MTV likes to market its annual Video Music Awards as one of the most unpredictable and dangerous nights of the year, an event where the music industry's current best and brightest come out to perform, receive trophies, and act up for the live television cameras. Nirvana happily obliged that vibe at the 1992 Video Music Awards, bringing a tough, gritty, and frenetic punk-inspired style to the proceedings.
Toward the end of Nirvana's rendition of their hit "Lithium," bassist Krist Novoselic tossed his instrument high into the air, a bit that was a common — if hazardous — element of his usual stage antics, according to drummer Dave Grohl on "Dennis Miller Live." Usually, he caught it, but not that night. In front of a packed theater and on live TV, Novoselic bobbled the catch, and the bass came down on his face. The blow knocked him to the ground and left him dazed and hobbling around the stage.
Grohl was too busy playing the drums to know what was going on, but when he got backstage, there was a fervor over Novoselic's condition, hearing a rumor that he'd knocked himself out. "I could picture him like in the fetal position in a broom closet with a huge lump on his head, and I run into this one room and I opened the door and there's Krist with this huge lump on his head drinking champagne with Brian May from Queen," Grohl recalled.
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