Yet to see official release, however, is the fabled Steve Albini mixes of the group’s final studio album, In Utero. Much of this material – live footage, covers, alternate mixes and assorted curios – has since seen official release on 2004’s With The Lights Out box and this year’s Nevermind: Deluxe Edition. Recorded 1993, Pachyderm Studios, Minnesotaįollowing the success of Nevermind, plenty of Nirvana boots found their way into circulation, including five volumes of Outcesticide and the six-disc, 116-track Into The Black. See also: The Black Album for more Rishikesh related songs The Kinfauns demos not only demonstrate the strength of the material on The White Album, but also, ironically, show in their acoustic forms a consistency lacking from the sprawling end product.
(There’s also “What’s The New Mary Jane”, but let’s pass on that).
Lennon’s “Child Of Nature”, later reworded to become “Jealous Guy”, is here too, as is McCartney’s lovely “Junk”. Harrison’s storming “Sour Milk Sea” – later gifted to Jackie Lomax – is brilliant. Best of all are songs that never made it to the final cut. Bootlegged many times – as The Esher Demos, The Beatles Unplugged, Unsurpassed Demos and more – these are vigorous, rough renditions, sometimes with different words: “I’m So Tired” has a little spoken part and a nod to Beatle PR Derek Taylor. But the creative stimulus of their Rishikesh visit, combined with the scale of The White Album project meant that, for once, the band were able to gather, with acoustics, at George Harrison’s home in Esher – Kinfauns – and collectively pitch songs for the new album. The Beatles rarely recorded demos together, because they rarely wrote songs together.
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