fun fact from Kurt's biography "Heavier than Heaven" - at the end of this night, Dale learned that Kurt and Krist were doing these gigs for free and was really pissed about that. He complained about that to Kurt, told him he could not go on playing gigs for free and that he was being exploited by the venue owner (Kurt and Krist had palyed there some times before with Aaron on drums). Dale was firm about his opnion until Kurt was okay with the idea and settled for a $10 payment, first money Nirvana ever made playing music. LOL
@@BobHarley Unfortunately, it probably won't come out, since Courtney's sitting on it - she only allowed 7 seconds of it to play during the Kurt and Courtney documentary in 1998 before threatening to sue if anymore was played
THE AUDIO ON THIS IS IMPECCABLE FOR A LIVE RECORDING!! AMAZING!! KURT'S VOICE IS FCKN CRAZY GOOD, HIS VOCAL CORDS SEEM LIKE THEY CAN GO ON FOR A FULL 24 HOURS OF SCREAMING!! NO ONE CAN MATCH HIS CREATIVITY WITH HIS VOICE. PERIOD. caps lock off
The reason the audio is so good is due to them having a soundboard which almost always will record good audio it’s how nirvana did the in utero 30th shows they took soundboard recordings of the show!
Kurt’s voice was a laser canon at 100%. He was pure, and 21 with all his energy and talent. The crowd that night got like 18 “Drain You/ Scentless Apprentice” screams and Paper cuts? So lucky.
With the departure of drummer, Aaron Burckhard, Skid Row had dissolved by the summer of '87. When Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic began playing together again a few months later, they drafted in Melvins stixman, Dale Crover, to help cut a demo at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording. Producer, Jack Endino, refers to the session as the Dale Demo. While Cobain claimed to have found Endino and Reciprocal Recording through price comparison shopping in The Rocket, friends contend that he chose Reciprocal because it was where his new favorite record, Soundgarden's Screaming Life EP, had been recorded: Kurt really wanted to record there because he really liked the sound of the Soundgarden record, Crover told NIRVANA biographer, Michael Azerrad. He was really into it that summer, I remember. They were excited to work with Jack because he'd done stuff for Soundgarden and Green River, echoed Slim Moon. It was cheap and he agreed to do it for lower than his usual fee. I received a call from a guy, who said his name was Kurt, and that he was a friend of the Melvins, Endino recalled. He wanted to come up and record some songs. And I said Sure, a friend of the Melvins is a friend of mine. (4) Understanding that the band hadn't settled on a name and mishearing Cobain's own name over the telephone, Endino booked them in under Kurt Kovain. (5) Endino was happy to take the booking on account of Crover's involvement, He was one of the best drummers in the area, and I thought, If Dale is playing with these guys, they must be alright. They can't be total amateurs. It must be something reasonably decent, or Dale wouldn't be involved. The band and their equipment were driven up to Seattle by Novoselic's neighbors, Dwight Covey and son, Guy. Endino remembers their equipment wasn't that great, apart from Crover's drums. They showed up right after noon, recalled the producer. We ran through the songs instrumentally, then Kurt said, OK, I'm going to do the vocals now, and just went through them, in one take. All tracks were recorded on an Otari MX-5050 Mk III ½" 8-track at 15 IPS, with no noise reduction. The ten songs were, in order: If You Must, Downer, Floyd the Barber, Paper Cuts, Spank Thru, Hairspray Queen, Aero Zeppelin, Beeswax, Mexican Seafood, and Pen Cap Chew (the latter song having a fade ending, as the tape was running out and the band didn't want to buy another reel). Once Novoselic had finished tracking his parts, he decided to go celebrate with Covey. He had this two-paper bomber with all bud and we smoked it in the bathroom, Novoselic told Azerrad. I got so stoned that I had to go outside. He and Covey sat out in the camper van and lit a fire while Cobain completed his vocals. I was particularly taken with Kurt's voice, remembered Endino. 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, Endino observed. 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. The band clocked up roughly six hours of studio time, They were probably done recording by 3:30, 4 o'clock, the mixes done by 5:30, and they were out the door by six, but Endino was generous enough to charge for just five, at a cost of $152.44. Cobain paid for the session with money he had earned working as a janitor. [It] went by so fast that I barely remember even talking with them, Endino recalled. It was one of the fastest sessions I had ever done. They had to go to Tacoma and didn't have much money to spend, so they were in a hurry. I obliged. Gathering up Endino's rough one-hour mixes, the band loaded out and headed south to Tacoma, where they were scheduled to play at the Community World Theater. Their 12-song live set comprised of ten songs from the Dale Demo, in the same order they had been recorded that afternoon, ending with Annorexorcist