Saturday, Dec 28, 1991
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- Date
- Saturday, Dec 28, 1991
- Doors
- 5:30 PM
- Show time
- 6:55 PM
- Venue
- O'Brien Pavilion, Del Mar Fairgrounds
- City
- Del Mar, CA
- Seating
- General Admission
- Face value
- $20.00
- Promoter
- 91X / Bill Silva Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour. Nirvana and Pearl Jam opened, per John, and this is one of the most documented bills of the era: Concert Archives and Live Nirvana both place Red Hot Chili Peppers / Nirvana / Pearl Jam at the Pat O'Brien Pavilion on this night. Pearl Jam went on first, Nirvana second with a 45-minute set, on a tour that lasted barely a week. Nevermind had been out three months; Ten, four.
What they played
- Love Trilogy
- Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
- Bullet Proof George Clinton cover
- Suck My Kiss
- Blackeyed Blonde
- Funky Crime
- Give It Away
- Nobody Weird Like Me
- If You Have to Ask
- Stone Cold Bush
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- Magic Johnson
- I Could Have Lied
- Subway to Venus
- Fopp / Party on Your Pussy / Red Hot Mama preceded by a tease of "Poptones" by Public Image Ltd
- Cold Sweat James Brown & The Famous Flames cover Jam
- Me & My Friends
Encore
- Yertle Trilogy w/ Cosmic Slop, Atomic Dog, Cholly, Not Great Men, History Lesson Pt. II, & The Greeting Song teases
- Crosstown Traffic The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover
19 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Nirvana played
- Drain You
- Aneurysm
- School
- Floyd the Barber
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- About a Girl
- Polly
- Sliver
- Breed
- Come as You Are
- Lithium
- Territorial Pissings
12 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Pearl Jam played
- Once
- Even Flow
- Why Go
- Jeremy
- Alive
- Leash
- Porch
7 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
Twenty dollars for the most future-loaded bill in rock history. Pearl Jam opened, four months into Ten, still a support act. Nirvana played 45 minutes in the middle — exactly two weeks later Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson off #1 and nothing about being a rock band was ever the same. The Chili Peppers headlined on Blood Sugar Sex Magik, about to become one of the biggest bands in the world themselves. This mini-tour lasted barely a week; there was never another chance to see these three bands share a stage as anything but legends.
From the time
- Nevermind
“On January 11, 1992 — two weeks after this show — it replaced Michael Jackson's Dangerous at #1 and rewrote the mainstream overnight.”
The stub
