February releases: Nirvana - Oh, The Guilt (1993).
Listen above to the unreleased, instrumental, studio demo version of the song.
12/12/12. The Nirvana reunion with Paul McCartney.
The song performed was “Cut Me Some Slack.” You can click here and find out more information or follow the links below.
Today in 1993, Nirvana released “In Utero” - Listen to an early studio demo of “All Apologies” from a 1991 session.
Released today in 1992, the “Lithium” single. It features a live recording of “Been A Son” (from the Paramount Theatre performance in 1991), a John Peel Radio session track of “D-7” (originally by ‘The Wipers’) & a studio recording of “Curmudgeon.”
“When we were recording the song Lithium, we did a take and listened to the playback, and Butch thought that the choruses sped up. So he suggested that I play along to a click track. I had never used one, but I tried it anyway and listened back to the track. The choruses felt as if they slowed down. We talked about it and we all realized it came down to whether the feeling or the tempo of the song was more important. To us, what should be more important in drumming is the feeling, not the flawless tempo or the perfect time. If a song speeds up in the chorus, it’s the emotion of what’s going on behind the player, and that’s a lot more important than a click track.” - Dave Grohl, 1993.
“I don’t think I could ever do a solo thing, the ‘Kurt Cobain Project’. I would like to work with people who are totally, completely the opposite of what I’m doing now. Something way out there, man.” - Kurt Cobain.
The Netherlands, 1991.
Krist: “Our justification for all the attention we’re getting is that, maybe, a lot of other underground bands will get noticed, that’s the only way we can deal with it.”
Dave: “Everyone is always asking if I’m afraid of the band’s success going too far, that doesn’t really make any difference. I just don’t want to be David Grohl of Nirvana for the rest of my life. It’s like the kid who got caught masturbating in the bathroom of high school. That’s the only way he’s ever known.”
Kurt: “I can’t complain too much because there’s nothing I can do about it at this point unless we break up; and we don’t want to do that, we like playing together still. I mean, if it gets too out of hand, and the shows become so huge that we don’t feel that it’s very personal anymore, we’ll just break up and change our name and start over again and hopefully we’ll write good songs.”
“If You Must”, Nirvana’s first song recorded in studio, 1/12/88 at Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle, WA.
The band also recorded “Downer, Floyd The Barber, Paper Cuts, Spank Thru, Hairspray Queen, Aero Zeppelin, Beeswax, Mexican Seafood, Pen Cap Chew” during this session.
“I was particularly taken with Kurt’s voice, I thought he had “a good scream”, which is something, you know? A lot of people have very bad rock screams. Kurt had potentially a very interesting voice. There was a convincing growl to it; it just struck me. Dale was fundamentally a heavy metal drummer and Kurt wrote songs around interesting guitar riffs, the thing that separated it from anything else was the singing. His voice had a lot of character and he had a weird ear for melody, he wouldn’t be following the guitar riffs like typical idiot riff rock.” - Jack Endino (producer, engineer).
Today in 1988, while under the name ‘Ted Ed Fred’ - Krist, Kurt & Dale Crover went into Reciprocal Recording Studios and recorded and mixed ten songs in six hours with producer Jack Endino. Kurt paid the cost of the session ($152.44) with the money he earned as a janitor.
It was in October of 1993 that Hole went into Triclops Recording Studios and worked on “Live Through This.” The 4th track that the band recorded in studio, “Asking For It”, featured Kurt Cobain on backing vocals. After a break for dinner, the session ended with a formless jam with Cobain on drums, Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love on guitars and session co-producer Sean Slade on bass.
It was in October of 1990 that Kurt Cobain joined Seattle’s experimental band Earth to record a session at Mike Lastra’s Smegma Studios in Portland, OR. Cobain provided backing vocals on “Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge” and lead vocals on both “Divine And Bright” and a cover of The Saints’ “Private Affair.”
“On “A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge” I sing lead and he was more of a backing vocalist. I wanted different vocal textures. My voice was a monotone, his was a gravely pop vocal and Kelly made cougar howls. Rather than have a straight vocal, I used more textures to prevent it from being a straight pop song.” - Dylan Carlson.
