TDW 1549 - Sacrificing My Vehicle For NIRVANA

0:15 check out this Bulldog right here he's

0:15 ready for a road

0:17 trip welcome everyone Adam the woo

0:23 here a few days ago was the 25th

0:26 anniversary of the release of an album

0:29 by a rock band that changed the course

0:32 of music no matter what your thought

0:34 process is on these

0:38 gentlemen the fact of the matter is that

0:40 music and the music industry changed

0:43 with the release of Nirvana's never mind

0:47 and I'm going to tell you my Nirvana

0:50 story it's a

0:52 doozy it's my second channel daily Vlog

0:55 channel it's the daily woo my dad used

0:59 to be the Minister inside that church

1:02 building and we lived in this house on

1:05 the back of the property and I'm going

1:07 to take you back in time now to November

1:10 28th 1993 it was early in the morning

1:14 we're right in that exact spot I loaded

1:17 into my Ford

1:19 1984

1:22 LTD and the day began the event I was

1:25 going to was just a little over 50 miles

1:28 from this spot but it took me all day to

1:32 get there because on this day years

1:35 before the internet and years before

1:37 cell phones I had two tickets to see

1:41 Nirvana and I had no one to go with me

1:44 nor did I even know how to get to the

1:47 concert and while in this day and age it

1:49 would seem simple to find a concert

1:51 buddy to go with either by posting on

1:53 social media or sending out texts to

1:55 your friends it was not so simple then

1:58 in fact I drove around to countless

2:02 houses of friends

2:04 acquaintances pretty much anyone I

2:08 thought that might have an interest in

2:10 going with me all in all I stopped by

2:12 about seven or eight different places

2:13 asking people to go with me the two

2:15 biggest responses I got were it's too

2:17 far and I will just see them next time

2:21 they come to town and to understand why

2:23 I had an extra ticket we have to go up

2:25 to CMI there used to be a music store up

2:27 here that sold CDs and cassette tapes

2:29 and they also had a Ticket Master kiosk

2:33 in the store and it was located right

2:35 over here in this corner spot where this

2:38 clothing store is now about once a week

2:40 I would walk in these doors walk over to

2:43 that far left wall and check out who was

2:45 coming to town right next to where the

2:47 cash register was was a little computer

2:49 screen and this is way before you could

2:51 search the worldwide web you would stand

2:54 in there and you would ask what bands

2:56 are coming to town and that's how I'd

2:57 buy my tickets and I'd always buy an

2:59 extra ticket just in case someone wanted

3:01 to come along with me and that is what

3:03 happened in this situation and while I'm

3:05 in the area I'll show you where the

3:07 other music store in town was where I

3:09 bought my first Nirvana CD by the way

3:12 that used to be a Hooters and now it's

3:14 not right here on the backside of this

3:16 mall sits an old movie theater which is

3:18 now some sort of school but in this door

3:21 used to be a record shop and I use that

3:23 term loosely because they mostly sold

3:25 cassette tapes but that was around the

3:27 time at the threshold of the who this

3:29 door

3:31 p l push that was the time the threshold

3:34 when CDs were becoming very popular and

3:37 right inside here where is now a salon

3:40 is where I first picked up the band

3:43 Nirvana's album I spent many a dime in

3:46 that place buying different bands you'll

3:48 never forget the first time you heard

3:49 that album will you

3:51 Panther Pink Panther I think I might

3:54 have just broken a rule right there I

3:57 should leave I'm so ashamed ashamed so

4:01 ashamed I guess I should probably give a

4:03 disclaimer now I'm not trying to say

4:04 Nirvana is the greatest band ever I'm

4:06 not trying to say I justify what each

4:08 member's personal life is all about all

4:11 I'm saying is being into that band in

4:14 the early 90s was an experience that

4:17 changed my life remember that song

4:19 smells like bat

4:21 boy don't listen to him I'm thinking

4:24 maybe it's

4:26 time to refresh my CD collection

4:34 countless times I have purchased pretty

4:34 much every Nirvana album bleach never

4:36 mind insesticide in Udo and the live MTV

4:41 acoustic I've never bought this album it

4:44 has all the usuals but it also has a

4:46 song that was released after Kurt passed

4:49 away called you know you're right I love

4:52 that

5:01 song where we are now in routs to

5:01 Lakeland Florida I eventually coer my

5:04 friend Shawn into going with me I begged

5:07 I pleaded I twisted his arm in every

5:09 possible way and everything was going

5:11 pretty well up until the time he said he

5:14 knew a shortcut and this shortcut did

5:18 not bode well with our heroes let me

5:21 tell you this ended up almost costing me

5:26 the entire evening of course in these

5:28 days you would just look up on like

5:30 Google Maps or on your smartphone which

5:32 direction to go and back then I wasn't

5:35 coherent enough to buy a

5:38 map so I guess it's kind of my own fault

