The band gets rudely interrupted by a giant Cockroach which the interviewer promptly stomps into the pavement.

Interviewer: “I hate those motherfuckers!”

Chad: “You can freeze those things, then put them into water and they come back to life.”

Krist: “You can take a fly and put it into the refrigerator for a minute or two until it gets really slow, then you take it out and get a hair and tie it around it and when it comes back to life you’ll have it on a leash!”

Kurt: “We won’t pull our hair out, we’ll just tie a fly onto the end of each hair.”

Jason: “It will be kinda like GBH, but more like a Van Der Graft Generator effect.”

Interviewer: “But when you head bang you’ll smash them all together.”

Krist: “Then they’ll all calm down for a minute.”

Kurt: “Yeah but they only live for like 3 days.”

Krist: “That’s only some flies, some of them live a little longer.”

Interviewer: “4 days.”

Jason: “I had a fly die in my hand once.”

Interviewer: “So what kind of a name is Nirvana for a kick ass rock and roll band?”

Jason: “It has a nice ring to it.”

Krist: “It does you know, it’s a real effective name. There’s two other bands named Nirvana. Nirvana means..”

Kurt: “Freedom from pain and suffering in the external world.”

Auburn, WA, 1989.

Today in 1989, Nirvana performed at J.C. Dobbs in Philadelphia, PA.

Seattle, WA, 1989.

“Bleach just seemed to be really one-dimensional. All the songs are slow, and grungy, and they’re tuned down to really low notes, and I screamed a lot.” - Kurt Cobain.

Jason Everman: “Seattle in the past has been totally overlooked, and there are a lot more quality bands in Seattle per capita than anywhere else.”

Interviewer: “Why do you suppose that is?”

Jason: “Because it rains all of the time and we have nothing better to do.”

Today in 1989, Nirvana had a photoshoot with Alice Wheeler. Special thanks to Sub Pop.

February, 1988 - After going through ‘Pen Cap Chew’, ‘Ted Ed Fred’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Skid Row’, ‘Throat Oyster’, and others. The band finally decides on a name - ‘Nirvana’.

2/25/89 - University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2/10/89 - Covered Wagon Saloon, San Francisco, CA.

2/25/89 - Husky Union Building, Seattle, WA.