In the early 1990′s Nirvana made a massive impact on popular music, and the band’s influence seems even more impressive when remembering that they only released three studio albums. Of course, like most artists, their official output is only part of the story of the band’s production. And fans like me are always on the lookout for more material that will help us to understand where the band was coming from or where their music might have gone if not for Kurt Cobain’s untimely death.

This week a trove of old Nirvana demo recordings was uploaded to YouTube by Tacoma rocker John Purkey who claims that the cassette tapes were given to him by Cobain himself. Uproxx offered this overview on the recordings…

On the four tapes, which feature over two hours of material, are recordings from Nirvana’s first ever studio session, at Reciprocal Studios in Seattle in 1988 with Melvins drummer Dale Crover. There are also Nevermind demos recorded with Chad Channing, who replaced Crover in the band for a brief period before himself being replaced by Dave Grohl. One of the tapes includes Montage Of Heck, which was later officially released a few years ago (although it didn’t sell super well). As that last point makes obvious, some of the material on these tapes has already been distributed on various bootlegs.

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