Music Frenzy recently conducted an interview with FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell, who talks about his appearance in the music video for NIRVANA‘s 1991 biggest hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
He recalls:
I was a big Nirvana fan for a long time, and I saw them a bunch of times on the “Bleach” tour. After seeing them a few times, I’d run into them, a friend of mine actually played on record “Nevermind” — he played cello on “Something in the Way”. So we had a copy of that record almost five months before it came out. What happened was that, before the record came out, they had a show in L.A. at the Roxy, and after the show, they threw out flyers saying, ‘Hey, come to our video shoot.’ And so me and my roommate got the flyer with the directions on it and we went to the video shoot the next day. . . And what happened in the video wasn’t even supposed to happen. The audience just went nuts.
Then he added:
I saw Nirvana once after that, and I knew it was gonna be the last time I saw them because [‘Smells’] was on the radio and they were blowing up.
You can listen to the chat right here.
NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video:
