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Selasa, 01 Juli 2008

Nirvana...........

Prior to Nirvana, alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores and major labels considered it to be, at the very most, a tax write-off. After the band's second album, 1991's Nevermind, nothing was ever quite the same, for better and for worse. Nirvana popularized punk, post-punk, and indie rock, unintentionally bringing it into the American mainstream like no other band before it. (as learned by fellow Washington underground rockers the Melvins) Nirvana's aesthetics were strictly indie rock. They covered Vaselines songs, they revived new wave cuts by Devo, and leader Kurt Cobain relentlessly pushed his favorite bands .. whether it was the art punk of the Raincoats or the country-fried hardcore of the Meat Puppets .. as if his favorite records were always more important than his own music. While Nirvana's ideology was indie rock and melodies were pop, the sonic rush of their records and live shows merged the post-industrial white noise with anti-heavy metal grind. And that's what made the group an unprecedented multi-platinum sensation. Sonic Youth and Pixies may have proven to the vast American heavy metal audience that alternative could rock, and the Pixies may have merged pop sensibilities with indie rock white noise, but Nirvana pulled at all together, creating a sound that was both fiery and melodic. Since Nirvana was rooted in the indie aesthetic, but loved pop music, they fought their stardom while courting it, becoming some of the most notorious anti-rock stars in history. /The result was a conscious attempt to shed their audience with the abrasive In Utero, which only partially fulfilled the band's goal. But by that point, the fate of the band and Kurt Cobain had been sealed. Suffering from drug addiction and manic depression, Cobain had become destructive and suicidal, though his management and label were able to hide the extent of his problems from the public until April 8, 1994, when he was found dead of a shotgun wound. Cobain may not have been able to weather Nirvana's success, but the band's legacy stands as one of the most influential in Alternative history. Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar) met Chris Novoselic (born Krist Novoselic) (bass) in 1985 in Aberdeen, WA, a small logging town 100 miles away from Seattle. While Novoselic came from a relatively stable background, Cobain's childhood had been thrown into turmoil when his parents divorced when he was eight. Following the divorce, he lived at the homes of various relatives, developing a love for the Beatles and then heavy metal in the process. Eventually, American hardcore punk worked its way into dominating his listening habits and he met the Melvins, an Olympia-based underground heavy punk band. Cobain began playing in punk bands like Fecal Matter, often with the Melvins' bassist Dale Crover. Through the Melvins' leader Buzz Osborne, Cobain met Novoselic, who also had an intense interest in punk, which meant that he, like Cobain, felt alienated from the macho, redneck population of Aberdeen. The duo decided to form a band called the Stiff Woodies, with Cobain on drums, Novoselic on bass, and a rotating cast of guitarists and vocalists. The group went through name changes as quickly as guitarists, before deciding that Cobain would play guitar and sing. Renamed Skid Row, the new trio featured drummer Aaron Burkhart, who left the band by the end of 1986 and was replaced by Chad Channing. By 1987, the band was called Nirvana. / Nirvana began playing parties in Olympia, gaining a cult following. During 1987, the band made ten demos with producer Jack Endino, who played the recordings to Jonathan Poneman, one of the founders of the Seattle-based indie label Sub Pop. Poneman signed Nirvana, and in December of 1988, the band released their first single, a cover of Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz." Sub Pop orchestrated an effective marketing scheme, which painted the band as backwoods, logging-town hicks, which irritated Cobain and Novoselic. While "Love Buzz" was fairly well-received, the band's debut album, Bleach, was what began the ball rolling. Recorded for just over 600 dollars and released in the spring of 1989, Bleach slowly became a hit on college radio, due to the group's consistent touring. Though Jason Everman was credited as a second guitarist on the sleeve of Bleach, he didn't appear on the record; he only toured in support of the album before leaving the band at the end of the year to join Soundgarden and then Mindfunk. Bleach sold 35,000 copies and Nirvana became favorites of college radio, the British weekly music press, and Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Babes in toyland. which was enough to attract the attention of major labels. / During the summer, Nirvana released "Sliver"/"Dive," which was recorded with Mudhoney's Dan Peters on drums and produced by Butch Vig. The band also made a six-song demo with Vig, which was shopped to major labels, who soon began competing to sign the group. By the end of the summer, Dave Grohl, formerly of the D.C.-based hardcore band Scream, had become Nirvana's drummer and the band signed with DGC for $287,000. Nirvana recorded their second album with Vig, completing the record in the summer. Following a European tour supporting Sonic Youth in the late summer, Nevermind was released in September, supported by a quick American tour. While DGC was expecting a moderately successful release, in the neighborhood of 100,000 copies, Nevermind immediately became a smash hit, quickly selling out its initial shipment of 50,000 copies and creating a shortage across America. What helped the record become a success was "Smells Like Teen Spirit," a blistering four-chord rocker that was accompanied by a video that shot into heavy MTV rotation. By the beginning of 1992, it reached the British Top Ten shortly afterward. By February, the album had been certified triple platinum. / Nirvana's success took the music industry by surprise, Nirvana included. It soon become apparent that the band wasn't quite sure how to handle their success. Around the time of Nevermind's release, the band was into baiting their audience .. Cobain appeared on MTV's Headbanger's Ball in drag, the group mocked the tradition of miming on the BBC's Top of the Pops by Novoselic constantly throwing his bass into the air and Cobain singing his live vocals in the style of Ian Curtis, and their traditional live destruction of instruments was immortalized on a Saturday Night Live performance that ended with Novoselic and Grohl sharing a kiss .. but by the spring, questions had begun to arise about the band's stability. Cobain married Courtney Love, the leader of the indie rock/foxcore band Hole, in February of 1992, announcing that the couple was expecting a child in the fall. Shortly after the marriage, rumors that the couple were heavy heroin users began to circulate and the strength of the rumors only increased when Nirvana canceled several summer concerts and refused to mount a full-scale American tour during the summer. Cobain complained that he was suffering from chronic stomach troubles, which seemed to be confirmed when he was admitted to a Belfast hospital after a June concert. But, heroin rumors continued to surface, especially in the form of a late-summer Vanity Fair article which implied that Love was using during her pregnancy. Both Love and Cobain denied the article's allegations, and publicly harassed and threatened the article's author. Love delivered Frances Bean Cobain, a healthy baby girl, on August 18, 1992, but the couple soon battled with Los Angeles' children's services, who claimed they were unfit parents on the basis of the Vanity Fair article. The couple was granted custody of their child by the beginning of 1993. / Since Cobain was going through such well-documented personal problems, Nirvana was unable to record a follow-up to Nevermind until the spring of 1993. In the meantime, DGC released the odds-and-ends compilation Incesticide late in 1992; the album reached number 39 in the U.S. and number 14 U.K. As the group prepared to make their third album, they released "Oh, the Guilt" as a split-single with the Jesus Lizard on Touch & Go Records. Choosing Steve Albini (Pixies, the Breeders, Big Black, the Jesus Lizard) as their producer, Nirvana recorded their third album, In Utero, in two weeks during the spring of 1993. Following its completion, controversy began to surround Nirvana again. Cobain suffered a heroin overdose on May 2, but the event was hidden from the press. The following month, Love called police to their Seattle home after Cobain locked himself in the bathroom, threatening suicide. Prior to debuting In Utero material during the New Music Seminar at New York's Roseland Ballroom in July, Cobain had another covered-up overdose. By that time, reports began to circulate, including an article in Newsweek, that DGC was unhappy with the forthcoming album, accusing that the band deliberately made an uncommercial record. Both the band and the label denied such allegations. Deciding that Albini's production was too flat, Nirvana decided to remaster the album with R.E.M.'s producer, Scott Litt. .. In Utero was released in September of 1993 to positive reviews and strong initial sales, debuting at the top of the U.S. and U.K. charts. Nirvana supported it with a fall American tour, hiring former Germs member Pat Smear as an auxiliary guitarist. While the album and the tour were both successful, sales weren't quite as strong as expected, with several shows not selling out until the week of the concert. As a result, the group agreed to play MTV's acoustic Unplugged show at the end of the year, and sales of In Utero picked up after its December airing. After wrapping up the U.S. tour on January 8, 1994, with a show at Center Arena in Seattle, Nirvana embarked on a European tour in February. Following a concert in Munich on February 29, Cobain stayed in Rome to vacation with Love. On March 4, she awakened to find that Cobain had attempted suicide by overdosing on the tranquilizer Rohypnol and drinking champagne. While the attempt was initially reported as an accidental overdose, it was known within the Nirvana camp that the vocalist had left behind a divorce note not a suicide note. Cobain returned to Seattle within a week of his hospitalization and his mental illness began to grow. On March 18, the police had to again talk the singer out of suicide after he locked himself in a room threatening to kill himself. Love and Nirvana's management organized an intervention program that resulted in Cobain's admission to the Exodus Recovery Center in L.A. on March 30, but he escaped from the clinic on April 1, returning to Seattle. His mother filed a missing persons report on April 4. The following day, Cobain was found dead at his Seattle home. His body wasn't discovered until April 8, when an electrician contracted to install an alarm system at the Cobain house stumbled upon the body. After his death, Kurt Cobain was quickly anointed as a spokesman for Generation X, as well as a symbol of its tortured angst and now hes gone. /

