Right here’s a wierd dwelling video of Nir­vana once they have been unknown, play­ing inside a Radio Shack within the band’s dwelling­city of Aberdeen, Wash­ing­ton. The video was document­ed on the night of Jan­u­ary 24, 1988, after the shop had closed. In these days the group glided by the title of Ted Ed Fred.

Solely the day earlier than, the band had document­ed its first demo tape at a stu­dio in Seat­tle. Gui­tarist and singer Kurt Cobain requested his new good friend Eric Har­ter, who man­aged the Radio Shack, to video­tape the band play­ing “Paper Cuts,” one among 10 songs from the demo. Together with Cobain, the video fea­tures Nir­vana co-founder Krist Novosel­ic on bass and Dale Crover of the Melvins on drums.

The video under consists of footage of Har­ter discuss­ing concerning the Radio Shack video and giv­ing a replica of the tape to Cobain’s griev­ing wid­ow Court docket­ney Love, who’s proven together with her good friend Kat Bjel­land of Babes in Toy­land. At one level, Har­ter males­tions a “Ted Ed Fred” con­cert on the Com­mu­ni­ty World The­ater in Taco­ma. To see a full video of that present, which was staged the evening earlier than the Radio Shack faucet­ing (and solely hours after the demo ses­sion), click here.

Be aware: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this put up appeared on our website in 2013.

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