State of Nirvana  By KURT ST. THOMAS  |  March 28, 2007  Cobain:
I was 15 when I got my first guitar. My mother had just gotten
married. This was in the first year of her marriage. My
stepfather ran out on her, and she got so irate she took all of
my stepfather’s guns, various pistols and rifles and stuff,
walked down to the river, and threw them in. And then I hired
this kid to fish a couple of them out, and I sold them. I got my
first guitar with the money.  I took lessons for a week, I
learned how to play “Back in Black” by AC/DC. It’s pretty much
the “Louie, Louie” chords, so that’s all I needed to know. I
never did pay the guitar teacher for that week, either. I still
owe him money. But that’s it, I just started writing songs on my
own. Once you know the power chord, you don’t need to know
anything else.  Tell me about Aberdeen and how you started the
band. Aberdeen’s basically just small-town America, it’s about a
hundred miles southwest of Seattle. It’s on the Pacific Ocean.
Everything revolves around