“The three guys in Nirvana were just sitting there covered in glass. “Turner ran up and punched all the glass out of the back of that cab,” Liles says. When the cab stopped amidst the confusion, Van Blarcum spotted Cobain inside.
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“I pushed the band out the door and into the alley and told the cab driver to get the fuck out of here,” Liles says.Īs the cab slowly pulled away, Nirvana’s road manager came out of Trees yelling about the band not knowing what hotel everyone was staying in. Liles saw Van Blarcum and called a cab with instructions to meet the band in the back of the venue. He waited out front for Cobain to come out after the show. But Van Blarcum still had revenge on his mind. Almost immediately, the crowd started chanting, “Bullshit.” … Van Blarcum tried to explain what happened to whomever would listen as two band members scattered off stage.
Van Blarcum then retaliated with a right cross to Cobain’s jaw. As Van Blarcum, among others, tried to pull the singer back onto the stage, Cobain popped the bouncer in the head with his guitar. He then stage dived into the crowd, jumping off Van Blarcum’s back, Liles says. Even with security pushing the crowd back, Cobain began gesturing for fans to get onto the stage. But his story has reached mythical heights.Įarly into the show, it was clear that keeping the fans off the stage was going to be troublesome.
“They told us that, if we didn’t have a moat, then we had to hire three security guards to keep people off the stage,” Liles says.Įnter one Turner Van Blarcum, a union stagehand who was brought in at the last minute to complete the trio of bouncers facing a seemingly impossible task … Van Blarcum refused to comment for this article.
Trees hadn’t been open for very long at that point, and Nirvana’s road manager was angry that there wasn’t a security divide between the stage and the audience. Somehow, though, the show went on … One of the biggest problems was security. The tour had been booked to Trees months earlier - well before Nevermind’s release - and Nirvana’s rise had happened so quickly that certain venues just weren’t large enough to accommodate the newfound hordes. A 2011 article in the Dallas Observer detailed what happened at Trees the night Nirvana played there in 1991: One such example of how wild things could get was during the group’s Octoconcert in Dallas. As noted, Nirvana shows were typically rowdy affairs for both band and audience.
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