| 1 |
Kurt always spelled 'NIRVANA' in all capital letters. |
| 2 |
Krist lived in Croatia for a year when he was fourteen. |
| 3 |
Nevermind was recorded in the same studio as Fleetwood
Mac's album 'Roumers.' |
| 4 |
Dave Grohl was vice president of his freshman class in
highschool. |
| 5 |
That IS a rubber duck you hear in the Drain You bridge. |
| 6 |
Former Nirvana guitarist Jason Everman played bass in
Soundgarden briefly. |
| 7 |
Kurt Cobain's childhoold idol was Evil Kenevil. |
| 8 |
In Unplugged In New York, Dave plays a bit of 'Scentless
Apprentice' before All Apolgies. |
| 9 |
Nirvana were kicked out of the Nevermind release party for
starting a food fight. |
| 10 |
Kurt co-produced the Melvins' 1994 album 'Hudini.' |
| 11 |
Pat Smear's birth name is Georg Ruthenburg. |
| 12 |
Dave played drums on the 'Back Beat' soundtrack, alongside
R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Soul Asylum's Dave
Pirnir and other alternative music greats. |
| 13 |
J Mascus of Dinosour Jr briefly considered becoming
Nirvana's drummer. |
| 14 |
Krist's mom Maria is still a hairdresser in Aberdeen, WA. |
| 15 |
Krist Novoselic has two cats- Einstien and Doris. |
| 16 |
The pop band Wilson Phillips almost called themselves
'Nirvana.' |
| 17 |
The Nevermind version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is exacly
5 minutes long. |
| 18 |
The naked baby on the Nevermind cover is named Spencer
Elden. |
| 19 |
The 'Sliver' video was taped in Kurt's garage. |
| 20 |
In the 'Teen Spirit' video, Dave is wearing a Scream
t-shirt. |
| 21 |
Pat isn't wearing shoes in Unplugged In New York. |
| 22 |
Nevermind hits Billboard (#144) and Kurt and Courtney
finally start 'going out': 10/12/91. |
| 23 |
'Nevermind' is not a word. To be grammaticly correct, it
should be "Never mind." |
| 24 |
Kurt never paid Jason Everman back the $500 he had loaned
the band to pay for the recording of Bleach. |
| 25 |
At the time he was asked to join Nirvana, Pat Smear worked
in the SST superstore in LA. |
| 26 |
Seattle weather for 4/8/94: Rain, 50 degrees. |
| 27 |
The first song Kurt learned how to play on guitar was 'Back
In Black' by AC DC. |
| 28 |
Nirvana won a Grammy in 1995 for Unplugged In New York. |
| 29 |
Before Nirvana made it big, Shelli Novoselic worked at a
t-shirt booth during their concerts. |
| 30 |
If Frances Bean had been a boy, she would have been named
Eugene. |
| 31 |
The guitar used on the Nevermind recordings of Polly and
Something In The Way had only 5 strings. |
| 32 |
Two lines listed in the Nevermind liner note's 'poem' are
not actually lyrics- they are: 'The second coming came in last and out of
the closet' and 'At the end of the rainbow and your rope' |
| 33 |
Krist grew up on Think Of Me Hill- the tallest hill in
Aberdeen Washington. On clear days, he could get Portland Oregon radio
stations. |
| 34 |
Look closely at the collage in the picture on the back of
Nevermind, and see a tiny picture of Kiss. |
| 35 |
Nirvana appeared on a Kiss tribute album called 'Hard to
Believe.' |
| 36 |
Kurt's phonenumber at his Olympia apartment was 352-0992. |
| 37 |
There are no lyrics to 'tourette's.' |
| 38 |
During the Unplugged session, Nirvana and the Meatpuppets
did a Sweet Home Alabama jam that didn't make it onto the album. |
| 39 |
Heart-Shaped Box won Best Art Direction at the 1994 MTV
Video Music Awards. |
| 40 |
Krist and Kurt both voted for Clinton in the 1992
presidential election. |
| 41 |
There are fourteen words in the song 'School.' |
| 42 |
Nirvana were the second band on Sub Pop to have a written
contract. |
| 43 |
The symbols on the In Utero cover come form the book The
Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects. |
| 44 |
The Sliver single features Dan Peters of Mudhoney on drums. |
| 45 |
Kurt and Courtney liked to check into hotels as 'Mr and Mrs
Simon Richie'- Sid Vicious' real name. |
| 46 |
Kurt claimed to string his guitars with piano strings. |
| 47 |
The In Utero back cover photograph was taken by legendary
Sub-Pop photographer Charles Peterson. |
| 48 |
Krist Novoselic has always been legally 'Krist' although he
used 'Chris' for years. |
| 49 |
The spoken word bit of 'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die' is
actually a Jack Handy 'Deep Thought' from Saturday Night Live. |
| 50 |
Nirvana were opening for the Dharma Bums the night Kurt and
Courtney first met. |
| 51 |
Dave Grohl was in the audience of Nirvana's only show with
Dan Peters. |
| 52 |
Though the song is only 3:06 long, the time for Even In His
Youth is credited as '4:20' on the Smells Like Teen Spirit Single. |
