Love Buzz was written by that Dutch band with a funny name, I can't seem to remember right now but I think I never heard Kurt do the Dutch chics intro, I gotta check that out, thanks man...
I was born in Aberdeen (my dad went to school with Don Kobain) and I grew up in Montesano attending the same school where Kurt went (a decade earlier) after moving in with his dad. I met a substitute teacher that grew up with or around Kurt and krist who gave me a cassette tape that was extremely early recordings with a few songs I've still never heard them play even off the earliest underground or "bootlegged" material . This was the true "fecal matter" recording that is on a tape in Seattle @ the E.M.P. and also contained more of his t.v., movie soundbite collages. One of the songs lyrics were "you spray paint your hair, and then you become a punk rocker!! My dad unknowingly throughout or moved my copy after finding out my bro and I were doing dope. I'm hopeful that someone else will or has released the recordings to share an inside view of the genius he was already at that age.
@Patrick yeah it's been leaked. The song you're quoting is "Punk Rocker." I'm sorry you lost it but thankfully the world didn't. Here's an upload of "Punk Rocker" that might bring back some memories. :) th-cam.com/video/WId-gQh-WDQ/w-d-xo.html
Yes. SO many haters talk shit about Cobain, from teenagers, to celebrities…I have 0 respect for any hater that criticizes Cobain for having wrote “simple” songs. The truth is his arrangements were genius and between the melodies of the vocals and the instruments it is a lot more sophisticated in its total sum if melodies than the guitar parts alone + the guitar was simplified so that he could sing and play at the same time because in the beginning Cobain had difficulty playing and singing at the same time so he adjusted his writing to be able to play cleaner because he did want to appeal to a mads audience. He did work hard with the band to become famous.
Thanks for keeping your intro short and not bloating the video with pointless antics. The shot of the tape is incredible. This is a testament and treasure for fans everywhere. Thank you so much.
It's a bit eerie listening to these tapes. This was years before Nevermind and all that craziness. When Kurt was still just a regular dude, before Courtney and all the drug issues.
@Alice Kath-Octagon: I’m psychic when it wants to be you mean heroin😂? not a pill. called a syringe. much respect to him tho. he went through a lot. the mind of heck
This is the epitome and soul of Nirvana. It was made to be just like this. Kurt's screams/growls in the background or layered over riffs/breakdowns. The idea of dubbing cartoons or radio between tracks. Kurts vocals use his whole range and their guitar playing is at its best. Add that to the lineup of songs, this thing is like an explosion start to finish. Man you must've listened to this a million times lol.
Just didn't fit in any of the albums they released other than Incesticide, and I believe the masters for Spank Thru, Blandest, and a handful of others were missing at the time. I know for a fact they wanted Blandest on Incesticide but couldn't find the version of it that they wanted to use, or couldn't find any version at all.
Man can’t thank you enough for these tapes! Kurt Cobain is who inspired me to pick up a guitar and to ultimately become a songwriter. As I grew older I started to study all about who he was as a person. I can’t tell you what an influence he’s been to me and my own music. Thank you for posting these, and for all your stories of the memories you have of him. I’m sure it must be more difficult for those that actually knew him personally to cope with his loss. His music and the stories you share makes it feel as though a part of him is still here. Thank you, God bless.
That MR.MOUSTACHE track is awesome!! Even cooler than the vocals he ultimately went with!! Thank you so much man! And please tell us as much as you can before you share the rest of the tapes!! You have no idea how much this means to me!
If you read "Come as you are: The story of Nirvana" and if i remember correctly, many of the lyrics on Bleach weren't written until right up until the day they were driving over to the studio to record the album.
Hey man, thanks posting this music and all of the stories about Kurt and Nirvana. It means more than words can express for all of the people that are inspired by Kurt and what he stood for.
The thing about Kurt is , it is so hard to actually find a song he wrote that I don't totally fucking love.Honestly the Beatles have more bloopers than Kurt ever did !
@@calebdickerson2003 I agree with that .Also I like Lennon's early songs the most but in the end I like Paul's songs better . Post beatles I like Paul's songs much more than John's . It was like Yoko sucked all the talent out of him. JMHO!
@@joeyboogenz I wouldn’t blame Yoko as much as his circumstances at the time, Brian Epstein kept the Beatles in check and without him Paul McCartney ended up taking John's spot as the frontman, John was battling heroin addiction and just didn't have the charisma or heart to do anything to fix the issues they were facing
Really shows how quickly time is escalating... Wish I could go back in time before all the technology took over.. If you think about it all nirvanas music will never get old, it was so revolutionary for the time and Kurt was a pure genius
without technology being the way it is now I'm pretty sure I've heard people say it was super hard listening to what you wanted to listen to when you wanted to listen to it.