Nirvana Recording Sessions and Song List

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Ver 3.10

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  2. Added info about Earth.
  3. Updated info on the January / March 1994 sessions.
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Explanation of symbols

? = Unsure of exact information
* = Unreleased
*T = Unreleased, but available through tape trading
*C = Commercially unavailable, but on bootleg cd
{ver} = different version than album


Pre-Nirvana songs: (As Tededfred, Pencapchew, Stiff Woodies, Throat Oysters, Bliss, Brown Cow (Brown Towel)...)

?* Vendettagainst

Pre-Nirvana Covers {unknown info}

?* Bad Moon Rising (Credence Clearwater Revival)
?* Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves (Cher) {Chris lead vocals}
?* Sex Bomb (Flipper)
?* White Lace and Strange (Thunder and Roses)

1986 Fecal Matter Demo Kurt - guitars and vocals, Dale Crover - bass, Gregg Hokanson - drums.

* Bambi Slaughter
* Buffy's Pregnant
* Downer {ver - instrumental}
* Laminated Effect
* Spank Thru
* Sound of Dentage
* Suicide Samurai

April '87 - Evergreen College, The Skid Row demo, KAOS Radio show

* Love Buzz {ver}
* Floyd the Barber {ver}
* Downer {ver}
* Mexican Seafood {ver}
* Spank Thru {ver}
* Hairspray Queen {ver}
* plus 3 others
Note: This was a live show that served as Nirvana's first demo.

January 1988 - Barnyard Session {4 track demos}

*C Polly (AKA Cracker) {Acoustic}
*C Sappy (AKA Verse Chorus Verse; Seed) {acoustic}
*C Spectre (AKA Misery Loves Company; Sad)
Note: "Cracker" / "Seed" / "Sad" are thought to be "Polly" / "Sappy" (AKA Verse Chorus Verse) / "Spectre" (AKA "Misery Loves Company", but again all is hear-say. The exact date of recording is also up in the air. In the book, Come As You Are, there is a picture of a bio written around summer / fall 1988 that lists "Cracker" / "Seed" / "Sad" as available, so I am leaning towards thinking that they were recorded sometime in 1988.

January 23, 1988 - Reciprocal Studios {prod by Jack Endino}

Floyd The Barber [Bleach]
Paper Cuts [Bleach]
Downer [Bleach]
Hairspray Queen [Incesticide]
Beeswax [Incesticide]
Aero Zeppelin [Incesticide]
Mexican Seafood [Incesticide]
*C If You Must
*C Pencapchew
*C Spank Thru {ver}
Note: Dale Crover on drums

June 11, 1988 - Reciprocal Studios {prod by Jack Endino}

Love Buzz [Bleach]
Big Cheese [Bleach]
Spank Thru [Sub Pop 200]
*C Blandest
*C Sifting {ver - instrumental}
*C Blew {ver}
*C Mr. Moustache {ver}
*C Buzz Cut {AKA Noise Bled; unused intro for Love Buzz}
?* Montage of Heck {AKA The Landlord}
Note: The Montage of Heck is about 45 minutes in length. It was edited down to Buzz Cut, then further edited down as the intro to the Love Buzz 45. This song probably was recorded at different times, since its a collage.

June 30, 1988 - Reciprocal Studios {prod by Jack Endino}

About A Girl [Bleach]

July 1988

*C About A Girl (Boom Box Recording)

December 28, 1988 - Reciprocal Studios {prod by Jack Endino}

Downer [Bleach]
Blew [Bleach]
School [Bleach]
Negative Creep [Bleach]
Scoff [Bleach]
Swap Meet [Bleach]
Mr. Moustache [Bleach]
Sifting [Bleach]
Downer [Bleach]
Big Long Now [Incesticide]
*C Floyd The Barber {ver}
*C Papercuts {ver}
Note: On a radio broadcast from the UK, Krist mentions that Incesticide contains a Bleach outtake. I assume this means Big Long Now. What else could it be?

Late 1988 Session

*C Bambie Kill
*C Clean Up Before She Comes
*C Beans (Full Version)
Note: Bambie Kill is actually Bambi Slaughter (I don't know yet if it is related to the Bambi Slaughter on the Fecal Matter demo). It features Dale Crover on bass and the song was written 'for fun'.

Spring 1989 - K Records, Olympia WA

Scratch It Out
Bikini Twilight
Note: this was released on K records. It features: Tamra Ohrmund (voice), Tobi Vale (drums), Louise Olsen (bass), Donna Biddle (gtr), Calvin Johnson (gtr), Kurdt Kobain (gtr).

June 1989 - Evergreen State Session {with Jason Everman}

Do You Love Me [Hard to Believe - A Tribute to Kiss]
* Dive {ver}
Note: Dive as on Outcesticide III isn't from this session. It's really a soundboard recording of Dive from the 11/18/89 Hanau, Germany show.

August 1989 - Sessions for Mark Lanegan's The Winding Sheet album

Down In The Dark {Kurt backup vocals} [Winding Sheet]
Where Did You Sleep Last Night {Kurt + Chris backing} [Winding Sheet]
* Ain't It A Shame {Kurt lead vocals}
* Grey Goose
Note: Mark Lanegan, Chris Novoselic, Kurt Cobain and Mark Pickerel formed a 'band' in late summer / early fall 1989. They recorded some Leadbelly songs (Where Did You Sleep Last Night and Ain't That A Shame), some originals including _Grey Goose_. The name of the band was either going to be Jury or Lithium (Kurt wanted the band to be called Lithium). They played some gigs, but nothing ever really became of this.

September 1989 - Blew EP Sessions {prod by Steve Fisk}

Been A Son [Blew EP]
Stain [Blew EP]
*C Even In His Youth {ver}
*C Polly {Electric}
* Token Eastern Song {instrumental ver of Junkyard}
Note: Been A Son is the version with a bass solo, and is different from the version on Incesticide.

October 1989 - Smegma Studios, Seattle

Bureacratic Desire For Revenge [Earth ep]
Note: Kurt plays some guitar parts.

October 26, 1989 - Maide Vaile Studios, London "John Peel Session"

*C About A Girl {ver}
*C Love Buzz {ver}
*C Polly {ver}
*C Spank Thru {ver}

November 1, 1989 - Hilversum, Holland Radio Studios "VPRO Session"

*C About a Girl {ver}
*C Dive {ver}

April '90 - Smart Studio, Madison WI. {prod by Butch Vig} "Nevermind Demos"

Dive [Sliver Single]
In Bloom [Sub Pop Video Network 1] {ver}
Polly [Nevermind]
Stay Away (AKA Pay To Play) [DGC Rarities Vol 1]
*C Lithium {ver}
*C Breed (AKA Immodium) {ver}
*C Sappy (AKA Verse-Chorus-Verse)

May 1990, Evergreen Video Shoot

*T School
*T Lithium
*T Big Cheese
*T Floyd the Barber
Note: Lithium is quite a different version here. Exact date and location unknown. May 1990 is just an estimate.