| 53 |
Dave formed his first band with a friend at the age of ten-
'the H.G. Hancock Band.' |
| 54 |
Pat Smear is in the Prince video 'Rasberry Beret.' |
| 55 |
So who is Suzie Tennent, who is mentioned several times yet
never introduced in Come As You Are? Head of DGC Northwest
Relations. |
| 56 |
Live debut of Smells Like Teen Spirit: 4/17/91. |
| 57 |
The first band Kurt and Krist were in together was called
'the Stiff Woodies.' |
| 58 |
Kurt Cobain's mom and Dave Grohl's mom met for the first
time at NIRVANA's 1992 Saturday Night Live proformance. |
| 59 |
Dave has three tattoos of varaiations of John Bonham's
symbol from Led Zeppelin 4. |
| 60 |
Spencer Elden (the Nevermind baby) has a platinum copy of
the album hanging over his bed. |
| 61 |
Kurt and Krist took guitar lessons from the same guy:
Warran Mason. |
| 62 |
The first Jag-Stang was 'True Blue,' the second, 'Fiesta
Red.' |
| 63 |
Courtney married Kurt in a dress that had belonged to
actress Frances Farmer in the 1930s. |
| 64 |
The announcer in the In Bloom video is in fact Robert
Llwelen of The People's Court. |
| 65 |
Nirvana won Best Alternative Video for the 'dresses'
version of the In Bloom video in 1993. |
| 66 |
Krist speaks fleunt Croatian. |
| 67 |
The 'woman' on the In Utero cd is in fact Mike 'Cali'
Dewitt- Frances' nanny- in drag. |
| 68 |
Pat Smear's mom was an opera singer, his dad, an inventor. |
| 69 |
The Sliver single was recorded using TAD's equiptment. |
| 70 |
Kurt did his 'K' tattoo himself. Dave also has several
homemade tattoos. |
| 71 |
The origonal plan for the Lithium video was a cartoon about
a girl named 'Prego.' |
| 72 |
Kurt kept the glasses from the In Bloom video, and wore
them occasionally in mid 1992. |
| 73 |
Nirvana couldn't put 'Blandest' on Incesticide because they
had let Jack Endino tape over the origional recording... the version we
fans have was stolen. |
| 74 |
There are 45 days between Feburary 20th and April 5th... 46
in a leap year. |
| 75 |
The monkey on the back of Nevermind is named Chim Chim. |
| 76 |
The 'real' Chim Chim is on Kurt's favorite cartoon- Speed
Racer. |
| 77 |
Chad Channing took up music following a 'freak gym
accident' that shattered his thigh bone. |
| 78 |
Eric Erlandson uses one of Kurt's guitars in Hole's 'Doll
Parts' video. |
| 79 |
Mike Mills also plays Kurt's Jag Stang in R.E.M's 'What's
the Frequency Kenneth?' video. The guitar is also used in R.E.M.'s tribute
song to Kurt Cobain- 'Let Me In.' |
| 80 |
'Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip' was
recorded in Brazil in January of 1993. |
| 81 |
The 'real' Nirvana font is Bodini Extra Bold Condensed. |
| 82 |
Ways Kurt Cobain has spelled his name: Curt Cobain, Kurdt
Kobain, Kurdt Kobane. |
| 83 |
Date of first instument smashing: 10/30/88. |
| 84 |
Ben Shepard (lately of Soundgarden fame) was a Nirvana
roadie in 1989, and was almost their second guitarist. |
| 85 |
Krist and Shelli were married in their Tacoma apartment on
12/30/89. |
| 86 |
Chad Channing thinks he quit Nirvana. Kurt and Krist think
they fired him. |
| 87 |
It cost $606.17 to record Bleach. Jason Everman contributed
$500 to this, though he didn't play on the album. |
| 88 |
Prospective names for the Nirvana/Screaming Trees hybrid
blues band: "the Jury" or "Lithium." |
| 89 |
The janitor in the Teen Spirit video is a real janitor. He
revives he role in the video for Weird Al Yankovic's parody 'Smells Like
Nirvana.' |
| 90 |
Thank Amy Finnerthy for throwing a 'hissy fit' and getting
Smells Like Teen Spirit debuted on MTV. |
| 91 |
Frances Bean was born on August 18, 1992, at 7:48 a.m. She
was 10 days overdue. |
| 92 |
The first Nirvana t-shirt reads 'Nirvana: Fudge Packin',
Crack Smokin', Satan Worshipin' Motherfuckers.' |
| 93 |
Legendary alternative photographer Micheal Lavine took the
picture on the Sliver single cover. |
| 94 |
Dave Grohl's now ex-wife Jennifer Youngblood did the
Unplugged in New York photography. |
| 95 |
That's Krist dressed up on the cover of The Priest They
Called Him. |
| 96 |
Teen Spirit deoderent came in three scents: Rose, Baby
Powder, and 'California.' |
| 97 |
The Lithium single features an ultrasound picture of
Frances Bean in the liner notes. |
| 98 |
Krist and Shelli met while walking down the hall when they
were in highschool. |
| 99 |
Love Buzz plays in the opening scene of the Drew Barrymore
movie 'Mad Love.' |
| 100 |
Iggy Pop 'has' the song 'Talk To Me,' but hasn't recorded
it... yet. |
| 101 |
Kurt oversaw the final cut of the 'Teen Spirit' video
himself, as he was unsatisfied with Samaul Bayer's cut. |
