Have I mentioned I’m a sucker for oral histories before? Well, Vero knows this and she finds the greatest oral histories involving topics I enjoy.
This was another one of those books that were hanging around the house and I would read a page here and there when I could. But no more! 2025 is clearly the year to stop doomscrolling and start reading books.
I thought this book had a slow burn of a start. Things started getting interesting for me when they started playing proper gigs in Seattle. It was also really interesting to understand how mindboggling it was to be the number one musical celebrity on the planet when you weren’t even thinking of that outcome.
I did find the end of the book a bit weak. An entire year is fit into two chapters. HOWEVER, perhaps that is sometimes how oral histories go…you get a lot more information about the time someone spent with a band, and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lof of interaction with the band and others once they became huge and were surrounded by security or had to run off to do TV interviews and sign autographs.
For mega-fans of Nirvana, it’s a great read.