May 1990, Laundry Room Sessions

*C D-7
Here She Comes Now [Between Heaven and Hell - Tribute to VU]

July 11, 1990 - Demo {prod by Butch Vig with Dan Peters of Mudhoney}

Sliver [Sliver Single] {phone call outro}

September 15, 1990 - Olympia WA KAOS FM "Boy Meets Girl Radio"

*C Opinion
*T Lithium {ver}
* Dumb {ver}
Note: Kurt solo

November 3, 1990 - Maide Vaile Studios, London "John Peel Session"

D-7 [Lithium single - UK]
Molly's Lips [Incesticide]
Son Of A Gun [Incesticide]
Turnaround [Incesticide]

Autumn 1990 - House of the Melvins, Seattle

*C Drain You {Boom box recording}

Autumn 1990, Seattle 4-Track Recording

* Pennyroyal Tea

January 11, 1991 - Music Source Sessions, Seattle Washington

Aneurysm [Smells Like Teen Spirit Single]
Even In His Youth {ver} [Smells Like Teen Spirit Single]
Note: More songs were recorded, but which ones?

May to June 1991 - Los Angeles {prod by Butch Vig}

Smells Like Teen Spirit [Nevermind]
In Bloom [Nevermind]
Come As You Are [Nevermind]
Breed [Nevermind]
Lithium [Nevermind]
Territorial Pissings [Nevermind]
Drain You [Nevermind]
Lounge Act [Nevermind]
Stay Away [Nevermind]
On A Plain [Nevermind]
Something In The Way [Nevermind]
Endless, Nameless [Nevermind]
* Endless, Nameless {wierd ver}
* Rape Me {unfinished ver}
* Pennyroyal Tea {unfinished ver}
* Dumb {unfinished ver}

September 3, 1991 - Maide Vaile Studios, London "John Peel Session"

*C Dumb {ver}
*C Drain You {ver}
*C Endless Nameless {ver}

November 5, 1991 - BBC Studios "Mark Goodier Radio 1 Session"

Been A Son [Incesticide] {ver}
New Wave Polly [Incesticide] {aka Polly}
Aneurysm [Incesticide] {ver}
*C Something In The Way {ver}

November 8, 1991 - BBC Studios, London "The Word TV"

*C Smells Like Teen Spirt {ver}

November 24, 1991 - Hilversum, Holland Studios VARA-FM "2 Meter Sessie"

*C Here She Comes Now {ver}
*C Where Did You Sleep Last Night {ver}
*T Love Buzz {ver}
Note: Its rumoured that Nirvana played a song called _Crisco_, but I think that is a fake. I've talked to many people who feel the same, and no one who has any certain info about it. I have seen lyrics of it, and I really doubt that they were lyrics Kurt would write. I have talked to some people who have asked the Dutch dj at this session, and there has been no mention of any odd songs played.

November 28, 1991 - BBC Studios "Top of the Pops"

Smells Like Teen Spirit {Goth Version} [Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!]

December 6, 1991 - Channel 4 Studios, UK "Jonathan Ross Show"

Territorial Pissings [Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!] {ver}

January 10, 1992 - MTV Studios, NYC

*C Drain You {ver}
*C Polly {ver}
*C Smells Like Teen Spirit {ver}
*C Territorial Pissings {ver}
* On A Plain {ver}
* Dive {ver}
* Molly's Lips {ver}
* 3 or 4 others

January 11, 1992, NBC Studios, NYC "Saturday Night Live"

*C Smells Like Teen Spirit
*C Territorial Pissings

April 1992 - Laundry Room session

Oh, The Guilt [split with Jesus Lizard]
Curmudgeon [Lithium single]
Return Of The Rat [8 / 14 Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers]

September 1992 - Los Angeles "MTV Video Awards"

?* New Poopy {Played during the practices}
Rape Me {Intro}
Lithium {ver}
Note: New Poopy is most likely just a different name for 'tourettes'.

October 1992 - Sessions with Jack Endino
Note: Mentioned on pg. 48 of the Rolling Stone Cobain book, in his "New Noise for 93" article, Michael Azerrad writes, "Having recorded demos in October [92] with legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino, who produced Nirvana's first album, Bleach, the band plans to record the album [In Utero] in the spring with Steve Albini."

November 1992 - Living Room session

Guitar part for Burroughs 'The Priest They Called Him'
Note: Kurt solo.

January 1993 - Rio de Janeiro

*C Its Closing Soon (AKA Drunk In Rio) {Kurt and Courtney}
?* 2 Others
Note: A tape of Drunk in Rio was given to British dj John Peel by Courtney herself.

March 1993 - Pachyderm Studios {prod by Steve Albini}

Serve The Servants
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
Rape Me
Dumb
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
Pennyroyal Tea
Very Ape
Milk It
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
tourette's
All Apologies
I Hate Myself and Want To Die [Beavis & Butthead Experience]
Marigold [HSB single]
MV (Moist Vagina) [All Apologies single]
Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip [HSB Promo]
Note: 2 Bass Kid is often said to be recorded during the In Utero sessions. I believe it to be just another name for I Hate Myself and Want To Die.

Summer 1993 - Laundry Room session "In Utero Clean-up"

Verse-Chorus-Verse [No Alternative]

September 25, 1993 - NBC Studios NYC "Saturday Night Live Rehersals"

*T Heart Shaped Box {2 versions}
*T Rape Me {ver}

September 25, 1993 - NBC Studios NYC "Saturday Night Live"

*C Heart Shaped Box {ver}
*C Rape Me {ver}

November 18, 1993 - Sony Studios NYC "MTV Unplugged"

About A Girl [Unplugged in NY]
Come As You Are [Unplugged in NY]
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam [Unplugged in NY]
Dumb [Unplugged in NY]
Man Who Sold The World [Unplugged in NY]
Pennyroyal Tea [Unplugged in NY]
On A Plain [Unplugged in NY]
Something In The Way [Unplugged in NY]
Plateau [Unplugged in NY]
Oh, Me [Unplugged in NY]
Lake Of Fire [Unplugged in NY]
All Apologies [Unplugged in NY]
Where Did You Sleep Last Night [Unplugged in NY]
*T Freebird jam (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
*T Sweet Home Alabama jam (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

February 4, 1994 - Nulle Part A - French TV studio, Paris, France

*C Rape Me {ver}
*C Pennyroyal Tea {ver}
*C Drain You {ver}

February 23, 1994 - Tunnel -RAI Italian TV Studio, Rome Italy

*C Serve the Servants {ver}
*C Dumb {ver}

January 27 - 29, 1994, March 1994 - Laundry Room sessions

?* On The Mountain (AKA You Got No Right)
?* Man Who Sold The World
?* Dough, Ray and Me (AKA Me and My IV)
?* Clean-up Before She Comes
?* Opinion {doubtful}
?* Talk to Me {doubtful}
Note: Rumor has it that a total of 9 songs were done. Frizzle (or Frazzle) has been reported as a song that was done during these session. I suspect that it is a fake by some trader. Nirvana (without Pat Smear) taped some songs right before leaving for Europe in Jan 1994. Then, in March, Kurt did some demos with Pat Smear, Eric (from Hole) and an unkown person. On the Mountain was actually played live on Oct 23rd 1993. Its slightly different than the song Hole did on Unplugged. Supposedly, this might be released (it might have been recorded during a March 1994 studio session). Dough, Ray & Me was also probably recorded then, too - but I have no real idea.
The song Clean-up Before She Comes has been released on a bootleg called Dressed For Success. I think that it was a 4-track recording from 1988. This song could have been re-recorded durning March 1994. Maybe Clean-Up was re-recorded. I do remember reading that Kurt had been quite depressed after In Utero because he was all written out (no new songs). Maybe that was a factor in his suicide - I don't know. If so, then it makes sense that some old, unreleased songs were re-recorded for the March 1994 sessions.
There was a plan to release an ep with some songs from that session with some of the Unplugged songs when Nirvana went on tour with Lollapalooza. That ep, was, of course scrapped.
According to CL on the HSB Mailing list:
'dough ray me is the last song Kurt wrote, mostly in the basement w/ Pat S and Eric- Also "got no right" I found a buncha lyrics on a napkin on the TV- also dr and me was called "Me and My IV" on the napkin.'
Early 1994
Asking For It {backup vocals by Kurt}

Demos for Michael Stipe

??? {Only Kurt}
Note: Michael Stipe and Kurt were never able to record together. Michael Stipe did mention that Kurt had put together some demos for Michael.

