The Road To Nirvana

Download or read book Route 666 written by Gina Arnold and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores mainstream society's embrace of alternative rock, chronicles the postpunk years, and interviews such musicians as Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, and Paul Westerberg of the Replacements

Download or read book Nirvana - A Tour Diary: My Life on the Road with One of the Greatest Bands of All Time written by Andy Bollen and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nirvana first exploded onto the music scene in 1991 with the anthemic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', few people could've predicted their subsequent global impact. No one knew then that Nevermind would become one of the seminal albums of the decade, selling over 30 million copies worldwide and spearheading a whole new 'grunge' movement. In so doing, the band's lead singer Kurt Cobain was transformed into one of music's most enduring and iconic figures.As drummer for the British group Captain America - one of the two support bands on Nirvana's Nevermind UK tour - Andy Bollen had a ringside seat at the exact moment that Nirvana went massive. Afforded the sort of access a journalist could only dream of, Andy Bollen wrote up his own personal diary in Nirvana's dressing room. Here, he spoke candidly to Cobain: from his fears of losing original fans to his love of the Bay City Rollers. He saw firsthand how Nirvana worked, the relationships that made them tick and the dynamic that made them one of the great bands.Nirvana - A Tour Diary is a warm, affectionate, funny and, at times, brutally honest account, written by a guy on the periphery, waiting in the wings, a mixture of Woody Allen's Zelig and Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Drawing on diaries kept at the time, the book brings to life a pivotal moment in rock history making it a must-read for the many millions of Nirvana fans and lovers of iconic rock stories everywhere. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be there, backstage, at the start of the Nirvana phenomenon, then read on ...

Download or read book I Found My Friends written by Nick Soulsby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the short and tempestuous times of Nirvana through the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band.

Download or read book Experiencing Nirvana written by Bruce Pavitt and published by Bazillion Points LLC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Nirvana is a photo journal, grunge rock micro-history and an inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the touring life of Nirvana. In this brief period, the young band goes from breaking up in Rome to winning over the influential British music press at Sub Pop's LameFest U.K. showcase in London, setting the stage for their imminent popularity. Opening for Tad and Mudhoney at the Astoria Theatre in 1989, Nirvana's heart-pounding performance won over the crowd and changed the band's fate.

Download or read book Anything But Nirvana written by Eric Gladstone and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Rock Journalist Eric Gladstone revisits unforgettable interviews and iconic moments with many of the most famous artists of '90s music including the Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Sonic Youth, Weezer, Ween, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey and many more--over 30 articles not seen since their original publication, most newly expanded with unseen material and annotations by the author.

Download or read book Running Nirvana written by Greg McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Running Nirvana, world-renowned running coach Greg McMillan shares the top lessons he teaches his runners. Successful with beginners, age groupers, and Olympians, Greg simplifies the often confusing world of training, injury prevention, running form, nutrition, and brain training. When you get it all right, your training improves, and you have more of those amazing runs where you feel like you are flying-running nirvana. Running Nirvana provides numerous "aha" moments as Coach Greg helps you better understand yourself as a runner and how your training must sync with your life, your strengths, and your passions. You'll learn how to optimize each and every run. You'll learn tips and tricks for improving your running form. You'll learn how to finally kick the injury bug once and for all with just a few core, mobility, and strength exercises. You'll learn how to eat for daily performance, sustained training, and optimal racing. You'll learn strategies to stay motivated and win the battle between your ears. And finally, you'll learn to race to your fullest potential. (Plus, you get training plans from 5K to the marathon too!) Get ready to elevate your running with Running Nirvana.

Download or read book Come As You Are written by Michael Azerrad and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination” “Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard “Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana—the only book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates—now updated to include a final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, Come As You Are is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s.