Nirvana 1991 Alone + Easy Target live in Europe Soundcheck 

By now everyone knows that some of Dave Grohl’s first foo fighters song demo were liked by Kurt. In an interview, Grohl confirmed that in Europe 1991, Nirvana played “Alone + Easy Target” as a soundcheck. I know that generally this is considered to be audio we don’t have, but im curious as to if there is a know recording even if it isn’t circulating, similar to the 1994 Do Re Mi Erland session. thanks

I just formed a new band, and would like to sound like Fecal Matter, but I’m lost on how to make my riffs like theirs.

So I’m a huge Nirvana nerd and have been listening to them for MANY years. Only within the last year or two have I gotten really interested in recreating their songs as accurately as possible. I’ve even trained myself to sing somewhat similarly to Kurt, which I’m honestly really proud of because it took months and months of vocal practice, technique work, and expanding my vocal range to pull off.

Part of the reason I did this is because it’s been a dream of mine to perform Smells Like Teen Spirit live at my school prom with my band and let people experience some of the magic of Nirvana.

Anyways, I practice singing the song pretty often to keep my voice fresh and exercised. Last night while listening to Teen Spirit, I noticed something weird: the song sounded slightly... sharp in pitch. At first I thought I was imagining it. I convinced myself I was just excited and that my perception was off because of it. But then today after warming up my voice, I sang the song again and noticed the same thing. I was actually singing really well too. Good pitch, hitting the high notes easily, I was locked tf in. But the recording STILL sounded sharp to me.

So I decided to test it. First, I recorded myself singing it while playing guitar. Then I recorded myself singing acapella with the song playing through headphones. After that, I downloaded an isolated Kurt vocal track to compare everything directly. And lo and behold, my suspicion was right. The studio version of Teen Spirit actually sounds around 20 cents sharp compared to standard tuning. Now that I’ve noticed it, I genuinely can’t unhear it. When I listen to the song on YouTube now, I use a pitch/transposing extension to lower it by around 20 cents and suddenly everything sounds “correct” again.

Has anyone else noticed this before? And are there any other Nirvana songs that are slightly off pitch like this?

TL;DR: After years of listening to and practicing Smells Like Teen Spirit, I realized the studio recording sounds about 20 cents sharp compared to standard tuning. I tested it with recordings, guitar, and isolated vocals, and now I can’t unhear it. Does anyone else notice this, and are there other Nirvana songs like this?

"Wishkah" has a special place in my heart because it was the first Nirvana album I purchased with my own money and later this year marks its 30th anniversary.
One cool way celebrate it I think would be a vinyl reissue it like with tracks that were going to be included on "Verse Chorus Verse/Donkey Show" so side D would be: Serve The Servants/Dive/Rape Me/Sappy/Territorial Pissings. I think it would be better than the fourth side crowd banter that most people only listen to a couple times.
If there were a cd it would still all fit on one disc.
Just putting that out there in case Gold Mountain or John Silva or whoever browses Reddit.

Kurt did it like that in concerts like 1992 reading and I have trouble hitting the higher notes without my voice cracking (teenagers do that ig) Would the average 15-16 year old know what song it is if it's on a lower register?