Territorial pissings

Territorial Pissings

For 'Territorial Pissings', Cobain wanted to plug his electric guitar directly into the producer's mixing board. "Kurt wanted to plug straight into the desk for a trashy punk sound," Vig recalls. "But I didn't think the guitar had any balls. So we actually split the signal between an amplifier and plugged Kurt's Pro Co Rat distortion pedal directly into the Neve control board and blended both into the final mix." Cobain recorded three takes on guitar. Take 3 was circled as "best" on the producer's track sheet. (53)

Before Cobain began the song, he exhorted Krist Novoselic to just sing something, who chose to 'interpret' a little of the Youngbloods' chorus on 'Get Together' (which the band had to pay to use).

Once it came time to record the vocals, Cobain sang a scratch vocal to warm up. He then got on the intercom to Vig in the control room and announced, "Butch, I'm only going to sing one take on this. I'm not going to do anymore!" (53)

Cobain's voice audibly goes to pieces on the song, which would have caused work to end on that day too.

His main effects were the DS-1 Distortion and Small Clone. A ProCo Rat distortion pedal was also used on some songs on the album (6).