The Final Days Of Kurt Cobain - Inside His Motel Room & Visiting Last House / Nirvana Seattle Tour
Kurt Cobain Seattle Locations
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of this Saturday February 4th
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2023 I am in Seattle Washington doing
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something I've wanted to do for a very
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long time
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being a fan of the Pretty Life laughing
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at
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Ryan's here
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face here my sister and her husband
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you guys both like Nirvana as well so we
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are doing a trek
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around
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the Seattle spots Kurt Cobain Courtney
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Love Nirvana now Aberdeen and Olympia
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also have a lot of history but that's
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like two or three hours away from here
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we'll not be covering those spots but
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trust me there is a plethora if you will
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of spots in this Greater Seattle area
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that we're going to also be covering
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starting off here at the sliver house
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which was where the music video was
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filmed in the garage and also Kurt and
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Courtney's first home most likely from
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never mind money after bleached a lot of
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that a lot of the bleach stuff happened
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over in Aberdeen and then when they got
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very very popular kind of changed the
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course of Music it was all hair metal to
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that point on pop culture radio and then
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grunge became a thing and then after
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that open up the doors for you know punk
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rock and things like that nonetheless
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I'm inviting you to join me
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and faith and riot
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shall you
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what were you guys laughing at because
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every time he gets all nervous every
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time that's okay you turned on the
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camera he started doing this little
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thing I've been doing this 11 years and
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I'm still I'm still nervous in front of
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the camera and this is the type of day
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exactly what I would think Seattle would
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be like cool crisp overcast rainy some
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say that kind of transitions into the
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style of music that Grunge was
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you know just because you start bands
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you start garage bands
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and this garage right here
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is where they film the sliver music
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video with
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their child
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Francis Bean was in that video so if you
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watch that video it was right inside
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that garage and they took stuff from up
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here that was Kurtz put it in there to
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make it look like an apartment but
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really he had this very very fancy house
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we pulled in the neighborhood you were
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saying oh that's a really nice house for
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him to live in but it's because it was
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after he got the money this was not like
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the Aberdeen house or anything like that
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this is pretty nice and a really good
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view of the lake out here
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as well
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and he only lived they only lived in
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Seattle for like two or three years so
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very short-lived in this house and then
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where he ended up passing away we're
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going to end there later in the day and
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also have more more mansion-esque type
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of home than even this one so definitely
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had the money rolling in
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You Know Not only would never mind and
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sets aside and in utero
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right here on the side of the Hill
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you also got to wonder how many people
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stopped by here today just to kind of
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see this I'm sure the last house and the
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the the uh the park bench and all that
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probably get a lot of people stopping
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but I wonder how many people actually
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stop here to see it this is on the
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corner of Lakeside Ave Northeast and
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Northeast 113th Street
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now when you watch the video for a
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sliver you don't really see much of the
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house you only see that garage and you
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would never guess in a million years
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that it was inside this home
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but you know obviously with the
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popularity of the band the people that
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are from this area kind of diving deep
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into a lot of the history it has been
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confirmed and figured out that it was
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right over there in that garage kind of
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always feel like the incesticide album
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was
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Kurt's answer to answer to the critics
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for putting out kind of like I almost
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say a poppy album with never mind but
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it's definitely a lot more punk rock
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feel than
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the predecessor
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a little close-up of the garage before
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heading on to some other spots
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would it be a pretty good view from up
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there I could see why some of them want
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to live here with a lot with the lake
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over there in the water over there
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all right moving on got a few spots to
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cover quite a few spots to cover today
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this is awesome
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commuted a little bit of a ways over to
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this very busy thoroughfare
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at the Marco Polo Motel
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now when Kurt moved out of the house I
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was just at before he moved into the
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final house he was in sometimes he would
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leave that with some designate as a
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mansion
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that he had purchased the the last house
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he was in and he would head over here to
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the Marco Polo Motel which does have a
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vacancy
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and he would camp out and stay in room
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two to six
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in fact I was noticing I remember when
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my friend Jordan the lion stayed here he
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did a videos a few years ago up in this
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corner I'm gonna see if I can get in the
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room obviously I'm not staying here but
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I'm gonna see if I can check in the room
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Jordan did a pretty good
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documentation of it I am going to go in
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and ask