Live Recordings

*C Anorexorcist - Tacoma 12/14/87
*T Donuts - Washington DC 11/13/93
*C Formaldehyde - MPLS 10/14/91
*C In His Room - Soundcheck, Hollywood 08/17/90
*C Help Me - Melkweg, Amsterdam, 11/05/89
*T (Help Me) Death Jam - Providence, RI, 09/25/91
*C Jealousy - Rio 01/23/93
*T On The Mountain - Chicago 10/23/93
*T Raunchola - Tacoma 12/14/87 (ref. to as Run, Rabbit Run)
?*T Rock Whore - Glasgow, Scotland 11/30/91 (ref. as Crisco)
*T Talk To Me - Gent 11/23/91
*C Token Eastern Song (AKA Junkyard) Denver 09/13/89

Live Covers

*C Baba O'Riley (the Who) Rennes, France 12/07/91
*C Dazed & Confused Led Zeppelin) Mezzago, Italy 10/26/89
*C The End (The Doors) Reading, England 08/23/91
*C High On The Hog (Tad) Mezzago, Italy 10/26/89 {Kurt + Tad}
*T Immigrant Song (Led Zepplin) Hoqiuam Eagles Lodge 12/21/88
*T Love Gun (Kiss) Peaches Record Store 09/16/91 {Chris+Dave}
*C Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin) Tacoma 12/14/87
*C Money Will Roll Right In (Fang) Stockholm 06/30/92
*C More Than a Feeling (Boston) Reading Festival 08/30/92
*C My Sharona (the Knack) Rennes France 02/16/94
*T Play That Funky Music (??) Santa Cruz 06/19/1991
*C Ramble On jam (Led Zeppelin) Miami 11/27/93
* Rio (Duran Duran) Sao Paul 01/16/93 {Chris + Dave}
*T Run Rabbit Run (Smack) Hoquiam 12/21/88 {diff. then Outcesticide III}
* Sacrifice [Flipper] {Chris, Dave & Buzz Osborne}
* Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks) Sao Paulo 01/16/93
*T Sweet Emotion jam (Aerosmith) Rio 01/23/93
*T Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Tacoma 1/20/90
*C The End (the Doors) Reading, UK 8/23/91
* Way of the World [Flipper] {Chris, Dave & Buzz Osborne)
*T Wild Thing jam (Trogs) OK Hotel, Seattle 4/17/91
*T [Unknown Tad song] Mezzago, Italy 11/26/89 {Kurt + Tad}
*T [Unknown jam] Koln, Germany 11/8/89 {Chris+Dave}
Note: Not all these songs where played in their entirety. Sometimes, they are just a drum and bass jam.

Note: Melvana is made of members of Nirvana and the Melvins. These are two live recordings from a small tour from back in 1992. These songs were recorded on 1-15-92 at the Crocodile Cafe, Seattle. Both songs are covers of Flipper songs. Sacrifice is also the second song on the Lysol EP. Melvana: Guitar, Vocals: Buzz Osbourne / Bass: Chris Novoselic / Drums: David Grohl

Unknown

* Dead
* The Dodge
* I'm Thinking
* Leave Me Alone
* Loser
* Our Little Song
* Punk Theme
* Slut

Some songs registered to Kurt Cobain (from BMI Web page)

* Call It What You Want
* Milk Made Misc info and fake info
'Hummingbirds From Hell' is a song by the Nirvana of the '60s.
'Yes, She is My Skinhead Girl' isn't by Nirvana, its by Unrest.
Midnight Macaroni is really Beck's song 'Motherfucker'.

Thanks to:

Greg (greg@america.net)
Jason Hetlebridle
Jeff McRae (jmcrae@oswego.oswego.edu)
Jonas Blank (jblank@erols.com).
Jyrki Maekelae (jyrmake@kirjasto.kaarina.fi)
Liz Ellison (emellison@delphi.com)
Leo Cailleteau (dadson@neosoft.com)
Rob (rfiles@u.washington.edu)
Thomas Bradford Graham-Fang (tbg0001@jove.acs.unt.edu)
Matt King (Memsom@aladdin.co.uk)
Jeffrey Carlyle (carlyle@tocnet.com)
Danny (erase.me@nashville.com)

Sources

Michael Azerrad _Come As You Are_
Goldmine magazine
Discoveries magazine
Record Collector