@@929er13oh my god yes. I grew up on Nirvana and it meant the world to me. The first thing I did when I got the internet was searched “Nirvana unreleased mp3”. I found fan sites with ftp servers with CONCERTS. I’d put *67 before the isp number so that an incoming call wouldn’t kill my connection (my mom was stoked when callwave became a thing) and spent days downloading low quality videos and decent quality sound files. Technology gave me more than the record store could ever dream of giving me. Thank goodness.
Holy fuck man! Thank you so much for deciding to share all these demos and stories of Kurt and early Nirvana! It must've been cool being in Seattle Sound Scene in the early 80s.
Please never ever lose this (I know you wouldnt, of course). Hopefully your grandchildren will appreciate its value when it falls into their hands. Cobain's music trapped in a day in 1988... amazing
Piece of history. Hadn't heard that version of Blew or Spank Thru. Shit that is such a great take of Spank Thru. You can really hear him developing his vocal and guitar chops there. I bet he was proud of it. Thanks again man.
This tape is really great. But if anything, just shows how much he kept working on songs even after he got them 'down', on tape and how he clearly just kept working on himself as an artist right until those last months.....even then, You Know You're Right is a mature masterpiece.
A Wah pedal?? That's not grunge!!! Fucking bad ass....thank u so much for uploading this John. I like your channel alot. The walk abouts, drive abouts, and the story telling vids are my fav.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us. I can only imagine what it musta been like popping this tape on when you first got it. I woulda been blown away by how good it is. Sorta like "I never knew someone I know's originals, could be this good.". Kurt was truly a gifted songwriter.
Wow! THIS is THAT original tape where's that best version of Spank Thru is from. I had/have it on c-cass since 1994 and it's very good quality copy (even it's 3rd gen copy). Now mystery that has been around 30 years finally has been solved. Love Buzz/Big Cheese original -single source is here too. So great that you added this here! Thank you very much. I have a gig recorded at VHS year 1988. I got my copy 1998. I try to find it to digitalize it. I haven't seen it ever here on YT. But thanks anyway. A GREAT tape. And I can remaster this by myself. I've make a few masterings, remasterings, remixes (our band and my solo work and our c-cass master-tape) etc. so hissing isn't any problem. Woah... This made me very happy. ❤ Nirvana since 10/91, 11yo.
Love this and the first one of these tapes you posted - I remember Kurt's death so well, I had been a big fan, I was 14. I just heard a Chris Cornell comment that the original demos are so good. And they really are. Blew. Spank Thru. I've heard all these SONGS, every b-side etc but these raw versions are so killer. You can hear the Jesus Lizard, Big Black, RIP Steve Albini.
This is awesome! I love hearing these early versions. It really sucks that tapes 3 and 4 were taken off from youtube. I hope somebody downloaded those videos before they were pulled. Or if you have a copy you could reupload. Either way, thank you for sharing!
I loved playing spank thru with my old band... The lyrics are hilarious taboot! I love early Nirvana! I always loved the raw sound they had. Even though Kurt would make some erroneous mistakes playing guitar, it made the music feel more genuine and real. I don't mean that Kurt was a bad guitar player by any means. On the contrary! Some people wrote him off as a simple power chord player but Just like Kurt said himself that he can't play like that famous flamenco guitar player dude but that dude can't play like Kurt does... Music is objective, there is no better or worse really. I do know however that it is so hard to write simple melodies like Kurt did. Just cus a song is easy to play don't mean it's easy to write...
John Frusciante & Kurt Cobain biggest influence ever, yes absolute true about his guitar playing, i find his playing is absolut perfect, the Songs have the shape and the best melody. Everybody, who write: "kurt was a bad guitar player or over his vocals", ...those guys have absolut no idea - from what, they talk about :-D! www.pinterest.de/galaxyinfection/your-pinterest-likes/
Nice this is almost the whole session. The first take of Big Cheese and the first vocal for Love Buzz also surfaced fairly recently. They also attempted Floyd The Barber with Chad but half of it was erased.
Thank you so much for doing this, I am a giant fan of nirvanas older days and this is so cool to see, feel good about yourself knowing if it werent for you, nirvana fans all around the world wouldn’t have had as much to listen to.
Thanks for sharing this it's been great to listen to more early pre nirvana stuff, also cool kurt did that for you that's the great legendary kurt we all enjoy.
