Wow, did I stumble across a gem of rock and roll history! Rare rehearsal footage from Nirvana in Aberdeen, Washington back in 1987, four years before the band put Seattle on the map and started a grunge music revolution! Most of the songs are from my favorite (and the first) Nirvana album, Bleach, minus Immigrant Song, Big Long Now and Hairspray Queen.
It’s a cool video, shot in someone’s baren home that is littered with beer bottles, and it shows a very young Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and then Nirvana drummer, Chad Channing. Their first studio album wouldn’t be released for two more years, and it would be four more years before they hit the big time.
If you’re ever in Aberdeen, you must check out the Kurt Cobain memorial. It’s a concrete guitar sculpture near the Young Street bridge, where Kurt used to hang out as a kid. I’m usually in the area once a year or so, I swear, next time I’ll take lost of pics of the area, and Kurt’s memorial, and do a story about it. Aberdeen is a pretty depressed town these days and people generally only stop by on their way to the ocean – or to visit because of Nirvana.
April 5, 2013 will mark the 19th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s tragic death. Last month he would have celebrated his 46th birthday. [Feb. 20 1967].
Recently Dave Grohl, who joined Nirvana as their drummer in 1990, said in an interview that performing Nirvana songs isn’t something he wants to do because that music was sacred to him. “There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night. Because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.”
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