Nirvana Concert Chronology


Contributers-
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Date
City
Venue
02/20/87 Tacoma, Washington Legends
??/??/87 Raymond, Washington (party- CAYA p59)
03/??/87 Olympia, Washington Gessco Hall
03/19/87 Tacoma, Washington Community World Theater (CAYA p61,83)
04/??/87 Olympia, Washington KAOS Radio Broadcast
12/14/87 Tacoma, Washington Community World Theater
??/??/88 Seattle, Washington Central Tavern (CAYA p70)
01/23/88 Tacoma, Washington Community World Theater (CAYA p68-9)
03/19/88 Tacoma, Washington Community World Theater
04/24/88 Seattle, Washington The Vogue
05/??/88 Seattle, Washington The Vogue (1st w/Chad) (CAYA 79)
06/29/88 Seattle, Washington Moore Theatre - Lame Fest
07/03/88 Seattle, Washington Vogue (Sub Pop Sunday)
07/23/88 Seattle, Washington Central Tavern
07/30/88 Seattle, Washington Squid Row
08/29/88 Seattle, Washington The Vogue
10/30/88 Olympia, Washington Evergreen State dorm party (caya 117)
10/31/88 Olympia, Washington Evergreen State College
12/21/88 Hoquiam, Washington Hoquiam Eagles Lodge
12/28/88 Seattle, Washington The Underground
02/??/89 Olympia, Washington Evergreen St dorm party (CAYA 92)
02/08/89 Tacoma, Washington Venue Unknown
02/25/89 Seattle, Washington HUB East Ballroom
2 Week West-coast tour (CAYA 92)
??/??/89 Seattle, Washington The Vogue (CAYA 97)
??/??/89 Seattle, Washington HUB East Ballroom (CAYA 97)
??/??/89 Seattle, Washington Annex Theater (CAYA 97)
??/??/89 Ellensberg, Washington Community Center (CAYA 97)
??/??/89 Olympia, Washington Reko/Muse (CAYA 104)
04/??/89 Portland, Oregon Satyricon Club (4/90 or 4/89?)
06/21/89 Seattle, Washington The Vogue
Begin 26 date US tour
06/22/89 San Francisco, California The Covered Wagon
06/??/89 Westwood, California Rhino Records
06/??/89 Los Angeles, California Al's Bar
06/??/89 Long Beach, California Bogart's
07/08/89 Chicago, Illinois Club Dreamerz
07/09/89 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania The Sonic Temple
07/12/89 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania JC Dobbs
07/13/89 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
07/18/89 New York City, New York Pyramid Club - New Music Seminar
Last show of 26 date tour
08/26/89 Seattle, Washington C.O.C.A.
09/01/89 Tijuana, Mexico Iguana
2 week midwest tour (CAYA 122)
09/09/89 Chicago, Illinois Cabaret Metro
09/13/89 Denver, Colorado Gothic Theater
09/??/89 Ann Arbor, Michigan Blind Pig
09/??/89 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Unicorn
09/??/89 St. Louis, Missouri Venue Unknown
10/08/89 Omaha, Nebraska Lift Tick Lounge
10/21/89 London, England Peel Session
Begin 36 show European tour
10/23/89 Newcastle, England Riverside
10/25/89 Leeds, England Duchess of York Public House
10/26/89 London, England Peel Session
10/27/89 London, England School of Oriental & African Studies
10/28/89 Portsmouth, United Kingdom The Ents Hall of Portsmouth Polytechnic
10/29/89 Birmingham, United Kingdom Edward's No. 5
10/30/89 Norwich, United Kingdom Norwich Arts Center
11/01/89 Hilversium, Holland VPRO Radio Broadcast
11/01/89 Rotterdam, Holland Nighttown
11/02/89 Groningen, Holland Vera
11/03/89 Utrecht, Holland Tivoli
11/04/89 Apeldoorn, Holland Gigant
11/05/89 Amsterdam, Holland Melkweg
11/08/89 Koln, Germany Rose Club
11/10/89 Enger, Germany The Forum
11/11/89 Berlin, Germany Ecstacy
11/17/89 Frankfurt, West Germany Negativ
11/18/89 Hanau, West Germany Ku-Ba Club
11/19/89 Gammelsdorf, Germany Gammelsdorf Circus
11/20/89 Linz, Austria Kapu
11/22/89 Vienna, Austria U4 Club
11/25/89 Fribourg, Switzerland Venue Unknown
11/26/89 Mezzago, Italy The Bloom
11/27/89 Rome, Italy Piper Club
11/28/89 Florence, Italy Venue Unknown
12/01/89 Les Mouneux, France MJC Fahrenhet
12/02/89 Ghent, Belgium Democrazy
12/03/89 London, England Astoria
Last show of 36 shows in 42 day European tour (CAYA 125)
01/07/90 Seattle, Washington HUB East Ballroom (CAYA 131)
01/19/90 Olympia, Washington Rignall Hall (Steamboat Island Rd)
01/20/90 Tacoma, Washington Legends
??/??/90 Olympia, Washington Roadhouse on Highway 8
02/12/90 Sacramento, California Cattle Club
02/13/90 San Francisco, California Kennel Club
02/15/90 Hollywood, California Raji's
02/16/90 Long Beach, California Bogart's
02/19/90 Phoenix, Arizona Mason Jar
03/12/90 Vancouver, British Columbia Town Pump
Begin US tour
04/02/90 Chicago, Illinois Cabaret Metro
04/10/90 Ann Arbor, Michigan Blind Pig
04/16/90 Toronto, Canada Lee's Palace
04/17/90 Montreal, Canada Foufounes Electriques
04/18/90 Cambridge, Massachusetts Man Ray's
04/??/90 New York, New York Pyramid Club
04/27/90 Amherst, Massachusetts Venue Unknown
04/28/90 Hoboken, New Jersey Maxwell's
04/29/90 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
05/04/90 Tampa, Florida The Ritz Theater
05/05/90 Jacksonville Beach, Florida Einstein-A-Go-Go
05/06/90 Atlanta, Georgia Masquerade
05/14/90 Lincoln, Nebraska Duffy's
05/17/90 Boise, ID The Zoo
End US tour
Begin West Coast tour with Dale Crover
08/13/90 Long Beach, California Bogart's
08/15/90 Hollywood, California Roxy
08/17/90 Hollywood, California Palladium
08/19/90 San Diego, California Casbah
08/23/90 Portland, Oregon Melody Ballroom
08/24/90 Seattle, Washington Moore Theatre
End West Coast tour with Dale Crover
09/22/90 Seattle, Washington Motor Sports Garage
09/25/90 KAOS Acoustic Broadcast KAOS Studios, Olympia, Washington
10/11/90 Olympia, Washington North Shore Surf Club
Begin British tour to promote Sliver Single
10/23/90 Birmingham, United Kingdom Goldwyn's Suite
10/24/90 London, England Astoria
10/25/90 Leeds, England Polytechnic
10/26/90 Edinburg, Scotland Venue Unknown
10/27/90 Nottingham, England Trent Polytechnik
11/03/90 London, England Peel Session
End British tour to promote Sliver Single
11/25/90 Seattle, Washington The Off Ramp Cafe
12/31/90 Portland, Oregon Satyricon Club
03/05/91 Edmonton, Canada The Bronx
03/08/91 Vancouver, Canada Commodore Ballroom
04/17/91 Seattle, Washington OK Hotel
05/29/91 Los Angeles, California Jabberjaw
Begin tour of West USA
06/13/91 San Francisco, California Warfield
06/14/91 Hollywood, California Hollywood Palladium
06/15/91 Tijuana, Mexico Iguana's
06/18/91 Santa Cruz, California Catalyst
06/19/91 Sacramento, California Crest Theater
06/20/91 Portland, Oregon Melody Ballroom
06/??/91 Denver, Colorado Gothic Theater
End tour of West USA
08/15/91 Los Angeles, California The Roxy
08/17/91 Culver City, California GMT Studios (Teen Spirit shoot)
Begin 10 date European tour
08/20/91 Cork, Ireland Sir Henry's
08/21/91 Dublin, Ireland Venue Unknown
08/23/91 Reading, England Reading Festival
08/24/91 Koln, Germany Monster of Spex
08/25/91 Hasselt, Belgium Pukkelpop Festival
08/27/91 Bremen, Germany Aladin
08/28/91 Halle, Germany Venue Unknown
08/29/91 Stuttgart, Germany Longhorn
08/30/91 Nuremberg, Germany Venue Unknown
09/01/91 Rotterdam, Holland Doelen
End 10 date European tour
09/03/91 London, England Peel Session
09/16/91 Seattle, Washington Beehive Record Store
Begin US tour for Nevermind
09/20/91 Toronto, Ontario The Opera House
09/21/91 Montreal, Quebec Foufounes Electrique
09/23/91 Boston, Massachusetts The Axis Club
09/25/91 Providence, Rhode Island Club Babyhead
09/26/91 New Haven, Connecticut The Moon
09/27/91 Trenton, New Jersey City Gardens
09/28/91 NYC, New York Tower Records
09/28/91 NYC, New York Marquee Club
09/30/91 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Graffiti's
10/01/91 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania JC Dobbs
10/02/91 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/04/91 Carrboro, North Carolina Cat's Cradle
10/05/91 Athens, Georgia 40 Watt Club
10/06/91 Atlanta, Georgia Masquerade
10/08/91 Memphis, Tennessee Omni New Daisy
10/09/91 Colombus, Ohio Staches
10/10/91 Cleveland, Ohio The Empire
10/11/91 Detroit, Michigan St. Andrews Hall
10/12/91 Chicago, Illinois The Cabaret Metro
10/14/91 Minneapolis, Minnesota Let It Be Records
10/14/91 Minneapolis, Minnesota First Avenue
10/16/91 St. Louis, Missouri Mississippi Nights
10/17/91 Lawrence, Kansas Kansas Union Ballroom
10/19/91 Dallas, Texas Trees Club
