Everman can also be seen in the bootleg video of Nirvana playing an 'in store' performance at Rhino Records in Los Angeles on June 23, 1989. Cobain had broken his guitar the previous night and only provided vocals, leaving the guitar playing to Everman. He can be heard playing guitar on Trust No-One, an unofficial release of a live performance in Boston. On the 2009 remastered edition of Bleach, Everman is no longer credited but can still be seen on the front cover and he is given special thanks in the booklet.Įverman toured with Nirvana the summer of 1989 in support of Bleach. Nirvana founder Kurt Cobain said the credit was a token of thanks to Everman for paying a fee of $606.17 to record the album. He is listed as being second guitarist on Nirvana's Bleach and appears on the cover, but did not actually play on any of the tracks. Early musical career Įverman joined Nirvana in February 1989 as a second guitarist. Prior to joining with Nirvana, he played guitar in a local band called Stonecrow with future Nirvana drummer Chad Channing.

Also, he reestablished contact with his biological father, who by that time owned a fishing boat in Alaska, and worked several seasons on the boat. He went on to play in several bands during his high school years. Everman began playing guitar during the therapy sessions he initially picked up one of the guitars the therapist kept around his office, and the therapist then decided to play with him, hoping it would help him open up. Jason and I learned to walk on eggshells and really learned to take care of ourselves.' After an incident in which he and a friend blew up a toilet with an M-80 firecracker, his grandmother put him in therapy sessions to deal with his emotional issues. Īccording to Everman's half-sister, with whom he grew up, 'My mother was extremely depressed, an artistic genius who was also a pill-popping alcoholic.

His mother left with Jason when he was a toddler, moved to Washington, and remarried to a former Navy serviceman the family eventually settled in Poulsbo, across Puget Sound from Seattle. In a 2013 interview with The New York Times Magazine, Everman said when asked about his birth, 'My birth certificate says Kodiak, but I'm pretty sure it was Ouzinkie, where my parents lived in a two-room cabin with a pet ocelot named Kia.' His parents had moved to the remote Spruce Island to, as guitarist and writer Clay Tarver put it, 'get back to nature', but their marriage did not 'work out'.

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