LIVE NIRVANA SESSIONS HISTORY Late Spring/Early Summer, 1993 - 2nd floor, Jukebox City, Seattle, WA, US

Set

• [?] Serve The Servants
• [?] Scentless Apprentice
• [?] Heart-Shaped Box
• [?] Rape Me
• [?] Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
• [?] Dumb
• [?] Very Ape
• [?] Milk It
• [?] Pennyroyal Tea
• [?] Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
• [?] tourett's
• [?] All Apologies
• [?] The Void

Studio Banter

Best available sources

It is not known whether these sessions were recorded, no tapes have surfaced to date.

Notes

NIRVANA perform at Seattle's Jukebox City to an invited audience of Geffen Records' executives. (1) The rehearsal was NIRVANA playing In Utero in sequence live, remembers former sales exec. Ray Farrell. They did all the songs on the album, but the very last song was not on the album. So I'm thinking, Maybe this is a B-side or something that will come out later. After the performance was over, Kurt comes up to me and asks what I thought of the last song. I told him it sounded like a cover of Sabbath. He looked at the other guys in the band, laughed and said, Ray, that's a Raincoats song. The reason it came up is because I had asked Kurt to write liner notes for a reissue we were doing of part of the Raincoats catalog. They were one of his favorite bands. So they were doing a very basic, stripped-down version of the Raincoats' song The Void. I thought it was funny that NIRVANA could make a Raincoats' song sound like Black Sabbath. (2)

When asked what the purpose of the session had been, Farrell responds, I don't really know Kurt's reason for asking us to the session. It did not occur to me to ask. I loved the music and I was thrilled to experience it this way. (1)

References

1. Farrell, Ray, 2013. Personal communication with Alex Roberts. ↑
2. Peters, Mitchell, 2013. Nirvana's ‘In Utero’ Turns 20: Ex-Geffen Execs' Remembrances, Anecdotes, Marketing Strategy (How ‘Rape Me’ Became ‘Waif Me’), Billboard, Sept. 24, 2013). ↑

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