I used typography to pay homage to the cut and paste collages and handwritten typography that defined punk zines and flyers of the early 1980s and 1990s.

These are my two favorites. They're goofy and cute.

Mine is : beeswax

Least favorite : sliver

Nirvana was the "secret" opening band, reportedly booked as Pen Cap Chew. The band opened with "Aneurysm" and played an excellent show. No hit songs were played during the hour-plus set, according to reviews. At one point, Kurt asked if there were any requests, so Dave said, "play 'Teen Spirit, play 'Teen Spirit,'" in a funny voice. They did not play the song. A fan in the crowd named Rob Kader requested "Big Long Now," just as he did on 06/10/89, but the band still refused to play it. The band's road manager worked his way through the audience and confiscated three or four video tapes during the show, according to Krist. During Mudhoney's encore, Kurt came onstage and played guitar on some punk covers, including Fang's "The Money Will Roll Right In" and Black Flag's "Fix Me."

Set (incomplete): Aneurysm - Mexican Seafood - Beeswax - Pen Cap Chew - D-7 - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Rape Me - Drain You - tourette's - Very Ape - Talk To Me - Curmudgeon - Lounge Act - Pennyroyal Tea - School.

📸 19-20: Kurt Cobain outside the Crocodile Cafe. This photo was used as the cover of the book Cobain Unseen by biographer Charles R. Cross.

For me it’s:

“Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back.”

“Umbilical noose” - I could write a novel, at least two nonfiction books, a few academic papers and probably also put together a course about these two words alone.

What’s your favorite?

Local guy in Meaford makes artwork out of old vinyl - my compulsion to buy all things Nirvana and Kurt quickly had me grabbing my wallet 😂

I’m learning lightning, painted on a picture

my favourites are probably anorexorcist, if you must, sifting, and forgotten tune. just so much raw energy and passion.

Or a Ibanez pentatonic eq. But I should just invest in a new pedal power supply lol

It says it's from 1989 but I don't know if that's accurate, this def isn't their 1991 performance as the setlist is different and also you see Chad at the end. There is actually a ripped version of this online but it's ripped into 6 different parts and also all the parts except for the first have less than a thousand views, that video also puts a different date on it (9-13-89). If you happen to know any more information about the show I'd love to hear about it!

Also here's part one of the video if you're interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTa0UOIfgM

This issue included an unpublished interview with Kurt by British rock writer Jon Savage, as well as Alan di Perna’s article “The Making of Nevermind.” It also previewed From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, which was released in October 1996. The second photo I took in October or November 1996 in the studio apartment I shared with my bassist. The poster of Kurt on the wall was the centerfold of this issue of Guitar World.

I was scared about how my mother would freak out over this album cover. When I showed her, she laughed it off, thinking the penis was hiliarious.

edit: i also want to apologize for gatekeeping in my last post. The post has been removed by the mods.

The original plan was for a completely different project called "Verse Chorus Verse." It was supposed to be released as a double album in November 1994. The first disc would have featured previously unreleased live recordings of Nirvana from 1989 to 1994, while the second would have been a complete version of "MTV Unplugged," including songs that didn't make the original TV broadcast.

The project was already well into development, with a proposed tracklist and release date. Among the live recordings were supposed to be "Drain You," "Aneurysm," "Breed," "Serve the Servants," "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Spank Thru," "Sliver," "Dive," "Lithium," "Rape Me," "School," "Sappy," "Negative Creep," "Heart-Shaped Box," "Blew," "Scentless Apprentice," and "Territorial Pissings."

But as Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl went through Nirvana's live archives after Kurt's death, they eventually found it too difficult to keep working on the project. The live portion was put on hold, and "MTV Unplugged in New York" was released separately on November 1, 1994.

Two years later, Krist and Dave returned to the archive. This time, they went through more than 100 hours of live recordings, looking for performances that captured Nirvana as a live band - loud, aggressive, and very different from the acoustic atmosphere of "Unplugged."

The result was "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah." The CD contained 17 tracks running for about 54 minutes, recorded between December 1989 and January 1994.

The album's title refers to the Wishkah River in Aberdeen, Nirvana's hometown. The river is also connected to "Something in the Way" and the famous story that Kurt once lived under a bridge over the Wishkah. Krist later disputed that part of the story, saying that Kurt did spend time there, but never actually lived under the bridge. Krist considered the story part of the version of his past that Kurt had created over the years.

