While many musicians consider their album release parties to be exciting, fun occasions, a chance to meet industry bigwigs, and watch the unfiltered, spontaneous reactions of people listening to their newest material for the very first time, for an anarchistic band such as Nirvana, formal, industry-standard events such as these were always going to be too uncomfortable to politely grin and bare.
Viewed through the band's eyes, Geffen's release party for Nevermind was initially an awkward, stuffy and overly-corporate affair, one which could only be livened up via various drunken antics, such, let's say, a food fight, and some good-natured destruction of the venue. Chaos naturally ensued, and Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl would eventually find themselves booted out of the event, left to continue their fun from the side of a street curb, in pools of their own vomit.