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and even if I gotta pay a little money
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to try to get in there it'd be cool to
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get inside the room
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and you can see Ryan and my sister over
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there just taking the photos
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for posterity okay we are in luck no one
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is in the room at this moment I did ask
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they said about two or three people a
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month come in and specifically ask to
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stay in the room and of course obviously
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unbeknownst to some guests will get that
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room without even knowing the history of
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it and the lady that worked in there
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there's a there was a guy that gave me
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the key and then there's a lady that
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said her father bought this place years
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ago and said for a while they even had
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hard copy registration cards that they
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no longer have anymore
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everything's you know computerized and
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whatnot so they do not have a
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registration card
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from when he stayed here but he stayed
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here on many many
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different occasions also a guy inside
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said this is the original signage one of
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the historical signage that cleaned the
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motel up quite a bit than How It Was
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Then they said all the fixtures inside
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will be the same the furniture has
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changed now so it's not going to be the
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same Furniture but like the bathroom
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fixtures and everything will be
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will be the same
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anyone
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so it's a Corner Room
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got a little Overlook down here
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into the parking lot obviously there
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probably was a couch here then as well
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in the living areas that's not the same
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couch if he was to have adjusted the
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temperature this is the same little
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thermostat here retro thermostat
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this
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looks like a relic too
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again it's kind of a weird vibe being in
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here right knowing like he was in here
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for
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days weeks on ends at certain times
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so this must have been where
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like another like a fridge would have
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been like what is that like a plumbing
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or maybe a sink was there
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I'm not really sure you think you
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plugged his amps and stuff into that I
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don't think he played it I think he was
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just kind of here to do his thing
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I don't want to go into too much detail
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what he was doing anyways and this is
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the bathroom
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and they said it was the same fixtures
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but these do look like
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this looks like a new sink in a new
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commode
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I don't think this was from like the
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early 90s
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the tissue box area yeah she said over
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here
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and she said when there was a tissue box
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everyone used to leave little everyone
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was signing signing it
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oh it might have been this right here
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right here is the tissue box yeah so she
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said there was writing oh yeah people
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were signing on there
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and obviously but this right here's
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original
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looking out upon there look at that
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classic bug down that VW Bug bus
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this is the corner of 42nd and Winslow
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place
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yeah maybe maybe he sat right here and
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wrote us had some ideas from songs
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sometimes you do your best thinking on
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the commode
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you know open this up to get a little
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air out here
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here's the oh wow there's not a tub it's
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just a shower
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so this yeah this shower
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is like very this is the original shower
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100 I took a shower in here
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this is incredible to think about
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some of his last times
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alive or in this room
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I mean not his very last moments but
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towards the end of
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you get a photo good photo he had his
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eyes closed after we do it
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it's just this is a light picture looks
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uh
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oh it just turned on oh you turned it on
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oh my gosh
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I was thinking what the hell yeah that
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probably is original light fixture
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I mean I'm definitely not the original
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bed
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but maybe maybe yeah you said they
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replaced the furniture
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I definitely see why he got this room
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though here on the corner
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so the lady at the front desk said well
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how do you know this just how do you
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know it's true how do you know that this
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is the room
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Because the Internet you know even
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though there's a lot of reliable sources
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on there maybe they would all be feeding
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off of one other source she said that
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Courtney Love wrote that this was the
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room number in her book and that's how
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people know and have confirmed it
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and we all know Courtney Love can be
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trusted
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it was like a spotlight right there like
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a heat light
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yeah this is these are original fixtures
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no obviously just looking at this if you
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didn't know like the history of it and
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we're in a complete like music or
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Nirvana nerd you wouldn't care about any
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of this but this is pretty fascinating
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like this is definitely the original
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closet
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like pole there
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and even this where the door used to be
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a sliding door
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I wonder if he was in here by himself
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all the time or if anybody else came in
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here if it was just like his little
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Hideaway
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Courtney knew about it yeah true
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probably no photos in here either this
