Nirvana - Jam (Studio Session) video free download

(C) 2004 With The Lights Out Geffen Records UMG

25--26 October, 1992 - Word Of Mouth Productions, Seattle, WA, US

Ek, Phil (assistant)

Endino, Jack (producer, engineer)

Keen to move away from the glossy production of their previous album and get back-to-basics, NIRVANA returned to the familiar surrounds of Word Of Mouth Productions, formally known as Reciprocal Recording. Producer, Jack Endino, found the atmosphere markedly different to that enjoyed on previous occasions, however: "It was very tense," he explains. "There was something dark in the air. It was dysfunctional in some way. People were not communicating with each other. Kurt was sort of in a different reality from everybody else. It made me very uneasy. Everybody seemed to be very on edge. It just wasn't the same band it had been."

Jack Endino expresses greater fondness for an improvised jam also recorded at the sessions, "It's awesome!" he enthuses. "It's like four minutes of just guitar attack. And there's none of that stuff on any of their records; you never get to hear them just jamming like that"

Endino's troubles were further compounded when the police called by the studio, acting on a noise complaint—Grohl was playing his drums too loud. "His drumming was so loud, it was going right through the walls of the building," Endino recalls. "It was only the second noise complaint we'd ever had! It was kind of embarrassing. But they were almost done at that point." Endino tried to assuage the officers with a bit of name-dropping, "I said, "You know, I got NIRVANA in there, they're this huge band." But this cop said, "I don't care who you got in there, you gotta turn it down.""