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Rare photos from Nirvana's first-ever concert are going viral after they were rediscovered by the teenage daughter of the man who hosted the seminal band's earliest show.

Nineteen-year-old Maggie Poukkula of Longview, Washington, last week tweeted a strip of images taken in her father's basement back in March 1987.

Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day pic.twitter.com/y7lXh6acVn

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Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day pic.twitter.com/y7lXh6acVn
Maggs (@mjpoukkula) July 16, 2015

"I didn't know that this was so historical," Poukkula told The Huffington Post by phone Thursday. "I knew Nirvana were really popular, but I didn't realize this many people loved them, all over the world. It's really huge."

Poukkula said her father had made color copies of the prints and tucked the paper into his copy of the 2002 Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven, to mark the section that mentioned their friendship.

Poukkula told HuffPost her father, Tony, was a year ahead of Kurt Cobain at Aberdeen High School in Aberdeen, Washington. A lifelong musician who now plays in Seattle band Laytem, Poukkula's father told her that the 13-year-old Cobain would follow him around at school.

"Kurt would follow him around a lot because he loved the music [my dad played]," Poukkula said. "I'm pretty sure Kurt asked him if he could teach him some stuff."

When both Poukkula and Cobain were in their early 20s, Nirvana's then-manager asked if the band could play a show in Poukkula's home. What the photos don't show is that it was a "near-complete disaster," according to the AV Club. The audience was indifferent, and Cobain reportedly walked out after an hour.

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