Bootleg recordings: Nirvana bootleg recordings, Commercial Zone, The Lillywhite Sessions, Trademark of Quality, Liver Than Youll Ever Be, The Original Spunk Bootleg, Killed By Death, The Lost Paris Tapes, Santa Monica 72

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Nirvana bootleg recordings, Commercial Zone, The Lillywhite Sessions, Trademark of Quality, Live'r Than You'll Ever Be, The Original Spunk Bootleg, Killed By Death, The Lost Paris Tapes, Santa Monica '72, The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, Dawn of the Black Hearts, The Live Adventures of the Waterboys, The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday, Science Fiction, Greatest Hits Live: Vancouver 1986, Boot Yer Butt: The Doors Bootlegs, Astral Weeks, The Clash at Bond's Casino, Live in Porto, Birmingham at Barbarella, Mike Millard, The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album, Live Legacy, Baron von Bullshit Rides Again, Inside the Head of John Peel, Live in Sweden, Yesoteric, Berlin 91, Phish bootlegs. Excerpt: The Nirvana bootleg recordings are a number of audio CD recordings of musical performances by the American rock band Nirvana, which were never officially released by the band, or under any other legal authority. The recordings consist of both live performances and outtakes from studio sessions unavailable as a legal release. Nirvana was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, and featured drummer Dave Grohl for the majority of the bands career. They had previously gone through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad Channing, Dale Crover and Dan Peters. Jason Everman was briefly added as a second guitarist in 1989. Pat Smear joined the band as a touring guitarist in 1993. Although Nirvana existed for less than a decade, they released three studio albums, starting with 1989's Bleach, followed by their major label breakthrough album, Nevermind in 1991. In Utero was released in 1993, just seven months prior to Cobain's death in April 1994. As Nirvana's popularity grew following the success of Nevermind, unreleased recordings of the band began to surface in the form of unofficial bootleg CDs, often originating from companies in Europe and Japan. The sound quality and album art would frequently range from appalling to appealing, sometimes sounding like and resembling something of a legitimate release. Some of the recordings came from "tape trading" circles while others may have been recorded or obtained specifically for the bootleg CD. Material was sometimes gathered from already existing vinyl bootlegs or other bootleg CDs as they became available. Additionally, songs issued only as a b-side or compilation track became frequent candidates for use as filler material. Nirvana would not see any royalties from these releases, nor would they have anything to do with their production. The first Nirvana bootleg CD was released in 1992 by Post Script, simply titled Europe 1991. Since then, hundreds of recordings of