COME AS YOU ARE
It’s no exaggeration to say that, were it not for Nirvana, I wouldn’t be typing this. I can’t claim to have been in the moshpit for their set at Reading ’91 – it was probably a little too dangerous for an 11-year-old – but when I formed a band with my friends a few years later, it was Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl who provided the blueprint for pretty much everything. I’d picked up the guitar prior to the grunge explosion and, thanks to the dubious influence of older friends and family members, I was the only kid at my primary school disco asking the DJ to play Guns N’ Roses instead of New Kids On The Block. GN’R were exciting and dangerous, they sang about things I didn’t…
