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Hole Studio Chronology > Recording Archive > Studio
sessions > 01/21/93 Date: January 21, 1993 Studio: BMG Ariola Ltda, Studio B Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Musicians Courtney Love (vocals, guitars) Patty Schemel (drums, vocals) Kurt Cobain (bass) John Duncan (bass) Technical personnel Craig Montgomery (producer) Ian Beveridge (engineer) Dalmo Beloti (engineer) Setlist [O] Miss World [X] She Walks On Me [X] I Think That I Would Die [X] Softer, Softest [U] Closing Time [?] others Notes Whilst on tour in Brazil in January 1993, Nirvana took the opportunity to work on material for their forthcoming album, In Utero. (4) On the third day of the session, Courtney Love and Patty Schemel joined the band in-studio, and also were given the opportunity to record some new Hole material during Nirvana's session breaks. Craig Montgomery, the session's producer remembers, "we did some Hole stuff to, including 'Miss World.' It wasn't meant to be released, [Love] just wanted to use the time to get some ideas down." Hole's portion of the sessions were recorded on a seperate analogue cassette (Nirvana's set was recorded on digital audio tape), and Montogomery also recalls that "there were a handful of songs, maybe some of them were just half-baked ideas but 'Miss World' was a fairly complete song at that point." (5) However, it was not Hole in their full-form, rather Love, Schemel and Cobain, all of whom were intoxicated to some degree. In fact, their intoxication was evident in the embyronic version of "Closing Time", which was referred to later by Love and fans alike, as "Drunk In Rio." Love later gave a tape of unreleased material to legendary BBC DJ John Peel in 1995, who broadcast "Closing Time" on his radio show. Love also confirmed via a post on hole.com's official message board that Cobain did indeed play bass on "Miss World", whilst she played guitar. Montgomery considered that the song was, "the most fleshed out song" of the session. (6) Best circulating recordings
Notes on best circulating recordings Notes for SBD#1a: includes "Miss World" only. Notes for SBD#1b: includes "Closing Time" only. Sourced from a 1995 broadcast by John Peel. Notes for SBD#1c: uncirculated recordings of "Miss World", "She Walks On Me", "I Think That I Would Die", "Softer, Softest" and "Closing Time." |
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