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Another hometown hero of sorts for us Seattleites. Actually, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic were from Aberdeen/Hoquiam, where I spent a bunch of time working on my book about hate crimes, Death on the Fourth of July. A more bleak upbringing I could not really imagine, except maybe in Forks. Anyway, this is another cover, this time of a great David Bowie song from the era when Bowie was a great songwriter.

Taking the cue from Gordon ... It was 15 years ago tomorrow that I rode my bike past Kurt Cobain's house and knew there was something wrong from all the police cars outside. On my way home that night, the crowds had already gathered.

"Dumb" was always one of my favorite Nirvana songs, especially because I could see someone from Aberdeen writing it.

C&L's Late Night Music Club with Nirvana

I've touched on many different genres in music so far as the club gets underway and I wanted to link to the band that shifted Rock music away from the "hair bands" of the eighties into the Seattle grunge movement of the nineties. That band was Nirvana.

"All Apologies," is one of my favorite songs from their album titled "Nirvana."

Update: It was originally recored on "Utero"

"With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their 1991 album Nevermind, Nirvana exploded into the mainstream, bringing along with it an offshoot of punk and alternative rock that the mainstream media of the time referred to as grunge...read on

I'm still looking for a cool name for the club, so please keep your ideas coming. I've also enlisted a former music executive to help me develop and run this endeavor.