Nowhere #33- be prepared
Here she be. Not much needed in the way of liner notes, except to say that every band does this, I think, and that I was kind of gratified to get the chance to play off a little bit of past continuity (I did resist the urge to add a Stan Lee-style “*as seen in Nowhere Band #17!”
We’ll say 8/1 for the next one, because Crazy Recreation Summer continues to eat up time. I’ve got a 120-mile bike ride cropping up in the next comic cycle, and god only knows how many comic-making days that’s going to derail…
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An Ideal Awesome Boys set probably consists of 8-10 new songs and, what, 10 covers? (I saw Nirvana play in Atlanta for Bleach and about half their songs started off with Kurt muttering “This is a song by…”
Heh. For a bunch a guys as audience-love-starved as the Boys, 90% covers’d probably be ideal. At some point I actually want to do a strip about how much it sucks to play an entire set of your own stuff (that you’ve slaved on for six months) to tepid audience response, and then have them freak out when you close with a cover and they recognize it (”Dude, they’re playing ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ as a ballad! Hot DAMN!”).
Sounds like Kurt was starting to take that to its logical conclusion (so here’s a hypothetical: would he have lived if after Bleach Nirvana had become one of those rural cover bands who play small-town bars, doing 4-hour shows of Creedence-heavy classic rock every night and getting paid outrageous amounts to do it? I submit that Alternate Universe Kurt Cobain is alive, well, and really into the fact that he can play the into to “American Girl” note-for-note.