Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack

From Open Culture:

Here's a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the band's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington.

The video was recorded on the evening of January 24, 1988, after the store had closed.

In those days the group went by the name of Ted Ed Fred.

Only the day before, the band had recorded its first demo tape at a studio in Seattle.

Guitarist and singer Kurt Cobain asked his new friend Eric Harter, who managed the Radio Shack, to videotape the band playing "Paper Cuts," one of 10 songs from the demo.

Along with Cobain, the video features Nirvana co-founder Krist Novoselic on bass and Dale Crover of the Melvins on drums.

The video below includes footage of Harter talking about the Radio Shack video and giving a copy of the tape to Cobain's grieving widow Courtney Love, who is shown with her friend Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland.

At one point, Harter mentions a "Ted Ed Fred" concert at the Community World Theater in Tacoma.

To see a full video of that show, which was staged the night before the Radio Shack taping (and only hours after the studio demo session), click here.