Sessions History

January 3, 1988 - Bedroom, Crover residence, Aberdeen, WA, US

Artist

Ted Ed Fred
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass, vocals)
- Dale Crover (drums)

Crew

Set

[U] Love Buzz
Unidentified person - Hey…
[U] If You Must
Unidentified person - [indistinct speech]

Cobain - Shall we just keep going?

Novoselic - Are you dizzy when…

Crover - Oh-rah!
[U] Downer
Novoselic - That was fast!

Novoselic - That was fast.

Cobain - That was fast.

Novoselic - Why are you playing so fast, Dale?! It's so hard for us to keep up!

Cobain - Yes, OK…

Novoselic - [indistinct speech]

Cobain - [breathes heavily, screams]

Novoselic - Oh!

Crover - Oh!

Cobain - Uh-oh, that's two songs like that now.

Novoselic - This is the old song…

Cobain - OK, the old one.
[U] Pen Cap Chew
Unidentified person - I think it's supposed to go on several more times.

Unidentified person - Played an actual 4 times.

Unidentified person - All right.

Cobain - OK.
[U] Mexican Seafood
[U] Spank Thru
Novoselic - [indistinct speech]

Unidentified person - Are we going?

Unidentified person - Go.

Unidentified person - We're going.
[U] Paper Cuts
Unidentified person - Ready to go?

Cobain - Yep

Novoselic - Ready?

Unidentified person - [indistinct speech]
[U] Erectum
Crover - Ready?
[U] Aero Zeppelin
[U] Hairspray Queen
Cobain - This is off of the first album.
[U] Floyd The Barber
[U] Annorexorcist
Cobain - Is that how it goes?

Novoselic - No.

Cobain - We'll play it like that…

Crover - OK. We just did.

Cobain - We just did!

Novoselic - My name's Sonny and my name's Cher, even though we ain't got a pot, you got me and baby that's a lot.
[U] Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves Novoselic on vocals

Best available sources

Source ID	Quality	Complete	Runtime	Lowest Gen	Tracks Featured	Notes
AUD #1	TBC		0:42:00	ANA(M)>DAT(1)>FLAC	Love Buzz If You Must Downer Pen Cap Chew Mexican Seafood Spank Thru Paper Cuts Erectum Aero Zeppelin Hairspray Queen Floyd The Barber Annorexorcist Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves	Love Buzz is mono, Love Buzz and If You Must both cut in.

Notes

This is thought to be the first of three rehearsals held at Dale Crover's house, 609 W. 2nd St., in preparation for the January 23rd, 1988 recording session with Jack Endino. (1)

References

Crover, Dale, unknown date. Personal communication with Mike Ziegler. ↑

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