 In an attempt to keep his anonymity , Grohl planned to release the songs under the name Foo Fighters . It would be a very low @-@ key release , with only 100 LP records being pressed after the sessions were finished . Grohl also went to a cassette duplication lab in Seattle and created 100 cassette copies of the session and started handing them to friends for feedback and " I 'd give tapes to everybody . Kids would come up to me and say ' Nirvana was my favourite band ' and I 'd say ' well here , have this ' " . Eddie Vedder premiered two songs from the recording on January 8 , 1995 during his Self @-@ Pollution radio broadcast . The recordings quickly circulated amongst the music industry , which in turn created record label interest . A deal was eventually signed to Capitol Records , as president Gary Gersh was a personal friend of Grohl ever since he worked on Nirvana 's label Geffen Records . 
