Neil young talks about kurt cobain biography
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Kurt Cobain, Working-Class Hero
In , Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who died thirty years ago this month, wrote a letter to Rolling Stone, expressing what he thought about the magazine’s audience and political pedigree. “At this point in our, uh, career, before hair loss treatment and bad credit, I’ve decided I have no desire to do an interview,” Cobain wrote. “We wouldn’t benefit from an interview because the average Rolling Stone reader is a middle-aged ex-hippie turned hippiecrite, who embraces the past as ‘the glory days’ and has a kinder, gentler, more adult approach toward the new liberal conservatism. The average Rolling Stone reader has always gathered moss.”
Cobain’s letter was never sent. He and the other members of Nirvana — Krist Novoselic (bass) and Dave Grohl (drums) — eventually agreed to appear in Rolling Stone, albeit with Cobain famously wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” on the cover. Nevertheless, this letter, whic
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‘Sleeps With Angels’: Behind Neil Young’s Poignant Tribute To Kurt Cobain
Sleeps With Angels stands apart from the majority of records Neil Young has made with Crazy Horse. As a rule, when the two parties get tillsammans, guitar pyrotechnics such as those unleashed on landmark albums including Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere () and Ragged Glory () tend to ensue. However, Sleeps With Angels was a considerably darker, more downbeat and sombre beast: a record which Ultimate Classic Rock later observed “has more to do with the atmospheric After The Gold Rush than the distorted joys of Rust Never Sleeps”.
Listen to ‘Sleeps With Angels’ here.
At least some of the darkness cloaking the Sleeps With Angels songs was cast by the then recent death of Nirvana’s iconic frontman, Kurt Cobain. Like Pearl smet (with whom Young would soon collaborate on the album Mirror Ball), Cobain was a long-term Young fan, but the fact that he quoted lyrics from the Rust Never Sleeps song Hey He
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&#;In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana&#;s biggest fan in the Nineties,&#; Weezer&#;s Rivers Cuomo told Rolling Stone earlier this year. &#;I&#;m sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but inom was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick.&#;
That &#;sickness&#; continued throughout Weezer&#;s career. In November Weezer played their first of five secret shows beneath the alias &#;Goat Punishment&#; &#; an entire set of Nirvana covers: &#;Aneurysm,&#; &#;Breed,&#; etc (it was bootlegged bygd the band, and is now on YouTube). A decade later Rivers wrote the final verse of &#;Heart Songs&#; as a remembrance of how Nevermind inspired him. That same year &#;Silver,&#; the song that flamed Rivers&#; love for Kurt&#;s songwriting, became a Weezer setlist regular.
&#;The other, far-hipper employees at Tower kind of educated me,&#; Cuomo explained to Rolling Stone. &#;I remember they played &#;Sliver&#; for me, and inom was immediately