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Tori has performed this song many times live, in-concert often in conjunction with Don Mcleon's American Pie.
"I did a tribute to Kurt Cobain with Teen Spirit and American Pie this night in Dublin because American Pie is what I heard over and over in my head the night he killed himself. I played it to 2,500 kids; it started like a whisper, and then in perfect pitch, in perfect rhythm, very softly, they all sang American Pie with me. None of us in the crew had ever experienced anything like it....I felt like I knew him . I miss him as a musician. It's just painful when you see someone who had so much to give - especially musically - gone. We've lost quite a significant voice for this generation."
-- Tori; Illinois Entertainer, Aug 94
In Dublin, two days after the Nirvana front man�s 1994 suicide, her live version of Smells Like Teen Spirit was a choker. "I was just ready to start the chorus, and all of a sudden, in perfect pitch and very quietly, as only the Irish can do, [the audience] started singing it like a hymn. It was like they were sending his spirit off. It was an honor to play his music that night."
-- Tori; Blender Magazine, Nov 2002
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