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Drummer of Nirvana (early years)
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You heard that kick-snare thud on 'Spank Thru', raw, unpolished, and swinging just off the grid, and that was me laying down the first recorded drum tracks for what would become Nirvana’s identity. Before Cobain found his final rhythm section, I shaped their early live chaos with a style rooted in punk urgency and garage-band swing, not metronomic precision. I tuned my drums low, hit hard, and left space for feedback and noise to breathe, because in Olympia ’87, tightness wasn’t the goal; feeling was. My kit sat in the back of a rusted-out van between shows at the Community World Theater and the OK Hotel, and every cracked snare head told a story about rehearsal spaces that smelled like damp carpet and cigarette smoke. I didn’t stay long, but those first demos and basement tapes captured something irreplaceable: the sound of a band learning how to be dangerous before they knew how famous it would make them.
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