Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Page updated at 06:25 p.m.
Nirvana timeline: Readers share memories and photos
We asked readers to help us fill out the Nirvana timeline below by submitting memories and photos.
Experience Music Project's exhibition "Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses" opens April 16 and will feature memorabilia related to Seattle's iconic grunge band.
To prepare for the opening, we searched our archives for past Nirvana reviews and stories to create this timeline of the band's career, but needed you to help us fill in the blanks.
Explore the timeline below to view readers' Nirvana memories, photos and videos.
Winning entries
We chose our favorite entries for exhibit-related prizes. The contest closed April 9. Thanks to all who participated.
Grand prize winner:
Eric Ekman for his Sept. 24, 1991 entry on the first time he heard Nirvana.
First prize winner:
Tim Chambers for his Sept. 9, 1991 entry on kicking Nirvana out of their own CD release party.
Second prize winners:
Scott E. Anderson for his Oct. 3, 1992 entry on a secret Nirvana show at Western Washington University.
Daniel Manning for his April 10, 1994 entry describing his reaction to Kurt Cobain's death.
Kyle Lazewski Reith for his Oct. 31, 1993 entry on Nirvana's Halloween show and the band members' costumes.
Related stories:
Nirvana exhibit recalls once-in-a-lifetime moment
Swoopy, psychedelic blob comes home
- Boy plucked from Wallace Falls: Rescuers 'should feel like heroes'
- Seahawks get TE Kellen Winslow in a trade
- QFC blocks new liquor stores from some shopping centers
- Everest will be crowded again days after 4 killed
- Downtown Seattle condos are finally filling up
- Jon Kitna's greatest play: NFL QB to high-school math teacher
- Hernandez turns duel into laughter in M's 6-1 victory
- Highlights — and low points — of Chihuly Garden and Glass | Art review
- 20-somethings go home to regroup
- 4 arrested after man's beating at Dodger Stadium
- Mariners try to rough up Yu Darvish for second time this season
495 - Ex-student in webcam spy case to be sentenced 239
- Signs of improper campaigning in McKenna files 165
- 20-somethings go home to regroup 151
- QFC blocks new liquor stores from some shopping centers 150
- Catholic groups turn to courts in contraceptive fight 125
- Notre Dame sues over Obama birth control mandate 122
- Is the Seattle School Board dysfunctional? U.S. Chamber of Commerce thinks so 113
- What we saw tonight: exactly what Eric Wedge has spent past 16 months drilling into Mariners hitters 95
- In Romneyworld, the JPMorgan Chase debacle would be no big deal 95
- Downtown Seattle condos are finally filling up
- Jon Kitna's greatest play: NFL QB to high-school math teacher
- Boy plucked from Wallace Falls: Rescuers 'should feel like heroes'
- UW, WSU expand enrollment in schools' engineering programs
- 20-somethings go home to regroup
- From slow hikes to high wires, San Juan Island has new treats
- Highlights — and low points — of Chihuly Garden and Glass | Art review
- QFC blocks new liquor stores from some shopping centers
- 'Lucky to be alive,' teen hails rescuers
- Recession Generation hit hard in struggle to adulthood
