I know they’re both going to be big stars. “ going to be famous and already is, but unless something happens, they’re going to self-destruct. Cross is the author of “Heavier Than Heaven,” a biography of Kurt Cobain, and was editor of Seattle’s alternative newspaper The Rocket.“ Courtney and Kurt are the nineties, much more talented version of Sid and Nancy,” a record executive once noted. It’s taken me a couple of decades to realize that not only am I not as good a songwriter as Kurt, but nobody is.Ĭharles R. I’m very picky when I listen to Kurt, but when I hear “Nevermind” I think of the joy he had tinkering with the drums for this glorious thing he had to say. For a few days, we just listened to it again and again. Hearing it in that context was like being in an entirely different world. I was in this Mercedes S-Class sedan with a Bang & Olufsen sound system, blasting down the Autobahn. I was in Germany on a promo tour for “Pretty on the Inside” in October. When was the first time you heard the full album, start to finish? He worked it like Kate Moss works her cheekbones. He possessed modesty, and he put forth this public virtue persona, and he was good at that. He licked his lips and was like, “ Whoa, whoa, whoa.” But he hid it really well, so he’s attributed these saintly qualities. And I think the one after is even better, and so did he. ![]() We’ve spent several hours talking about an album he made 30 years ago, which is longer than he lived. The place he writes from is so emotionally desperate we all understand it. The other part of that song, about him living under a bridge, his mom told me later isn’t true because the river was tidal, but it doesn’t matter. He is clawing his way out on “Something in the Way.” He’s telling himself anything just to get through. He knows it’s a lie - here’s a guy who loved turtles - but he thinks that if someone just loves him enough, then maybe, just maybe one day he will become real. The line “It’s OK to eat fish cause they don’t have any feelings” - nothing else cuts me like that line. “ Something in the Way” though is one of the great rock songs of all time. What are the other songs on the album that most speak to you? Like Eddie Vedder, somebody who had good infrastructure. He might have survived had somebody else. I’m not really a fan of the idea that it all “could have” been that different, but “In Bloom” might have shifted things. I found his bad grammar, like my own, fetching. I am really fond of the “outcasted teens” line. I recently saw the lyric “Who will be the king and queen of the outcasted teens” and there was a bit of the K Records vibe to that too. ![]() Although that drum fill is fantastic in “Teen Spirit,” there was a little of a K Records shtick. Life would have turned out simpler and better had I been heard. We started to hang out, not that night but that week.Īnd then we went to the movies at the Beverly Center - me, Kurt and Dave - and saw “Truth or Dare.” As we are walking out, Dave says, “That movie is you.” I said, “No, it’s you.” You got me wrong, Dave.ĭid you argue to Kurt, Krist and Dave directly that “In Bloom” was a better first single than “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? He was bummed that his white Mosrite left-handed Gospel guitar had been stolen from the van that week. ![]() You ran into Kurt at a Butthole Surfers concert on May 17 at the Hollywood Palladium and exchanged numbers. “I’m trying to navigate between what is really triggering and what is not,” she says.ĭuring a three-hour Zoom call over two days, she says it is not likely she will revisit a discussion of “Nevermind” ever again. Love says she often gets asked about Nirvana by random people “in train stations.” She used to reply that she “wasn’t in that band” just to not have to talk about a painful subject. ![]() Some aspects of the estate, Love says, have been a “legal travesty,” but it is held together with “spit, glue and skillful diplomacy.” She sued the two in 2001 over finances but settled, and they all appeared together onstage at Nirvana’s 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Love, 57, has spent the pandemic in London making a new album, doting on her Pomeranian and “reading Hart Crane poetry.” When Cobain died from suicide in 1994, Love became a widow but also one of the stewards of his legacy, working with their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, and the other Nirvana members, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, now leader of the Foo Fighters.
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