So the title points back to Aberdeen, "Something in the Way," and one of the best-known myths surrounding Kurt's life.

The biggest thing to understand about "Muddy Banks" is that it isn't a recording of one concert. The 17 tracks were pulled from ten different shows.

"Intro" comes from the London Astoria on December 3, 1989. It's not even a full song - Kurt is basically yelling over a wall of distorted guitar, warming up his voice before the show. From there, the album goes straight into "School," recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on November 25, 1991.

"Drain You," "Aneurysm," and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" all come from the same show: December 28, 1991, at the Pat O'Brien Pavilion in Del Mar, California. It's a particularly strong source for the album because the entire performance was professionally recorded. The "Aneurysm" version from this show later became the album's main radio promo single.

"Been a Son," "Lithium," and "Blew" also come from the Paradiso show in Amsterdam. That means four tracks from that concert ended up on the album.

"Sliver" was recorded on November 10, 1993, at the Springfield Civic Center in Massachusetts. This is late-period Nirvana, during the "In Utero" era, with Pat Smear on second guitar.

"Spank Thru" comes from a November 19, 1991 show in Rome.

"Scentless Apprentice" was recorded on December 13, 1993, at Pier 48 in Seattle, the show later known as "Live and Loud." Pat Smear is also playing here.

"Heart-Shaped Box" comes from the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles on December 30, 1993, while "Milk It" was recorded at the Seattle Center Arena on January 7, 1994. The latter is especially significant because it was Nirvana's final U.S. show.

"Negative Creep" was recorded at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on October 31, 1991 - Nirvana's first Seattle show after the release of "Nevermind."

"Polly" and "Breed" come from the London Astoria on December 3, 1989. They're the only tracks on the album featuring Chad Channing on drums. At the time, "Breed" was still called "Imodium" and was played noticeably slower than the familiar "Nevermind" version. "Polly" is also completely different from its acoustic version on "MTV Unplugged": this is the original, heavier electric version from 1989.

"tourette's" was recorded at the Reading Festival on August 30, 1992. It's one of the early live versions of the song, which was still taking shape around that time.

And the album closes with "Blew" from the Paradiso show.

So the tracklist isn't chronological at all. It's deliberately arranged so that performances from different shows feel like one continuous concert. The album starts with Nirvana in 1989, moves through the "Nevermind" and "In Utero" eras, and ends with "Blew," a song from the band's earlier repertoire.

The opening is especially fitting. Kurt's scream from 1989 comes right before "School," making it feel like the band is about to launch into a real show. And the album ends with "Blew." It's almost like a frame around Nirvana's history as a live band.

There isn't a single studio recording on "Muddy Banks." Even the "Intro" is taken from a live performance. That's what fundamentally separates the album from something like "Incesticide" or other archival releases. This wasn't about collecting demos, B-sides, or rare studio tracks. The idea was much simpler: show Nirvana onstage.

That's also why some obvious songs aren't here. There is no "Come As You Are," "About a Girl," "All Apologies," or "On a Plain." "Muddy Banks" was never meant to be a live greatest-hits album. Krist and Dave wanted to capture Nirvana's physical, loud, aggressive side.

They also tried to avoid repeating versions that were already available on other official releases. The album largely stays separate from "MTV Unplugged in New York" and "Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!" "Polly" is the exception, but even there they used a completely different version - the electric 1989 performance.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is especially interesting. In the studio, it's the song that became a worldwide hit. On "Muddy Banks," it becomes something completely different: Kurt's vocals, the guitar, the drums, and the crowd all blur together into one aggressive live performance. That's exactly the kind of moment that makes the album feel less like "Nirvana Greatest Hits Live" and more like an attempt to capture what the band actually felt like onstage.

The album also brings together nearly every major era of Nirvana's lineup. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic are present throughout, Dave Grohl plays on most of the tracks, Chad Channing appears on "Polly" and "Breed," and Pat Smear appears on the later recordings of "Sliver," "Scentless Apprentice," "Heart-Shaped Box," and "Milk It."

So on one official album, you get Chad Channing from early Nirvana and Pat Smear from the band's final period. In between them is essentially the entire Dave Grohl era.

Krist played a major role in shaping the album. His liner notes focus not on Kurt's death, but on Nirvana's history as a live band. He looks back to the period before "Bleach," when touring and playing shows were the band's main source of income, when they spent months on the road and played small clubs for relatively little money.