and what is presumably Erectum to Endino, the two additional songs performed in Tacoma that evening were not recorded or attempted in the studio, owing to lack of time. Endino laments, What a bummer to hear 'em now, this way [as a B-quality bootleg audio]. Endino spent that evening making his own mix of the session, I convinced them to leave the 8-track master, so I could make a mix of it for myself. He then proceeded to pass copies of this after-hours mix onto friends, including Dawn Anderson of Backlash, Shirley Carlson of KCMU Radio, and Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop; earning NIRVANA their first press, radio play and recording contract, respectively! I would talk to Jack every now and then because there were a lot of bands going into Reciprocal and I'd just ask him, Hey, did you hear anything that blew you away? Poneman recalled. He told me, There's this kid who came in who looks like a car mechanic. He came up with Dale Crover. He lives in Olympia and his name is Kurt. And he says, To be honest, I don't even really know what to make of this tape. It's awesome, but they just bashed it out and it's unlike anything I've really heard. The guy's got an amazing voice. Cobain also sent copies of the demo to numerous indie labels, including Touch & Go, SST and Alternative Tentacles, but failed to elicit a response. Five songs from this session were officially released on Incesticide in their original rough mix form. That's griped me for a while because I wish I'd had a chance to remix them, Endino told Seattle rock critic, Gillian Gaar. Literally what they did is they took the tape from the first day I ever recorded with them and mixed ten songs in one hour. And that's the tape that got put on Incesticide. It's always bummed me out. In any given afternoon I could've made a bette mix of all those songs. But that's just the way it went. Yet, when If You Must and Pen Cap Chew received posthumous official release on 2004's With The Lights Out box-set, Endino opted not to remix the tracks because they actually sounded better than I remembered, especially compared with some of the other rough demos and rehearsal tapes that are on the box. Spank Thru is the only song from this session not to have seen official release. Cobain, himself, spoke fondly of this session: After the demo tape was recorded, we realized that it was actually good music and there was something special about it so we took it a lot more seriously. www.livenirvana.com/sessions/studio/january-1988.php
Early Nirvana is (in my opinion) when Kurt wrote his most interesting and best music. His guitar playing overall is a lot more complex than what he did with later in their career. The main reason why he changed his playing later is so that he could concentrate more on his vocals, as he struggled to sing as well as he wanted due to having to concentrate mostly on his playing. If you listen to songs like 'Mexican Seafood' he is not singing the lyrics he wrote for the studio recording that he recorded on that same day. He would mumble some times in the early days due to this. That said, I personally think that pre Bleach is the greatest music wise. Incesticide is my favourite, even though it is a collection of different recordings from before Nevermind was recorded, with the exception of that version of Aneurysm which was recorded later. I love everything they did. Also, the changing their style from one album to another kept them interesting so you're not listening to the same thing on each album. I prefer the earlier versions of Polly, even though the acoustic version sets the mood of the story better. I love all their songs, but I just love his guitaring in the early days. People who don't consider him to be a great technical player should listen to his early songs!
I agree. Polly with Chad Channing was song's best renderition. Pre-Bleach era was probably the darkest, I wonder how many songs were written between Illiteracy Will Prevail and Bleach that were never recorded...
Yeah, there's probably a lot of home recordings that have still yet to be heard on various tapes as he recorded a lot of his ideas for songs on a basic tape recorder
10:32 this part is straight from Slayer… Seasons in the Abyss? People don’t realize how much metal is in early Nirvana. Krist talked about how much the loved Celtic Frost around the time they wrote the stuff on Bleach too.
Aero zeppelin. What a song. If anything was "missing" on in utero, it would have been another song like that. For me that song is your every day pure nirvana song and sappy. Just bleeds cobain ❤
Bob, thank you. This is incredible. To hear this pair of vocal cords, with the strength and power of 21 year old lungs not yet dampened by age and cigarettes, was fucking amazing. What a find.
Having Dale Crover on drums is a big part of why they sounded so good, not taking anything away from Kurt or Krist, but Dale is one of the best drummers alive.
3 years later they were the biggest band in the world. It was so cool that this show was in my home town where I was born and raised. This theater was only a few blocks from my grandfathers house. Some pretty cool acts played at this place.