5:41 that we got

5:54 lost if we would have stayed on I4

5:54 another 30 m just to the left of this

5:57 road would have been our destination

6:00 however we decided to jump on Highway 27

6:04 and go that way and this is the pivotal

6:06 moment where everything went a ride now

6:10 you can get to Lakeland that way if you

6:12 go a few miles hang a right and

6:14 eventually you will take back roads

6:16 until you arrive in town my friend kept

6:18 saying I think the turn's coming up soon

6:21 I think the turn's coming up soon this

6:23 went on for over an hour I finally did

6:26 the thing every man does not want to do

6:29 I stopped at the side of the road went

6:30 in the convenience store and I asked

6:33 directions waham Lincoln always asked

6:37 for dire I know I know and the bad news

6:40 was I was so far away I didn't think I

6:43 was going to make it to the concert on

6:44 time so I made a WRA

6:47 decision WRA decision I pushed my car

6:52 which had never left town

6:54 before to the utter limits trying to get

6:58 to the concert on time the car I had at

7:00 that time was not the best to say the

7:04 least in fact if you did not put water

7:06 in the radiator on a regular basis it

7:08 would overheat and when my check engine

7:10 light came on I avoided it like the

7:14 plague because I had somewhere to be I

7:16 did not have the time to pull over wait

7:19 around for an hour for the engine to

7:20 cool down and put water in the

7:25 radiator man I was smart back then

7:27 wasn't I on a side note these are always

7:29 interesting to drive past quite the

7:31 conversation piece and because I avoided

7:34 the warning signs and did not heed the

7:38 vehicle overheating every time I mashed

7:40 on the gas the car would not go any

7:42 faster it was going 65 I was

7:46 accelerating there was a grinding noise

7:49 then the fastest it would go would be 55

7:51 then the fastest was 45 35 25 the entire

7:55 front of the vehicle engulfed in Smoke

7:59 coming out funing into the sky and just

8:03 like that my car was completely dead

8:07 sitting off the side of a busy road

8:09 billowing with smoke to the heavens and

8:12 even though the car was done for the

8:14 fact that this smoke signal if you will

8:16 was in the air helped me out because a

8:19 police officer a very kind man pulled in

8:22 behind me thinking that my car was on

8:25 fire long story short I left my car on

8:27 the side of the road not knowing where I

8:29 was hopped in the back of the officer's

8:32 vehicle and he drove us 20 or so miles

8:36 to the Lakeland Civic Center to see

8:40 Nirvana they have hence dropped the word

8:43 civic from their title and now it's just

8:45 called the Lakeland Center but this is

8:48 it pulled right up here in the police

8:51 car to a

8:53 throng of fans waiting to see the

8:55 concert giving us very awkward looks on

8:58 why a cop was dropping us off a pretty

9:02 good siiz building of course they were

9:04 hitting the peak of their Fame around

9:07 this time so the crowd was pretty

9:09 massive you could almost say they took

9:11 the

9:12 World by storm a few key things about

9:15 the concert I remember it was so many

9:17 people up front that I couldn't even

9:19 breathe it was like compressing me

9:22 against the front of the wall if you've

9:23 ever been to either punk rock or heavy

9:26 metal or any kind of rock show that's a

9:28 little bit more aive Rive you were

9:30 familiar with Slam Dancing or what they

9:32 call Mosh pits when they played smells

9:34 like teen Spirits I thought I was going

9:36 to die the other major concern I had is

9:39 how was I supposed to get home as luck

9:41 would have it by some miracle in the

9:43 crowd I saw a friend of a friend of a

9:46 friend down on the floor and I asked him

9:48 if he could give me a ride home yelling

9:50 in his ear between songs and afterwards

9:53 he gave my friend and I a ride back to

9:55 St Cloud now there is a political rally

9:58 going on here to today I could not get

10:00 inside because it is ending and the

10:02 police would not let me in and I'm not

10:04 even going to attempt to fly the Drone

10:06 because I do not need Secret Service

10:08 shooting it from the sky at first I was

10:10 pretty excited because the doors were

10:11 open and I could get inside and maybe

10:13 get a shot of the stage where they

10:14 played didn't work out but

10:17 nonetheless pretty cool to be here again

10:20 after all these years check out the sun

10:22 setting over there it's pretty

10:25 Majestic just over the horizon and I did

10:28 man managed to get my car back into town

10:32 a guy my dad knew owned a car repair

10:35 shop and he had a tow truck and he drove

10:37 out the next day with me to get it and

10:40 he fixed

10:41 it and I'm eternally grateful for that

10:44 for

10:45 sure a bad experience a lot of bad

10:48 experiences in one day that ended up

10:52 being pretty

10:58 awesome life's weird like that and now I

10:58 have a story to

10:59 tell thanks for

TDW 1549 - Sacrificing My Vehicle For NIRVANA

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