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“Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City” by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18, 1989 (scan by Archived Music Press)“There’s a quote of mine from the Sub Pop article that has been used more than anything else I’ve written, which is the earliest description of Nirvana in a British music paper—how ‘They’re four working-class guys from Aberdeen, blah blah blah.’ What’s really kind of annoying about seeing that description everywhere is, although it’s attributed to me, they’re not my words. I was on serious deadline, an I wasn’t an experienced writer by any stretch of the imagination back then. So I was on the phone to [Sub Pop’s] Jonathan Poneman in Seattle and I was copying down word-for-word what he was telling me about these artists. That’s quite dreadful, really, but what the hell.”—former Melody Maker writer Everett True, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0xtbzcwSQ1qctvzro1_r1_500.jpg)
“Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City” by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18, 1989 (scan by Archived Music Press)
“There’s a quote of mine from the Sub Pop article that has been used more than anything else I’ve written, which is the earliest description of Nirvana in a British music paper—how ‘They’re four working-class guys from Aberdeen, blah blah blah.’ What’s really kind of annoying about seeing that description everywhere is, although it’s attributed to me, they’re not my words. I was on serious deadline, an I wasn’t an experienced writer by any stretch of the imagination back then. So I was on the phone to [Sub Pop’s] Jonathan Poneman in Seattle and I was copying down word-for-word what he was telling me about these artists. That’s quite dreadful, really, but what the hell.”
—former Melody Maker writer Everett True, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
