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there’s this scrawny-looking rocker guy with a jean jacket—he had this Scratch Acid thing he had painted on the back of the jacket—I loved them, so I thought, Whoa, Dale Crover, Scratch Acid … I wanna know what this is! I said hi to him that night, talked about his jacket, Scratch Acid, the whole thing intrigued me.
    RYAN AIGNER: I watched “Hairspray Queen” be composed—Kurt had the vision, he had the parts and the pieces, so much so that he physically showed Krist how to play the bass line—I was physically in the room. It’s a weird bass line, with those slides up and down the neck … When Dale came in, Dale was given the early demos and he got the fundamental idea of things … The fact that Kurt was able to find three drummers in one town willing to play in the band and with the style of music shows that there was a lot of activity and a lot of talent in those days.
    Producer Jack Endino accepted the booking because Crover’s presence reassured him it’d be an interesting band. Others reacted the same way.
    RYAN LOISELLE: It’s 1988, John Purkey played in a badass band, Subvert, and we became really good friends. So he comes into high school with this Nirvana cassette, back when there were cassettes: “Man, you’ve got to hear this! My friend Kurt!” Their first demo with Dale. I felt if Dale was playing drums, then, hell, all right! We played it and knew this is really good, love this … they’re really good, but the reason they were good was because Dale was playing drums … But the other reason was that they’re original and crazy, the recording was awesome … Whatever that demo was, it was the best album.
    Nirvana’s ability to go around making friends was critical—the underground thrived on people knowing people.
    PETER LITWIN, Coffin Break: My standout memory is just what a nice bunch of guys they were. I mostly just knew them back then, from playing some gigs together. Remember, they didn’t live in Seattle at first. I remember Kurt as being a quiet, kind of shy pothead. Krist was supercool and has always been a really friendly guy.
    DAMON ROMERO, Lush: We played a house party with them at our bass player’s house, the Caddyshack, before the Community World Theater show in March … I’d heard their demo tape that Slim had a copy of (I was a DJ at KAOS for a brief time. Kurt gave me the Nirvana cassette demo to play on air. He also gave me his four-track of solo stuff that I played a few times), so seeing those songs live for the first time was amazing. It was a packed house, over capacity, people still out in the front yard—people were going nuts! They hadn’t heard these songs before, but they all loved it—they were awesome. In general, people in the Northwest are kinda subdued, they don’t go crazy all the time, but when Nirvana played people went ape shit. I was blown away: Holy shit, these guys are on a whole ’nother level! … We all knew that punk rock was stuck in the past, people were trying to bring different influences to it, Nirvana were really able to bring the heavy rock sound and the punk rock simplicity together really perfectly. Those songs were amazing—that first set they had. I don’t think this is true, but the sort of mythology that was going around at the time was that the first twelve Nirvana songs were the first twelve songs Kurt had ever written. It’s not true; he had demoed, he had done other stuff … but that was the mystique. It kinda made sense: here’s this kid out of Aberdeen, he’s a brilliant songwriter … Nirvana really did play a lot when they were in Olympia—they’d play parties, they made themselves very accessible, they just had some magic combination that everyone loved them—K Records loved them, the more slick Seattle people liked them.
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