I'd say about 4 is more like it but you make a great point ha. I always like to look at Kurts mugshot from 85 and think wow...7 years and he would be on the cover of Rolling Stone
Goddamn... Imagine record a full show of a then underground band in late 80s, and a few years later this band became one of the greatest bands in history
You just end up wondering as an older guy, how 21-year old can sound like that. He is unbelieveable. All that fear and horror in his voice. Kurt is scared to the bone, or he mimics it extremely well. I saw him live in 1992.
And to boot it all his normal speaking voice was clear as a bell and as smooth as whipped butter. You'd think with all of the screaming and blow out vocals (thinking of Live on the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) he did over the years, you'd think he'd have a more gristly voice than Scatman Cruthers or Louis Armstrong
Listen to what happened 2 months later (2:34). Kurt's scream was so powerful that Dave Foster lost the beat for a moment. th-cam.com/video/M4Hkwd6opEw/w-d-xo.html
I dont think you understand dont you? i mean he probably knows that 91 was probably their best year, but for him its 1989, because i think he likes it more, dont judge everyones minds@@river2352
Let me add that whilst I did say 91 was their peak, this show is absolutely incredible. Kurt, Krist and dale are tuned to something higher. Should have kept dale longer
What a great sounding set, I’m usually very biased for their 91/early 92 shows but this is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the shows where I can imagine myself being some sleazy Record company rep scout and being like “ WOWZA we gotta sign these boys fast yipeee”
Wow this is basically spot on to the album versions...I've seen/heard a LOT of old/bootlegged stuff from Nirvana over the years...but this is the first time I've seen this. Very cool, would be even cooler if the video quality was on par with the sound. Thanks ✌️
Same equipment it sounds like too. He kept breaking all his awesome sounding mosrite univoxes and the older songs never all sounded quite the same with strats.
It's a little fuzzy but I'm glad it stayed on one spot. Great to see the drummer and rest of the band jam together on every song. My first time seeing this and the drummer!. He's really good.Thanks for upload.
@BobHarley Am I experiencing some stranger than fiction kind of moment here?? The way you improved the audio data is just beyond everything man!! Thank you very much for sharing this rare piece of music history ❤ I mean, dale and kurt, man!! Live, loud and beautiful. A fuckin wizard’s work!!
Kurt did what he did And what he did was innovative, breath taking and totally brilliant across the board. He changed up styles along the way, but he was blessed with a talent where he could go anywhere he wanted with that talent and remain as brilliant as he was. Idk, but he seemed to know that.❤
Good job with enhancing the audio. Sounds better in comparison to when I first watched it and heard this video on TH-cam. I Originally had it on a bootleg CD I bought nearly 25 years ago. It was a very bad quality recording, but at the time I was just happy to have owned it as I was obsessed with Nirvana and Kurt imparticiulary when I was a teenager. I wanted to hear everything I possibly could by them no matter how poor the recordings were. The original 10 track demo they recorded on the same day as this is my all time favourite studio recording by them. Spank thru should have been put onto Incesticide or the very least Without The Lights Boxset as that recording is in my opinion the best studio version of the song recorded, so why it's never officially been released is beyond me. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to upgrade the sound quality of this live recording!!!
Holy crap the audio is incredible for 1988 nirvana audio is better than some pro shoots for band from this time craps wild and they where a small local band at this time how to we even have this
How is it that they were so friggin amazing even in their beginning days and sounded better than bands with over 30 years under their belt? True talent!!! And loving the DS1!
Thanks so much for this. I don’t search nirvana footage but this was a pleasant surprise in my feed! I had no idea any recording of this existed. I was blasting bleach and Ozma in my bedroom in 89. 🎉I just saw melvins on their 40 year anniversary tour and Dale is just as fast (but I notice this is pre-drum gloves 😂)
Love anything Nirvana, Saw them with Shonen Kniife and the Breeders and they were awesome! Amazed at the quality of this audio! Great video and totally made my day. Thanks!
More Nirvana: th-cam.com/video/_9tC8UFB5lM/w-d-xo.html
Tracklist:
0:00 If You Must
4:27 Downer
6:10 Floyd the Barber
9:28 Paper Cuts
14:06 Spank Thru
18:14 Hairspray Queen (partly)
20:16 Aero Zeppelin
24:50 Beeswax
28:03 Mexican Seafood
30:27 Pen Cap Chew
35:24 Anorexorcist
39:15 Hairspray Queen
43:24 Raunchola
45:44 Moby Dick
47:46 Weirdo (a.k.a. Unknown #3)
That drop into moby was so sick and then it’s a noise rock jam or imo ripcord pull by Kurt purposefully or not.
