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THE RECORDING ENGINEER

EVERY band from the underground at that time had a lot of common experiences. We’d played all the same clubs, we knew all the same people, we had hung out at all the same shitholes, and so I understood them intuitively. I’ll admit, I wasn’t a diehard Nirvana fan. But after seeing them at work in the studio and the way the band interacted with each other – the trusting nature that Kurt had with the other guys and the frankness that they shared as a band – I immediately warmed

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