Every moment of "Beeswax" is perfect. Best song. Thanks, FMDave Grohl, for giving me my go-to beat every time I sit behind a kit.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:48 am Every moment of "Beeswax" is perfect. Best song. Thanks, FMDave Grohl, for giving me my go-to beat every time I sit behind a kit.

That’s Dale Crover!

tallchris wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:02 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:48 am Every moment of "Beeswax" is perfect. Best song. Thanks, FMDave Grohl, for giving me my go-to beat every time I sit behind a kit.

That’s Dale Crover!

I kind of feel bad for Chad Channing, who wasn’t a terrible drummer, but man can you tell the difference when Dave Grohl, Dale Crover, or Dan Peters was working with them.

tallchris wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:02 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:48 am Every moment of "Beeswax" is perfect. Best song. Thanks, FMDave Grohl, for giving me my go-to beat every time I sit behind a kit.

That’s Dale Crover!

Ain't that some shit!

FMGrohl, please send Dale Crover my regards.

My first concert without my parents was Nirvana at the Metro in 1991. In my brain it was before Nevermind came out, but it had been out a few months, I know I had not seen the Smells Like Teen Spirit Video before the show. I had discovered skateboarding a couple years prior and thanks to a subscription to Thrasher and some skate videos I started investigating "underground" music. My cousin took notice and a few weeks before the show spun Bleach for me and I dug how it was metal and punk (to my 11 year old years), and somehow he conned my Mom to let him take me to the show. It just obliterated my mind, the energy in room, the bass drum in your chest, and it was kind of scary. Anyway, that was it, I wanted in this whole music thing. It was wild how after the show they seemed to explode over night and every yahoo in my class wanted the Nevermind tape for Christmas. A few years after In Utero came out, 96 or so, I was just done with Nirvana, just heard them too much or something. Stopped listening to them completely.

I didn't really listen to them again until they did the Bleach reissue in 09, and I went over to Reckless and bought the record and was like, "Oh, hey, yeah, these guys are good and enjoyable to listen too." It took a decade break, but I enjoy listening to Nirvana again. A pretty great band. As many had said, really helped me discover other bands (god I was so nuts for The Breeders), always thankful for that. NC.

kicker_of_elves wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:36 am

Geiginni wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:17 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:14 am In retrospect, it's surreal that a depressed high school drop out from rural coastal Washington became the biggest rock musician of his era (and this is before you could just post your tracks on Youtube or make some Tik-Toks). Seriously, it's still one of the most grey, depressing places I've ever visited.

I’ve visited Olympic NP at least once and sometimes twice a year over the past five years plus at least 3 other times between 2009 and 2015. It’s pretty bleak, even in August. Eureka, CA and Escanaba, MI have similar vibes but aren’t quite the level of depressing that Aberdeen/Hoquiam achieves.

Which is interesting to me, as only 50 miles away is one of the most heavenly landscapes on earth. Had young Kurt been able to don a pack and visit Enchanted Valley, the upper Hoh River, High-Divide and Burroughs Range, or even the North Coast of the park, I wonder what influence those experiences might have had on his adult life. Perhaps an illustration of how important a program like Outdoor School can be to kids from similar backgrounds growing up in the Northwest.

NC.

17-19 year old me got a lot of enjoyment and mileage from those first few albums.

We took a trip to Seattle about 5 years ago, and came back to MN via the Empire Builder. We drove to the coast, and then through Aberdeen on to Portland. We stopped by the Kurt house, poked around the bridge, looked at the memorial, got sad, ate a burger at some local mom n pop greasy spoon, and got the fuck out. I can see why Kurt was depressed.

Yeah, there's something about Aberdeen that's different from other sort of rust belt towns that one might compare it to, but I've never been able to put my finger on what it is exactly. A unique kind of bleakness to the place that I haven't really felt anywhere else.

I always thought Nirvana was kind of a dorky name, very hippy-like and really had nothing to do with their music, which was decidedly not psychedelic. Even worse an actual psychedelic band had it before them.

So last night I was watching Death Wish II (dire, and absolutely shit Jimmy Page soundtrack) and the primary baddie's name is Nirvana. I've never heard this association, but I've now decided that the band was named after this character. Not at all far-fetched when you consider the Page connection, and the popularity of naming your band after schlocky film characters at the time (Mudhoney, Faster Pussycat, Boss Hogg, Pussy Galore, Tuscadero, Rodan, etc....)

zorg wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:39 pm I always thought Nirvana was kind of a dorky name, very hippy-like and really had nothing to do with their music, which was decidedly not psychedelic. Even worse an actual psychedelic band had it before them.

There was also a Swedish death metal band called Nirvana (later Nirvana 2002).

zorg wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:39 pm I always thought Nirvana was kind of a dorky name, very hippy-like and really had nothing to do with their music, which was decidedly not psychedelic. Even worse an actual psychedelic band had it before them.

Maybe it's generational (I don't mean to surmise yr place in the cosmos) but I've always considered Nirvana to be an exceptional name as well as thinking of a handful of guitar squalls on Bleach as pointedly psychedelic. To my ears the name suits a blissfully noisy cathartic realm they created with their sound in the before times. I can see someone younger having a different take tho - again, I don't mean to take a stab at yr age or nothin'.

I am fairly sure “Nirvana” was a pointedly ironic choice.

Krev wrote:

zorg wrote: I always thought Nirvana was kind of a dorky name, very hippy-like and really had nothing to do with their music, which was decidedly not psychedelic. Even worse an actual psychedelic band had it before them.

There was also a Swedish death metal band called Nirvana (later Nirvana 2002).

This may be an old man observation, but I don’t think this was such a thing before internet search engines were a thing.