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was like his little secret spot
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even looks like this this is original
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door knob here
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Kurt would open this door in and out
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just a little bit more and this wouldn't
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open there'd be something in the way
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maybe that's where it came something in
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the way
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oh do I put something's in the way yeah
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yeah
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it's an iconic pose
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also a big thank you to this place for
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letting us in here I was not expecting I
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was gonna film it from the graph I think
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we're gonna not even be happy that we
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were even in the parking lot but they're
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very nice here and this room's for rent
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so if you show up and it's available
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they will run it to you
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also no smoking in here those are
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probably not the rules back then yeah or
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they were disobeyed
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oh even look at this there's the old
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wait what is that that's like the
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vacancy sign yeah I think if someone's
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in there
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yeah inside the lobby of the the
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check-in area is pretty awesome with
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this old air conditioner unit this
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artwork over here you got the little
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continental breakfast and you got this
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little cute little cute little Pooch
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over in the corner I also inquired what
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it would be this time of year this might
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have been the old check-in area over
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here this might have been like a an
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after hours window
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and then
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obviously the no pets please is not
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coincide with
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coincide with those in the
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the front desk because that's their
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that's their dog but I asked exactly how
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much would it be to rent that room 100 a
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night
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so if you were doing a full Nirvana tour
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of Seattle and you want to get the full
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experience and sleep in the same room
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and have moments
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like Kurt up there 100 bucks
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they are very very very kind here very
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nice I tried giving them some money gave
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them a little tip on the way out the
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gentleman said no
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he said it was against his religion
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to take money for kindness and I
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I find that awesome
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in fact I had even prepared if the room
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was empty and they said you would have
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had to run it for the night I would have
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paid a hundred dollars to go in there
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100 percent
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because that is just
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got a lot of Nirvana memories they kind
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of changed my outlook on music and got
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me into punk rock it was the predecessor
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to punk rock I know it's grunge it was
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more of a rock but it really opened up
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the floodgates
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of music you know from hair metal
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brought into pop culture and just kind
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of let
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let other types of music kind of
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grittier music be known and come into
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the Forefront
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got into Nirvana and then after that got
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into a lot of punk bands like you know
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no effects Epitaph records fat records
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stuff like that bad religion Dream Day
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I don't think there would be Green Day
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as far as Green Day being as famous as
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they are they would not have had the
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radio play that they had if it wasn't
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for Nirvana opening up that that portal
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this has been awesome so far as stated
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I've been wanting to do this for a heck
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of a long time
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years ago I got to see Nirvana I'm going
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to look up to date but it was a Lakeland
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Civic Center breeders opened up that
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concert my car overheated and ruined the
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heads on my car a officer police officer
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drove me the extra 20 minutes down
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Highway 27 to get to Lakeland I took the
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wrong turn and I made it to the concert
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I had to go back the next day with the
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tow truck towed my car but I made it to
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the show and I got to see Nirvana in
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concert on the in utero tour
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so definitely know a lot of the folk War
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a lot of the history of the band and
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Kurt so standing here and going to some
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of these other spots is really a cool
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experience for me and I'm glad I'm doing
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it on to the next box from the Marco
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Polo
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on to the next box nice rooms
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and jobs or jobs
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this place is great and they're very
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again they were very very nice and as we
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go back by the motel side pretty good
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view downtown Seattle off in the
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distance over there
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even though now it's obstructed by new
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buildings so forget what I just said
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the Space Needle
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view of that
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made it downtown now to the screwdriver
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bar also known as rock and roll Utopia
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where they have the spray painted
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little outdoor seating area now this
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place was where Nirvana practiced
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between bleach and between never mind
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meeting
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that they would have ended or they would
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have written and practice a lot of the
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songs for the album
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never mind which became you know all the
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radio hit Smells Like Teen Spirit and
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all that would have been inside this
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building where they were practicing and
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as what I was reading
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it appears as if after after they left
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the place kind of sat empty
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and desolate and abandoned before this
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bar took over
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I'm sure if you can go maybe you can go
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inside
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open four to two nightly so it's not
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open at the moment because right now
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it is only 12 30.
