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Expert: Jennifer Hollman - 10/29/2009


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Hi Jennifer,

I have been Googling like crazy trying to determine what kind drum sticks Dave used in his Nirvana days--Any ideas about this?

I heard he used Tama drums, Zildjian cymbals and Aquarian heads but can you confirm this?

Many thanks for any help you can provide.

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Hello Andrew,

Dave used Aquarian Power-Sleeve 2B sticks that he held upside-down. This was confirmed by Barrett Jones the drum technician for NIRVANA.

You are correct about the Drums, Cymbals, and Heads.

He also had a DW 5000 Turbo pedal in his kit.


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I can answer questions about the release history of NIRVANA from 1989-Present, questions about the history of the band, life & death of Kurt Cobain, the remaining members of NIRVANA, and most questions about his family. I can fact check tour dates, live shows, and just about anything related.

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I helped out Carrie Borzillo, rock new editor for cdnow.com (now amazon.com) with fact checking, an interview, eyewitness account and was given special thanks in her book Eyewitness Nirvana. I've been studying NIRVANA since 1993 and have read literally thousands of books, magazine articles, and other publications throughout the last decade and a half. My reference collection is huge with just about every book, entire release catalog, and more from all around the world. I started volunteering for AllExpterts.com in 1999 before it was purchased by About.com sometime in the early 00's. You can find all of the answers to previously asked public question dating back to 1999. I wrote, edited, and published a NIRVANA newsletter (NIRVANA FOREVER), and online zine (About a Son; Lithium) that both ran 7 years on America Online. I've founded and sistered a lot of NIRVANA communities on LiveJournal.com (NIRVANA FOREVER, Kurt & Jim, and NIRVANA Elitests), and Yahoo.com (NIRVANA FOREVER).

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