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Nirvana Museum Exhibit to Open in Seattle
- Posted on Oct 15th 2010 12:00PM by John D. Luerssen
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"I'm really excited for Nirvana to be a touchstone for this exhibition -- and especially proud that it's happening at Experience Music Project," the band's co-founding bassist Krist Novoselic said in statement. "It's great that there will soon be a collection that celebrates that contribution to music and culture. There's a story with Nirvana at its center, but it's a story that also includes the many people, bands and institutions that make up a music community."
"The show is a celebration of Northwest music," Novoselic added, going on to describe Nirvana's late frontman Kurt Cobain, who died in April 1994, as "a visionary artist who touched people all over the world."
The exhibit, which will be accompanied by a new, 250-page book on the band called 'Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind,' will include rare and unseen pieces like a high school era painting by Cobain of aging, Reagan-era punks, a Teac reel-to-reel tape machine owned by Mari Earl, Cobain's aunt, on which a young Kurt recorded material for his early bands, handwritten lyrics for the songs 'Spank Thru' and 'Floyd the Barber,' plus numerous instruments, including pieces of the first guitar that Cobain ever destroyed onstage.
The exhibit opens April 16 and will run for a year.
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Thora Vitalone
Holy shit, this is awsome; I love Nirvana, How much will it be to park, get in, ect.?
Vasu Murti
The exhibition should showcase not just Nirvana but the entire grunge scene, which put a spotlight on the entire Pacific Northwest.
Grunge first came on the scene at the end of 1991, when Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a hit single and the album from which it came -- Nevermind -- went to # 1 -- bumping Michael Jackson off the charts. (That's always a good thing!)
Grunge bands from the Pacific Northwest like Pearl Jam and the Screaming Trees soon began receiving widespread airplay here in Northern California. Although released in 1991, Pearl Jam's "Evenflow" was on the air constantly throughout the SF Bay Area in 1992.
Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic said: "There's a story with Nirvana at its center, but it's a story that also includes the many people, bands and institutions that make up a music community."
"The show is a celebration of Northwest music," Novoselic added.
Agreed. And that's the reason the exhibition should showcase not just Nirvana but the entire grunge scene, which put a spotlight on the entire Pacific Northwest.
lovskislopwo
a Teac reel-to-reel tape machine owned by Mari Earl, Cobain's aunt, on which a young Kurt recorded material for his early bands, handwritten lyrics for the songs 'Spank Thru' and 'Floyd the Barber,' plus numerous instruments, including pieces of the first guitar that Cobain ever destroyed onstage.My boyfriend and i both think so ...He is almost 11year older than me .i met him via kissmilita ry.c oma nice place for s'ee'king Army, Navy, Mari'nes, Air Force, Police Force and their admires.just love it
l1a1h1
I like rock and roll, but I never got into these guys. Enunciation, rhyme, and meaningful, uplifting lyrics are apparently gone for good. Moody Blues are gods.
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