Jason Everman (far left) in Soundgarden in 1989
(Picture: Rex Features)If I were, somewhat childishly, to invent a perfect hero – a sort of personal Übermensch – the chances are he’d look a lot like Jason Everman.
If you’ve ever seen the front cover of Nirvana’s debut album, Bleach, then you’ve seen him: he’s the guitarist on the right, surprisingly given as much prominence as Kurt himself. Fair enough – he used the money he’d made doing brutal work on Alaskan fishing boats to pay for Bleach’s recording.
