________________________________________________________________ The Internet Nirvana Fan Club Newsletter - # 08 - August 8, 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ============ In this newsletter you can get some info about some small updates to my site, and a little Nirvana related news. There haven't been so much happening in the "Nirvana World" lately but there are a few things worth mentioning. There are now more than 3500 subscribers to this newsletter. But let's go on with info about the site updates ... Site Updates ============ I added a list of my bootleg trading references. It is a list of some of the people I have been trading with, so if you are in doubt - you can check with these people that I will not rip you off if I was to trade with you! The list can also be used to find other good Nirvana/Foo Fighters bootleg traders. I haven't added all the people I've ever traded with to this list but just those I have traded with recently, or ones I've traded with several times. Check it out in the bootleg section [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/refs.htm ] I used to have a list of bad traders on my site but it has been removed since it was pretty short, however Brendan Marten is maintaining a detailed and updated listing of bad traders. It is a good idea to check this one out before you start trading with someone you have doubts about. Check it out [ http://www.nevermind.simplenet.com/badtraders ] I changed a few things in the main page for the Picture Gallery, where I added a picture with a menu map for this site. I plan on adding this map to most of the html files on my site later on. Some more pictures will be added to the gallery very soon, as I still have plenty that are not online yet. [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/pics.htm ] Lately there have been a few problems with the discussion board - or wwwboard - at the index page causing some posts not showing up and some to appear twice. I hope to get this fixed within a week. The same problem which caused this also makes the counter for my main page reset sometimes so I have to return it to the approximate last 'real' value. Again, I hope this will be fixed soon. I just got affiliated with REEL which is a company online that sells movies and various shows. They have a very large collection of old classics and brand new video releases as well as many hard-to-find movies. To visit them, click on their logo on my main page - it is located just besides the sponsor banner. [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/index.html ] The Internet Nirvana Fan Club is now affiliated with Amazon Books, CDnow and REEL. Amazon books is the largest online bookstore with a selection of more than three million titles available to choose from with a few mouse clicks. CDnow is one of the largest online music stores and they carry more than 250.000 items. They offer several CDs with all the big artists, movies, t-shirts and much more. They also feature a healthy selection of Nirvana, Hole, Foo Fighters and Sweet 75 items. For links to the CDnow main page and the Nirvana related sections - visit my main index page. Reel is the largest online movie store and they offer more than 85.000 movies available for you to purchase. Right now you can pre-order the brilliant movie Titanic, which is due out on September 1st. The price is just $9.99. The Newsletter archive on my site has been updated as well. It now features the first five newsletters in Spanish and the four first newsletters in Turkish. Again thanks to Caner and Gabriel for doing this job. The disclaimer is currently available in both English, Spanish and Turkish. If you missed some of the previous English newsletters you can always find them in this archive, too. [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/newslet ] It turned out that I had several small errors in the lyrics for 'Nevermind' although I went through them a few weeks ago. I have now gone through all of the songs again so if there are errors now - they should be small. I know these lyrics are printed inside the liner notes for the Lithium single but these lyrics have a few errors and are incomplete. To those who are still wondering - in the sentence from Smells Like Teen Spirit - "Our little group has always been" - the correct word IS "group" and not "tribe", although tribe is the word used in the official lyrics on the Lithium single's liner notes. The sentence, with the word group, is even mentioned in the liner notes of the Nevermind album. However, when the song was performed live "group" was usually replaced with "tribe". There might still be some minor errors in the lyrics for the other albums but it shouldn't be anything major. The lyrics section - [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/lyrics.htm ] There are errors in the guitar tabs section, too but I didn't write these tabs myself and I don't know how exactly to read them. I'm working on getting more correct and more complete tabs at the moment. Remember there is also a link to the Nirvana Drum Tab Site. As always, I updated my FAQ a bit with some small corrections and additions to old questions, as well as more info to the Outcesticide question. Now there is a explaination of the whole "clone" thing ... [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/nfc_faq.htm#outces ] Finally I added some more info to the list of Nirvana related material in movies and TV shows. For example, in a movie called "The Babysitter" there is a scene where you can see some Nirvana posters. A collection of info like this is available on my site and was just updated. If you have something you'd like to add, just let me know. The list is still fairly short [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/movapp.htm ] Nirvana News ============ Rob Holmes who maintains the informative "Nirvana Live and Rare Performance Guide" has taken over the Interactive Nirvana Concert Chronology from Jeff McRae. This one is now available at Rob's site and features pretty much the same info as the other live performance guide - which is setlists for every surfaced Nirvana recording as well as other info like quality and place/venue