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“The story begins with the words once upon a time, and concludes with, it’s a tragic ending.” -Krist Novoselic Once upon a time, in the 1920’s and 1930’s, as music changed, there was a quest for volume. Old fashion acoustic guitars just weren’t cutting it in noisy nightclubs and dancehalls. So a teenager named Les Paul stuck a phonograph pickup and a telephone mouthpiece under his guitar strings, then wired it all to his parents’ radio which he used as an amplifier. A noisy living room experiment borne of youth and insanity had been converted in just a few short years to a mainstream commodity. Kurt Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a small town 140 kilometers southwest of Seattle. His mother was a cocktail waitress and his father was an auto mechanic. Cobain soon moved to nearby Aberdeen, a depressed and dying logging town. Cobain was for most of his childhood a sick bronchitic child. Matters were made worse when Cobain\\\'s parent\\\'s divorced when h...