From last year: “@NME Meets Nirvana In 1991” - http://bit.ly/ou6lbu
![Interviewer: “Is there a certain concept you guys are trying to put across with the cover?”Krist: “It’s open for interpretation, if you think about a baby swimming through water, dollar bill on a hook, you know that’s the fun part of it, decipher, maybe a person can find a new way of life, they can find; they can take off their clothes and bite into a fishhook in water. [Kurt laughs] See how that feels!”Interviewer: “I sort of thought it related to the band though, like this is your first jump in the water towards the huge bucks and all that.”Kurt: “[shakes head] son of a bitch.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4587339bS1qir6ydo1_500.jpg)
Interviewer: “Is there a certain concept you guys are trying to put across with the cover?”
Krist: “It’s open for interpretation, if you think about a baby swimming through water, dollar bill on a hook, you know that’s the fun part of it, decipher, maybe a person can find a new way of life, they can find; they can take off their clothes and bite into a fishhook in water. [Kurt laughs] See how that feels!”
Interviewer: “I sort of thought it related to the band though, like this is your first jump in the water towards the huge bucks and all that.”
Kurt: “[shakes head] son of a bitch.”
How to wake a kid up with some help from @Nirvana.
Reading, 1991.
Kurt: “I’m Kurt, I play guitar and I sing.”
Dave: “And I’m Dave and I play drums; I sing sometimes, but not that often.”
Krist: “I’m Krist, I play bass and I don’t sing, thank God! But I do sing on the record.”
Dave: “Yeah, Krist sings on the record.”
Kurt: “Yeah, he does.”
Krist: “You’ll hear it, you’ll hear it!”
Kurt Cobain wrote the song “Polly” after reading this newspaper article. Nirvana would later end up playing benefit shows to help rape victims, the “Rock Against Rape” concert in 1993 being one example, which helped raise money for a women’s self-defense organization. In the liner notes of “Incesticide”, Cobain wrote: “Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song ‘Polly.’ I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that’s the way I feel.”
It seems that there are numerous shows over the span of Nirvana's touring career that have been professionally shot, particularly in Europe. Krist also mentioned once that there is "a ton of video" unseen or rarely seen. Any chance that any of these pro-shot shows will see an official release of some sort?
Of course! We will be seeing another live show hopefully by 2013 for the 20th of “In Utero” unless someone says otherwise. If I remember correctly, the original plan was to release the Paradiso, Amsterdam show instead of Paramount Theatre for the 20th Anniversary of “Nevermind”, or it was an idea. They ended up deciding on Paramount, and VPRO streamed the Amsterdam performance in it’s full over their website.
MTV could do the very same with ‘Live & Loud’, which we get numerous suggestions on. Last I heard, Krist & Dave strongly disliked the footage from the Hollywood Rock Festivals (both performances) in their first two shows, 1993. With the recent change in control, it’s also possible that we could get another tape released similar to the “Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!”.
Kurt’s ‘marketing’ ideas for the album “Sheep”, later named “Nevermind”. “Nirvana can’t decide whether they want to be Punk or R.E.M. Indecision can often at times kill a band and Nirvana are suicidal.”
Today in 1991, Nirvana begin recording “Nevermind”. Originally titled “Sheep”.
“Kurt really wanted to do everything on the first or second take, he’d do a couple of takes and say, “That’s it. I’m not gonna do it anymore.” The tricky part was trying to figure out how to motivate him to give really good performances. Sometimes his first or second takes were brilliant, but sometimes they needed work. They needed to be more focused. What I ended up doing was recording everything he sang, even the warm-ups. A lot of times, I’d actually be going for a first take, but he would think it was just a warm-up. Then I’d have the engineer flip to a new track and I’d tell Kurt, “Okay, you’re ready for your first take.” If I was lucky, I could get as many as four takes out of him. Then I’d take the best pieces of each one and make a master out of it.” - Butch Vig.
Nirvana fans added their profile pictures from Twitter & Facebook to help create this mosaic to celebrate the 20th Anniversary release of “Nevermind” last year.
