It's 1992 and I'm in 8th grade at a Middle School Dance at my school. Nevermind had been out for awhile and the local Top 40 station (XL 106.7 in Orlando) had been playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio so all the kids knew it. I guess our Middle School was cool or something, because their resident DJ, some goofy dude named Johnny Magic, actually was DJ'ing our Middle School dance! Looking back that was probably no big deal, but he was a star in the minds of pre-teens in the area. Anyway, he gets on the mike and goes "Alright, we're gonna play Smells Like Teen Spirit, but NO MOSHING! If anybody moshes, we'll turn it off" They start the song, and within 30 seconds there's a big group of kids moshing in the middle of the gym (dancefloor) and they cut of the song. You could say that inspiring 11-13 year olds to mosh at a middle school dance no matter what the adults said was very foretelling for what Nirvana meant to our generation.
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