I wonder how many versions of this tape were handed out; In that dark period of civil litigation that was preceeded by Kurt's passing, you had to go to Italian manufactured cd's to get the "other stuff"; We had a glorious moment where in 2004 a version of the album that was originally planned for a 1994 release FINALLY came to fruition... but it doesn't have this stuff. I am subscribed to these videos, but honestly I don't keep up on any of the subscriptions I have... so finding this one today was a pleasant find. I think that these tracks may have been released in a different order on the 1994 Disc entitled 'Grunge is dead' - but I haven't closely compared the two tracks - if they are the same tracks, I think the Italians ever so slightly sped things up... I like the slightly reduced tempo as shared here. Thank you VERY much for posting this, and making me dust off some of my dusty cd's I had stashed in my closet. :)
Dangit Paul! Lock your car doors! LOL Thanks for posting, this is historic GOLD! EDIT: one thing I really like about Nirvana is that Kurt was big on injecting humor and funny into his music, sometimes to the point of absurdity. And very much so in his live performances!
Cool to see your channel is blowing up! You have about 3k upvotes on Reddit right now (or the article that's describing/talking about your TH-cam channel and the four "demos" from kurts friend!)
Are those some some of the 45 Nirvana unreleased songs which Krist Novoselic Dave Ghrool and Courtney Love being fighting over for the past 2 decades ? If so ... you are badass with big balls !
I am far from a Nirvana historian and like most history it is rife with gossip/rumor and speculation that is inaccurate but…I heard that Cobain was unhappy with Grohl because he knew Grohl was talented (maybe more talented than kurt at the time) and he resented that Grohl was holding back and saving material for a solo album instead of giving the songs to Nirvana to work on…Besides Grohl possibly holding back in the contribution process (i dont believe he was holding back THAT much btw) i heard he wanted Grohl to be more of something as a drummer…like he wanted a different style or writing process from Grohl- but they were all just kids around 24 and they didnt yet learn how to communicate better (which happens in 30s) so resentment built up due to words that were said in anger that couldn’t be taken back…Some fans prefer the drumming style of Chad (on bleach) but I heard Chaf left the band due to disagreements with the direction of Kurt…I do believe if Kurt had lived we for sure would have had more incredibly powerful songs regardless of who he chose as his drummer because both Kurt and Krist were a fantastic duo that together laid a foundation for memorable art. You Know Your Right is my favorite Nirvana track and it was the last one recorded…I am so sure if Cobain lived he would have wrote some happy songs and some love songs in his 30s…with About a Girl he proved he could write a love song- he simply needed more years of experience to get to the more happy stuff
The idea being promoted by Danny Goldberg that Kurt was in any way envious of Dave, is absurd. He said he had a nice voice for harmonies, and look what somebody tried to make that into. If you've ever been in a band, you know that it's more than just about playing although that is important- but it's likely Kurt grew to not like Dave as much personally- and I think that bore itself out with what Dave did in the Foo Fighters especially some of the more candyass songs. There's no way Kurt would have wanted to play some of that stuff.
Really enjoying all your uploads, thanks for taking the time to share these recordings and stories with the fans. Don't think I've ever heard that Sifting demo before, sounds pretty early. And kind of weird hearing Kurt use a wah pedal, doesn't seem like he went for them much.
Hi! is this tape originally in mono? If you can get it transferred to wav with better quality, y can try to remaster it and improve the sound A LOT. There are lots of new audio correction tools that use AI . The results are unbelievable. I can also work with this, but just in case... if you need any assistance with a new transfer (what cables/devices/settings to use), just let me know!
got a bootleg bleach tape in 90, here in W.V. I was like 12 and loved it. didn't even know whos music it was until a couple months after I bought the nevermind cd, then got incesticide and linked it up. 90s were fn magik ! thanks for the music!
He wouldn’t of gave you this in 88, this is because the tape reads ‘Nirvana’ which wasn’t the bands name in 1988. Super cool though. This tape would be from late 89 through 94.(edit: the actual tape that was stolen probably said ‘skid row’ ‘pen cap chew’ ‘fecal matter’ something round those lines.)
No, they were Nirvana in 1988. I saw the first Nirvana show March of 1988 at the Community world theater here in Tacoma where I live. The first show as the name Nirvana.
@@JohnPurkey1 you are such a good soul and I'm so grateful to have found you exist. Mebbe see u whence I get my musical career going after 20yrs on the spike. Almost 4 yrs now and these Nirvana recordings are so nice to have to listen to as I had many oc the tracks but not the full sets. Many thanks. Blessings and love. Ryan Coke😎
I am a HUGE Nirvana fan and i love your channel. I commented on one of your other videos but not sure if you saw it. Did you ever get to jam with Kurt? I love hearing your stories. Also do you still have your ebay store?
I've been playing guitar since I was a young teenager and started off by learning a bunch of Nirvana songs so I kind of do and kind of don't I guess. Like the solos to "Heart Shaped Box" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" have weird solos that aren't necessarily using scales like a lot of bluesy rock n roll type stuff is what I mean. Kurt was doing a lot of weird feedback manipulation type stuff too.
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00:47 - Blandest
04:37 - Mr. Moustache
08:23 - Sifting Instrumental
13:51 - Blew
16:52 - Spank Thru
20:08 - Love Buzz (Early Single Version?)
23:55 - Big Cheese
Cancer God Love Buzz had an intro possibly Kurt put in. He’d often reenact the Russian lady’s intro at a few shows somewhere in between 1988-1989.
Cancer God ...THANKS !!
Cancer God d
Love Buzz was written by that Dutch band with a funny name, I can't seem to remember right now but I think I never heard Kurt do the Dutch chics intro, I gotta check that out, thanks man...
Ryan Nolan shocking blue:love buzz
The fact that Kurt was around so long ago but not too long that we still have these fresh stories of people who were around him is incredible to me
I was born in Aberdeen (my dad went to school with Don Kobain) and I grew up in Montesano attending the same school where Kurt went (a decade earlier) after moving in with his dad. I met a substitute teacher that grew up with or around Kurt and krist who gave me a cassette tape that was extremely early recordings with a few songs I've still never heard them play even off the earliest underground or "bootlegged" material . This was the true "fecal matter" recording that is on a tape in Seattle @ the E.M.P. and also contained more of his t.v., movie soundbite collages. One of the songs lyrics were "you spray paint your hair, and then you become a punk rocker!! My dad unknowingly throughout or moved my copy after finding out my bro and I were doing dope. I'm hopeful that someone else will or has released the recordings to share an inside view of the genius he was already at that age.
That song is called punk rocker
Fecal matter demos, leaked in full and hq coulpe years ago
@@lexmoonmusic link please
@@renguney th-cam.com/video/u6CsyeiU-hk/w-d-xo.html
@Patrick yeah it's been leaked. The song you're quoting is "Punk Rocker." I'm sorry you lost it but thankfully the world didn't. Here's an upload of "Punk Rocker" that might bring back some memories. :)
th-cam.com/video/WId-gQh-WDQ/w-d-xo.html
His arrangement and writing of all these songs is amazing, he really believed in his rhythm guitar parts, and for great reason! Genius writer
Listen to my songs I’m uploading this week. It took me a long time to play like Kurt.
Well said. Not easy to believe yourself like that, man. Good call / catch 🤙🏼
Yes. SO many haters talk shit about Cobain, from teenagers, to celebrities…I have 0 respect for any hater that criticizes Cobain for having wrote “simple” songs. The truth is his arrangements were genius and between the melodies of the vocals and the instruments it is a lot more sophisticated in its total sum if melodies than the guitar parts alone + the guitar was simplified so that he could sing and play at the same time because in the beginning Cobain had difficulty playing and singing at the same time so he adjusted his writing to be able to play cleaner because he did want to appeal to a mads audience. He did work hard with the band to become famous.
Thanks for keeping your intro short and not bloating the video with pointless antics. The shot of the tape is incredible. This is a testament and treasure for fans everywhere. Thank you so much.
It's a bit eerie listening to these tapes. This was years before Nevermind and all that craziness. When Kurt was still just a regular dude, before Courtney and all the drug issues.
It's so true. However*. Kurt was always on shet. Since ever. If u read some of his books.
@@PSVARY but the books about him are wrong. you know, Charles Cross and Everett True are liars.
drug issues were already there dude
@Alice Kath-Octagon: I’m psychic when it wants to be you mean heroin😂? not a pill. called a syringe. much respect to him tho. he went through a lot. the mind of heck
@@PSVARY Well if the books say so, it must be 100% completely undistorted fact. 🤘🤓
This is the epitome and soul of Nirvana. It was made to be just like this. Kurt's screams/growls in the background or layered over riffs/breakdowns. The idea of dubbing cartoons or radio between tracks. Kurts vocals use his whole range and their guitar playing is at its best. Add that to the lineup of songs, this thing is like an explosion start to finish. Man you must've listened to this a million times lol.
I never understood why Spank Thru didn’t make it into an album! It’s just an amazing song!!! Love this man. Thanks for sharing. Really made my day!
I believe it got release on a subpop album, with like a top 200 or something
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specially since they performed it so much
Just didn't fit in any of the albums they released other than Incesticide, and I believe the masters for Spank Thru, Blandest, and a handful of others were missing at the time. I know for a fact they wanted Blandest on Incesticide but couldn't find the version of it that they wanted to use, or couldn't find any version at all.
it went in bleach
Anything he did turned to gold.
... we’re not gonna talk about Mexican Seafood or Beans?
@@BoxOfCurryos Mexican seafood has a sick riff, what are you on about?
@@luketheduke02 nahh
@@luketheduke02 its not good but we think its good because its kurt right??
@@kurdtcobain2896 No, it's genuinely such a cool riff. But Ok.
Man can’t thank you enough for these tapes! Kurt Cobain is who inspired me to pick up a guitar and to ultimately become a songwriter. As I grew older I started to study all about who he was as a person. I can’t tell you what an influence he’s been to me and my own music. Thank you for posting these, and for all your stories of the memories you have of him. I’m sure it must be more difficult for those that actually knew him personally to cope with his loss. His music and the stories you share makes it feel as though a part of him is still here. Thank you, God bless.
That MR.MOUSTACHE track is awesome!! Even cooler than the vocals he ultimately went with!! Thank you so much man! And please tell us as much as you can before you share the rest of the tapes!! You have no idea how much this means to me!
I suspect it was some way to figure out the vocal harmony and pattern without having lyrics written yet. I could be completely off base as well.
This is why I love this band
Its very close to the Bleach version. I love the “whoo” between verses
Oops, meant big cheese
If you read "Come as you are: The story of Nirvana" and if i remember correctly, many of the lyrics on Bleach weren't written until right up until the day they were driving over to the studio to record the album.
Hey man, thanks posting this music and all of the stories about Kurt and Nirvana. It means more than words can express for all of the people that are inspired by Kurt and what he stood for.
The thing about Kurt is , it is so hard to actually find a song he wrote that I don't totally fucking love.Honestly the Beatles have more bloopers than Kurt ever did !
Every good artist, copied!
R Rushing my 48 year old self appreciates them way more than my 21 year old self did
I would argue that, The Beatles had a lot more music so obviously there's more music that people aren’t gonna like
@@calebdickerson2003 I agree with that .Also I like Lennon's early songs the most but in the end I like Paul's songs better . Post beatles I like Paul's songs much more than John's . It was like Yoko sucked all the talent out of him. JMHO!
@@joeyboogenz I wouldn’t blame Yoko as much as his circumstances at the time, Brian Epstein kept the Beatles in check and without him Paul McCartney ended up taking John's spot as the frontman, John was battling heroin addiction and just didn't have the charisma or heart to do anything to fix the issues they were facing
Really shows how quickly time is escalating... Wish I could go back in time before all the technology took over.. If you think about it all nirvanas music will never get old, it was so revolutionary for the time and Kurt was a pure genius
without technology being the way it is now I'm pretty sure I've heard people say it was super hard listening to what you wanted to listen to when you wanted to listen to it.
@@929er13oh my god yes. I grew up on Nirvana and it meant the world to me. The first thing I did when I got the internet was searched “Nirvana unreleased mp3”. I found fan sites with ftp servers with CONCERTS. I’d put *67 before the isp number so that an incoming call wouldn’t kill my connection (my mom was stoked when callwave became a thing) and spent days downloading low quality videos and decent quality sound files.
Technology gave me more than the record store could ever dream of giving me.
Thank goodness.
Holy fuck man! Thank you so much for deciding to share all these demos and stories of Kurt and early Nirvana! It must've been cool being in Seattle Sound Scene in the early 80s.
Please never ever lose this (I know you wouldnt, of course). Hopefully your grandchildren will appreciate its value when it falls into their hands. Cobain's music trapped in a day in 1988... amazing
NIRVANA is the other level ever.
R.I.P. Kurt Cobain
Happy new year e'all.
Thak you
Mychel Mescouto happy new year Bro this channels cool as
I am in absolute awe with this version of Blew. Thanks so so much for posting this !!!!
Piece of history. Hadn't heard that version of Blew or Spank Thru. Shit that is such a great take of Spank Thru. You can really hear him developing his vocal and guitar chops there. I bet he was proud of it. Thanks again man.
Thank you for uploading these. It’s recordings like these that remind me why I enjoyed the band and their sound in the first place. Cheers!
Honestly, it was easier to find Nirvana demos back in the 90s than today.
I remember getting maxell blank tapes and we would dub the Outcesiticde Vol I-IV and trade them around...still have them around
Great rarities!!! We are lucky guys!!! =D
For those of us who first heard some of these songs on 8th generation tape copies in the 90s, the funny bit is finding out the names of the songs.
This tape is really great. But if anything, just shows how much he kept working on songs even after he got them 'down', on tape and how he clearly just kept working on himself as an artist right until those last months.....even then, You Know You're Right is a mature masterpiece.
A Wah pedal?? That's not grunge!!! Fucking bad ass....thank u so much for uploading this John. I like your channel alot. The walk abouts, drive abouts, and the story telling vids are my fav.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us. I can only imagine what it musta been like popping this tape on when you first got it. I woulda been blown away by how good it is. Sorta like "I never knew someone I know's originals, could be this good.". Kurt was truly a gifted songwriter.
You did an awesome job preserving these tapes and transferring to Digital.
Wow!
THIS is THAT original tape where's that best version of Spank Thru is from.
I had/have it on c-cass since 1994 and it's very good quality copy (even it's 3rd gen copy).
Now mystery that has been around 30 years finally has been solved.
Love Buzz/Big Cheese original -single source is here too.
So great that you added this here!
Thank you very much.
I have a gig recorded at VHS year 1988. I got my copy 1998. I try to find it to digitalize it. I haven't seen it ever here on YT.
But thanks anyway.
A GREAT tape.
And I can remaster this by myself. I've make a few masterings, remasterings, remixes (our band and my solo work and our c-cass master-tape) etc. so hissing isn't any problem.
Woah... This made me very happy.
❤
Nirvana since 10/91, 11yo.
Personally what that beautiful Kurt left us I love it 👨🏼🎤 Kurt , rest in pace wherever you are.
So glad the algorithm brought me here. Amazing artifact you have here. ❤
This is awesome man! Youve given me a day of listenin for tomorrow!
These are from the Reciprocal Studio Love Buzz Sessions in 1988.
Love this and the first one of these tapes you posted - I remember Kurt's death so well, I had been a big fan, I was 14. I just heard a Chris Cornell comment that the original demos are so good. And they really are. Blew. Spank Thru. I've heard all these SONGS, every b-side etc but these raw versions are so killer. You can hear the Jesus Lizard, Big Black, RIP Steve Albini.
If only I could get my kids to listen to this! What a wonderful world this would be
I'll be your kids 😂😂
This is awesome! I love hearing these early versions. It really sucks that tapes 3 and 4 were taken off from youtube. I hope somebody downloaded those videos before they were pulled. Or if you have a copy you could reupload. Either way, thank you for sharing!
I loved playing spank thru with my old band... The lyrics are hilarious taboot! I love early Nirvana! I always loved the raw sound they had. Even though Kurt would make some erroneous mistakes playing guitar, it made the music feel more genuine and real. I don't mean that Kurt was a bad guitar player by any means. On the contrary! Some people wrote him off as a simple power chord player but Just like Kurt said himself that he can't play like that famous flamenco guitar player dude but that dude can't play like Kurt does... Music is objective, there is no better or worse really. I do know however that it is so hard to write simple melodies like Kurt did. Just cus a song is easy to play don't mean it's easy to write...
John Frusciante & Kurt Cobain biggest influence ever, yes absolute true about his guitar playing, i find his playing is absolut perfect, the Songs have the shape and the best melody. Everybody, who write: "kurt was a bad guitar player or over his vocals", ...those guys have absolut no idea - from what, they talk about :-D! www.pinterest.de/galaxyinfection/your-pinterest-likes/
F*cking fabulous. We all feel blessed to have the opportunity to hear this in it's entirety.
This should go to the Rock Roll Hall of Fame archive
Catching a Black Sabbath vibe to some of the tracks. Scof if you must.
He did a good job blending punk and metal especially in the earlier years
kurt's voice has changed over the years but it also keeps that iconic feel.
That is wonderful man, thank you for sharing this.
Sifting is such a good song, thank you for sharing this. It’s insane that you have two nirvana demo tapes personally given to you by Kurt.
Just stumbled upon this, nice find, like a good piece of history that everyone can appreciate.
I love all these random nirvana song versions you keep finding
This is a relic right here!
Nice this is almost the whole session. The first take of Big Cheese and the first vocal for Love Buzz also surfaced fairly recently. They also attempted Floyd The Barber with Chad but half of it was erased.
Thank you so much for doing this, I am a giant fan of nirvanas older days and this is so cool to see, feel good about yourself knowing if it werent for you, nirvana fans all around the world wouldn’t have had as much to listen to.
Haha, the guitar solo in Sifting is, uh, interesting! Seriously though, thanks so much for sharing this... great stuff!
