What happens when Post Malone and Travis Barker team up over live stream to perform a Nirvana Tribute? It gets lit!
Post Malone who received Courtney Love’s blessing lined up with Travis Barker on drums, Nick Mack on guitar and Brian Lee on bass, each located in different rooms of his Utah home.
The Post Malone and crew performance raised funds for The United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for The World Health Organization (WHO) in support of COVID-19 relief efforts.
The performance as expected brought the dollars for WHO and COVID-19 relief efforts with over $2.6M raised so far.
The set list
If you came here looking for Smells Like Teen Spirit you will be disappointed.
- 2:04 – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
- 7:31 – Drain You
- 11:59 – Come As You Are
- 16:22 – Lounge Act
- 21:14 – School
- 24:33 – Heart-Shaped Box
- 30:31 – Something In The Way
- 34:43 – About A Girl
- 38:58 – Stay Away
- 45:56 – Lithium
- 52:58 – Breed
- 57:29 – On A Plain
- 1:02:33 – Very Ape
- 1:05:27 – Territorial Pissings
- 1:11:35 – In Bloom
Watch the full perfomance
The video as of this post had now been viewed over 7,000,000 times.
As for the dress?
The dress-wearing Post Malone was a tribute to Kurt Cobain.
Twitter: Round of applause from Krist Novoselic.
It’s safe to say this might be as close as you could get to Nirvana – so we are going to sit back and rewatch a couple more times.
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