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can't go in
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so it's up those stairs meaning they
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would have had uh
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hoist all their stuff up to the top
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floor when they practice Yeah
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what's in the basement okay
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okay on First Avenue 2320 Suite 100
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Bell Tower Pub and then the basement is
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a screwdriver bar so it would bend down
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in the basement which means it's that
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door there now when I was in a punk band
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for a while we played a lot of basement
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shows and things so I understand loading
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in and out
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kind of difficult they didn't really
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play any shows here they just practice
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here they use this as a practice space
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rocking out some of the tunes
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from never mind
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it's pretty amazing to really think
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about
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that you know soaked into these walls
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were the sounds of them
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practicing those songs that would make
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them famous down in the basement there
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this is located just right downtown
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it's also raining I've noticed the
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rain's not heavy rain though which is
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kind of a drizzle
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but this is where
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the rock and roll Utopia was
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right in this building it looks like a
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mural there that's been I don't know
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what that mural was and Ryan has had a
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good point maybe they didn't have to go
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down the basement doors maybe there were
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some load indoors I guess that would
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make sense even if they did go in the
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basement
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the load in they probably would load in
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around the back sometimes you can load
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in the front but
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you can load in the back also
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it's a possibility either way you have
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to go down some stairs
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also downtown about a mile from where we
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just were was a place called rebar
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there's up on this corner it's now
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empty and desolate it's not opened or
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anything but back in the day it's where
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they had the never mind album release
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party and from what I was reading online
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they had they got kicked out of their
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own album release party for starting a
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cake fight
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because they had a big cake and they
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just started having a food fight
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oh this is it right here I can see that
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I see one one it was one one one four
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right
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so we've been right inside here which is
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now
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called something Keys now called keys on
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Main you can see my rental car there a
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bus going by
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this is where the album release party
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took place
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next to Dueling Pianos
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so it was this little
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section here looking in the window
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doesn't look like anything really inside
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to signify of the music history here
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this is it all right moving on to the
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next spot album release party
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an album that pretty much changed music
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history in the 90s it'd be wild to think
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1114
