Nirvana‘s In Utero will turn 30 in September, and its producer, Steve Albini, shared some memories about making it in a new interview with NME.
Albini said that one of the most important parts of making the album was keeping it a secert. He explained, “I had to do everything I could to keep it under wraps to make sure that we didn’t get overrun by fans and the added nonsense.”
Albini’s first step was finding a remote studio, and he setteled on Pachyderm Studios In Cannon Falls, Minnesota, which is about 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis. He said that “It was far enough away from anybody that the band knew socially, and we wouldn’t have a TV crew out front every day or any drug dealers trying to do business.”
Albini added that he didn’t want word getting out about the sessions, “So I booked the studio on my account under the pseudonym the ‘Simon Ritchie Band’, which was of course Sid Vicious’ real name. Until the flight cases started arriving from the cartage company the day before we started, nobody knew. The cases had Nirvana spray-painted on the side of them, but until that happened, even the people who owned the studio didn’t know that Nirvana was going to be recording there.”
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