I Am Secretly an Important Man Am Secretly an Important Man

An outsider artist, punk poet and troubled soul who was once proclaimed “The Godfather of Grunge,” Seattle’s Jesse Bernstein had the distinction of having opened for both Nirvana and William S. Burroughs. And, while we’re name-dropping alt-culture icons: he also once toured with almost-legendary psychedelic folksters The Holy Modal Rounders — and, as a teenaged runaway, caught ...