LIVE NIRVANA SESSIONS HISTORY August, 1989 - Storybook Krooks Practice Space, Seattle, WA, US 
Artist
- NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Chad Channing (drums)
- Robert Roth (guitar)
Crew
- …
Set incomplete
- [?] TBC
Best available sources
It is not known whether these sessions were recorded, no tapes have surfaced to date.
Notes
Guitarist Robert Roth tries-out for NIRVANA following the break-up of his band, Storybook Krooks. Roth had heard that NIRVANA were in the market for a new guitarist through Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman. So the week that we had broken up, I was riding the bus—the Queen Anne in downtown Seattle—and Jonathan was on the bus,
Roth recalls. I moved next to him and we were chatting. He's like,
(1)What's going on with the band?
And I told him we just broke up a few days ago. And he was like, Well, this is top secret, but NIRVANA is half kicking out Jason [Everman] and he's half quitting. Basically Jason's not working out and they're looking for another guitar player who can write.
Roth then ran into Kurt Cobain at a TAD show a couple of weeks later, After hanging out for a while, before saying goodnight, he's like,
(1)When we get back from tour I'll call you and let's get together and play.
And I was like, Well, by the time you guys get back from the tour I'll probably be doing something else. So if you're serious about wanting to play together, let's do it before you leave.
They ended up hauling all their equipment up to our rehearsal space and we got together and played for probably three or four hours,
Roth recalls. It was incredible, because I had never played with guys that loud before in my life. It blew me away. Changed my life. I went to a much bigger amp and a much bigger cabinet after that. Krist was miking his bass cabinet, they were miking the kick drum, and this was just to try me out so that they'd get a rehearsal in.
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The group played a few songs off of Bleach, plus one of Roth's songs, Then we just kind of jammed and made noise and played riffs, and that was a blast,
he says. (1)
Unfortunately, that was as far as it went. Me and Kurt tried to schedule another rehearsal and for whatever reason the timing didn't work out, and they went ahead and toured as a three-piece and decided to stay that way,
Roth says. The rest is history.
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The week Roth heard that NIRVANA were going to remain a three-piece, was the week that he formed Truly with Mark Pickerel. (1)
References
- Prato, Greg, 2013. Hidden Gem of Grunge: The Story of Truly, Song Facts, [online] Available at: http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/hidden_gem_of_grunge_the_story_of_truly/. ↑