Twenty-five years ago today, a band from Washington State trundled down the I-5 to play a Portland club. That club was Satyricon, and the band was Nirvana. Ward Young was there, and he taped the show, and on the show’s 25th anniversary, he’s posted it online so that all can hear.
That night—which took place several months before Dave Grohl joined Nirvana’s ranks—Melvins drummer Dale Crover sat in the drum throne, and the legend goes that this was also the night Kurt Cobain met Courtney Love. They wrestled on Satyricon’s floor that night.
None of that is evident on this muddy but illuminating recording, but its historic and musical importance cannot be understated. As Young says, the nearly hour-long “recording is raw in accordance with the equipment and tape used at the time.”
Take a listen to this never-heard-before recording of Nirvana at Satyricon, January 12, 1990.
ht: Nate Carson
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