Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

Author:Michael Azerrad [Azerrad, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Music, Genres & Styles, Rock
ISBN: 9780307833730
Google: qrSDPW6G5ZIC
Amazon: B00ATLAB3G
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 1993-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

Because of Washington state’s harsh alcohol laws, there wasn’t any hard liquor available, so someone smuggled in a half gallon bottle of whiskey and hid it in the photo booth, where those in the know retired for a quick snort of Jim Beam. Soon everyone was quite plowed. They got DJ Bruce Pavitt to ditch Nevermind and play the trashiest new wave and disco music they could find. After the band finished ripping all the posters off the walls, Chris heaved a tamale at Kurt and Dylan Carlson. Kurt remembers retaliating with a salvo of guacamole. (“Actually, it was a Green Goddess herb dip,” corrects Nirvana fan club president Nils Bernstein, who catered the party.) Soon, food was flying everywhere, with no regard for the industry geeks whose suits were getting splattered with food. And that was when Nirvana got kicked out of their own record release party.

They all piled into a Cadillac that Geffen/DGC Northwest promo woman Susie Tennant had rented for the occasion and the party raged on into the wee hours of the morning at her house. As everyone was leaving, Bruce Pavitt was down on the street, sitting on the curb and puking into the gutter as he waited for a cab. Kurt took this opportunity to lean out the window and pelt him with eggs.

Everyone knew they had a good album, but the plan was that if the management worked really, really hard and the label worked really, really hard and the band worked really, really hard, then maybe—just maybe—they could have a gold record by September of 1992.

The band got an inkling of things to come at an in-store appearance at Beehive Records in Seattle’s University District. The band played a set to a packed house and afterward were besieged by autograph seekers. “There were all these weird, fawning people,” recalls Dylan Carlson, who happened to work there. “These three guys from the Green River Community College radio station, Kurt was talking to them and telling them about Bikini Kill and how they should listen to them. These three guys didn’t want to hear that. They just wanted to talk to Kurt and to touch Kurt and get an autograph.” Then a couple of geeks Kurt remembered from Montesano showed up. “I realized that if people you went to high school with—especially in Montesano—were aware that I was a rock star in Seattle, then it was getting kind of big,” Kurt says. Afterward, Chris, Kurt, Dave, and a small group of friends retreated to a bar and got promptly and thoroughly trashed.

Then it was off to Toronto to begin a headlining tour, which kicked off September 20, four days before Nevermind was released. Along for the ride on different legs of the tour were opening bands the Melvins on the East Coast and Canada, Das Damen and Urge Overkill in the south and Midwest and Sister Double Happiness on the West Coast. For the occasion, Kurt put a sticker on his guitar that read “VANDALISM: BEAUTIFUL AS A ROCK IN A COP’S FACE” (“Corn on the cops! Corn on the cops!”).

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