Friday, June 24, 2011

NIRVANA - Jason Everman

Year: 1989

It's easy to gloss over Everman's short tenure in the NIRVANA; he was in the band for less than a year, didn't appear on any studio recordings (despite being on the cover of 'Bleach'), and disappeared before the band started picking up notice in 1990. You can see him on the DVD for the WTLO release, playing with Krist, Kurt, and Chad at Rhino Records in 1989, when they were touring with TAD. Jason also played Bass for Soundgarden for a short time, before being kicked out because him and Chris Cornell had a few misunderstandings.

All Cobain really had to say on the matter of Everman leaving the band was that he didn't "fit in."

The general public's contact with Everman has been non-existent, until last year, in an interview with grungereport.net; Everman had seemed to drop off the edge of the Earth. Surprisingly, from the interview he seems to be a pretty well-centered and all around nice dude.

Included with this posts are two shows from the end of Everman's time with the band. July 8th, 1989 features both Kurt and Jason on guitar, while the second, July 15th, 1989, features only Everman playing guitar (as Kurt had broken his guitar two nights before).

It's fucking terrible. But, it's pretty interesting to hear Everman butcher their songs.

1989.07.08 - Live @ Club Dreamerz; Chicago, IL
1989.07.15 - Live at Green Street Station; Jamaica Plain, MA

The band's set is pretty consistent during this period; they play School, Floyd, Love Buzz, Spank Thru, Paper Cuts, Polly, Scoff, Big Cheese, About a Girl, Dive, Negative Creep and Blew, even playing Blandest during their July 9th set (which I've actually never heard a live version of). In the Green Street set, for some reason they skip over Paper Cuts, which isn't surprising for how much of a shitshow it was.

Jason's final show was at the Pyramid Club on July 18th, 1989. A fight broke out during the second song of the set, leading to Everman getting booted and the band cancelling the remaining shows of the tour:


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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 1:18 AM

    Everman also played on a great album by Mindfunk entitled Dropped that was produced by Terry Date... If you dig 90s Seattle, it is a must have...

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  2. mr.AJune 25, 2011 at 1:59 AM

    Thanks for this! Awesome interesting stuff.

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  3. The Thing That Should Not BeJune 25, 2011 at 4:09 AM

    Let's not forget that Everman played bass on OLD's 'Lo Flux Tube' album!!

    Oh, and good call on 'Dropped', a sorely underrated and generally unappreciated record.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 3:23 PM

    Everman moved on to greater things -- he was an Army Ranger and Special Forces soldier and served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He went from being a guitar hero to a real hero.

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  5. Ryan AvellanosaJuly 23, 2011 at 1:20 AM

    thanks .about jason...I could still recall that he played for Nirvana and Soundgarden... so informative..

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  6. AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:53 AM

    I was at that Rhino show and never knew there was a vid of it! Although I was into SubPop, I had jet returned to LA and didn't know about the show- just luck that I went record shopping that night. Saw them at Al's Bar, I think, the next night. I only really liked them during the Bleach period...

    sonicgg

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  7. AnonymousAugust 4, 2011 at 11:14 PM

    Thanks for Nirvana fighting drunk guy vid link. the whole Pyramid Club set is a fav

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  8. AnonymousAugust 9, 2011 at 3:36 AM

    Nirvana fighting drunk guy FULL VERSION YouTube Video @ Pyramid Club 7-18-1989 NYC is onpar with The Cramps @ Napa State Mental Hospital 1978 tape Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow

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  9. Stacey EganFebruary 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM

    Photo taken and owned by, Stacey Egan

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