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- Nirvana were approached to open for Metallica and the Roses on their co-headline tour, but Cobain “just wasn’t having it” Kurt Cobain “didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses stood for”, according to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. - While taking part in the latest instalment of NME‘s ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ series, Hammett recalled embarking on a co-headline tour with Axl Rose and co. back in 1992. Hammett was quizzed on which band had turned down the offer to open for Guns N’ Roses and Metallica at those shows, and he correctly answered with Nirvana. “I had to make the phone call to Kurt [Cobain] to talk to him about the possibility of joining our tour,” Hammett remembered, “and he just went on and on about how he just didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses stood for and I said to him: ‘Just go out there and represent Nirvana – just play the show and then that’s it’. “I pleaded with him, but he just wasn’t having it. So there you have it. It would have been great if Nirvana wa...

- "I didn't like the way that solo was. It was too intense."} Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl reflected on Nirvana's third studio album "In Utero", while the former recalled his strong dislike for some of the guitar parts recorded for " Heart-Shaped Box ". Tragically, 1993's "In Utero" would be the final album the Seattle trio would ever put together, although the LP itself, which is turning 30 this year, made it pretty clear that Nirvana had even more creative potential to explore. Speaking To Conan O'Brien in a recent interview alongside Dave Grohl and "In Utero" producer Steve Albini, Krist Novoselic noted how there were still some decisions regarding which the three bandmates didn't see eye to eye. - Naming the album's timeless hit "Heart-Shaped Box" as an example, the bassist admits he didn't feel the lead part matched the rest of the song (transcription via Killer Guitar Rigs): "For ...

- Sad Stories: Krist Novoselic Also Tried To Save Layne Staley , But Couldn't The late Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley was isolated in his final years before his death from a drug overdose in 2002, but stories have emerged over the years about collaborations he discussed, his hobbies, and encounters with them. that it got. old friends. Alternative Nation published a similar article in September 2014, but now we are releasing a new version with a couple of new stories. - According to Greg Prato's Grunge is Dead and Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, many of Layne's rocker friends refused to give up on him and even tried to keep an eye on him during his years of seclusion. . Sean Kinney tried to visit Layne at his home and often called him without success. Krist Novoselic brought him food, hoping she could save him after losing Kurt Cobain. But Laynen never opened the door for him, he insisted on helping him daily at his house, he ne...

- Former The Germs  guitarist Pat Smear defended Kurt Cobain 's guitar-playing abilities, explaining how technical proficiency isn't what the man was about. He tells Fact Mag: "Kurt Cobain's improvisations are very impressive guitar solos because it's more about his energy, his looseness, not trying to impress you with the flying fingers or whatever. - "Not adhering to things like staying in the right key - just play whatever note you want. That's how it is in electronic music." - Pat continued: "That's why I've always been very careful about how I incorporate guitar into electronic music. I don't want to make a spectacle of myself as a guitarist in the way that I did when I was in Foo Fighters. I wanted to be inside the music, not standing outside of it to grab your attention." Pat continued: "You can't possibly appeal to people and be sincere all the time. Oftentimes the best musicians have to hide themselves in ...

- During a conversation with Revolver, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne talked about Nirvana and the late Kurt Cobain, remembering how he took Kurt to his first gig. Osborne and Melvins are promoting their 25th studio album, titled "Five Legged Dog." When the interviwer said, "You took Kurt Cobain to his first show, which was a Black Flag gig. What was that night like?", Buzz replied (transcribed by UG): - "It was a hall that maybe held three or four hundred people, maybe 500 if it was packed - it was not packed. It was a Black Flag [1984's] 'Slip Ut In' tour. "We were friends with Kurt and had been for a long time, and I've been going into weird music for a lot longer than that. "The beginning musically, for me, was all on my own. There were no record stores where I lived, there were no radio stations that would play anything weird. "I discovered all that through pictures and magazines and ordered the records through mail order...

- Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain sits among the most iconic names in rock history thanks to his innovative work over the late 1980s and ‘90s to bring grunge music to the forefront of rock consciousness. However, memories of the icon’s musical achievements are often marred by those of his shocking and untimely suicide in April 1994.  - Following Cobain’s death, a suicide note was found that he had written before pulling the trigger on himself. The final letter for his family, friends and fans hauntingly brandished the words, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” from Neil Young’s classic 1979 track ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)’.  This quotation led people to believe that the suicide was a bit to remain eternally relevant. Cobain saw a level of romanticism in an untimely death for an artist. However, this wasn’t the only issue at hand. Fame wasn’t a yoke that sat comfortably on Cobain’s shoulders. When coupled with his worsening addiction to heroin, the young star b...

- Frances says she didn't feel weird for not having that interest that teenagers showed to her father's music. “I would feel weirder if I had been his fan. I was 15 when I realized I couldn't escape him. Even when I was in a car and my radio was on, there was my father. He has reached beyond his death, our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love putting them on a pedestal. If Kurt had been another man who had abandoned his family in the worst possible way ... but it was not. He inspired people and put him on a pedestal, which made him "San Kurt." He got bigger even after his death, it didn't seem like he could become bigger, but it was. ” - "He's larger than life and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians," Frances Bean added to Rolling Stone. "We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible...  But he wasn't. I've inspired people to put h...