Cobain In Hole?
LONDON (AP) - Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dreamed about leaving his band Nirvana to join wife Courtney Love's group Hole, a music magazine quoted him as saying in an interview months before his 1994 death.
Uncut magazine released excerpts Friday from its upcoming story, which it said was based on an interview conducted by a French television journalist in August 1993, eight months before Cobain's suicide. Only fragments of it were aired, said Uncut, which is to publish its story Tuesday.
Cobain, asked whether he wanted to collaborate with Love, reportedly answered "It's a nice thought. I'd like to, but to tell you the truth, I would rather just quit my band and join Hole, you know, only because when I have played music with them, there's a level of connection that's a little bit higher than with anyone else I ever played with. It's amazing."
"It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitar and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a grunge rocker because then I might be able to take advantage of that when I'm older," Uncut quoted Cobain as saying. "I could sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash or something, and it won't be a big joke."
Posted at 11:18 PM
Tags: Courtney Love | Nirvana
these "cut" quotes sound pretty fucking substatial. i wonder why they were cut...
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I cannot for the life of me understand why this little bit of information is newsworthy ( ? )
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Ellogoods, I agree w/ you, but to answer your question...
It is because we are approaching the 10 year anniversary of Kurt's death. Watch as every music-media outlet scrambles to report Nirvana stories we haven't read a million times already.
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yeah, I remember seeing Kurt's notebook at the bookstore now with 'added' info. ??? Wow, the anniversary is almost here.
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i patiently dream of the day when a society of people can realize the duality of humanity, so that they may stop deconstructing a person live or dead (or in this case, dead as a result from constant scrutiny and psychic/philisophical deconstruction) in some attempts to improve their stature (i.e.: well, IIIIIII think that kurt really thought this, and IIIIIII'm right because (insert trivial or relevant similar experience)). hey everybody, guess what, none of us, no matter who we may be, will ever truely know what kurt cobain thought, or ment, because of two reasons: 1) no one can ever know what another human knows, because that is the mark of individuality in this perceived universe 2) he sure as fuck didn't know what he thought or ment. he knew how he felt, and what came of actions, and he knew that life was constantly changing; add to that all this overblown jesus-based hero-worship, and numberous years of various types of non-physical waste from a self-consuming western culture, and all his personal problems physical and mental . . . if your going to take anything from him (or anyone, live or dead) take some manifested thought that relates/appeals to you, and take one that is it's opposite, because those are the two points on a map that form a line from one to the other. the trick is, to make those lines form a circle, and then you might get a clue as to what all this meaning of life shit is. otherwise, your limiting yourself, and making waste and weakness, that will undue what you ever may have been.
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Hi Courtney.
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Fact: Kurt *did* leave Nirvana...
Funny, but everyone I knew who was around him during his last days were commenting on the divorce he was planning, not on any half-assed quotes about joining 'hole'.
Expect Cuntney to go into full overdrive as the anniversary approaches. The Widow Cobain would like to deflect attention from her drug problem/court case/narcissistic personality disorder/failed album, and towards the only thing she ever really had going for her: someone else's talent.
America's Sweetheart: debut at #58 and still sinking.
No more movie deals because no one will insure her.
A plastic face that makes Michael Jackson cringe.
No more access to Francis' trust fund dough.
Expect the worst, Love will deliver. Unable to afford proper PR, the pathetic antics will increase as her delusional mind tries to conceive of ways to keep her fading visage in the limelight. Desparate old whore, how we love to watch you humiliate yourself.
If Kurt hadn't died, the divorce would have proceeded and CL would be an embarassing footnote in his life, never to be heard from again. It's so sad that his legacy is now filtered through her madness.
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agreed 'kurt's_impending...' i will say, though, that at one time ms. love's bitchiness (for lack of a better term) was something toward defiant self-empowerment, rather than misguided backpedaling (still, she never could have compared to patti smith). if anything, i pity her, both for how she had/has been portrayed, and how she let herself become the joke they made about her. here's to the day that our world finally does consume itself, and we all can stop living these filtered half-truths.
note to 'leslie;' if you had read what i attempted to write, you would have seen that i was trying to speak through a neutral perspective, explaning that kurt couldn't deal with the consequences of what his actions would be. i never ment to try and put a spin on things, as his widow would. the whole thing turned into a bit of amusing irony, much to my chagrin. i did have a good laugh at your response though, and appreciated it. cheers mate!
i'll shut up now, and leave the amusing cynicism to the pros.
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"Ellogoods, I agree w/ you, but to answer your question...
It is because we are approaching the 10 year anniversary of Kurt's death. Watch as every music-media outlet scrambles to report Nirvana stories we haven't read a million times already.
Posted by stereogum at March 14, 2004 12:14 PM "
yeah, i realize that... my comment was half rhetorical and smart assed. After having read Charles Cross's book, Heavier than Heaven, I do think that Courtney truly loved Kurt but I also think that she was the gasoline tossed on and Kurt was the fire AND it does bug me that she is like Yoko Ono freely capitalizing on her husbands stellar talent and icon status and swimming in scads of the money that goes with being the "rock star widow"- I guess I get tired of the sick adulation that surrounds Kurt that seems to overshadow his role as a great artist....(and one who showed so much more promise).
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