Welcome back to Nevermind It's An Interview. Inspiration comes in many forms,
and for Nirvana, it came in the form of an obscure Scottish band called the
Vaselines. - ST THOMAS
"Kurt and I were totally into the Vaselines, I mean they were my
favorite band, they still are one of my favorite bands." - KRIST
"Definitely our number one favorite band." - KURT
"We finally got to play with them, they reformed to play with us,
when we played Edinburgh, Scotland, in ah, early winter of 1990 .So
we met Eugene, and kinda kept a rap going with them then we heard
Captain America the band, we heard the tape, we were totally blown
away."- KRIST
"Yeah, that's his new band, Captain America, they're really good."
- KURT
"Eugene's a great songwriter, so, yeah! Captain America's gotta go on
tour with us!" - KRIST
segment of Molly's Lips
"Since our record has done so well, we can open up doors for other
bands, from where we come from, like Sonic Youth or Mudhoney, or the
Melvins, or L7, or Dinosaur Jr. I can just go on and on and on and on"
- KRIST
"I guess the best part would be, being in the position to take
other bands, whom you like a lot, on tour with you. It's definitely a
nice thing to be able to do. We took Shonen Knife, a three piece all
girl Japanese band on tour with us in England, and they've been a
favorite of ours for years, and no one really knows who they are in
England, or anywhere in Europe. And we've taken the Melvins on tour with us,
and in the future, we hope to take Hole, and Jesus Lizard, and a bunch of
other bands who we like." - KURT
segment of Stain
"But nothing really exciting happens on tour. People think that the
'rock star life' is so exciting and it's, y'know you play a show, you
usually get into the town by the time it's dark, and you sound check, and
you don't get to see the city, you play the show and then you leave the
next morning. Y'know, you go to the hotel room, and you leave, and do
the same thing over and over again. It's kinda boring in a way, I mean
still I can't think of anything else I'd rather do, but it's not as
exciting as everyone thinks. But it's getting harder for me to jump out of
the audience now, because the crowds are bigger and some of the people
don't realize that. I don't know what they realize actually, because
they're putting their hands in my pockets and trying to steal my money
and my wallet, and they're they're hitting me really hard and scratching
me, so it's .I dunno, after a while I'm probably not going to be able to
do that anymore. And that's too bad, cause' it's a fun little bonding
thing to do with the audience." - KURT
live version of School
"That's School from the album Bleach recorded live. Nirvana says their next
album will be different, perhaps even more like Bleach"- ST THOMAS
"Well our next record's gonna be different, it's gonna be way
different." - KRIST
"Well I wouldn't want to put out two of the same record" - DAVE
"We'd like to record every song differently" - KURT
"These are just ideas that we have. Y'know, I know, I know it's gonna
be a, a record of extremities." - KRIST
"I think we had our shot at doing the ah, big studio, high-tech Hollywood
thing, whatever y'know I mean, that studio to us, was like, pretty like,
techno. I dunno, maybe we'll do the next record on 8-track." - DAVE
"That will be recorded on 8-track" - KURT
"You can get more low end frequencies out of an 8-track" - DAVE
"Go back to the Bleach sound" - KURT
"Back to that sorta, more along the lines of Bleach" - DAVE
"Cause' I really liked the production of Bleach, and I, I dunno, I felt kinda
weird straying so far away from it" - KURT
"We've got this far, with this record" - DAVE
"There's definitely going to be some more abrasive songs on our next record."
- KURT
"Y'know, we're gonna do something, just totally test the limits" - DAVE
"Really raw and abrasive, to very uh, pretty and candyish." - KRIST
"All the radio listeners, or the MTV watchers, or whoever, just like, really
test them, and shove something totally aggro, in their face, and, and see if
they can handle that." - DAVE
segment of Big Cheese
"Almost anything that's musical, is pop music, as far as I'm concerned. As
long as it's good, and it's catchy, it's pop. And y'know, a lot of punk rock
is pop. I think the only time that punk rock strayed away from pop, was when
hardcore came around, y'know, and there was a lot, y'know, real dirgy stuff
also, like the crossover metal thing, .and I really can't consider a lot of
that music." - KURT
"Y'know, maybe one percent, of the people who are listening to
Nevermind, that ever bought Nevermind, maybe not one percent, but
I'm just saying that this, um, a small minority of people who are
listening to our record now, know about punk rock. A lot of people don't
know about punk rock .they think about punk rock and they think of like
that Quincy episode where the guy threw the brick off the building, and"
- DAVE
"I guess, I dunno, I just don't agree with old punk rock ethos, of
like, you have to starve to be a real artist. It's bullshit." - KURT
segment of Been A Son
"We don't like to think of ourselves as a political band, because
y'know, you tend to become too anal, and it becomes ridiculous, If you
shove it down people's throats y'know, we just ask people to be aware a
little bit, .and I think the songs kinda reflect that." - KURT
"It's just another issue, another topic, like we could talk about
racism, we could talk about feminism, nationalism, I don't really
subscribe to that way of thought, at all." - KRIST
"There's just so much corruption going on with the government, and the
Reagan years have definitely set us back, to where the average teenager
feels kinda lost, and there isn't much hope. They're still at least,
aware of the mistakes that our parent's generation has made .and I just
think that it'll take a little bit of time for kids to start doing the
duties that they're supposed to do, which is challenge things, like
corruption." - KURT
"The way American's money is budgeted by our government, it leaves
nothing to the education system. Teachers are dealing with the future,
y'know, teachers are dealing with kids growing up, who are gonna take
care of me or you, someday. Just the education system in general, in a
lot of places, is really screwed." - DAVE
"Y'know, it's great to get information like that, so you can um, form
your own ideas. It'd be neat, if like y'know, the 60's had a like, Abby
Hoffman, or ah, John Sinclair y'know, Timothy Leary to an extent. And
they were spokes people, and they were shaking things up, and nowadays,
there's not really anybody." - KRIST
album version of Territorial Pissings
"Territorial Pissings from the multi platinum release Nevermind. Since it's
release, the album has topped the billboard charts, and the first single
Smells Like Teen Spirit has become a top-ten hit. The success of Nevermind
has taken a lot of people by surprise including the band." - ST THOMAS
"I'll never get over the shock and that's kinda good." - KURT
"It was, um, sort of a really, whatever, organic thing, there wasn't any
massive hype" - DAVE
"I mean there is definitely no big million dollar investment, in, in
promotion behind this record at all, it's totally organic, and it just
happened." - KURT
"Y'know, whatever's happened, is, was surely out of our control, and I'm
glad it's happened y'know it's nice to sell that many records, it's nice
to turn on people to something different. People tellin' me 'Oh yeah you
guy's record. I think you guys are gonna go platinum' and we're like 'Oh
man .c'mon, y'know, if we get a gold record outta this, that'll be
amazing.'"- KRIST
"It's not my fault. I never wanted the fame involved. That's, That's a
totally different story. I think Paul Stanley (of Kiss) once said
something' like "Only thing that money gives you is relief of not having
to worry about money". Only thing I'd really like to do with it, is to
invest in some bands that I like, I, I don't wanna start my own record
label cause God, I know I couldn't do that. But I'd like to give some money
to some labels who're putting out great music, help in that way. And um,
probably gonna buy a house. Hopefully we can have a recording studio too
a little 8-track recording studio, so we can make good demos. And those are
pretty much the plans and just get some new shoes." - KURT