10/20/91 Houston, Texas The Vatican
10/21/91 Austin, Texas Waterloo Records
10/21/91 Austin, Texas Liberty Lunch
10/23/91 San Diego, California Off The Record
10/23/91 Phoenix, Arizona After The Gold Rush
10/24/91 Tijuana, Mexico Iguanas
10/25/91 Hollywood, California Palace (Rock for Choice)
10/25/91 Los Angeles, California Headbanger's Ball
10/26/91 San Francisco, California Warfield
10/27/91 Hollywood, California The Palace
10/28/91 Portland Oregon Rock for Choice Benefit
10/29/91 Portland, Oregon Fox Theater
10/30/91 Vancouver, British Columbia Commodore Theater
10/31/91 Seattle, Washington Paramount
End US tour for Nevermind
Begin European tour for Nevermind
11/04/91 Bristol, England Bierkeller
11/05/91 London, England Astoria
11/06/91 Wolverhampton, England Wulfrun Hall
11/09/91 London, England Goodier Session (Radio Broadcast)
11/10/91 Berlin, Germany Loft
11/11/91 Hamburg, Germany Markthalle
11/12/91 Frankfurt, Germany Batschkapp
11/13/91 Munich, Germany Nacthwerk
11/14/91 Vienna, Austria Arena
11/16/91 Trieste, Italy Sala Verdi
11/17/91 Mezzago, Italy The Bloom
11/18/91 Torino, Italy Studio 2
11/19/91 Rome, Italy Castle Theatre
11/20/91 Barciella, Italy Kryptonite
11/23/91 Ghent, Belgium Vooruit
11/25/91 Hilversium, Holland VPRO Radio
11/25/91 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso
11/26/91 Bradford, England Bradford University
11/27/91 Birmingham, England Hummingbird
11/28/91 Sheffield, England Octagon Centre
11/29/91 Edingburgh, Scotland Carlton Studios
11/30/91 Glasgow, Scotland QMU
12/02/91 Newcastle, England Mayfair
12/03/91 Nottingham, England Rock City
12/04/91 Manchester, England Manchester Academy
12/05/91 London, England Kilburn National
12/07/91 Rennes, France Transmusicales Festival (CAYA 208)
End European tour for Nevermind
12/09/91 Belfast, Ireland Conor Hall (cancelled- CAYA 208)
12/10/91 Dublin, Ireland McGonagles (cancelled- CAYA 208)
12/11/91 Helsinki, Finland Lepakko (cancelled)
12/12/91 Bergen, Norway La Garage (cancelled)
12/13/91 Oslo, Norway Alaska (cancelled)
12/14/91 Stockholm, Sweden Melody (cancelled)
12/27/91 Los Angeles, California Sports Arena
12/28/91 Del Mar, California O'Brien Pavilion
12/29/91 Tempe, Arizona ASU Center
12/31/91 San Francisco, California Cow Palace
01/02/92 Salem, Oregon Salem Armory
01/10/92 New York City, New York MTV Studios
01/11/92 New York City, New York Saturday Night Live
Begin Pacific Rim tour for Nevermind
01/24/92 Sydney, Australia JJJ Radio Broadcast
01/24/92 Sydney, Australia Phoenecian Club
01/25/92 Sydney, Australia Big Day Out festival
01/26/92 Gold Coast, Australia Fisherman's Wharf
01/27/92 Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Festival Hall
01/29/92 Freemantle, Australia Metropolis (cancelled)
01/29/92 Perth, Australia Old Melbourne Hotel
01/30/92 Adelaide, Australia The Barton Theater (moved from Old Lion)
01/31/92 Melbourne, Australia The Palace
02/01/92 Melbourne, Australia The Palace (all ages show)
02/02/92 Melbourne, Australia The Palace
02/04/92 Sydney, Australia Dee Why Hotel
02/05/92 Canberra, Australia ANU Bar
02/06/92 Sydney, Australia Coogee Bay Hotel
02/07/92 Sydney, Australia Coogee Bay Hotel
02/09/92 Aukland, New Zealand Logan Campbell Centre
02/14/92 Osaka, Japan Kokusai Koryu Center
02/16/92 Nagoya, Japan Club Quattro
02/17/92 Kawasaki, Japan Club Citta
02/19/92 Tokyo, Japan Sun Plaza Hall
02/21/92 Honolulu, Hawaii Pink's Garage
02/22/92 Honolulu, Hawaii Pink's Garage
End Pacific Rim tour for Nevermind
Begin 10 date European tour to make up for cancelled tour dates 12/91
06/21/92 Dublin, Ireland The Point
06/22/92 Belfast, Ireland King's Hall
06/24/92 Paris, France Zenith
06/26/92 Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde Festival
06/27/92 Turku, Finland Ruisrock Festival
06/28/92 Oslo, Norway Isle of Calf Festival
06/30/92 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Naval Museum
07/02/92 Valencia, Spain Pabellon de San Luis
07/03/92 Madrid, Spain Palacio de Deportes de la Commun. de Madrid
07/04/92 San Sebastian, Spain Velodromo de Anoeta
End 10 date European tour
08/30/92 Reading, England Reading Festival
09/08/92 Los Angeles, California MTV Music Awards
09/10/92 Portland, Oregon Portland Meadows (horse track)
09/11/92 Seattle, Washington Seattle Coliseum
09/26/92 Valencia, California Castaic Lake (Kurt Solo)
10/02/92 Bellingham, Washington Carver Gymnasium
10/04/92 Seattle, Washington Crocodile Cafe
10/28/92 Los Angeles The Palace (Rock for Choice benefit)
10/30/92 Buenos Aires, Argentina Velez Sarsfield Stadium
01/16/93 Sao Paulo, Brazil Morumbi Stadium
01/23/93 Rio de Janiero, Brazil Apoetose Stadium
04/09/93 San Francisco, California Cow Palace (Bos.Rape Benefit)
07/23/93 New York City, New York Roseland Ballroom (N.M.Sem.)
08/06/93 Seattle, Washington King Theater (Mia Zapata Benefit)
09/??/93 Hollywood, California Club Lingerie (2 songs w/C.Love)
09/25/93 New York, New York Saturday Night Live
Begin US tour for In Utero
10/18/93 Phoenix, Arizona State Fairgrounds
10/19/93 Albequerque, New Mexico Venue Unknown
10/21/93 Kansas City, Missouri Memorial Hall
10/22/93 Davenport, Iowa Palmer Auditorium
10/23/93 Chicago, Illinois Aragon Ballroom
10/24/93 Chicago, Illinois Lounge Ax
10/25/93 Chicago, Illinois Aragon Ballroom
10/26/93 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mecca Auditorium
10/27/93 Kalamazoo, Michigan Wings Stadium
10/29/93 Detroit, Michigan State Fair Coliseum
10/30/93 Dayton, Ohio Hara Arena
10/31/93 U of Akron, Akron, Ohio James A Rhodes Arena
11/02/93 Montreal, Quebec Verdun Auditorium
11/04/93 Toronto, Ontario Maple Leaf Gardens
11/05/93 Buffalo, New York Alumni Arena
11/07/93 Williamsburg, Virginia Willam & Mary Hall
11/08/93 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Armory
11/09/93 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Stabler Arena, Lehigh University
11/10/93 Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield Civic Center
11/12/93 Fitchburg, Massachusetts Wallace Civic Center
11/13/93 Washington, DC Bender Arena, Anerican Univ.
11/14/93 New York City, New York New York Coliseum
11/15/93 New York City, New York Roseland Ballroom
11/18/93 New York City, New York Sony Studios (Unplugged)
11/26/93 Jacksonville, Florida Morocco Temple Shrine Auditorium
11/27/93 Miami, Florida AT&T Bayfront Ampitheater
11/28/93 Lakeland, Florida Lakeland Civic Center
11/29/93 Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
12/01/93 Birmingham, Alabama Boutwell Auditorium
12/02/93 Tallahassee, Florida Tall-Leon Civic Center
12/03/93 New Orleans, Louisiana UNO Lakefront Arena
12/05/93 Dallas, Texas Fair Park Coliseum
12/06/93 Houston, Texas Astro Arena
12/09/93 Omaha, Nebraska Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum
12/10/93 St. Paul, Minnesota Roy Wilkins Aud.
12/13/93 Seattle, Washington Pier 47
12/14/93 Salem, Oregon The Armory
12/15/93 Ogden, Utah Venue Unknown
12/18/93 Denver, Colorado Coliseum
12/29/93 San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena
12/30/93 Inglewood, California Great Western Forum
12/31/93 Oakland, California Oakland Coliseum Arena
01/01/94 Medford, Oregon Jackson County Expo Hall
01/03/94 Vancouver, British Columbia PNE Forum
01/04/94 Vancouver, British Columbia PNE Forum
01/06/94 Spokane, Washington Spokane Coliseum
01/07/94 Seattle, Washington Seattle Center Arena
01/08/94 Seattle, Washington Seattle Center Arena
Begin European tour for In Utero
02/04/94 Paris, France Nulle Part Ailleurs - TV
02/06/94 Cascais (Lisbon) Pavilhao Dramatico
02/08/94 Madrid, Spain Pabellon de Deportes del Real Madrid
02/09/94 Barcelona, Spain Palau dels Sports
02/10/94 Toulouse, France Palais des Sports
02/12/94 Toulon,France Zenith Omega
02/14/94 Paris, France Zenith
02/16/94 Rennes, France Salle Omnisport
02/18/94 Grenoble, France Le Summen
02/19/94 Neuchatel, Switzerland Patinoire du Littoral
02/21/94 Modena, Italy Palasport
02/22/94 Rome, Italy Palagacchio di Marino
02/23/94 Rome, Italy Tunnel - TV
02/24/94 Milan, Italy Forum di Assago
02/25/94 Milan, Italy Palatrussardi
02/27/94 Ljubjana, Slovenia Tivoli
03/01/94 Munich, Germany Terminal Einz
Final date for Nirvana

