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Nirvana: Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!

Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, January 2005

Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!... that's how producer Jack Endino recalls Nirvana's first proper studio stint. Three hours and 10 songs later, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic had recorded a tape that would secure them a deal with Sub Pop and would see their ascent begin. Here Gillian G. Gaar chronicles that rise from the start, session by session.

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