Northwest Nuggets: Nirvana Becomes Nirvana at the Tacoma Community World Theater

Jeff Suwak
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

On March 19, 1988, Nirvana played under the name Nirvana for the very first time. This historic moment didn’t happen in Seattle, nor even in Aberdeen — it went down at the Community World Theater in Tacoma.

Before going by their new name, Nirvana went by Ted Ed Fred, Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, and Bliss (which is intriguingly…

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Jeff Suwak has been called “devastatingly handsome” and “peerless,” but only by himself. Most his fiction is archived at http://www.beyondthetempestgate.com/.

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