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On March 4, 1991, a young Calgarian with his dad’s Dictaphone (a small cassette recorder) in hand headed to the Westward Club, now the location of Hotel Arts, where a Seattle grunge band was scheduled to play. 

Jason (Jay) Pay who had just turned 18, had no way of knowing that the band — Nirvana — was only months away from skyrocketing to fame with one of the best-selling albums of all time, Nevermind.

In the middle of a Calgary snowstorm, Pay and his group of friends made up much of the small crowd there to see Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. Pay recorded the show on his device.

The poster for Nirvana’s Calgary concert in 1991. The original designer is unknown. (livenirvana.com)

“I think it was probably one of the last shows where they had to pack up their own gear,” Pay said.

Little more was publicly known …

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