LIVE NIRVANA SESSIONS HISTORY September 10, 1985 - Music room, Earl residence, Burien, WA, US

  • Kurt Cobain (guitar)
  • [U] Unknown #1 part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #2 part of instrumental
  • [U] Spank Thru part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #2 part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #3 part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #4 part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #5 part of instrumental
  • [U] Sound Of Dentage part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #6 part of instrumental
  • [U] Made Not Born part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #7 part of instrumental
  • [U] Class of '86 part of instrumental
  • [U] Unknown #8 part of instrumental
Source ID Quality Complete Runtime Lowest Gen Tracks Featured Notes
SBD #1 7.5 0:06:28 ANA(X)>MP3 (Variable Bit Rate, 210-240 kbps)
  • Unknown #1 (part of)
  • Unknown #2 (part of)
  • Spank Thru (part of)
  • Unknown #2 (part of; alt. take)
  • Unknown #3 (part of)
  • Unknown #4 (part of)
  • Unknown #5 (part of)
  • Sound Of Dentage (part of)
  • Unknown #6 (part of)
  • Made Not Born (part of)
  • Unknown #7 (part of)
  • Class of '86 (part of)
  • Unknown #8 (part of)
  • Unknown #1 (part of) cuts in and out, Unknown #2 (part of) cuts out. The sound is mono (left channel only).
SBD #1 CLIP a 8.5 0:00:14 ANA(1)>FLAC
  • Unknown #1 (part of)
  • Unknown #2 (part of)
  • Unknown #1 (part of) cuts in and out, Unknown #2 (part of) cuts out but is more complete here than on other sources. The sound is mono (left channel only).
SBD #1 CLIP b 9.0 0:01:52 TBC>FLAC
  • Unknown #1 (part of)
  • Unknown #2 (part of)
  • Spank Thru (part of)
  • Unknown #2 (part of; alt. take)
  • Unknown #3 (part of)
  • Unknown #4 (part of)
  • Unknown #1 (part of) cuts in and out, Unknown #2 (part of) cuts out. The sound is mono (left channel only).

Kurt Cobain is thought to have travelled to his aunt Mari Earl's house, September 10, 1985, (1) in order to record these guitar riffs as a reference for the Fecal Matter demo sessions. Some of the riffs were subsequently recorded over when Cobain came to dub copies of Illiteracy Will Prevail onto cassette. Several of the unknown compositions listed here correspond with songs on the Fecal Matter demo, but are labelled differently in that entry: Unknown #4 is the same composition as Unknown #1 on the Fecal Matter demo, Unknown #5 is the same composition as Unknown #2 on the Fecal Matter demo, and Unknown #7 is the same composition as Unknown #5 on the Fecal Matter demo.

  1. Endorsement - The Unseen Cobain Photos (2016) [Exhibition] KM Fine Arts Gallery, Feb. 11-Mar. 26, 2016, [online] Available at: https://issuu.com/kmfineartsla/docs/fs__cobain.

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