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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I love charlie brown,.
fun fact from Kurt's biography "Heavier than Heaven" - at the end of this night, Dale learned that Kurt and Krist were doing these gigs for free and was really pissed about that. He complained about that to Kurt, told him he could not go on playing gigs for free and that he was being exploited by the venue owner (Kurt and Krist had palyed there some times before with Aaron on drums). Dale was firm about his opnion until Kurt was okay with the idea and settled for a $10 payment, first money Nirvana ever made playing music. LOL
I just listened to the audio book of this! Such a great, in depth look at an amazing artist's life.
Crazy how much of Nirvanas history is archived
I'm still waiting for 1982 Organised Confusiom demo to emerge.
Thanks to some time traveling, but I love it
Exactly dude like Kirts history snd nirvanas history is so well documented its crazy honestly
fr somehow i swear@@mikezayas324
@@BobHarley Unfortunately, it probably won't come out, since Courtney's sitting on it - she only allowed 7 seconds of it to play during the Kurt and Courtney documentary in 1998 before threatening to sue if anymore was played
8:56
"deuce! cover!"
"you got the wrong band! we're not the melvins"
THE AUDIO ON THIS IS IMPECCABLE FOR A LIVE RECORDING!! AMAZING!! KURT'S VOICE IS FCKN CRAZY GOOD, HIS VOCAL CORDS SEEM LIKE THEY CAN GO ON FOR A FULL 24 HOURS OF SCREAMING!! NO ONE CAN MATCH HIS CREATIVITY WITH HIS VOICE. PERIOD. caps lock off
They definitely had a busy day, since they recorded a 10 song demo with Jack Endino the same day.
The reason the audio is so good is due to them having a soundboard which almost always will record good audio it’s how nirvana did the in utero 30th shows they took soundboard recordings of the show!
Kurt’s voice was a laser canon at 100%. He was pure, and 21 with all his energy and talent. The crowd that night got like 18 “Drain You/ Scentless Apprentice” screams and Paper cuts? So lucky.
Dale is such a beast.
Who’s Dale?
@@angleface2048Dale Crover, the drummer from The Melvins.
Kurt loved Dale. His highest compliment for other drummers was "Almost-Dale level", which is what he thought of Dave.
Dale is way better than Dave im sorry
@@meatball7697 For real! I always thought Dave was the best until I heard Dale was in the band.
With the departure of drummer, Aaron Burckhard, Skid Row had dissolved by the summer of '87. When Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic began playing together again a few months later, they drafted in Melvins stixman, Dale Crover, to help cut a demo at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording. Producer, Jack Endino, refers to the session as the Dale Demo.
While Cobain claimed to have found Endino and Reciprocal Recording through price comparison shopping in The Rocket, friends contend that he chose Reciprocal because it was where his new favorite record, Soundgarden's Screaming Life EP, had been recorded: Kurt really wanted to record there because he really liked the sound of the Soundgarden record, Crover told NIRVANA biographer, Michael Azerrad. He was really into it that summer, I remember.
They were excited to work with Jack because he'd done stuff for Soundgarden and Green River, echoed Slim Moon. It was cheap and he agreed to do it for lower than his usual fee.
I received a call from a guy, who said his name was Kurt, and that he was a friend of the Melvins, Endino recalled. He wanted to come up and record some songs. And I said Sure, a friend of the Melvins is a friend of mine. (4) Understanding that the band hadn't settled on a name and mishearing Cobain's own name over the telephone, Endino booked them in under Kurt Kovain. (5) Endino was happy to take the booking on account of Crover's involvement, He was one of the best drummers in the area, and I thought, If Dale is playing with these guys, they must be alright. They can't be total amateurs. It must be something reasonably decent, or Dale wouldn't be involved.
The band and their equipment were driven up to Seattle by Novoselic's neighbors, Dwight Covey and son, Guy. Endino remembers their equipment wasn't that great, apart from Crover's drums. They showed up right after noon, recalled the producer. We ran through the songs instrumentally, then Kurt said, OK, I'm going to do the vocals now, and just went through them, in one take.
