nirvana ....live in 1989,7th street entry,mpls,mn,ussa

today i am going to tell you about the first time i saw nivana in 1989......it started ,as so many tales from this time frame with my homepiece MCA hurl.Since he was the great white hope to break out from the wrong side of the tracks,hurl diligently worked his way into university of minnesota...im actually lying ,hurl was from a 'normal' family and as far as i member there were no train tracks anywere near his house at all.shit....so yea in hurls bedroom drinking beers,smoking sexy mexi,as were had to due,since there was not many 'plugged in' folks in minneapolis back then....so we went and saw soundgarden at coffman union,so yea i saw soundgarden in the U of M lunchroom,rad huh,which and in my music history is as important a concert as id ever seen for many reasons,but ill write of that show,some other time,some other place.so after picking up my jaw from the ground we walked out and lord ,strike me down if we saw a flyer that thee following night a band called mudhoney were playing at the same venue,under the picture of them rightous hair farmers was a logo that would ,to me define ;a sound,a look,an attitude,it came to represent everything right about music at the end of the 80's and to this day any sub pop band,gets a lookin from me,just by the virtue of the pedigree.
yet i digress,yea ,SUBPOP...so the following night ,im sure a 12 pack of the same beer and maybe the remenants of the same bag of weed,we went to see mudhoney play,now these guys were some strait out freaky stylee's ..i mean mplw had a look and even a sound,and yea we had a scene,fuck...husker du,the replacements,soul asylum..the minneapolis sound...but let me tell you seeing mudhoney was like seeing these guys appeared straight from mars to perform,the hairiest,loudest,brashest,thickest,gooiest raucous rightous noise i had ever heard.and there began my love affair with sub pop and the seattle sound...me and hurl ,shit we practically rode that freak train into town with the bands ,we were hip to them a year before hipsters knew of them,just by dumb luck and the power and look of soundgarden and the sound and attitude of mudhoney ,put it this way it took the hippest record shop downtown to procure mudhoneys superfuzz bigmuff, after like a month of empty promises,but ,im not bragging,lol..well i guess i am...but like i said the bands had the mystique and the look,i was simply an early recogniser of this freak scene .plus id lived in seattle already and was well versed in the pacific northwests massive indoor marijuana industry.so seattle was in my blood.SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.hurl or me ,one of us saw a flyer ,a subpop flyer ..it was a sub pop us assault,or some such shit and i may be wrong but it was vertigo( a mpls band i liked)..a seattle band called TAD ....and a band called NIRVANA...so cue to 7th street entry ,hallowed ground the size of a big living room,the CBGB's of the midwest.....so TAD comes out ,man ...again a whole nothe rblog about tad doyle wouldnt be unthinkable.but TAD has a 400lb ex butcher for a lead singer he came on stage with a big axe or sledge hammer,i forget which but he was intense and menacing and to say they again played in the most mesmorising mix of swirling guitard so thick and fuzzy ,low and slow ,that was the temp[o...so after ttad played i went up to mr TAD  and told him id lived in seatle blablabla,long story,shorter,we ended up downstairs with the band TAD smoking weed with hash oil,god i remember dumb shit,so as we are smoking we startd talking about music after a bit we could here the next band starting,tad says,you should really go see these guys ,they will amaze you,or words to that affect....up those holy steps to the gig were this band were blasting ,with amazing abandon into some song id never heard before,yet to say i was amazed,is not even close...their sound was thick and sludgey like mudhoneys and the lead singer seemed so pissed off and man ,he had hair so long,the whole band did,what im saying is ,god damn those guys looked fucking kool.they played negative creep and i just sat there ans was witness to rock and roll history,i knew i was seeing something diffrent,something that was going to change me forever,i never figured itd be the whole world also.
so the band played on and at the end of the set,these insane lil blond haired dude who was singiong,the guy who was a cross between charles manson and i dont know a long blond haired guy from another planet,so yea he starts smashing his guitar to bits,im like fuck!!!!! this is unsane,wtf...he then dove into the amps,knocking them ober grabbed another guitar as he was kicking the drum over and destroying the whole stage,now id read about this type of shit but to witness in a small,teeny ,tiny room ,was amazing,as was the encore,cobain strapped that unsmashed guitar on dove into the drums,sending shit flying,but then he layed their in the wreckage of the stage,laying sideways in the carnage and played a mind warping 20 minute fuzzgun attack,just riding the nopise wave were ever he wanted to go,but it was a fucking swell ride.....unreal,so yea nirvana fall 89,man ...that was heavyyyyyy.......in a sad footnote to the sad story of cobain ,i saw them after the tour for nevermind,i think he was huge by now,i cant believe they were even playing at first avenue still,yet thats why first ave was the place it was cause everyone had played their ,everyone.but anyway that show,kurt looked so bored and he just was not even the possesed little hellion id witnessed a couple years earlier,oh yea and any of you who were in my life in 1989 will remember,possibly that i had purchased a shirt at the first gi.said nirvana on the front and the 7 circles of hell...as in buhddist text...but on the back..big and bold it said
NIRVANA
crack smokin
fudge packin
satan worshipin
motherfuckers
SUBPOP
and that friend and foe alike...was that.

(c)mh 2011