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2603 S Washington St in the CD. The young Jimi attended Garfield High School
(like Quincy Jones before him) and learned to play tunes on a ukulele with one
string. Hendrix left Seattle in 1961 having barely played a gig, but he returned a
few times after he became famous, performing memorably at Washington State
Coliseum (now the Key Arena) in 1969. His CD house has long been demolished,
but there's a statue of him in Capitol Hill, a park named after him in the CD (which
is currently being refurbished with a memorial garden), plus the EMP Museum
that was largely inspired by his legacy. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in
Renton close to where he was born.
Kurt Cobain
The grunge era always resonated more strongly in Capitol Hill and Belltown than
in the city's eastern neighborhoods, but serious Kurt Cobain fans usually pay
their most poignant respects to the Nirvana front man in a simple park that abuts
the house where the singer killed himself in 1994. Viretta Park, on the shores of
Lake Washington just south of Madison Park proper, has no monument to
Cobain. Instead, in the true spirit of the DIY 1990s, two ordinary park benches
have been commandeered by fans and turned into graffiti-strewn memorials.
