Band Introduction Nirvana is a rock band born in the late 1980s. They became popular all over the world in the 1990s and still have countless fans today.
Team nationality: United States
Formation time: 1987
Disbandment time: 1994
Style type: Grunge
< p> Band website:nirvana.com/ (Nirvana Chinese website) [Edit this paragraph] Band member lead guitar/vocalist: Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) The soul of the NIRVANA band, is the grunge rock music scene Representative of style.
Kurt was born on February 20, 1967. His parents divorced when he was 8 years old, and he lived with his mother. He got his first guitar on his 14th birthday and has been inseparable from rock music ever since. He formed the world-shaking band Nirvana with his teenage friend Chris Novoselic and later Dave Grohl. Curt and Nirvana achieved great success in the rock world, and people still find it incredible today. Critics praised the impact and shocking power of Kurt's music, and thousands of people around the world were fascinated by their music. Their success brought a revolution to the underground music scene, and the Grunge flag has been flying high ever since. After achieving great success, Kurt Cobain could not bear the burden of fame. He finally discovered that behind those honors and cheers, people did not really understand his music, but just followed it blindly. He felt deep down. Due to the sadness and loneliness, he had no choice but to escape from psychedelics and anesthesia. Finally, one day in April 1994, he ended his life with a bullet, and Nirvana also disbanded.
Bass: Krist Novoselic Nirvana's bass player. Chris sometimes spells his name as Krist, just like Kurt likes to use Kurdt, and Cobain is also Kobain. Krist was born in Compton, California on May 16, 1965, to parents who were immigrants from Croatia. The family moved to Aberdeen in 1979. Like Kurt, Krist is quiet, dull, and only likes to listen to rock music. His parents divorced in 1983, and he graduated from high school with nothing to do and stayed at home to practice guitar. Rehearsing at the Melvins led him to meet Kurt, and the two fell in love and became best friends.
Drummer: Dave Grohl In 1987, Aaron Burckhard became their drummer. In 1988, Nirvana signed with Sub Pop. Since Burckhard often did not participate in the band's rehearsals, he was replaced by Chad Channing. Channing left Nirvana in February 1989, and Dave Grohl joined: Dave Grohl. Born on January 14, 1969 in Warren, Ohio. His parents divorced when he was 6 years old. He formed his first band in high school while playing guitar. When he found that the band drummer's skills were too rough, he sat in front of the drum stand and practiced his drumming skills crazily. He frantically picked up the drums, and joined the local Scream as a drummer when he was 16 years old, and dropped out of school. In September 1990, when Dave< /p>
The band's Scream tour went to Los Angeles. The band's bassist quit due to relationship problems, and the tour was stopped. Dave was cash-strapped and in a dilemma. His friend Osborne of the Melvins asked him to contact Nirvana. After a brief conversation, Dave immediately flew to Seattle. [Edit this paragraph] Development history In the 1990s, the unemployment crisis in the United States resurfaced, punk music exploded again in the music industry, and Seattle's Grunge music storm caused a strong response and sensation. It was against this background that Nirvana was born. The band was formed by Kurt Cobain and former The Melvins member Krist Novoselic formed it. Dave Grohl fixed the drummer position during the recording of the second album "Nevermind". Kurt Cobain was responsible for lead vocals and guitar, and Chris was responsible for bass guitar.
In November 1988, Nirvana released its first Single: Love Buzz/Big Cheese, and in June 1989, it released its first album "Bleach". On Nirvana's first album, Dale crover was responsible for the drums of Floyd the Barder, Paper Cuts, and Downer, with Chad Channing responsible for the rest. The recording fee for the album was 6.17, and the person who paid for it was Jason Everman, whose name was not even mentioned in the album. The recording time of the album is 30 hours. Downer is only included in the CD version.
The record was released by Sup Pop Records and remastered by Geffen Company in April 1992.
In April 1991, Nirvana officially signed a contract with Geffen Records. In September of the same year, the album "Nevermind" was released. Its sales reached 500,000 copies in just 5 weeks after its release. It was also on the charts and rising steadily. On January 11, 1992, it became the number one selling album in the United States and its global sales. Over the 10 million mark. It was a huge commercial success. The single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" quickly climbed up the US BillBoard Billboard Chart. "Nevermind" brought Nirvana to success, but also began a myth and a spiritual tragedy.
After the huge success of "Nevermind", Nirvana collected the previous Singles' Side-B songs and some unreleased songs together, and released the album "Nevermind" on December 15, 1992. Incesticide". This is a typical underground music album. They stated that the purpose of launching this record was to test the limits of underground rock acceptance by listeners and radio DJs.
In September 1993, they invited the famous anti-commercial producer Steve Albini to supervise their production and released "In Utero", one of the best punk albums in the history of rock and roll. It is seamless, fully displaying Kurt Cobain's inner mania, anger, depression, distortion, morbidity, and fierce conflicts, while also reflecting Kurt's gentle and emotional side. The Grunge storm reached its peak and was close to burning. Steve Albini attempted to record an authentic punk album. He used a richer musical material than before, and at its core contained Cobain's deepest fears and fragile heart. The direct expression of pain in a song as personal as "Rape Me" can be looked back on now. , could perhaps be seen as a warning that was initially ignored by those closest to the troubled singer. But as art, that's what's so punk about it.
On November 18, 1993, Nirvana was invited to produce the "Unplugged" concert for MTV and performed an extremely beautiful concert.
On March 1, 1994, Nirvana's performance in Munich, Germany became the band's last public performance.
On April 8, 1994, an electrician discovered Kurt's body at his residence with a suicide note next to him. Seattle police confirmed that Kurt Cobain committed suicide three days ago.
In the end, all Nirvana left behind was the restlessness and deepest loneliness in their music.