are actually looking at that original video. Most of the time you're looking at video that has been encoded, whether by the analog broadcast airing process or by the digital encoding to DVD or whatever. I remember the first time I saw SDI 525 video in a TV studio before air and was shocked at how good it was.
The title says it's "4k 60 fps" which is way beyond what the original video could have been, but at least today's digitizing process wouldn't make it worse. If it was shot on film, then it totally could have that resolution. Film is stunning, and you need 4k-8k to match it.
Surprised that nobody has mentioned the (better) Paramount show from a year earlier. OK, it didn't have the dancing guy, or 50000 people in the audience ...
I have stories
posted by intermod at 7:15 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
This has got me listening to Nirvana again for the first time in years, and the same question pops up:
What's the deal with the random Southern accent in his songs? It's nice, but I don't get why it's there. It's not like he always uses it, or he uses it sardonically or ironically, it's just randomly "I'm going to sing this song like I'm from Texas." What was up with that?
posted by Bugbread at 12:06 AM on September 1, 2022
What's the deal with the random Southern accent in his songs? It's nice, but I don't get why it's there. It's not like he always uses it, or he uses it sardonically or ironically, it's just randomly "I'm going to sing this song like I'm from Texas." What was up with that?
posted by Bugbread at 12:06 AM on September 1, 2022
I'm mostly here for the yearly Metafilter hot takes on Nirvana, whom I saw at another show (and here's audio, and also almost all footage from the In Utero tour was from that show).
But also, damn, this is some fine footage and I agree with riverlife amongst others. What could have been!
posted by revmitcz at 3:42 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
But also, damn, this is some fine footage and I agree with riverlife amongst others. What could have been!
posted by revmitcz at 3:42 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
OK, it didn't have the dancing guy,
It does have a dancing guy, during Breed, who's got some rad arm movements.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:57 AM on September 1, 2022
It does have a dancing guy, during Breed, who's got some rad arm movements.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:57 AM on September 1, 2022
Looking at the closing credits, it gives the impression it was shot on tape rather than 35mm film. It does have that upscale feel to it.
The YT clip has a link to this YT channel, which is described as a "Channel dedicated to uploading 4K videos with a doubled framerate using AI software for upscaling and interpolation."
PAL with 576 visible lines over NTSC's 480 is noticeably better quality, so they started with a decent original.
posted by NailsTheCat at 12:12 PM on September 1, 2022
The YT clip has a link to this YT channel, which is described as a "Channel dedicated to uploading 4K videos with a doubled framerate using AI software for upscaling and interpolation."
PAL with 576 visible lines over NTSC's 480 is noticeably better quality, so they started with a decent original.
posted by NailsTheCat at 12:12 PM on September 1, 2022
Am I the only one who thinks there's been some weird oversampling done to this vid? As was noted earlier, there's no way that 90s-era VHS has anything near 4k quality, it almost seems like the video has been run through some sort of StableDiffusion type upscaling. There's lots of strange artifacts on my 1440p monitor that makes it look like it was smoothed over using some sort of weird filter to smooth out the shitty resolution and tape noise on the original.
posted by daHIFI at 6:13 PM on September 2, 2022
posted by daHIFI at 6:13 PM on September 2, 2022
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