Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana Export

@book{citeulike:1442990, abstract = {{My favorite book about Nirvana. For one thing, it doesn't sensationalize, but it doesn't gloss anything over. Having been active in the Seattle music scene throughout Nirvana's obscurity, fame, and demise, I can vouch for the accuracy of its description of the music community in the late '80s and early '90s and Nirvana's role. And being in a band that's currently climbing the ladder, I appreciated the many lessons this book has to offer about the workings of the recording industry. <P> Best of all, because this book was written before Cobain's death, it is not tinged with the "isn't this tragic" attitude that permeates many books about Nirvana and Cobain. Instead, the book is vibrant with the energy, excitement, and passion that swept local musicians the day "Nevermind" was released, local audiences in the months after, the U.S, and--lest we forget--the world, during Nirvana's more-than-15-minutes of fame.} {Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell  nearly five million copies of their landmark album  <i>Nevermind</i>, whose thunderous sound  and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion,  frustration, and passion of the emerging  Generation X. <i>Come As You Are</i> is the  close-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- the  <i>only</i> book with exclusive in-depth  interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic,  and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives,  former bandmembers, and associates -- now updated to  include a new final chapter detailing the last  year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide  in April 1994.}}, author = {Azerrad, Michael}, citeulike-article-id = {1442990}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&amp;path=ASIN/0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&amp;path=ASIN/0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385471998/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0385471998}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0385471998&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0385471998}, day = {01}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0385471998}, keywords = {biography, books}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2007-07-08 17:32:32}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Main Street Books}}, title = {Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0385471998}, year = {1993} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1442990 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1442990 N2 - {My favorite book about Nirvana. For one thing, it doesn't sensationalize, but it doesn't gloss anything over. Having been active in the Seattle music scene throughout Nirvana's obscurity, fame, and demise, I can vouch for the accuracy of its description of the music community in the late '80s and early '90s and Nirvana's role. And being in a band that's currently climbing the ladder, I appreciated the many lessons this book has to offer about the workings of the recording industry. <P> Best of all, because this book was written before Cobain's death, it is not tinged with the "isn't this tragic" attitude that permeates many books about Nirvana and Cobain. Instead, the book is vibrant with the energy, excitement, and passion that swept local musicians the day "Nevermind" was released, local audiences in the months after, the U.S, and--lest we forget--the world, during Nirvana's more-than-15-minutes of fame.} {Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell  nearly five million copies of their landmark album  <i>Nevermind</i>, whose thunderous sound  and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion,  frustration, and passion of the emerging  Generation X. <i>Come As You Are</i> is the  close-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- the  <i>only</i> book with exclusive in-depth  interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic,  and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives,  former bandmembers, and associates -- now updated to  include a new final chapter detailing the last  year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide  in April 1994.} SN - 0385471998 TI - Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana PB - {Main Street Books} KW - biography KW - books AU - Azerrad, Michael PY - 1993/09/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0385471998 ER -