There are probably hundreds of hours worth of unreleased concert video of Nirvana out there and the first footage in years is expected to be released this fall, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic said Thursday.

Novoselic said small miniature cameras followed the popular grunge band around to nearly all of their shows after signing on with DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen Records, in 1990.

In all, the cameras would have followed Nirvana around for four years or so before the band stopped touring in March of 1994. Frontman Kurt Cobain died a month later, when police found him on April 8, 1994.

"There's tons of video," Novoselic said. "There's just a lot of live shows. There seems like any live show we did, there was a camera recording."

Universal Music, which now owns Geffen, is expected to release a DVD of Nirvana's memorable performance at the Reading Music Festival this November.

Fans would remember the August 1992 show because Cobain famously showed up in a hospital gown being pushed in a wheelchair   amid rumors of his failing health and that the band was about to break up. In reality, it was all a practical joke and Cobain performed the entire show in his white hospital gown.

"That's going to be the first bit (of video)," Novoselic said. " I watched some of it and it's remixed. It sounds great."

He noted there's a bootleg of the concert already out there "with a little time code" stamped on it.

The former bassist said he's not sure what will be released next. Records stores are still selling a Geffen DVD from 2006 called "Nirvana -- Live! Tonight! Sold Out!" which contains songs from all over the 1991-1992 "Nevermind" tour.

Novoselic said back in the early '90s, video taping concerts was a rare feat, usually done by a professional using high-resolution film that could only capture about two hours worth of footage at a time.

When he returned to stage as the bassist for punk band Flipper two years ago, he said it took him by surprise to see so many cell phones pointed in his direction.

"I hadn't been on stage for years, so when I walked on stage for the first time, I saw all of these hands holding up cell phones," Novoselic said. "And I was, like, 'What the hell is that? Oh! They're cameras!' "

Novoselic teamed up with producer Jack Endino, who he once worked with on the debut Nirvana album "Bleach," to produce the Flipper double album "Fight/Love" that was released in May.

The album includes a live CD recorded at the Fun House punk club in Seattle in June of 2008 and a record with all-new material for Flipper.

Novoselic said he's proud of the work and wishes he could have continued working with Flipper, but ultimately decided he'd had enough of touring the club scene all over the world. He quit the band last year.

Novoselic, who was in Olympia Thursday for a "brown bag" lunch event with the Secretary of State's Office, first revealed the hint of the video during an oral history interview with state historian John Hughes, the former publisher of The Daily World. The oral history is still online at www.secstate.wa.gov/legacyproject.

Novoselic said he plans to let the oral history stand as his authorized biography for now and has no plans to write his own autobiography any time in the future, although he continues to write a blog for the Seattle Weekly.

Meantime, he said he had an opportunity to stop by Rainy Day Records to pick up some new vinyl earlier in the day Thursday.

Among his more than a dozen selections: Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown," the obscure "Bombshell Baby of Bombay: Bouncin' Nightclub Grooves," two albums from M.I.A., and the "Prayer and Peace in Able Blessing" by Pope Pius XII, where the vinyl record cover comes with the ability to turn it into a stand-up portrait so proper prayer can be given to the deceased pope.

He also purchased an album from Turkish artist Erkin Koray, "It was $30 and I had to listen to it before buying it."

Novoselic noted that vinyl "sounds better than CDs and they'll keep their value. People just throw their CDs away."

Novoselic, who lives in Deep River, a very rural area of tiny WahkiakumCounty in Southwest Washington, says he's also hoping to put together a new band. He plays his guitar nearly everyday. His biggest challenge is finding a dependable drummer, Novoselic said.

"We need a drummer who's good live and not one that lives far away," Novoselic said. "I'm always looking."- The Daily World