The guy who got kicked out of Nirvana and Soundgarden

Kicked out of two (likely) Hall of Fame bands by age 22. Today, an Army Special Forces veteran and owner of a philosophy degree from Columbia University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/magazine/evermans-war.html?pagewanted=1&hp

 

Sounds like he fell on some black days.

 

Decided he wanted to blow up the outside world instead.

 

I had something to say...but Nevermind.

 

Great story.

 

He's the one who liked all their pretty songs, and he liked to sing along. And he liked to shoot his gun.

 

He's not Pete Best, he's Pete Better.

 

Very cool story. There's a good movie in there somewhere.

 

He did much better for himself than the drummer who quit Green Day just before they hit it big ... to pursue a journalism career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiffmeyer

 

As the two former journalists who are subjects of this story will tell you, it's much better to go from journalism to music stardom than the other way around.

http://www.robertearlkeen.com/news.html?n_id=227

 

Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys agrees with this.

 

Soundgarden is not a Hall of Fame band.