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what road is this
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Howell
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Howell street corner of Minor Ave and
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a few more blocks from where we just
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were going to the one of the places that
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he was last seen
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for his passing and according to certain
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accounts he was here the night before or
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possibly the day of
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but this
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establishment we're walking up to
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states that it was the last place that
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Kurt was seen alive
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and it's interesting it's right next to
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a guitar shop
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there's a guitar shop right here
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all right over here on the right I think
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so corner of Boylston Ave next to this
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grocery store
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what were you reading that he was
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sitting in the back Booth yeah at
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Linda's the last place he was seen on
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the day that he died he had a beer in
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the back had a beer at Linda's cocktails
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and good food this place had just opened
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opened in 94. this is interesting though
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it's like a little restaurant that says
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tools radio and tackle and
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hippies must use side door
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go inside see if there's anything in
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here that pertains to Nirvana I also
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like all the Flyers and stuff that are
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on the side I'm gonna just step inside
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see if we see what was the booth again
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uh there's a corner boot the corner
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Booth where you had a beer possibly the
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day of or maybe the night before
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supposed to be the day of or the
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afternoon I don't know exactly no one
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knows what time he the exact time
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1994. all right we saw the corner Booth
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talked to one of the waitresses in there
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she said they really did not have a lot
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of Nirvana paraphernalia or any photos
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or anything or even acknowledging it but
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according to the lore it was the one I
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just showed on camera from a couple
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different angles Corner Booth right
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below the staircase leading to the
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second floor
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a lot of pretty neat items in there
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as well very retro vibe to it
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lots of band stickers I didn't see a
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Nirvana band sticker also we checked the
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Jukebox and it wasn't working so we
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couldn't skim through it but they did
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have a lot of grunge I just love this
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with all the bands
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and the bar we were just in
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the last place one of the last places
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that Kurt was seeing just like engulfed
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in like stickers everywhere we went in
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the restroom and there was like stickers
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all in there
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these old Flyers look at this right here
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George Strait
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all through here
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this place over here has lots of cats
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and drinks too
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it was up on the corner right up there
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all right back to the rental car and we
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got a couple more spots in fact we're
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gonna eat at one of Kurt's favorite
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restaurants that he was seeing two days
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before this passing so we're heading
