Cammy's Big Rambly Journal

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January 14, 2024
2021 was an odd time

Stream postponements and finding Nirvana


Stream tonight has been rescheduled for next week. My cold had gotten significantly worse—it's a bunch better today, but I still sound pretty stuffed up and I didn't want to be hacking up a lung constantly and chancing screwing up my voice by having to talk for two-plus hours straight. Consider it another week for folks to know I'll be going live soon.

I'm still chopping away at some private projects, but I decided to poke at a smaller one this evening: upgraded my Nirvana boxset! Back in 2021, back when the Scratchpad was still a thing and I could document my progress there, I put together a Nirvana demos and rarities boxset called Nirvana: Sound of Dentage that I felt was of better quality than the With the Lights Out set we got officially. Writing about that boxset was one of the first things I did on the group blog in 2019 (twenty years of WTLO this year—guess I should advertise that post around some in November), so it only felt fair to assemble my own thing after doing so much armchair quarterbacking with the official one.

I'm still pretty damn proud of Sound of Dentage, but since I've gotten my hands on a few more discs that could've improved the original set had I had them back in 2021—better sources, more songs, all that. I've gone ahead and added them to the Internet Archive, though it'll take until tomorrow for all the derives to be made and all the new stuff to be properly accessible. Knowing that site, some of the old files will still float around anyway, and the new ones probably won't be available through the torrents. Such is life.

If you like Nirvana and you didn't hear about me putting this one together back in the day, feel free to give it a listen! I suppose I should advertise the boxset around some too, given how much of my time it took up and how much I still like it and still occasionally listen to it myself. I'll have more from me to show off with the world soon.