All tracks were recorded on an Otari MX-5050 Mk III ½" 8-track at 15 IPS, with no noise reduction. The ten songs were, in order: If You Must, Downer, Floyd the Barber, Paper Cuts, Spank Thru, Hairspray Queen, Aero Zeppelin, Beeswax, Mexican Seafood, and Pen Cap Chew (the latter song having a fade ending, as the tape was running out and the band didn't want to buy another reel).
Once Novoselic had finished tracking his parts, he decided to go celebrate with Covey. He had this two-paper bomber with all bud and we smoked it in the bathroom, Novoselic told Azerrad. I got so stoned that I had to go outside. He and Covey sat out in the camper van and lit a fire while Cobain completed his vocals.
I was particularly taken with Kurt's voice, remembered Endino. 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, Endino observed. 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.
The band clocked up roughly six hours of studio time, They were probably done recording by 3:30, 4 o'clock, the mixes done by 5:30, and they were out the door by six, but Endino was generous enough to charge for just five, at a cost of $152.44. Cobain paid for the session with money he had earned working as a janitor. [It] went by so fast that I barely remember even talking with them, Endino recalled. It was one of the fastest sessions I had ever done. They had to go to Tacoma and didn't have much money to spend, so they were in a hurry. I obliged.
Gathering up Endino's rough one-hour mixes, the band loaded out and headed south to Tacoma, where they were scheduled to play at the Community World Theater. Their 12-song live set comprised of ten songs from the Dale Demo, in the same order they had been recorded that afternoon, ending with Annorexorcist and what is presumably Erectum to Endino, the two additional songs performed in Tacoma that evening were not recorded or attempted in the studio, owing to lack of time. Endino laments, What a bummer to hear 'em now, this way [as a B-quality bootleg audio].
Endino spent that evening making his own mix of the session, I convinced them to leave the 8-track master, so I could make a mix of it for myself. He then proceeded to pass copies of this after-hours mix onto friends, including Dawn Anderson of Backlash, Shirley Carlson of KCMU Radio, and Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop; earning NIRVANA their first press, radio play and recording contract, respectively!
I would talk to Jack every now and then because there were a lot of bands going into Reciprocal and I'd just ask him, Hey, did you hear anything that blew you away? Poneman recalled. He told me, There's this kid who came in who looks like a car mechanic. He came up with Dale Crover. He lives in Olympia and his name is Kurt. And he says, To be honest, I don't even really know what to make of this tape. It's awesome, but they just bashed it out and it's unlike anything I've really heard. The guy's got an amazing voice.
Cobain also sent copies of the demo to numerous indie labels, including Touch & Go, SST and Alternative Tentacles, but failed to elicit a response.
Five songs from this session were officially released on Incesticide in their original rough mix form. That's griped me for a while because I wish I'd had a chance to remix them, Endino told Seattle rock critic, Gillian Gaar. Literally what they did is they took the tape from the first day I ever recorded with them and mixed ten songs in one hour. And that's the tape that got put on Incesticide. It's always bummed me out. In any given afternoon I could've made a bette mix of all those songs. But that's just the way it went.
Yet, when If You Must and Pen Cap Chew received posthumous official release on 2004's With The Lights Out box-set, Endino opted not to remix the tracks because they actually sounded better than I remembered, especially compared with some of the other rough demos and rehearsal tapes that are on the box. Spank Thru is the only song from this session not to have seen official release.
Cobain, himself, spoke fondly of this session: After the demo tape was recorded, we realized that it was actually good music and there was something special about it so we took it a lot more seriously.
www.livenirvana.com/sessions/studio/january-1988.php
Thanks for that. I adore Nirvana. It's nice to read something I didn't know about them.
I was at that show, I was 15. There with the older kids that I skated with. Lakewood. Tacoma community world theatre.
Would love to know the energy there, what did u guys thought about them (nirvana), your reaction to the songs?
Wow, thats amazing.
Lucky day❤
Tacoma community world theater, between 55th and 56th so. M st. Tacoma WA. (It's something else now)
Anorexorcist really hits different with that vocal delay
I never thought i would ever actually hear Pen Cap Chew in its entirety! 😮
One of my favorite Nirvana songs!
Pure magic ...
