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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
atari, where is that "nirvana timeline" thing you pasted from? I'd like to read that.
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http://www.nirvanaguide.com/1991.php
(I don't have many Nirvana bootlegs. I mean, I could, but that stuff will be going around for a long while I think. I can always get it later. It'd be fun though have the one for the 10/05/91 show, even though it's incomplete and just an average audience recording. It took place soon after the club moved to its present location. (There's been lots of locations).
They played the next night at The Masquerade in Atlanta. I think those were at least six dollars. I wasn't at that show, but I attended other shows with prices from six to ten during the early nineties at that venue. And it went up from there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit
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The first show at the Washington St. 40 Watt was the Dinosaur, Jr./My Bloody Valentine and I remember some of the local bar folk being put-off that the show was five (maybe it was six) dollars, and maybe that's one reason why the Nirvana was so cheap. (rates soon started going up all over town eventually). Anyway, some friends and I, including yeah um hm won't say, sneaked into this loud (other thread). It was still packed. We did it by creating our own stamp using markers and paper. There was a stencil part and there was a "stamp" part. (I kept the paper for a long time but it became, well, lost). It was all my girlfriend at the time's idea. On the benches outside, I made the template for the makeshift stamp and stencil by making a scale drawing of it hand-modeled by a friend of a friend who had already gone in before the show and come back outside for a minute. It was good enough to fool the door guy.
I have another story about that same door dude and another incident, but it's a bit more risque...