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over there now now we're looking for any
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Cobain murals
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and we saw this one looks like it's been
24:04
painted over since this photo was taken
24:05
but it was right here in this parking
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lot it was now called The Joy bird
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it was like a good Heart-Shaped Box Kobe
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neutero era
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yeah these ducks over here with the
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Sirens going by
24:19
we are going to grab these ducks are
24:21
looking for some food but we're also
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gonna grab a bite to eat at a place
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called cactus
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which is one of the last places that he
24:28
ate
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just a couple days before it was one of
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his favorite restaurants according to
24:34
local lore
24:40
and also from what we were seeing there
24:40
are more than one Cactus place
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so I think maybe it's a chain
24:45
if it's not there's another there's a
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few other places in town but this is the
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one that he would frequent not too far
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from where his final home was
24:55
and it was said we've got a couple
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articles online that just two days prior
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he ended up eating at the cactus place
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so we're gonna grab a bite to eat at one
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of his favorite places the parking is
25:05
kind of interesting here it's all back
25:06
in parking so you have to go up then you
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have to pull in backwards and across the
25:11
way I could see the sign that says
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Cactus it's a little teeny tiny place
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by the name of cactus all right starting
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off with some chips and salsa here for a
25:20
little appetizer there's some
25:21
interesting decor here here's a dragon
25:23
up here here's another little like
25:24
Dragon over here and this very unusual
25:27
guy almost like uh blowing like a like
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I'm blowing like a kiss up there on the
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side of the wall and we also ordered the
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half queso half guacamole special that
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they have here this is pretty
25:39
interesting it's like mixed up half and
25:40
half okay we're just talking to our
25:41
server who was giving us some
25:42
information it appears as a Kobe's
25:45
credit card was declined I guess
25:47
Courtney had had it had it turned off so
25:50
he had to pay with a check and he also
25:52
informed us that Kurt's regular table
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was outside it was the far corner table
25:56
outside so I'll show that when we I'm
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just trying to show some of the decor
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that is in here on the walls I ended up
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getting the fajitas over here flour
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tortillas you got all the stuff that
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goes on top of it rice beans and chicken
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what'd you end up getting uh fish tacos
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smoked brisket chimichanga smoked
26:17
brisket chimichanga what were you gonna
26:18
say I pulled the camera away too quick
26:20
um I was just gonna say these are black
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beans
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yes a veritable Treasure Trove of good
26:27
food and on the way out just showing the
26:29
inside one more time before kind of
26:30
wandering out and also wanted to show
26:32
that table on the far end if you're on
26:34
the on the far the little patio it's the
26:36
Far Far corner table that the service
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said that he was sitting at and wants to
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back out here for the backing in parking
26:44
also we ate so much we couldn't have the
26:46
dessert but it's also said that Kurt got
26:49
the reason that the server remembered
26:51
obviously he was in there all the time
26:52
was a regular but one of the reasons
26:55
that they realized that something was a
26:58
little off was because he ended up
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eating dessert first
27:04
I'm not sure why that would really give
27:05
the indication that something might have
27:07
might have been a little off but
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that's what I read online that's what
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the server was saying that
27:13
I talked to someone I guess that knew a
27:15
little bit more
27:16
all right gotta head over now
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to the final spot oh there's a crow
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right here on the road
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hello Crow
27:31
have now made it over to this
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Waterfront area where the street lights
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have now come on
27:38
take a look off in the distance
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downtown Seattle
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and up at the top of this hill Maybe
