Download Nirvana's "Scoff" Live From "Bleach" Reissue

We're only a month away from the 20th anniversary reissue of Nirvana's Bleach, and Sub Pop is offering up a free download of one of the songs on the remastered live disc that will accompany the band's debut album. "Scoff" was recorded at Portland, Oregon's Pine Street Theatre on February 9th, 1990, and judging on this track alone, the previously unreleased concert disc will put to shame all those pre-Nevermind bootlegs you purchased back in the day. Producer Jack Endino, who also oversaw Bleach, remixed the original Pine Street tapes for the release.

Download "Scoff" below, and pre-order the Bleach reissue over at the Sub Pop store now. The reissue hits store November 3rd.

Jack Endino and Chad Channing Reminisce About Bleach.

Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic recently got his hands on the Bleach reissue, writing on his Seattle Weekly blog, "Jack [Endino] and I got test pressings earlier this summer and the vinyl sounds killer. It's going to be pressed on white vinyl - just like the first issue. I put the tone arm down and the bass growl of 'Blew' is there in all its Grunge glory." The set will also come with a 48-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos from the era.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, November 3rd will also see the release of Nirvana's legendary 1992 Reading Festival on CD/DVD. It's enough to make you forget all about that Guitar Hero 5 debacle.

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Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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