Michael Azerrad reflects on the meaning of the revolutionary band, Nirvana, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and the impact of the '90s thirty years later.
Includes 20 images of posters and ephemera from the time.
Note: This is the compilation of the essay-like annotations from THE AMPLIFIED COME AS YOU ARE: The Story of Nirvana, excluding the underlying 1993 book.
Based on his unparalleled access and personal interviews, Azerrad's insightful music biography reveals:
- Personal Reflections: A candid look at the author's friendship with Kurt Cobain, from their first nerve-wracking interview to the final, late-night phone calls.
- The Seattle Music Scene: An insider's account of the bands, the venues, and the cultural forces that gave rise to the grunge explosion in the Pacific Northwest.
- Kurt Cobain Biography: Deep dives into Kurt's complex personality, from his troubled childhood in Aberdeen to his struggles with fame, addiction, and the pressures of being a generational spokesperson.
- Come As You Are Revisited: The definitive story behind the writing of the landmark biography *Come as You Are*, with new insights and thirty years of hindsight on one of rock's most revolutionary bands.
About the Author :
Michael Azerrad is a rock journalist, author and drummer. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mojo, Spin and the New Yorker. He frequently appears on television as a commentator on rock music and was most recently the editor-in-chief of the Talkhouse. He is the author of the books Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana and Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991.
Review :
"Michael Azerrad has always demonstrated a passionate feeling for the ideas, the ambitions, that drive the notable moments of recent musical history. But this annotated edition of his earlier book, which was already a very successful biography, breaks out even further into high art. He's the perfect narrator, now, for a very important question, perhaps increasingly forgotten: why was punk important and how do we talk about it now? The urgencies of this question are everywhere in this powerful, uncertain, and profoundly human work. Azzerad's restless plunging onward, represents the further entanglement in deep, fraught, endangered wisdom." -- Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North America
"Amazingly raw and candid . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get." -- Billboard on Come As You Are
"Really takes you inside both the business and soul of rock 'n' roll, providing the lurid details and lurid pop criticism, too." -- Los Angeles Times on Come As You Are
