Kurt Cobain didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses “stood for”, says Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
- 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