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My friend was at that show (Buffalo '93). The recording really doesn't do it justice, but there's a brief clip on youtube (it's a Boredoms montage, including footage from the '93 Nirvana tour) somewhere...
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05.03.2008, 01:49 AM | #22 |
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My band Kai Kln got the opening slot for Nirvana and Dino Jr 06/17/91 - Crest Theatre, Sacramento, CA (http://www.nirvanaguide.com/1991.php). We traded our band's shirts for Dino Jr.'s shirts and got to meet everyone backstage. When The Year Punk Broke there's a scene with Dino Jr. eating lunch at some festival and one of them has our band's shirt on. There's my 15 min of fame story being that my band ended up making it much farther than North CA...
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05.03.2008, 01:58 AM | #23 |
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Let me remind everyone that I have that movie on my sig.
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05.03.2008, 02:49 AM | #24 | |
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With Nirvana it was so fucking weird because the first time I saw them was at this tiny dive in Seattle called Squid Row and they were opening for Skin Yard (who I'd gone to see) and there were literally like 5 people in the audience. I'd never heard of them at all and they were way more metal at that time than even later on when they'd do Bleach stuff, but they were so fucking amazing I was in shock. I left after they played because I didn't want to see another band that night as it couldn't be as good, and I literally said out loud to myself, "That's the best band in the world, and nobody will ever know!" Now, of course I was half right and half way wrong, and later when they got bigger in Seattle I remember agreeing with a friend that if they ever got a big label behind them they'd probably be huge since they had this incredible pop underbelly that the other "Seattle Sound" (we didn't use the word grunge yet, though we called them "grungy") bands didn't have. But when I first saw that band, they were the most personal underground experience ever. I knew that stuff was going on in my hometown that was more intense than anything in Rolling Stone or on the radio, and I didn't quite get yet that it would be found out, and bought out. I just watched '91 myself too, for the first time since '92 actually! It was like I remembered, awesome live performances, and a lot of bored tour bullshit in between. Like you point out, that seemed to be part of the statement, that the vitality of the movement was being eaten just as it was recognized for that same vitality. Underground bands that shred it up completely in small clubs get recognized for it at last and suddenly they are playing to thousands of small clubs at one time all crowded into one big arena - and then they are doing that every night and traveling the world while seeing none of it, and they are utterly fucking bored. Except while they were on stage, at least still at that point. Daddy's little girl, 'aint a girl no more. |
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