Kurt Cobain, every mention
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Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- ▶ 19:19 Guy Raz The most significant Seattle artist, him and Cobain, right?
- ▶ 39:05 Jonathan Poneman In this particular case, I asked if he'd heard anything that was blowing his mind, and he mentioned this guy who, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:39 Guy Raz Um, alright, so you meet Kurt and, uh, Chris Novoselic. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Guy Raz Kirk was like, yeah,
- ▶ 52:07 Guy Raz So this gets some attention, a little bit of attention, but Nirvana is still far from being a household name, and Kurt Cobain is far, far from being a household name, but it's clear that, that, that this, there's some legs to this band,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:03 Bruce Pavitt Well, that summer, the summer of 1990, John had recommended that I go visit Kurt down in Olympia, and that he had heard rumors that there may be some major label activity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:49 Jonathan Poneman I have a little bit of a different take on it than Bruce does, and that is, there actually were bands that had been already headed towards the majors, but I also remember Kurt, as I had mentioned earlier in this conversation, I remember… 2 times in the scene