Addicted To Noise editor Michael Goldberg reports:
"Nirvana started as a live band," writes former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, in the liner notes to the upcoming live Nirvana album, From the Muddy Banks of Wishkah. "Don't all bands? We played around for two years before the release of Bleach in June of 1989. Live shows were our bread and butter before the phenomenal release of Nevermind in September of 1991. We'd hit the road for months at a time. At the end of the tour we'd split one or two grand three ways, then call the tour a success." Novoselic listened to over 100 hours of live Nirvana material to assemble the 16 song album, which is due out Oct. 8. "In presenting this record I hope that the ultimate allure of Kurt and Nirvana's passion are brought to the forefront again, where it should be," writes Novoselic. "Let all the perspectives and analysis fade away like yellow, aged newsprint. Crank this record up! Realize the bliss of the power and passion! TOTAL NIRVANA!"
Naturally there's a raging version of "(Smells Like) Teen Spirit," recorded at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in California on Dec. 28, 1991.
Among the other songs appearing on the album that were recorded during that winter of '91 world tour:
From the In Utero tour of 1993-94 comes:
Novoselic writes that the two earliest performances on the album, "Breed" (then called "Imodium") and "Polly" are off a sound board cassette recording of a show that took place at the Astoria in London on Dec. 5, 1989. And he notes that "Spank Thru" was the "first Nirvana song."