The show was hastily organized, a last minute booking by a still-unknown and cash-strapped band.
“Nirvana needed gas money to drive down to L.A. to record
Nevermind, so they played a last-minute show at the OK Hotel,” Steve Moriarty, drummer for Seattle punk band the Gits, recalled in the book
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. “The band walked away with a few hundred bucks, drove down to L.A., and the rest is history.”
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” was still in its infancy when Nirvana debuted it on stage. They had little indication that this track would become such a force. In fact, after its success, frontman Kurt Cobain admitted he never thought too highly of the song.
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