There is a full demo version of it as well
This version is way better
Early Nirvana is (in my opinion) when Kurt wrote his most interesting and best music. His guitar playing overall is a lot more complex than what he did with later in their career. The main reason why he changed his playing later is so that he could concentrate more on his vocals, as he struggled to sing as well as he wanted due to having to concentrate mostly on his playing. If you listen to songs like 'Mexican Seafood' he is not singing the lyrics he wrote for the studio recording that he recorded on that same day. He would mumble some times in the early days due to this. That said, I personally think that pre Bleach is the greatest music wise. Incesticide is my favourite, even though it is a collection of different recordings from before Nevermind was recorded, with the exception of that version of Aneurysm which was recorded later. I love everything they did. Also, the changing their style from one album to another kept them interesting so you're not listening to the same thing on each album. I prefer the earlier versions of Polly, even though the acoustic version sets the mood of the story better. I love all their songs, but I just love his guitaring in the early days. People who don't consider him to be a great technical player should listen to his early songs!
I agree. Polly with Chad Channing was song's best renderition. Pre-Bleach era was probably the darkest, I wonder how many songs were written between Illiteracy Will Prevail and Bleach that were never recorded...
Yeah, there's probably a lot of home recordings that have still yet to be heard on various tapes as he recorded a lot of his ideas for songs on a basic tape recorder
@@owenrick393 i hope his 1982 demo will be related eventually
Точно. Я тоже люблю ранний период. Он великолепен. Жаль что мало записей живых выступлений дошли до наших дней
Okay hipsters...
“I can read I can write” great first words lol 😂 crowned the king of lit
This is probably the greatest footage to capture the real essence of the band, like damn that guy changed the whole world.
10:32 this part is straight from Slayer… Seasons in the Abyss? People don’t realize how much metal is in early Nirvana. Krist talked about how much the loved Celtic Frost around the time they wrote the stuff on Bleach too.
Aero zeppelin. What a song. If anything was "missing" on in utero, it would have been another song like that. For me that song is your every day pure nirvana song and sappy. Just bleeds cobain ❤
Dang, the sound on this is fricken' great.
Analog
Bob, thank you. This is incredible. To hear this pair of vocal cords, with the strength and power of 21 year old lungs not yet dampened by age and cigarettes, was fucking amazing. What a find.
I freakin LOVE the echo effect on Kurt’s voice during the early shows.
man, they were super good. ALREADY. wow not so many band sound this good in their early stages.
Most bands sound better and get worse over time...
Having Dale Crover on drums is a big part of why they sounded so good, not taking anything away from Kurt or Krist, but Dale is one of the best drummers alive.
@@Slappi2 😂😂 I’d have a lot more money if I was
Do Nirvana fans even listen to other bands?
Dale the monster Crover on drums. Amazing
Except for fucking up at the start of Hairspray Queen
And at the end of Beeswax
@@chucktouchton398he used to play more complex stuff i gues
A true master of the craft
@@chucktouchton398 so what? he is human and was rehearsing with them weeks ago.
the tightness of this band is incredible
It's Dale
@@aisle_of_viewthat's right. They hired Dave Grohl because Kurt considered him the "we have Dale Crover at home" version
So this is where that live version of Floyd the barber on the sliver best of the box release came from. I’ve always loved that version
Greatest drummer ❤
you're talking shit here friend
@@kurtd17779 Even if he doesn't know that it's Crover instead of Channing or Grohl, he's still right haha
He’s great. What happened to him?
@@soarornorThe Melvins
@@pricila6511 Thanks. Yeah, I went and looked him up. Very multi faceted guy. His drumming style reminds me of Blue Cheer’s drummer Paul Whaley.
3 years later they were the biggest band in the world. It was so cool that this show was in my home town where I was born and raised. This theater was only a few blocks from my grandfathers house. Some pretty cool acts played at this place.
I'd say about 4 is more like it but you make a great point ha. I always like to look at Kurts mugshot from 85 and think wow...7 years and he would be on the cover of Rolling Stone
CWT!
And then 3 years later he was gone...so fast, too fast.
Where is this in Tacoma?
54th & M@@AleisterMeowley
Goddamn... Imagine record a full show of a then underground band in late 80s, and a few years later this band became one of the greatest bands in history
Yeah, that's amazing! In my opinion, the band who revolutionised the sound the most, at its best 💥
Damn.. 1988 and they were already awesome!
^%~~~~~~***-/+*548
6:15 Best sounding feedback I've ever heard
exactly the same from the one in floyd the barber from the album
*they recorded floyd the barber the same day this was recorded
@@TwelfthQuotientyeah i love that studio recording session, the guitar sounds so raw
What an awesome set list. Kurt's voice is unbelievably good, his screams were giving me goosebumps. Miss you Kurt...
