Nirvana & Soundgarden: Jason Everman, The Member Who Became A War Hero, Green Beret, Army Ranger

Today we take a look at the guitarist and bassist Jason Everman who played in both Nirvana and Soundgarden before joining the military.

0:00 - Jason Everman's Childhood
2:00 - Jason Everman Meets Nirvana Members
6:00 - Jason Everman Joins Soundgarden
8:20 - Jason Everman Joins Mindfunk
8:40 - Jason Everman Joins the Military
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During high school, Jason Everman spent much of his free time playing in different bands and it was there he met drummer Chad Channing who would eventually join Nirvana. Channing and Everman would play in a band together called Stonecrow in 1985. Following his junior year, Everman reconnected with his biological father with whom he spent several summers with on his fishing boat.
His friend Chad Channing happened to meet a guitarist and a bassist from Olympia, Washington looking for a drummer. That pair just happened to be Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. They called their band nirvana.. Channing played drums for many of their early shows and when Kurt Cobain considered getting another guitar player, Channing suggested Everman.
Jonathan Poneman, from of Sub Pop Records, the label that initially signed Nirvana and put out their debut album Bleach, would tell the New York imes that Cobain introduced Everman as his “surprise” before a sound check in San Francisco. Ad Poneman liked the new guitarist immediately.
Everman was instrumental in helping Nirvana in the band’s early days. Following the recording of their debut album, 1989’s “Bleach,” the band owed their producer money. But their label Sub pop was such a horribly managed company they didn’t have money to pay the producer. In fact the label owner Bruce Pavitt would actually call up Cobain asking him for money. Novaselic remembered to the Times “Jason was very generous,”. “And he’d had a job. . ..? You know how it said it was recorded for like six hundred and something bucks on the back of the record? Jason paid for that.” And Sub Pop was so supportive of Everman that they printed a limited-edition live poster of him rocking out despite the fact that he never played on the record.
Jason seemed like a perfect fit: he was a punk rocker, and helped out the band with their producer, but once Nirvana hit the road that's when things fell apart. The band started to tour behind the record in June of 1989 but almost a month in they hit a wall.
Keep in mind, this was before Nirvana had a huge hit with Nevermind so they were slumming it on the road, all piling into a tiny van. And touring can be downright boring and uneasy for a lot of people. Between gigs your trying to kill the time while being in close proximity to your bandmates. Novaselic would explain to the Times“We had some great shows with Jason,”. “But then things went south really fast. Somewhere along the way, a cloud formed over Jason, an impenetrable inwardness that just hung there. They say he wouldn’t talk to anyone, completely removing himself from the circle” he’d remember.
Even his friend Chad Channing was also perplexed over what happened remembering in the same interview “He doesn’t talk freely when things are bothering him ”It just seemed as if he didn’t want to be there. And Cobain and Novoselic wanted to fire the guitarist, but didn’t know how to approach the subject so instead, they cancelled the remainder of he tour after new york and drove straight home with all the members sitting in silence for the whole ride . They simply dropped Everman off and at home and said “All right man , we’ll see you later” and that was the last time he spoke to his bandmates.
Everman would tell author Mark Yarm in the book Everybody Loves Our town how prior to the tour ending he confided in Channing that he was done with the band. Chad in turn went and told Krist and Kurt. And according to Everman he would say “I came to the realization my role in the band was essentially going to be the rhythm guitar player. I had the desire and inclination to write as well. Same thing with Chad. It became obvious that wasn’t going to happen. Also we were broke and burned out from touring.”
A soundman named Craig Montgommery who worked with Nirvana as their soundman on that tour recalled how Jason musically wasn’t a right fit saying. “

Following his time in Nirvana, Everman wanted to take a break from music and enjoy the money

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