Explanation of the symbols on In Utero


Symbols from top left corner to top right corner:
  1. Sow: Most popular animal form of the Goddess. Demeter often appeared as one.
  2. Jar sprouting a stream of water: A symbol for fertility and fertility gods.
  3. Honeycomb: See "bee"
  4. Dolphin: The totem of Demeter as Mistress of the Sea. The word "dolphin" comes from the Greek word for "womb."
  5. Triangle: Represented female and the trinity of Goddess (Virgin, Mother, Crone). Also represented fire.
  6. Mare: Symbolizes the Goddess Epona and the daytime aspect of Mareheaded Demeter. Scandinavian witches turned themselves into mares.
Symbols from top right to bottom right:
  1. Alchemical Rose: The symbol of the sacred womb, the virgin daughter within the mother. Is applied to images like Kore/Demeter and Mary/Eve.
  2. Baubo: [I think you could easily read this as Baubo representing Courtney and Demeter representing Kurt] A female clown who managed to draw laughter from Demeter in the midst of her grief. Baubo induced the Great Mother to forget her anger long enough to take a little nourishment.
  3. Diameter: A symbol for water, salt, and sea. Is related to the primordial Mother Goddess, who mingled all elements to create life from flesh (earth), blood (water), breath (air), and fire (vital heat)
  4. Unknown
  5. Symbol for the planet Pluto: The female Pluto deity who was despised and discredited by Greeks and was combined with Demeter in a triple form (Virgin, Mother, and Crone).
  6. Poppy: "since opium and its derivatives--morphine, heroin--are extracted from the opium poppy, it is hardly surprising to find the flower associated with sleep, inertia, numbness, and death. Demeter as a death Goddess was often shown with poppies [like the Heart-Shaped Box video]... Thebaine yields an important narcotic antagonist, naloxone, which is given to infants born of heroin addicts, to help soften the sock of withdrawl that such infants must go through."
Symbols from bottom right to bottom left:
  1. Sub Pop logo
  2. Geffen logo
  3. Unknown
  4. Bee: Was greatly prized because they gave valuable honey. Demeter was addressed as "the pure mother bee." Is identified with mortality in folklore. The bee "was a symbol of feminine potency of nature."
  5. Infinity sign: [another interesting one] Sexual union and sense of perfection. Two becoming one (two uniting circles, one representing man and the other woman).
Symbols from bottom left to top left:
  1. unknown
  2. Sulfer: Sacred to Athene. Associated with purification. Also symbolized angry aspect of Athene (Goddess Brimo), which was also identified with Demeter.
  3. Labrys (axe): Stood for Amazons and their Goddess (Demeter / Artemis / etc.). Has been adopted by lesbians as their amuletic symbol.
  4. Corn dolly: The embodiment of the harvest. One of its many alternate names was the Demeter.
  5. Symbol for Ceres: Roman title of Great Goddess as Mother of the Harvest and ruler of all grains. Indicated planting of male seed in earth's womb.
  6. Sistrum: Was used to worship Egyptian Great Goddess. A sacred rattle, whose sound dispelled evil spirits.

Incesticide liner notes


A while ago, I found myself in bloody exhaust grease London again with an all-consuming urge to hunt for two rare things: back issues of NME rumored to be secretly hidden in glass casings and submerged in the fry vats of every kebab machine in the U.K. and the very-out-of-print first Raincoats LP.

The NME search was a clever, saucy upstart of an attempt to be, uh, nasty. However, the Lord and Julian Cope himself know how we need, need, need the NME to embrace the unifying hands of our children across this big blue marble and NIRVANA's tarty musical career. So please bless up again - we'll forever feed off of your high-calorie boggy turbinates.

In an attempt to satisfy the second part of my quest, I went to the Rough Trade shop and, of course, found no Raincoats record in the bin. I then asked the woman behind the counter about it and she said "well, it happens that I'm neighbors with Anna (member of The Raincoats) and she works at an antique shop just a few miles from here." So she drew me a map and I started on my way to Anna's.

Sometime later, I arrived at this elfin shop filled with something else I've compulsively searched for over the past few years - really old fucked up marionette-like wood carved dolls (quite a few hundred years old). Lots of them... I've fantasized about finding a ship filled with so many. They wouldn't accept my credit card but the dolls were really way too expensive anyway. Anna was there, however, so I politely introduced myself with a fever- red face and explained the reason for my intrusion. I can remember her mean boss almost setting me on fire with his glares. She said "well, I may have a few lying around so, if I find one, I'll send it to you (very polite, very English)." I left feeling like a dork, like I had violated her space, like she probably thought my band was tacky.

A few weeks later I received a vinal copy of that wonderfully classic scripture with a personalized dust sleeve covered with xeroxed lyrics, pictures, and all the members' signatures. There was also a touching letter from Anna. It made me happier than playing in front of thousands of people each night, rock-god idolization fron fans, music industry plankton kissing my ass, and the million dollars I made last year. It was one of the few really important things that I've been blessed with since becoming an untouchable boy genius.

It was as rewarding as touring with Shonen Knife and watching people practically cry with joy at their honesty. It made people happy and it made me happy knowing that I had helped bring them to the U.K.

It was as rewarding as the last Vaselines show in Edinburgh. They reformed just to play with us in their home town, probably having no idea how exciting and flattering it was for us (and how nervous we were to meet them).

It was as rewarding as being asked to support Sonic Youth on two tours, totally being taken under their wing and being showed what dignity really means.

It was as rewarding as the drawings Daniel Johnston sent me, or the Stinky Puffs single from Jad Fair's son, or playing on the same bill as Greg Sage in L.A., or being asked to help produce the next Melvins record, or being on the Wipers' compilation, or Thor from T.K. giving me a signed first edition of Naked Lunch, or making a friend like Stephen Pavlovic - our Australian tour promotor who sent me a Mazzy Stay LP on vinal, or playing "The Money Will Roll RIght In" with Mudhoney, or having the power to insist on bringing Bjorn Again to the Reading Festival, or being able to afford to bring my friend Ian along on tour just to have a good time, or paying Calamity Jane five-thousand dollars to be heckled by twenty thousand macho boys in Argentina, or asking my friends Fits Of Depression to play with us at The Seattle Colliseum, or playing with Poison Idea at a No On Nine benefit in Portland organized by Gus Van Zandt, or being a part of one of L7's pro-choice benefits in L.A., or kissing Chris and Dave on Saturday Night Live just to spite homophobes, or meeting Iggy Pop, or playing with The Breeders, Urge Overkill, The T.V. Personalities, The Jesus Lizard, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., etc.

While all these things were very special, none were half as rewarding as having a baby with a person who is the supreme example of dignity, ethics and honesty. My wife challenges injustice and the reason her character has been so severely attacked is because she chooses not to function the way the white corporate man insists. His rules for women involve her being submissive, quiet, and non-challenging. When she doesn't follow his rules, the threatened man (who, incidentally, owns an army of devoted traitor women) gets scared.

A big "fuck you" to those of you who have the audacity to claim that I'm so naive and stupid that I would allow myself to be taken advantage of and manipulated.

I don't feel the least bit guilty for commercially exploiting a completely exhausted Rock youth Culture because, at this point in rock history, Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone. We just wanted to pay tribute to something that helped us to feel as though we had crawled out of the dung heap of conformity. To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band. I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or The Knack but the last to admit that it hasn't been rewarding.

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Last year, a girl was rapped 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.

Love,
Kurdt (the blond one)

Nirvana




Nirvana is an "alternative rock" band that has was formed sometime around '87 and existed until April 8th, 1996. The core of Nirvana was Kurt Cobain, lead guitarist and vocalist, and Krist Novoselic, bass player. After going through many, many different name and member changes, Kurt and Krist met Chad Channing, who became their drummer for their debut album, Bleach. Some of the other notable people that were in the band, or its earliest incarnations, were Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover of the Melvins and Danny Peters of Mudhoney, among others.

Nirvana recorded their Bleach album for about $600, a dark, crunching album containing simple, guitar driven like "Negative Creep" and "School" as well as more sophisticated songs like "About a Girl," and a severely modified version of Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz." It was released in June of '89 by Sub Pop records. After recording, Nirvana went on tour after the addition of guitarist Jason Everman. Jason was added because Kurt wasn't sure he could handle singing and playing guitar at the same time. Jason also helped contribute quite a bit of the money to record the debut LP, and though they had every intention of paying him back, the members of Nirvana never managed to.

After touring and and looking for another label, Nirvana was bought out of their two year contract with Sub Pop by DGC, David Geffen's record label. They recorded their Nevermind album in May of '91 at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin with new drummer Dave Grohl. It was released on September 13, 1991 and went platinum in about three weeks, mostly due to the song Smells Like Teen Spirit, which was unfortunately labeled as the anthem of Generation X, though many Nirvana fans as well as Kurt himself, hate it. The band admitted that, basically, the only reason it was recorded was to get radio airplay.

After a massive worldwide tour in support of Nevermind, Nirvana came back to the states. A collection of B-sides and rarities, called Incesticide was released, and sold well despite the fact that there was little fanfare and no tour to support it. After touring constantly, Nirvana once again returned to the studios in March of 1993 to record their long-awaited studio album, In Utero.

