Kallmekris (Host)
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961 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Apr
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What was I doing when I was three?
I don't know.
Probably eating slugs, eating banana slugs on the side of the road.
True story.
True story.
I was not meant for greatness.
Anyway.
And his grandparents, Leland and Iris, remembered a kid who turned their kitchen into a drum kit, banging on every pot and pan he could reach.
So they gave him a harmonica and then a tin drum and eventually a real drum set.
And Aunt Marie also handed down an old Hawaiian steel guitar with a small amp.
And his artistry took multiple angles.
And on top of that, he would draw all the time, page after page of cartoon characters,
sketched in obsessive detail.
The art just never stopped, but the music ran in his blood.
His uncle Chuck had been part of the Beachcombers, known as the biggest act in Aberdeen back in the 60s, and later played with a bar band called Fat Chance.
Love that name.
And when Kurt turned 14, Chuck handed him a beat up electric guitar he'd picked up from Japan and set him up with lessons from Fat Chance's guitarist, Warren Mason.
And he eventually helped him trade up to a knockoff Gibson Explorer.
And at some point in school, Kurt crossed paths with Buzz Osborne, who was the guy behind the Melvins, one of the Aberdeen's local bands.
And Osborne quickly became a friend and a mentor and a doorway into the world Kurt didn't know existed.
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