10 years fly by
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was released 10 years ago today. Holy fucking christ.
My short Nirvana history:
- I hear ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the first time on MTV.
- It takes me a while to get into Nirvana, as my Metallica-loving stage has just kicked in and has yet to grow into the festering hate I would harbor in later years.
- Eventually In Utero is released, forcing me to reconsider my lukewarm attachment to said band. I look into the albums prior to Nevermind and am pleasantly surprised to find music that I enjoy.
- I see Nirvana in concert at the San Diego Sports Arena on Decemeber 29, 1993, coincidentally one year to the day before I would move away from my hometown, my life ripped to shreds.
- Cobain dies, I am really not that affected although a future girlfriend at the time is terribly unhappy as she is a huge Nirvana fan, and Kurt’s body is found on her birthday
- Unplugged is released posthumously, and keeps me warm during the cold Colorado nights. Almost.
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Nirvana played a benefit concert I was working in summer ’92. The benefit was against a ballot measure that would legalize discrimination against gays. Mudhoney also headlined. Nirvana came out in tutus, dancing to Tori Amos’s version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kurt Cobain told us Courtney Love was a hermaphrodite, so that made him gay. It was a great show.
Harboring just a little hatred about leaving SD, CA are we… 🙂 — just fucking with you!
Nirvana played a benefit concert I was working in summer ’92. The benefit was against a ballot measure that would legalize discrimination against gays. Mudhoney also headlined. Nirvana came out in tutus, dancing to Tori Amos’s version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kurt Cobain told us Courtney Love was a hermaphrodite, so that made him gay. It was a great show.
Harboring just a little hatred about leaving SD, CA are we… 🙂 — just fucking with you!