But my real hang time with them was on that flight from Los Angeles to meet up with Sonic Youth in London. I had seen Nirvana a few times before when they played West Coast dates with Sonic Youth. We had always talked about doing a longer project together and literally two weeks before their summer festival tour started in August of 1991, I got a call: “Do you want to come and shoot stuff?” So I grabbed my Super 8 and a passport and took off. And they had asked me to do a few music videos for Goo in 1990. I met them in the Eighties and they did a cover of Alice Cooper’s “Hollowed Be My Name” for this movie of mine, Lovedolls Superstar. I was friends with Sonic Youth for a few years before filming the movie. SPIN asked Markey to recall, in his own words, his memories from the tour: But it will get the deluxe DVD reissue treatment on September 13. (Watch it below.) The film – shot entirely by Markey on his Super 8 camera – has been criminally out-of-print for years. Markey turned his experience into the classic rock doc 1991: The Year Punk Broke, which offers an all-access look at these bands before grunge overtook the world. Dave Markey, a friend of Sonic Youth’s, was hired to film the trek, which also featured Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, and Gumball.
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