Chad Channing, dorm party at The Evergreen State College, 1988.

The unsent letter to Dave Foster (drummer for Nirvana, 1988) - Foster continued to never show up for band rehearsals as he lived several hours away. Kurt Cobain & Krist Novoselic finally decided to fire Foster after he was arrested for assaulting the son of the mayor in Cosmopolis, Washington. He [Dave Foster] was never told he was being let go from the band, he realized his release after seeing a poster featuring ‘Butthole Surfers & Blood Circus w/ Nirvana in Seattle’.

In Utero.

9/25/93 - Saturday Night Live, New York, NY. Nirvana performed “Heart-Shaped Box” & “Rape Me.”

10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.

Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.”

Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”

Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”

Budapest, Hungary, 1989.

Spank Thru [‘Fecal Matter’ Demo Tape, 1985]

“He arrived with a huge notebook full of lyrics, I showed him how to adjust a few things, how to record with the reel-to-reel, and he went right at it. The drums were strong and forceful, and the guitar riffs were fast and furious, with a powerful hook. The lyrical content was rebellious and angry. Mostly slams against society in general. Kurt didn’t like the social ladder in school. Kids thinking they were cool because they wore the “right” clothes or were handsome or pretty, or had money. His songs back then reflected his opinions about these things.” - Mari Earl (Kurt’s aunt).

The Melvins - “Eye Flys”. This song is featured in ‘Kurt Cobain: About A Son’.

From last year: “@NME Meets Nirvana In 1991” - http://bit.ly/ou6lbu

Kurt on the “In Bloom” music video.