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band disappeared for nearly five months.
    AARON BURCKHARD: I was drunk and I got Kurt’s car impounded—that’s why he fired me!
    RYAN AIGNER: I remember when they lost Aaron. He was a liability because he was a little older and he had an interest in girls and drinking that at times superseded the interests of the band, and that became the biggest drawback … he was one of these guys who didn’t feel the need to go get the Black Flag tattoo. What Kurt and Krist were looking for was one hundred percent dedication—they expected you to morph into one hundred percent of what they were doing. I’m not sure what it would have taken to convince them of that total commitment.
    The band’s uncertain status was all-pervasive, and with only six shows all year it wasn’t clear if it was anything more than a hobby. Similarly, their diverse early sound made it unclear if these were Melvins clones, a New Wave act, or a hard-rock/punk-fusion outfit. The most telling sign was that they couldn’t even settle on a name. Cobain knew that a name was crucial in creating connections to a musical legacy.
    JACK ENDINO, Skin Yard: Kurt used “Kurdt” a few times as a subtle tip of the hat to the only other famous musician to ever emerge from Aberdeen, Washington, prior to Nirvana: local legend, guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof, cofounder of the Northwest-based band Metal Church (with several major-label records in the ’80s) … Metal Church was huge here, and if not for Nirvana, Vanderhoof would probably still be the only successful musician to have ever emerged from Aberdeen. You can bet every kid who grew up in tiny Aberdeen in the ’80s knew who he was.
    Summing up 1987: little had changed. Cobain started a band, as he had in two previous years, but the public results amounted to two house parties, a college show, and three run-throughs in Tacoma—leaving perhaps one hundred witnesses. They could feel encouraged that they’d made it onto radio … Yet not one person interviewed mentioned having heard it. Nirvana didn’t exist. A nameless hobby band from a tiny Northwest town got on the road … But there were no guarantees the road led anywhere.

 
    2.0
    The First Album: Nirvana in Studio
    January 1988
    Cobain and Novoselic wanted to greet the New Year by making progress, so they booked time at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle for January 23 under the name Ted Ed Fred. The timing would become a trend; 1992 would be the only year they didn’t record in January. Some people hit the gym, Nirvana made music. Before the recording, they first had to return to Aberdeen, where they hammered out three practices at the home of Melvins drummer Dale Crover, who was temporarily substituting as drummer.
    JOHN PURKEY: At a Community World Theater show that Dave Foster played at, Kurt finally had made me a copy of the first demo tape. I’d heard it from Jim May, who ran the Community World Theater, and Kurt had given him a copy to get a show there and then I heard it and was like, Oh my God, I’ve got to get a copy of it … I had a dream and I told Kurt about it. We were walking back, we walked up to his car, he got the tape, the other side was Montage of Heck, and he gives it to me and we’re walking back and I said, “Kurt, I had the weirdest dream, I was in the Coliseum watching you guys play in front of thousands of people…” I don’t remember what his response was—it wasn’t like, Whoa, really?! It was more like, Whoa, cool. I remember the dream to this day; being in there with thousands of people watching those guys play—in my mind the music was that good.
    CHRIS QUINN, Sister Skelter: The first time I ever met Kurt was at a party in Olympia, late ’87. Dale from the Melvins was there—I asked how he was doing. He explained, “Oh, I’m doing this thing with this guy,” and he points over and