Best sound quality of Blandest I've heard yet.
Men,this is worth more than a billion... I'm happy tii hear this,you made my day.. Broo
Thanks for sharing this it's been great to listen to more early pre nirvana stuff, also cool kurt did that for you that's the great legendary kurt we all enjoy.
I’ve never heard that version of Spank Thru before. Thank you!
Thank you so much man for sharing these tapes! I hope your not catching too much grief from anyone! Long live Nirvana!
So cool. Thanks for uploading and giving a little history on the recording at the beginning.
I wonder how many versions of this tape were handed out;
In that dark period of civil litigation that was preceeded by Kurt's passing, you had to go to Italian manufactured cd's to get the "other stuff";
We had a glorious moment where in 2004 a version of the album that was originally planned for a 1994 release FINALLY came to fruition... but it doesn't have this stuff.
I am subscribed to these videos, but honestly I don't keep up on any of the subscriptions I have... so finding this one today was a pleasant find.
I think that these tracks may have been released in a different order on the 1994 Disc entitled 'Grunge is dead' - but I haven't closely compared the two tracks - if they are the same tracks, I think the Italians ever so slightly sped things up... I like the slightly reduced tempo as shared here.
Thank you VERY much for posting this, and making me dust off some of my dusty cd's I had stashed in my closet. :)
LOVE BUZZ IS IDENTICAL IN EVERY WAY TO THE BLEACH ALBUM VERSION. EVERY LITTLE NOTE AND SOUND AND BACKGROUND SOUNDS.
Yes, if i remmber right the 7" and album are the same.
Dude ... that's because the version from Bleach was taken from these recordings but remastered for that album ...
Dangit Paul! Lock your car doors! LOL Thanks for posting, this is historic GOLD! EDIT: one thing I really like about Nirvana is that Kurt was big on injecting humor and funny into his music, sometimes to the point of absurdity. And very much so in his live performances!
Cool to see your channel is blowing up! You have about 3k upvotes on Reddit right now (or the article that's describing/talking about your TH-cam channel and the four "demos" from kurts friend!)
My jaw just dropped at the first track. Wow.
2019 kurt will be forever!
A very nice piece of rock history given to you by the legend kurt him self treasure it my friend kurt your my hero R.I.P. you rock god
Cobain is resting in hell
Gracias por compartir este material son geniales todas las canciones
The Mighty KC baby! Very cool! Thanks for sharing this with the community Brother man!
Wow I never heard that version of mr moustache ❤️👍
Listening in my armchair with my shades, a scarf on my neck, and a big fan blowing.
Over way to quick... Loved it ! Yea your a legend for uploading this ! Big up and good on ya, thx alot !
Are those some some of the 45 Nirvana unreleased songs which Krist Novoselic Dave Ghrool and Courtney Love being fighting over for the past 2 decades ? If so ... you are badass with big balls !
You’re a very lucky individual to have been this close to a legend!
This Blew's version is so cool!!
it's crazy listening to the demos of these songs and listening to the same song but better
Again, this is how we're meant to listen to this band...RAW to the fucking CORE!
DUDE HELL YES YOU HAPPENED TO MAKE YOUR BROTHER A COPY YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND YOU SAVED IT
This is incredible. Thanks for uploading:)
I am far from a Nirvana historian and like most history it is rife with gossip/rumor and speculation that is inaccurate but…I heard that Cobain was unhappy with Grohl because he knew Grohl was talented (maybe more talented than kurt at the time) and he resented that Grohl was holding back and saving material for a solo album instead of giving the songs to Nirvana to work on…Besides Grohl possibly holding back in the contribution process (i dont believe he was holding back THAT much btw) i heard he wanted Grohl to be more of something as a drummer…like he wanted a different style or writing process from Grohl- but they were all just kids around 24 and they didnt yet learn how to communicate better (which happens in 30s) so resentment built up due to words that were said in anger that couldn’t be taken back…Some fans prefer the drumming style of Chad (on bleach) but I heard Chaf left the band due to disagreements with the direction of Kurt…I do believe if Kurt had lived we for sure would have had more incredibly powerful songs regardless of who he chose as his drummer because both Kurt and Krist were a fantastic duo that together laid a foundation for memorable art. You Know Your Right is my favorite Nirvana track and it was the last one recorded…I am so sure if Cobain lived he would have wrote some happy songs and some love songs in his 30s…with About a Girl he proved he could write a love song- he simply needed more years of experience to get to the more happy stuff
The idea being promoted by Danny Goldberg that Kurt was in any way envious of Dave, is absurd. He said he had a nice voice for harmonies, and look what somebody tried to make that into. If you've ever been in a band, you know that it's more than just about playing although that is important- but it's likely Kurt grew to not like Dave as much personally- and I think that bore itself out with what Dave did in the Foo Fighters especially some of the more candyass songs. There's no way Kurt would have wanted to play some of that stuff.