27:52
200 yards behind the parking area we
27:54
just parked in is the last residence
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that Kurt Cobain
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lived in
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as seen all over the news in 1994 I
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remember it very very well
28:04
and I have never been never been there
28:06
so it's going to be interesting to see
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with my own eyes
28:10
I was what 29 years ago yeah next year
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will be the
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30th anniversary
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of his passing
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time really does fly
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where I parked it down at the bottom of
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this hill where there is four hour
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parking but if you go up towards the top
28:26
of the hill there's a lot of No Stopping
28:28
signs and a lot of no parking signs
28:31
especially
28:32
the closer to the house
28:34
that you get
28:40
and actually when we drove by there was
28:40
already a couple different sets of
28:41
people who were out in front of the gate
28:43
taking photos
28:48
it's set up on the top of the hill now
28:48
since he was here they have grown up the
28:50
foliage considerably and tried to hide
28:52
the house
28:54
with the shrubs
28:56
next to it is a park
28:58
that has some bench a couple benches one
29:00
of them has been deemed in honor
29:03
of Kurt Cobain I'm gonna go
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check that out
29:14
I'm gonna try to climb up the hedges
29:23
so you can get a pretty good view around
29:23
the side
29:25
in fact you can even see the same angle
29:26
where
29:27
the garage was the top I think it was
29:29
the top of the garage where all the
29:31
photos from 94 was
29:33
but here's the front of the house
29:36
huge fence
29:59
just gotta keep it rolling walk around
29:59
the corner show the proximity
30:03
to the bench right here
30:17
and kind of adds to the vibe a little
30:17
bit that it's raining right now and it's
30:18
now raining
30:21
starting to come down a little harder
30:23
precipitation
30:26
here is the bench here
30:39
and really you can't sit on this because
30:39
this has become a makeshift Memorial
30:42
all different quotes all here here's
30:46
there's curd on a sticker there the
30:47
flannel years
30:50
but you can see down here some Polaroid
30:53
photo
30:59
some Band-Aids some playing cards
30:59
there's a Target gift card not sure why
31:01
that's there
31:06
Domino has a note here
31:06
says thank you Kurt
31:15
people have carved in their names and
31:15
thoughts and inscriptions all along here
31:30
lyrics
31:30
from their songs
31:32
from the MTV Unplugged
32:01
another Band-Aid thank you for inspiring
32:01
music Love from China
32:04
lots of lyrics through here
32:38
and you have to wonder if he ever came
32:38
up here and just sat is right next to
32:40
his house
32:41
his house was right there
32:44
I would imagine he walked over here and
32:45
down to the lakefront where we parked or
32:47
the Waterfront
32:48
and just got a little view here
33:59
see anything up the hill there's a fence
33:59
but it's their property where people
34:01
have car like road all over it and stuff
34:03
but you can't really you can see what
34:05
some of the back of the house a little
34:06
bit better there is an angle where you
34:08
could should be able to see where the
34:09
garage was oh the whole garage is gone
34:12
that's why I can't see it okay yeah but
34:14
you can see the angles out up there you
34:15
think
34:20
so people have wrote stuff on the fence
34:20
back here too
34:21
way back over here
34:24
so I think the garage might have been
34:26
over here on this side
34:28
so I think you got to get up there
34:30
that road up top right over here oh
34:33
let's walk up the stairs I don't know
34:35
but
34:45
so sort of goes that Courtney after
34:45
everything happened she had the garage
34:48
torn down
34:50
or someone did I don't know if it was I
34:52
don't know if it was Courtney but
35:06
wow a lot of signatures
35:06
very slick
35:09
look at this they've replaced this fence
35:11
a number of times we will probably try
35:13
to get over there
35:15
wow look at all these look at all this
35:42
it's really incredible how people make
35:42
the pilgrimage out here
35:44
and leave their thoughts and their
35:46
moments of
35:47
you know things they wanted to share
35:48
people
35:50
meant a lot to a lot of people
36:07
this is one of those
36:07
one of those things when 94 I thought
36:10
what would it be like to be standing
36:12
there now I'm standing here
36:24
I don't really have my bearings off now
36:24
that the second portion of the extension
36:26
has been pulled us
36:28
but I believe it was right here
36:40
Ambiance is pretty thick with the rain
36:40
coming down right now in my head
37:02
what's back in there
37:02
awesome
37:17
oh yeah
37:17
yeah look at this oh my gosh
37:20
look at the signatures all along this
37:23
fence
38:26
something in the way
38:26
yeah this fence
38:41
unbelievable I was not expecting all
38:41
this outpouring of emotion from people
38:46
I've been to Graceland and seen the wall
38:49
outside Graceland is similar to this
38:53
yeah this would be
38:55
kind of that era's version of
38:59
like an Elvis or a John Lennon
39:07
I always love that song serve the
39:07
servants off in utera
39:17
underneath the bridge
39:17
something on the way
39:25
I learned more from your notebooks than
39:25
I ever did in school
39:34
you know a lot of people discard what
39:35
musicians and people in pop culture or
39:38
entertainers or anything has all
39:40
people's lives
39:47
but it's pretty important
39:47
as shown by this and
39:49
a legacy that is left on
39:57
playing straightly there
39:57
also from Seattle
40:00
Alice in Chains
40:06
yeah really glad I stopped off here
40:06
really is just tucked away back in the
40:08
woods
40:09
back there
40:16
with the park bench right there and from
40:16
here we're gonna walk up the stairs
40:18
but even the trash cans
40:21
are little homages also
