Nirvana Lithium Guitar Cover | MTV VMA Tone

Covering Lithium with my recreation of Kurt Cobain's 1992 VMA Tone with my new hyper accurate VMA Strat!

Comparing this Strat side by by side with Kurt's Actual VMA strat: Video coming 07/06/24!

0:00 - Side by side comparisons
0:58 - Full song cover

GEAR USED:
Fender VMA Strat
- 90's Fender ST-62 Stratocaster
- 90's Seymour Duncan Hot Rails
Boss DS-2
Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb

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[NEVERMIND_JAG]

This is AMAZING it sounds identical ONE TO ONE!!

[Chazmaster]

The rape me fake-out was incredible, definitely had the mtv executives shitting themselves

[digglydonk]

omg i looked away for a sec and didnt even realise the tone switched from the original to the recreation, incredible

[Lets_RC]

yes! I remember watching this live on MTV. I may have been 14 or 15. Back when the VMAs were pretty cool. Was a very cool time to be alive.

[tenochcamacho]

It's hilarious how kurt scared MTV with rape me then going to lithium

[russelldespa]

this is by far one of my fave performance from them, they just sound so good and that tone is so killer!

[sunlightInky]

loved the simulated stage destruction you did at the end, sounded awesome!

[nirvananerves]

This was always one of my favorite performances, and you made it sound really good, I'm gonna come back a couple times, just to hear it again!

[UnhingingLoki]

Nirvana has such a unique, distinct sound for their guitars. I love watching these sort of videos

[stab]

Eric really thought he could play the full thing and pretend to play his guitar and we wouldn't notice (It's a joke because HOLY MOLY, THAT SOUNDS AMAZING, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, MAN).

[Csimm-]

Definitely one of my favorite times Kurt played this live and you nailed it! Best of luck to you

[prpwnage]

wow that was very accurate, even kurt probably couldn't replicate it this well

[Mr_Youtube-le]

I wonder if a little bit of reverb would’ve helped? Y’know since they were playing in a big ass stadium… either way great job

[sanctji]

you're doing god's work bro, literally the kind of video I was looking for 2 years ago hahaha

[commandercaleb_]

This is so accurate it’s actually scary, love the videos!

[Roseland]

Eric, this is the best channel of nirvana’s tone!)❤

[bg]

Kurt was amazing. But this is one performance where Dave is the star.

[Friskybusiness]

dude, not me going to set my amp to these settings for fun and apparently having had (by ear previously) set it to those settings just because i thought it sounded cool yesterday lmao, thats so uncanny. im such a huge fan of this tone and this recreation sounds so awesome man i love your content and hope it continues going as insanely strongly as it has been :)

[sanctji]

I've always wondered why the reverb from Kurt's vocals was taken away when he says "I can't wait"

[octamedicin]

Nice, sounds great. People often miss that cranked mids are the key to that wonderful chainsaw overdrive.