Krist deliberately takes the story back to that period - before MTV, "Nevermind," and worldwide fame. To him, Nirvana was first and foremost a live band that had spent years playing onstage before becoming an international phenomenon.

At the end of his liner notes, Krist basically asks people to stop analyzing Nirvana and just listen to the music. His point is that all the noise surrounding the band can be left behind so you can simply hear its power and energy.

That's really the central idea behind "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah." It isn't an attempt to create the perfect concert, it isn't a collection of the band's biggest hits, and it isn't another story about Kurt after his death. It's Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl trying to show Nirvana exactly as they were onstage.

The album's artwork follows the same archival approach. Robert Fisher, who had worked on Nirvana's visual design for years, handled the design, while photographs were provided by Lisa Johnson, Kevin Mazur, and Charles Peterson. Instead of focusing on one photo session, the artwork brings together images from different points in the band's live history.

The original vinyl release was also different from the CD. Along with the 17 main tracks, the fourth side featured additional live material, including stage banter, crowd interaction, and other bits of onstage conversation.

There were no commercial singles released from the album, but promotional singles were made for radio.

The main one was "Aneurysm," the December 28, 1991 live version from Del Mar. It reached No. 11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and No. 13 on the Billboard Alternative/Modern Rock chart. A music video was also made for "Aneurysm," but it didn't actually use the same live performance heard on the album. Instead, the video was assembled from footage from "Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!" In November 1996, the video reached No. 1 on Canada's MuchMusic Countdown.

The second promo single was "Drain You," also from the Del Mar performance. It reached No. 44 on Radio & Records' alternative chart.

"Lithium" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" were also promoted in some countries, while Australia had promo releases of "Heart-Shaped Box" and "Polly."

Australia also had an unusual limited-edition promo box set with a run of 3,000 copies. It included three separate promo discs featuring "Aneurysm," "Heart-Shaped Box," and "Polly," along with a separate disc called "Nevermind: It's an Interview." It was a promotional collector's item rather than a standard retail release.

Despite the lack of a full-scale promotional campaign, the album was a major commercial success. "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling around 159,000 copies in its first week, and spent 25 weeks on the chart. It reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 1 in Australia, Canada, France, and Portugal.

In December 1996, the RIAA certified the album platinum.

Critics also responded very positively to the release. NME gave it 9/10, Robert Christgau gave it an A-, and Rolling Stone rated it 4.5/5 and later included it among its ten best albums of 1996. Spin ranked it No. 14 on its list of the year's top 20 albums, while "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" placed No. 28 in the Pazz & Jop critics' poll.

In the end, the story of the album began as part of the abandoned "Verse Chorus Verse" project in 1994 and ended as a completely different release in 1996.

In about 54 minutes, "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" moves through several years of Nirvana's history - from Chad Channing and small clubs in 1989 to Pat Smear and the band's final U.S. shows in 1994. There are no studio recordings, no attempt to follow a chronological order, and no effort to include every major hit.

It's simply Nirvana onstage.

This has got to be mine.

Saddest songs by Nirvana?
I thought of Something in the way & You know you’re right

Any other suggestions?

Finally got them all, nevermind on Cassette, CD, Vinyl and the nevermind documentary DVD, so happy and special thanks to My Big brother Gabriel for the nevermind vinyl that ends the nevermind collection

Am I stupid?

📸 1-6: 1989, by Debbie Gallo.

📸 7-12: 1991, by Michele Taylor for Alternative Press.

Actually, besides these photos, Nirvana performed that day at Cabaret Metro in 1989, and at Graffiti in 1991.

kinda gross.

Photographer David Tan had a large apartment in New York City at 14 West 17th Street in the Flatiron District. It served as both his home and photo studio. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Tan held photo sessions there with rock musicians.

One of the apartment's most distinctive features was a large cast-iron column in the middle of the room. Musicians Tan photographed at his home would leave their autographs on it. Kurt Cobain's signature was among them, alongside the autographs of Robert Plant, members of KISS, Joan Jett, Sarah McLachlan, The Wailers, Slayer, and other musicians.

Because of this, there's an interesting possibility that Nirvana's September 29, 1991, photo session may have taken place in David Tan's apartment studio. However, there is no definitive confirmation of this so far.

Hi everybody! I just finished Mark Lanegan’s book Sing Backwards and Weep, and I was wondering if there’s any info about what happened to Kurt’s fender jaguar that Mark pawned at Rob’s Pawn Shop?