Nirvana finds bliss in Reading

As Nirvana climbed the ladder of fame in the early 1990s, Kurt Cobain got angst-y and paranoid about being saddled as a sell-out.
    
And so Cobain appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine wearing a "Corporate Magazines Still Suck" T-shirt. The band's signature song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," began to smell too much like a bona fide hit to Cobain, and so that anthem began to disappear from Nirvana's live set.
     
But on Aug. 30, 1992 -- before Nirvana became too cool for its own good -- the band played England's Reading Festival. That night Cobain dipped "Teen Spirit" into some gloriously spastic, Neil Young-ish guitar. The band dropped snippets of Deep Purple and Boston (?!) into their set.
     
And for a few hours, Nirvana ascended a stairway to rock 'n' roll heaven. Long bootlegged, the evidence is out now on an official CD/DVD, "Live at Reading."