August 14, 2009
Portland Brings You Previously Unheard Nirvana
Age has its benefits. For instance, I could walk into a bar wearing nothing but a Speedo and a wife-beater and order a beer and never have to remove the ID from my wallet where it’s nicely nestled between my Speedo waist band and the sweat-sticky skin of my hip. I’d like to see you younger guys pull that off. Some 23-year-old guy walks into a bar with a Speedo and a wife beater and he’s gonna get carded. And you younger guys have to pay to have a lady root around in your kiester, but not me boy. All I gotta do is say I’m worried about my prostate and I’ve got a woman in a white coat and latex gloves wrist deep in my dirt pocket. And thanks to my male pattern baldness, if I decide that I want to fill up a swimming pool with boiling marinara sauce and swim laps I don’t have to put on one of those stupid looking swim caps to make me hydrodynamic. Yep. Getting old is pretty sweet. But I’m not the only one getting better with age. Nirvana’s Bleach album is about to get a hell of a lot better as well. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s first record and Sub-Pop plans to celebrate by reissuing the album on November 3rd. Original producer, Jack Endino over saw the remastering of the album from the sessions original tapes so it will maintain its fuzzy sound. The album will come on CD and 180 gram white vinyl because the first run of Bleach was also on white vinyl. But that’s not the really cool part. The best part of this reissue comes thanks to Portland. Along with the CD and record, the Bleach pack will come with a complete recording of a never-before-released 1990 live show at Portland’s Pine Street Theatre, remixed by Endino from original tapes. For those of you too young to remember, the Pine Street later turned into La Luna which hosted just about every epic show in the early 90s and is the namesake of KUFO’s local show Viva La Luna on Sunday nights.