LIVE NIRVANA SESSIONS HISTORY December 21, 1992 - Posies practice space, Seattle, WA, US 
Artist
- NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Dave Grohl (drums, vocals, guitar)
- Evan Dando (drums)
Crew
- …
Set incomplete
- [?] Heart-Shaped Box
- [?] Jam Grohl on guitar, Cobain on guitar, Novoselic on bass, Dando on drums
Best available sources
It is not known whether these sessions were recorded, no tapes have surfaced to date.
Notes
Evan Dando sat-in on this practice session after appearing at KNDD's first Deck The Hall Ball. I was playing between Mark Curry (aka Jack Murphy) and Sarah McLachlan,
Dando recalls. It was some kind of acoustic-oriented gig and I remember playing a couple of Misfits tunes. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic were there. The next thing I remember was being asked if I would like to attend band practice.
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Marijuana was smoked. I jumped into the back of Dave's old black Mustang, with Krist in the front, and we headed off to get Kurt at the hotel he was living at with Frances and Courtney,
Dando remembers. Kurt eventually came down and got in the car and we drove to the practice space. Four hours and at least as many bottles of fine red wine went by as I watched and listened to them play through the songs that were to become In Utero.
Grohl remembers Heart-Shaped Box as being among the material the band worked on that night: We just started jamming and that riff started taking shape [sings intro to Heart-Shaped Box]. We started coming up with it and we jammed on that for, like, 10 minutes and then Kurt walked up to the mic to sing and he got shocked! He stepped back and was, like,
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Everything stopped. So we picked up the jam one more time, we jammed on it for like 10 minutes, and he goes up to the mic and his face touches the mic and he gets shocked again and he takes his fucking guitar off and he smashes it on the ground!
At some point, Dando apparently took a turn behind the drums, jamming with the band on some of Grohl's material: After a while, I jumped behind the skins and the four of us worked on one of Dave's new tunes,
he says. It was fun to play the drums.
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Practice over, the gang headed back to Novoselic's house for more revelry. Krist had this amazing old jukebox in his basement recreation area. We all watched some pretty weird live NIRVANA video circa 1989 that a fan had sent. It was a great night out.
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References
- Dando, Evan, 2004. Verse Chorus Verse, Uncut Legends, #2, March 2004. ↑
- Grohl, Dave, 2011. SiriusXM's Town Hall With Nirvana, SiriusXM Lithium, September 24 2011. ↑