43:24
Is this the famous "Raunchola" versions of the famous "With The Lights Out" Album???!!! 😱
ON VIDEO!! AMAZING!!!
Kurt was such a dork for not wanting to play Paper Cuts in later years. It's one of his better ones.
Some say it was because the screams would fuck up his vocal chords. I call bullshit lol. He should have played it more.
Nirvana has been very good ALWAYS:).
You just end up wondering as an older guy, how 21-year old can sound like that. He is unbelieveable. All that fear and horror in his voice. Kurt is scared to the bone, or he mimics it extremely well. I saw him live in 1992.
Oh god
And to boot it all his normal speaking voice was clear as a bell and as smooth as whipped butter.
You'd think with all of the screaming and blow out vocals (thinking of Live on the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) he did over the years, you'd think he'd have a more gristly voice than Scatman Cruthers or Louis Armstrong
Damn!!!! they were so good since the begining.
That scream at 1:29... chills!
Listen to what happened 2 months later (2:34). Kurt's scream was so powerful that Dave Foster lost the beat for a moment.
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@@BobHarley Wow...! That’s just amazing!
@@BobHarley it says no video!!
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Crover is setting the standard for all Nirvana drummers to come.
And they never matched it
You think Dale was better than Dave? Hard ro choose to me
@@danielblanke2584 Pretty close imo.
@@danielblanke2584I think Dave has more groove but Dale is heavier and his drum ideas are generally more creative/outside of the box
Yeah, i think you're right. With Dale on drums you can feel 130% energy
Early Nirvana, soooo good, great sound, pure gold. Thanks for this gem.
@8:54 King Buzzo heckles them "that's the wrong band, we wanna have the Melvins"
I would buy this on CD!
You can rip the audio from this, I can't tell you how, but do a Google search and you'll probably find out how super easily.
Yeah, this is the best source you can get for this performance
I feel like I've seen you on another Nirvana video
For me their best era was 88-89. Just way more feeling and intensity than their later years
You couldn’t be more wrong - 1991 was their peak. You need to go and watch some more live shows. Rome 91, paradiso, Leeds, to name a few
I dont think you understand dont you? i mean he probably knows that 91 was probably their best year, but for him its 1989, because i think he likes it more, dont judge everyones minds@@river2352
Let me add that whilst I did say 91 was their peak, this show is absolutely incredible. Kurt, Krist and dale are tuned to something higher. Should have kept dale longer
Riiiight 😂
1990 Off the Ramp show is probably their most intense ever
But ...this is more than gold 😮❤
This is beyond everything...
"Could I borrow your bass dave where ever you are" krist broke a string on hairspray queen 19:32
Sounds sooo good! I feel so blessed to able to go back in time like this.
Thanks so much.
What a great sounding set, I’m usually very biased for their 91/early 92 shows but this is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the shows where I can imagine myself being some sleazy Record company rep scout and being like “ WOWZA we gotta sign these boys fast yipeee”
Dale Crover is a monster drummer. Tight!
Awesome. Nirvana was the best by far.
They sound incredible here! I'd even say even better than anything I heard after the 80s.
Nirvana 88 is the best Nirvana
HEAVILY agree
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I love the echo effect on the vocals for Anorexorcist ! Never heard Kurt use that before. Trippy
Holy shit what was that first song. An absolute banger
If you must
If you must. Yea it’s so underrated. Listen to the studio recording on with the lights out.
One of the first mighty Nirvana songs.
Wow this is basically spot on to the album versions...I've seen/heard a LOT of old/bootlegged stuff from Nirvana over the years...but this is the first time I've seen this. Very cool, would be even cooler if the video quality was on par with the sound. Thanks ✌️
Also this is the same day they recorded Dales Demo, whiches 3 songs were included on Bleach.
Same equipment it sounds like too. He kept breaking all his awesome sounding mosrite univoxes and the older songs never all sounded quite the same with strats.
It's a little fuzzy but I'm glad it stayed on one spot. Great to see the drummer and rest of the band jam together on every song. My first time seeing this and the drummer!. He's really good.Thanks for upload.
Wooah this live ... such a treasure, I've never seen Nirvana playing these songs, thanks !
if only those ppl had a clue the greatness they were blessed to witness right there and then..
Dale is amazing!
FUCK YEAH, thanks for the QUALITY. annorexorcist sounds like hell in a good way
i wish we had more 87 stuff but this will definitely do
@BobHarley Am I experiencing some stranger than fiction kind of moment here??
