NIRVANA
"Nevermind The Live Tapes"
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DISC 1: 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA
This was Nirvana's "homecoming" Seattle show after the intital touring behind "Nevermind". They had just begun to break big and were the talk of the town in Seattle. Wisely, Geffen decided to film and multi-track the complete concert. The audio was recorded and mixed by Andy Wallace, the brains behind the final mix of "Nevermind". A few tracks appeared on CD singles and radio promos, and some of the video footage made it the Nirvana movie, but the complete show was an exclusive bootleg item until the 20th Anniversary edition of "Nevermind". However, the powers-that-be decided to totally remix the audio, and the resulting mix is very bare-bones, and nowhere near as good as Andy Wallace's original mix, which is featured here from a Geffen internal promo cassette. The show is 100% complete and even includes much of the pre and post-show ambience.
TRACKLISTING: Jesus Doesn�t Want Me For A Sunbeam / Aneurysm / Drain You / School / Floyd The Barber / Smells Like Teen Spirit / About A Girl / Polly / Breed / Sliver / Love Buzz / Lithium / Been A Son / Negative Creep / On A Plain / Blew / Rape Me / Territorial Pissings / Endless, Nameless

DISC 2: 11/25/91 - Paradiso, Amsterdam NL
Now touring Europe, Nirvana's Amsterdam show was recorded by VPRO. Kurt is in a foul mood so this show has a lot more "attitude" than the Seattle show a few weeks previous. It appears that the audio mix was done "on the fly" and not multi-tracked as evidenced by all available versions which have various mixing problems during the first song "Drain You". Some material from this show turned up in the Nirvana movie and even on the live album, but the complete show is still a bootleg-only item. Until very recently, much of the show was available from a radio broadcast but there was missing material that could only be found from a mono video source. Thankfully, a new video has surfaced that features the complete, uncompressed stereo soundtrack starting at the beginning of "Drain You", and that is the source used here. The happenings before "Drain You" have been re-constructed from two sources that are only slightly lesser quality than the rest of the show. Finally, the show can be heard 100% complete and in stereo. Includes the legendary out-of-tune performance of "Come As You Are".
TRACKLISTING: Drain You / Aneurysm / School / Floyd The Barber / Smells Like Teen Spirit / About A Girl / Polly / Lithium / Sliver / Breed / Come As You Are / Been A Son / Negative Creep / On A Plain / Blew / Love Buzz / Territorial Pissings

DISC 03: 12/28/91 - Pat O'Brien Pavilion, Del Mar CA
Back in the States, Nirvana were on a triple-bill tour with Pearl Jam and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, playing relatively short sets. For one reason or another, the show in Del Mar was chosen to be recorded for a Westwood One radio broadcast. Wisely, Andy Wallace was hired again, and he did a fine job capturing and mixing this excellent performance. The version featured here is a patchwork of various sources. Most of the show is available in perfect digital quality on various Westwood One promo CD's. However, they have made life difficult for the completist by adding fake crowd noise between many songs and throughout the first half of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". They also took the liberty of censoring the word "shit" from "Aneurysm". Thankfully, and much like the Seattle show, there is an internal Geffen promo cassette available to collectors. It sounds amazingly similar to the digital source, but has various dropouts and flaws. After some slight tweaks, it was used here for all the between-song crowd noise and for "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Now the show is 100% complete, free of dropouts that plague the promo cassette and the fake crowd noise that ruins parts of the digital promos. All of the source switches are seamless and undetectable. Some songs not yet featured on this set have been added to the end of this disc to fill up space. Most of them are soundboard quality and sound better than ever.
TRACKLISTING: Drain You / Aneurysm / School / Floyd The Barber / Smells Like Teen Spirit / About A Girl / Polly / Sliver / Breed / Come As You Are / Lithium / Territorial Pissings

BONUS TRACKS:
Baba O' Riley (12-7-91 Rennes) / Stain (11-25-90 Seattle) / Verse Chorus Verse (11-25-90 Seattle) / Pennyroyal Tea (8-27-91 Bremen) / In Bloom (2-1-92 Melbourne) / Talk To Me (11-17-91 Mezzago) / Molly's Lips (1-10-92 NYC) / Beeswax (10-30-92 Buenos Aires) / Spank Thru (10-30-92 Buenos Aires) / Scoff (6-26-92 Roskilde) / Something In The Way (6-26-92 Roskilde)


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All of the material presented herein is from the lowest generation underground sources. No officially released material was utilized. There was no brickwalling, compression or noise reduction applied during mastering...only the speed, EQ and occasionally the balance was tweaked to achieve as close to a "perfect" version as possible. You won't find these concerts in better quality.

Original Tape Transfers by Mike Ziegler & Kris Sproul

A NeedleDeeDee Production - July 2013