Originally, DGC was not pleased with the album at all. Their first comment upon hearing the recording was, "Nice demos. When can we expect to hear the finished album?" They thought that it had no commercial value at all, and would let Nirvana's fans down after the slick, radio friendly Nevermind album. A few of the songs were later remixed or rerecorded, but the majority of the album stayed the same. Most of the vocals were done in one day, with the help of a lot of cough syrup, and a lot of the songs were recorded live in one take. It was also plagued by audio problems.

But, after working out their difficulties with their company, In Utero was released on September 14, 1993 in the United Kingdom. Due to an unforseen delay, it was released in the United States on September 21, 1993. The foreign version also contained a secret track, Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip. It was labeled as a "Deflated American Dollar Purchase Incentive Track," and is now available on bootlegs and import CDs.

Nirvana returned to the road, playing in the states and overseas. On January 8, 1994 Nirvana played their final American show in Seattle, Washington. They then toured Europe, playing their last show on March 1 in Munich, Germany. Supposedly, Kurt said that they would be back in a minute, and Nirvana left the stage, never to return. No full bootleg copies of this show have surfaced, though one supposedly exists.

After returning to the United States, Kurt Cobain dissapeared after jumping the wall at the Exodus rehabilitation clinic, where he was undergoing rehab for a heroin addiction. Several days later, on April 8, his body was found by an electrician at his house in Seattle, Washington. Kurt had been dead for several days, the victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound. He left a suicide note near his body, attempting to explan why he had killed himself. Fans didn't accept his death, and many haven't still.

Rabu, 07 Mei 2008

kurt cobain

Kurt Cobain

Kurt CobainAKA Kurt Donald Cobain

Born: 20-Feb-1967

Birthplace: Hoquaim, WA

Died: 5-Apr-1994

Location of death: Seattle, WA

Cause of death: Suicide [1]

Remains: Cremated, Wishkah River, WA (one third), NY (one third), Courtney Love (one third)

Gender: Male

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Bisexual [2]

Occupation: Musician

Nationality: United States

Executive summary: Lead singer of Nirvana

The son of a mechanic and a waitress, Kurt Cobain grew up facing the same deprivations as most children of working-class people. The divorce of his parents when he was ten apparently provided the first major blow to his happiness, which was further aggravated in his teen years by being constantly shuffled between homes and the demoralizing, abusive environment found in the American education system. Some release from the tedium of life in Aberdeen was achieved through music, and throughout high school Cobain put together a series of different garage bands; he also occasionally took refuge in the counter-cultural writings of authors such as William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett and Charles Bukowski. A sympathetic accomplice was eventually found in the person of Krist Novoselic, who shared his enthusiasm for punk and provided a receptive ear to his friend's musical ideas.

Cobain and Novoselic worked through a variety of band names and personnel between '85 and '86 (initially with Cobain acting as drummer) before settling on a trio formation with drummer Chad Channing at the end of 1986; by 1987 they were calling this new line-up Nirvana. Fueled by the sounds of 70s heavyweights like Black Sabbath, punk acts like The Sex Pistols and contemporaries such as The Melvins and Mudhoney, Nirvana crafted their own mixture of punk, metal and dirgey folk-rock (a particularly commercially viable mixture, as it turned out), the prototype for which is displayed on their 1989 Sub Pop debut Bleach. This first release caused a fair amount of buzz on the college-radio "indie" scene, which, combined with the urgings of Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon, resulted in a deal with the corporate label Geffen a year later. By this time, some sessions intended for the next album had already been completed with punk producer Butch Vig, at the conclusion of which Channing had been shed. Following their new corporate sponsorship, Vig was enlisted once again, and, now joined by ex-Scream drummer Dave Grohl, the band once again set about recording their second offering.

As soon as Nevermind hit the shelves in 1991, any peace of mind that Cobain had hoped to achieve for himself was trampled out of existence. The music press, with the record-buying public firmly in tow, immediately began frothing and dribbling all over the place about the release, prompting sales to swell past the triple-platinum mark by the early months of 1992. Trumpet calls heralding the rebirth of rock music sounded from every mountaintop, while the single Smells Like Teen Spirit essentially became the anthem for this "new" and revolutionary musical style, appetizingly labelled "grunge" by the press. Some of the other Seattle "grunge" bands that were willing to adopt the more polished sound evident on Nevermind (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains) were also caught up in this tumultuous upsurge, while others (like The Melvins, who continued being too inventive and peculiar) were given only a momentary boost of popularity before being abandoned once again by the mainstream. Every move made by Cobain and his bandmates subsequently became a matter of legend: sneaking a few bars of Rape Me onto the MTV Video Music Awards, kissing on Saturday Night Live, goofing around on Top of the Pops, etc.

In this midst of this brou-ha-ha, Kurt Cobain married Hole frontwoman Courtney Love -- apparently reasoning that he would feel better if he was attached to someone even more screwed-up than himself. In any event, this proved not to be true: emotional, physical and substance abuse problems continued to worsen, and he found it increasingly difficult to deal with the demands of his fame. Incesticide (1992), a rarities collection, was quickly followed by Nirvana's third album In Utero (1993), on which a rawer and more stripped-down sound (courtesy of producer Steve Albini) was adopted, and then partially removed (courtesy of producer Scott Litt). The album was given an enthusiastic reception regardless, reaching #1 on the mainstream charts immediately upon its release, but was still considered a "disappointment" by the label because it didn't match the absurd success of Nevermind (despite the release of a specially-packaged version tailored to suit the conservative tastes of Wal-Mart and K-Mart executives).

By the end of 1993 Cobain's drug addiction had begun to overwhelm the rest of his life, and a heroin overdose in November was followed by an overdose on the prescription drug Rohypnol in March of 1994. Relatives convinced him to check into a rehab center in California, but almost immediately he fled back to Seattle, not making his movements known to Love or any other members of his family. On April 8th Cobain's body was found in his home by an electrician installing security lights: a coroner's report subsequently reported that he had committed suicide by a fatal shotgun blast to the head.

[1] The autopsy report issued by the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, certified 14th April 1994, gives as cause of death: "contact perforating shotgun wound to head", and later, "self-inflicted shotgun wound." A suicide note written in his own hand was left at the scene. No signs of coercion were present. There is no evidence to indicate a diagnosis of murder or any other cause of death. No evidence exists to involve Courtney Love. Some of the claims otherwise are made by Richard Lee, a public-access host who lacks any credentials whatsoever and was never present inside the room of Cobain's death.

[2] Kurt Cobain was bisexual, though it is not clear that he ever consummated this part of his persona. As a teen he was arrested and fined $180 for spraypainting "Homosex Rules" on an outside wall. He received also a thirty-day suspended sentence (Come As You Are, pp. 39-40). Furthermore in the February 1991 issue of The Advocate, Kurt says, "If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle." At other times Cobain claimed to be heterosexual, but the Advocate interview is unambiguous.

Father: Don Cobain (auto mechanic)

Mother: Wendy O'Connor (waitress)

Wife: Courtney Love (musician, m. 24-Feb-1992, until his death)

Daughter: Frances Bean Cobain (b. 18-Aug-1992)


High School: Aberdeen High School, Aberdeen, WA

Nirvana Vocalist/Guitarist 1987-94

unknown detox facility

Exodus Recovery Center Mar-1994

Cedars-Sinai Aug-1992

Drug Overdose Heroin, 2-May-1992

Coma after overdosing on Rohypnol, Italy 1994

Suicide Attempt 1994 (Rome, according to Courtney, but not doctors)

Shot: Self-Inflicted Seattle, WA (5-Apr-1994)

Risk Factors: Depression, Heroin, Marijuana, Smoking, Alcoholism

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR

Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994) Himself

Nirvana Unplugged (16-Dec-1993) Himself

1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992) Himself

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Kurt Cobain

Is the subject of books:

Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story, 1994, BY: Dave Thompson

Kurt Cobain, 1995/1996, BY: Christopher Sandford

Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love: In Their Own Words, 1996, BY: Nick Wise

Cobain, 1997, BY: Rolling Stone

Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon, 1998/1999, BY: Ian Halperin and Max Wallace

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, 2001, BY: Charles R. Cross

Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, 2004, BY: Max Wallace and Ian Halperin

Author of books:

Journals (2003)

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