The way you improved the audio data is just beyond everything man!!
Thank you very much for sharing this rare piece of music history ❤
I mean, dale and kurt, man!! Live, loud and beautiful.
A fuckin wizard’s work!!
The lighting guy worked hard here!!
Kurt did what he did
And what he did was innovative, breath taking and totally brilliant across the board. He changed up styles along the way, but he was blessed with a talent where he could go anywhere he wanted with that talent and remain as brilliant as he was.
Idk, but he seemed to know that.❤
Wow, just when I thought I witnessed it all. Along cones this fantastic piece of recorded history.
Good job with enhancing the audio. Sounds better in comparison to when I first watched it and heard this video on TH-cam. I Originally had it on a bootleg CD I bought nearly 25 years ago. It was a very bad quality recording, but at the time I was just happy to have owned it as I was obsessed with Nirvana and Kurt imparticiulary when I was a teenager. I wanted to hear everything I possibly could by them no matter how poor the recordings were. The original 10 track demo they recorded on the same day as this is my all time favourite studio recording by them. Spank thru should have been put onto Incesticide or the very least Without The Lights Boxset as that recording is in my opinion the best studio version of the song recorded, so why it's never officially been released is beyond me. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to upgrade the sound quality of this live recording!!!
I’m glad someone else said it, definitely my favorite rendition of Spank Thru. Such a jam.
Amazing how good this is....... Great job Bob Harley
video smooth as fuck and sound like a soundboard bro. epic edited. i appriecte you. thanks bro 👐👏
There's soundboard audio on most of the recording, except Beeswax and both Hairspray Queens.
Holy crap the audio is incredible for 1988 nirvana audio is better than some pro shoots for band from this time craps wild and they where a small local band at this time how to we even have this
Audio recording is a separate soundboard recording from the same concert, unfortunately it's mono but yeah, it sounds amazing
Thanks for all Kurt
Damn that snare drum sounds perfect!! They were almost the next Black Sabbath but chose to shine a little brighter.
Absolute quality mate! Great find here! 👍🏻
How is it that they were so friggin amazing even in their beginning days and sounded better than bands with over 30 years under their belt? True talent!!! And loving the DS1!
they sound awesome!!!! thanks for posting
Thank you so much!
This is incredible!!!
Wow, nice registration! This is the first time I actually see a part of the history of Nirvana I've only read about. Thanks for sharing!
I was 10 days old when Nirvana plays this show.😁
Thanks so much for this. I don’t search nirvana footage but this was a pleasant surprise in my feed! I had no idea any recording of this existed. I was blasting bleach and Ozma in my bedroom in 89. 🎉I just saw melvins on their 40 year anniversary tour and Dale is just as fast (but I notice this is pre-drum gloves 😂)
So f’n raw and great I can taste it. Thanks for the upload. Great job on the audio.
man the screams on if you must wow. killer audio
Amazing, ranchola has a very similar vibe to radio friendly unit shifter (5 years later!)
Awesome! Thanks dude!
Great audio, amazing thanks for the upload
Great soundboard recording.
44:00 is nice and quick and then by 44:15 they level up.
The audio is incredible wonderfull
WOW such an amazing concert just awesome
Cobain was destined for greatness this is pure no autotune bs or anything to digital
Sounds like the opening riff or Rape Me at 9:12.
Yeah both songs starts with same chord
Love anything Nirvana, Saw them with Shonen Kniife and the Breeders and they were awesome! Amazed at the quality of this audio! Great video and totally made my day. Thanks!
Nice
Oh man, thanks Kurt, thanks nirvana.... Don't need letters..
From Brazil, Belo Horizonte
Gold.good job!
Thank you for this rare gem! I love the Crover lineup.
wow this is great audio quality
Terima kasih sudah upload nirvana versi ini...senang bangat lihat nya
Cool!!!
It's very compelling and sounds great.. I only know them from mainstream radio mostly and this is better.Sound quality high.
Imagine how good it would be in stereo!
This is awesome so far
Very good
This must be the best version of if you must in existence!
love people who shares this culture things
Dang, this is really good!!! Thank you for the upload.
this shits fire, hope these guys become big someday
Lol
This is old. But yes they became huge. You've never heard of Nirvana??? Theyre dead
@@crieverytim r/Woosh
@@Beef....this is youtube. You're thinking of reddit.
@@crieverytim r/woooosh again
If you must is so cool