etc. The Interactive Concert Chronology does have a few other things like info about support bands and more, which the other guide doesn't have. But I personally prefer the "Live and Rare Performance" guide which also gives much more accurate info on the quality of the recording. If you would like to check out these two great concert guides, visit Rob's Nirvana page [ http://www.kersur.net/~holmes ] Some people mix up me and Rob for some reason, but we are not the same person. Maybe it's the name that looks similar ... Montage of Heck, the Nirvana recording I surfaced a while ago is one of the most popular Nirvana bootlegs right now. It has already ended up on several CD-Rs and even regular bootleg discs. The most noteable thing about this tape is, as mentioned in newsletter #07, the Cher cover with Krist Novoselic on vocals. It is unknown when exactly this was recorded but it was probably in early 1988, maybe 1987. Dave Wolinsky updated his brilliant Nirvana Interview Archive, and I just submitted the 10/06/89 Cincinnatti interview to him. It should be available on his site soon, if it isn't already there now. You can find a large collection of Nirvana interviews there as well as interviews with Krist, Dave or Pat where they mention Nirvana. [ http://www.wolinskyweb.com/happening/index.html ] Geffen Records actually updated their official Nirvana site. It hadn't been updated since the release of the Wishkah album. Now it features a lot of stuff, like sound clips and movie clips plus some basic information. The official Hole and Sweet 75 web sites can also be found on Geffen's page [ http://www.geffen.com ] The layout on the their main page has been improved too, and the design on the Nirvana page is also pretty nice. Geffen's official Nirvana site can be found here [ http://www.geffen.com/nirvana ] The next version of the Nirvana Setlister [TNS] should be released on August 10th, 1998. [ http://members.xoom.com/Setlister ] Apparently, Krist Novoselic revealed in a recent interview that a Nirvana album WILL be released in the year 2000. It should contain recordings not released in the US and The possibilty of a DVD disc being included is likely to happen. This was pretty much the same info I gave in the last newsletter but now it has been somewhat confirmed officially :) Misc Stuff ========== To follow up the little Hard Rock Café story in Newsletter #07, here is some info about the Hard Rock Café in Hollywood, CA : I was in the Hard Rock Cafe just outside of Universal Studios in Hollywood a while back. There is a small section devoted to Kurt. It is a glass case and it has a Red and White Fender, I have no clue what model, inside. It is signed by Kurt, he spells it Kurdt in the signature, Chris, Dave, and a bunch of others i can't read in the pictures I took. There are flowers, a heart-shaped box from the boxed set, Kurt's trademark white sun-glasses, a red and blacked striped shirt and a flannel over it. It was nice to see I just wished it was a bigger section. I saw the guitar in the menu as well, I don't know if this is the same guitar or not because the names are signed in permanent marker, or thats what it looks like anyway. Hope I helped to clear it up a little anyway. Special thanks to Brandon for this information. Richard Allan Smith told me that there is a guitar used by Kurt - in Orlando, Florida's Hard Rock Café. I'm not sure if this is the signed one depicted in the menu card, but it could be. Feel free to e-mail me with more "Hard Rock" stories :) There is a new Nirvana book out, by the title - "The Nirvana Companion : Two Decades of Commentary (Companion Series)" and it was written by John M. Rocco. The book is a paperback on 222 pages and was published in August 1998. If you would like to purchase it, you can look for ISBN: 0028649303 - on Schirmer Books. It is also available from the Amazon bookstore. Visit Amazon Books by clicking on their logo from my main page. [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/index.html ] Gregg's "Non-Live Nirvana Broadcast" has moved to a new server, and can now be found there, for the moment being. It could change server again. [ http://members.tripod.com/~NirvanaBroadcasting ] As usual, here is a tour date for TAD - courtesy of Tad Doyle. The Gourge Metallica - Jerry Cantrell - TAD At the GOURGE, Saturday, September 5th, 1998 - 5:00pm sharp! on the Plaza Stage. Right next to the BEER GARDEN Subscribing/Unsubscribing ========================= * Subscribing If you got a copy of this newsletter, but is not currently a subscriber - then sign up for the list on my main page [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com ] * Unsubscribing If you would like to unsubscribe from the list and get your e-mail address removed - send an e-mail to me [ list@nirvanaclub.com ] and in the subject put "Unsub your@emailaddress". Replace "your@emailaddress" with your correct e-mail address ... then you will be removed from the list. * Misc info If you want to get the newsletter sent to a new address, send an e-mail to list@nirvanaclub.com - and provide me with your old e-mail address and the new one you would like to use. Don't hit the reply button for these newsletters, because the address 'nobody@nirvanaclub.com' is obviously invalid. If you wish to e-mail me about the newsletter or something else, you can do so on the address - webmaster@nirvanaclub.com Check the disclaimer [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/newslet/disclaimer.txt ] * Different languages This newsletter is now available in Spanish, English and Turkish. Buradan Türkçe gazeteye ulaþabilirsiniz [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/newslet ] Aquí pueden conseguir las Cartas con las Últimas Noticias en Español - [ http://www.nirvanaclub.com/newslet ] Old newsletters can be found there. Some of the newsletters are also available in French and German. * Copyright This newsletter was written by Rasmus Holmen and is ©1998 The Internet Nirvana Fan Club. Re-production is not allowed without permission from the author. If you use something from this newsletter, please give me credit where credit it due. 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