40:32
and even this park bench too also
40:32
Decked Out
40:40
oh this has been designated
40:40
Lane Staley's bench
40:53
I'll go up here and see if I can look
40:53
down to where
40:55
all those photos were taken from that
40:57
day
40:58
got all the Moss
41:00
kind of growing right here along the
41:01
railing
41:10
okay we walked up the stairs to this
41:10
next little level so we're basically
41:12
standing they put this fence up they
41:14
have grown up these Hedges dramatically
41:17
do we really cannot see over
41:20
but basically on the other side of this
41:22
just a few yards at the beginning of the
41:24
driveway
41:25
looking down that way is this angle
41:28
where all the photos were taken of the
41:30
garage that was torn down now I could go
41:32
around this way there's no fence there
41:34
but even going around there through the
41:37
thatch and the
41:39
the thorns and whatnot you wouldn't be
41:41
able to see anything because this is
41:43
just so overgrown
41:45
kind of like getting that angle there
41:48
so there's the there's the back of the
41:50
house
41:51
you faintly see it through there I'll
41:54
show it from a different perspective but
41:55
I wanted to stand
41:56
in the exact spot so look over to the
41:58
left through those trees
42:00
you could see the windows from the house
42:02
so directly in front of where my camera
42:03
is where the garage was in fact the
42:05
balcony the back portion of the garage
42:07
is the same level standing up on the
42:09
hill that I'm standing on now
42:11
behind this fence as shown here
42:15
so you can see there's the balcony
42:17
there's the real house that still exists
42:19
right over there and then there's the
42:21
house that they had bulldozed and all
42:23
those famous photos from the media
42:26
were right here
42:28
zoomed down upon investigators and all
42:30
that in that window which means all the
42:33
media that was here was standing pretty
42:35
much exactly where we are
42:36
in the spot getting a little bit closer
42:38
but you can see it better with your eyes
42:40
but the camera is not good I know 29
42:42
years ago
42:43
this was definitely a pretty active
42:45
place for a lot of people taking photos
42:46
and trying to figure out what happened
42:48
it's one of those things that no one
42:49
really ever will know the reasoning
42:51
behind or how everything really went
42:53
down I mean there definitely was an
42:54
investigation but everyone has their
42:57
theories and opinions and
42:59
and all that and there's been constant
43:00
amount of people walking up here too
43:01
weren't the only ones if you move over a
43:03
few a few yards
43:04
you can kind of see from here you see a
43:06
lot of people have kind of instead of
43:08
taking the stairs they've just like
43:09
climbed
43:11
climbed up the side of that
43:18
so you got this front of the house here
43:18
the driveway in and then right behind
43:21
these trees is where the garage was
43:24
it was not parallel to the house if you
43:26
didn't continue on it was just over a
43:29
little bit so just at the end of the
43:30
garage or the end of the side with the
43:33
pavement for the driveway driveway went
43:35
up and then the Garage would have sat
43:38
right here if you would have shifted it
43:40
over like other
43:41
20 feet you would have been directly
43:42
behind the house the garage was right
43:44
there and now going to walk back down
43:45
the stairs
43:47
but you can see the bench right down
43:49
there
43:50
and of course the house over here and
43:51
then there's the view amazing view from
43:53
up here
43:59
and also we looked up the house what the
43:59
house went for sale in 94. 1.4 million
44:02
dollars for the house and 94. you
44:05
couldn't buy well I'm trying to point
44:07
anything else you could even buy I was
44:09
going to say that little thing down
44:10
there you couldn't buy for 1.4 but
44:12
that's probably a 10 million dollar
44:12
house now too yeah you could if it was
44:16
just a normal right if it was a normal
44:17
bench I'd be like 500 000. that house
44:20
now probably valued at you know 10 15 10
44:22
15 million well maybe not that much but
44:25
it's up there I also found this old
44:26
photograph and this is looking from the
44:28
front one thing I never realized from
44:29
watching all the news footage back in 94
44:31
is the back was exactly the same as the
44:34
front there was a little balcony on the
44:35
front and the back and take a look at
44:37
this up here on this ledge where we were
44:39
just standing this fence that fence
44:43
there was a fence even there then
44:45
right there
44:46
that is wild so evidently when the you
44:50
know the paparazzi and the media and
44:52
everyone trying to get photos of news
44:53
media they were leaning their cameras
44:54
over the fence like I was it wasn't as
44:56
grown over
44:57
then in order to get that
44:59
that angle
45:01
there's a little bunny rabbit
45:03
I'm gonna I'm not gonna walk any closer
45:05
let me zoom in
45:17
he's gone now he went into the woods
45:17
it was in November of 1993 that I saw
45:20
Nirvana opening active breeders at the
45:22
Lakeland Civic Center in Central Florida
45:24
under extenuating circumstances and a a
45:29
car that did not run very well and
45:30
overheated
45:32
I made it to the show through a lot of
45:34
trials and tribulations I'm glad I did I
45:37
was able to see Nirvana I was able to
45:39
see Kurt Cobain on stage up close really
45:41
really close
45:43
so it's very interesting to be here
45:47
from way back memories from way back
45:48
then
45:49
gosh that's been
45:50
yeah so November of 93 would have been
45:53
30 years ago
45:55
and then I believe was in April of 94
45:57
this moment happened so four months
46:00
prior unbeknownst to me and a lot of
46:02
other people
46:03
this was gonna happen
46:08
so wild to just be standing here
46:11
it doesn't seem like much but sometimes
46:13
a bench is all
46:15
all someone really needs
46:18
kind of reminds me of the Robin Williams
46:20
bench from Goodwill Hunting in Boston
46:24
that bench became like a
46:26
a marker a memory as well they changed
46:29
the bench though this one still the same
46:31
bench
46:56
from the Kurt Cobain bench next to his
46:56
former residence
46:58
where he spent in the garage his last
47:00
moments
47:02
right over there
47:06
thanks for watching I'll see you the
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