![]() by Cobain's girlfriend at the time, Tracy Marander. After Everman left Nirvana, he briefly joined Soundgarden on bass.ĩ. The font used accidentally became their band logo.Ī photo of Cobain, Novoselic, Channing and Everman performing was taken at the Reko/Muse Art Gallery in Olympia, Wash. "We just wanted to make him feel at home in the band," Novoselic said, as noted in Azerrad's book. Nirvana ended up recruiting Everman as their second guitarist, gave him credits on the album and featured him on the cover - though he didn't actually work on the album with the band at all. Gaar's Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana.Ī guitarist named Jason Everman was a fan of Nirvana's demo tape, and paid the $606.17 in recording time spent on Bleach that producer Jack Endino billed the band for. The track "Big Long Now," which was released on their 1992 compilation album Incesticide, was originally written and recorded for Bleach. Cobain, however, didn't want another "slow heavy" song on the album, as mentioned in Gillian G. "Big Long Now" was originally supposed to be on it. An AIDS Prevention poster inspired the name.īleach's working title was originally Too Many Humans. Cobain changed it when he saw a poster for AIDS prevention in San Francisco, which advised heroin users to bleach their needles prior to inserting them.ĥ. He also told Sounds Magazine that a lot of the lyrics on the album were inspired by his life in Aberdeen, Wash.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() "I don't hold any of those lyrics dear to me." He felt pressure to adhere to it, so he scrapped any poppy song ideas he had.Ĭobain told Spin in 1993 that he "didn't give a flying fuck what the lyrics were about" when he wrote the songs for Bleach, which he did while he was "pissed off" the night before they started recording. "Let's just scream negative lyrics, and as long as they're not sexist and don't get too embarrassing it'll be okay," he explained further. Cobain said Sub Pop was pushing the "grunge sound."Īccording to Michael Azerrad's Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Cobain said Sub Pop was really pushing the Seattle grunge sound. ![]()
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