Small-town Aberdeen - "there are Aberdeens everywhere" - was neither a help nor a hindrance to growing up, though Nirvana´s bass player Chris Novaselic has since highlighted its insularity. "Aberdeen was a very isolated town, very scary. Leaving it opened our eyes to a lot of things. It was a hell town, backwoods, like a big city for lumberjacks. You know how Jack Nicholson was in Easy Rider, talking about rednecks. About how if they see something different, they don´t go running scared, they get danderous. Aberdeen´s like that."
Novoselic also offered it as a reason for Nirvana´s in-your-face attitude. "They were so bone-headed, why shouldn´t we be different to them?"
Kurt was unusual among the school kids of Aberdeen in prefering painting to playing sports: "Yeah, you know, there were a lot of Beavises and Buttheads back there," he later remarked. "The only difference is they weren´t as clever as the guys on tv."

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