Never heard this version of Blew, soooo awesome. This guy could take a shit on a record and it would sound like music. So talented.
If I could go back in time to these times I would 100 percent would I hate technology but love it cause I got to find these masterpieces
Really enjoying all your uploads, thanks for taking the time to share these recordings and stories with the fans. Don't think I've ever heard that Sifting demo before, sounds pretty early. And kind of weird hearing Kurt use a wah pedal, doesn't seem like he went for them much.
Hi! is this tape originally in mono? If you can get it transferred to wav with better quality, y can try to remaster it and improve the sound A LOT. There are lots of new audio correction tools that use AI . The results are unbelievable. I can also work with this, but just in case... if you need any assistance with a new transfer (what cables/devices/settings to use), just let me know!
Awesome recording!!!!
The Best version of Spank Thru on this tape ,, this should be on the Best of the Box compilation.
This is awesome version of Blew
I've never heard that version of Mr Moustache before that's hilarious!
yeah, i cant remember if i found that online anywhere?
First time I ever heard it. Must have been before Kurt had decided what all the lyrics were going to be
Sifting has a different guitar track on the solo and Blew is different too Very Cool!
I think this version is on the original blue moon outcesticides bootlegs.
Definitely on one of the Outcestide cds
This is amazing thanks for uploading!
got a bootleg bleach tape in 90, here in W.V. I was like 12 and loved it. didn't even know whos music it was until a couple months after I bought the nevermind cd, then got incesticide and linked it up. 90s were fn magik ! thanks for the music!
Mr. Moustache has always been one of my favorite tracks ever. This demo version is so damn cool
He wouldn’t of gave you this in 88, this is because the tape reads ‘Nirvana’ which wasn’t the bands name in 1988. Super cool though. This tape would be from late 89 through 94.(edit: the actual tape that was stolen probably said ‘skid row’ ‘pen cap chew’ ‘fecal matter’ something round those lines.)
No, they were Nirvana in 1988. I saw the first Nirvana show March of 1988 at the Community world theater here in Tacoma where I live. The first show as the name Nirvana.
@@JohnPurkey1 oh, my mistake. I must of been thinking 87 then.
Awesome man. Lucky to have that piece of history
Hi bro, did the 3rd and 4th demo tapes have any never before released/heard songs? Unable to see videos because youtube blocked them, thanks
No there is not. Yeah they blocked those
@@JohnPurkey1 you are such a good soul and I'm so grateful to have found you exist. Mebbe see u whence I get my musical career going after 20yrs on the spike. Almost 4 yrs now and these Nirvana recordings are so nice to have to listen to as I had many oc the tracks but not the full sets. Many thanks. Blessings and love. Ryan Coke😎
This tape is actually really good!
These Sound So Good For Demo's
Tape belongs in a museum
And to think i was a kid in the Navy rocking on GNR with no knowledge yet of this mad mystic prophet poet jolly junkie sad sack Love lover.
Reading heavier than heaven one of Kurt’s biographies, it’s quite captivating !
Awesome thanks for putting this up
Thanks for posting this!
I am a HUGE Nirvana fan and i love your channel. I commented on one of your other videos but not sure if you saw it. Did you ever get to jam with Kurt? I love hearing your stories. Also do you still have your ebay store?
Hey Observer, last time i talked to you was "last year" hehe. Hope you are doing ok. Happy new year. Keep em tapes coming!!
Haha never heard Kurt use a wah before at 11:24 you can hear him click it on
He had some sort of alternative way of doing guitar solos. I'm not sure if he was using scales or what.
''I'm not sure if he was using scales or what.''
I'm not sure if you know what you're talking about haha!
I've been playing guitar since I was a young teenager and started off by learning a bunch of Nirvana songs so I kind of do and kind of don't I guess. Like the solos to "Heart Shaped Box" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" have weird solos that aren't necessarily using scales like a lot of bluesy rock n roll type stuff is what I mean. Kurt was doing a lot of weird feedback manipulation type stuff too.
Heart shaped box solo is all G# natural minor scale notes, and Smells Like Teen Spirit is just the G# major scale.
I love how he used to use the wah pedal on some songs. But you can tell he was just fiddling with it
ty for uploading
U know wat. This is like I've read. A real relic. Miss the good old analog days. Type stuff. Not to say sh*t. Thnxxx.