2011年12月31日

Smashed Kurt Cobain guitar sold for $100,000

EATTLE —  A smashed guitar from the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000.
Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it's the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo.
The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the taped-up Fender Mustang guitar in sunburst finish was displayed for a time.
"It's a really cool-looking guitar because it's smashed and held together with duct tape and Kurt Cobain wrote on it," McMurray said.
Sluggo said he traded a working guitar for the smashed one during the first U.S. tour of Cobain's band, Nirvana.
McMurray said Nirvana, living hand-to-mouth, was on a tour in New Jersey when Cobain smashed the guitar on stage and went looking for one to play at his next gig.
The swap was made while Cobain was staying at the apartment of Sluggo, who goes only by that name, and Sluggo's girlfriend, McMurray said.
He said he hoped the buyer would allow the instrument to return to Seattle for a Cobain exhibit he is preparing for 2010.
"There's not a huge amount of broken Nirvana guitars out there," McMurray said, adding that most amount to "little slivers and fragments."
A news release from Hall said the highest price paid for a piece of Cobain memorabilia was $131,000 at a 2006 auction for his Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar.
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Courtney Love Plans to Auction Belongings of Late Husband Kurt Cobain

  • Feb. 8: Courtney Love and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
    Feb. 8: Courtney Love and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
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    Kurt Cobain
Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, says she plans to sell most of his belongings.
"I'm going to have a Christie's auction," Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. "[My house] is like a mausoleum."
Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, that year. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.
"My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant ... bag full of flannel ... shirts," says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. "A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to '[Smells Like] Teen Spirit' — that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just ... sell."

No date has been set for the auction, AOL publicist Kurt Patat told The Associated Press on Monday.
Love, whose upcoming album is titled, "Nobody's Daughter," says friends support the idea.
"Everyone's been positive and behind me on it," she says. "We'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity."
She'll have a chance to move on from Cobain, too.
"I still wear his pajamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?"


 
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The other Fuck Yeah Kurt Cobain died. This was bad, because Kurt Cobain deserves to live forever on Tumblr, since he didn't get to live forever in the real world.

Pretty much, this is where you can find a bunch of Kurt Cobain/Nirvana quotes/images/lyrics/songs/etc. =]
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Remembering Kurt Cobain

 

Today marks the 17th anniversary of  Kurt Cobain's death. Cobain was the lead singer & guitarist of Nirvana and was found dead in his home, his death ruled a suicide. Let’s celebrate his life through his music! Listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit below, one of my favorite Nirvana songs.
 
 
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What if Krist Novoselic showed up in Milton Keynes with the Foo Fighters?  I mean it’s basically definitely not going to happen, but if it did I’m quite sure I’d cry upon missing it.

Lou Reed

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Sun: Pisces
Moon: Virgo
Mercury: Aquarius
Venus: Aquarius
Mars: Taurus

Sun opposite Moon
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Moon conjunct North Node
Venus opposite Pluto
Mars conjunct Uranus and Saturn
Mars trine Neptune
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Benicio Del Toro
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Benicio Del Toro
Sun: Pisces
Moon: Gemini
Mercury: Pisces
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Mars: Scorpio

Pisces Stellium: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn & Chiron

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Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

Sun: Pisces
Moon: Leo
Mercury: Aquarius
Venus: Aries
Mars: Sagittarius

Aries stellium: Venus, Saturn, North Node & Chiron

Grand Fire Trine: Venus/Saturn (Aries), Moon (Leo) and Mars (Sagittarius)

Sun square Lilith in Gemini
Moon opposite Mercury
Venus tightly conjunct Saturn in Aries
Mars dissociatively conjunct Neptune in Scorpio
Jupiter & Uranus conjunct in Libra
Timothy Mosley (Timbaland)Sun: PiscesMoon: VirgoMercury: PiscesVenus: AquariusMars: SagittariusSun opposite MoonSun opposite PlutoMoon square Neptune & JupiterMoon (dissociatively) trine MarsVenus trine UranusVenus sextile NeptuneMars directly square PlutoLilith in Virgo opposite Sun
Timothy Mosley (Timbaland)

Sun: Pisces
Moon: Virgo
Mercury: Pisces
Venus: Aquarius
Mars: Sagittarius

Sun opposite Moon
Sun opposite Pluto
Moon square Neptune & Jupiter
Moon (dissociatively) trine Mars
Venus trine Uranus
Venus sextile Neptune
Mars directly square Pluto
Lilith in Virgo opposite Sun
Pete DohertySun: PiscesMoon: VirgoMercury: AriesVenus: AquariusMars: PiscesGrand Water Trine: Sun (Pisces), Uranus (Scorpio), and Jupiter (Cancer)Sun opposite MoonSun directly square NeptuneSun inconjunct PlutoMoon opposite MarsMoon conjunct SaturnMoon inconjunct MercuryVenus inconjunct SaturnLilith in Leo directly opposite Venus
Pete Doherty

Sun:
Pisces
Moon: Virgo
Mercury: Aries
Venus: Aquarius
Mars: Pisces

Grand Water Trine: Sun (Pisces), Uranus (Scorpio), and Jupiter (Cancer)

Sun opposite Moon
Sun directly square Neptune
Sun inconjunct Pluto
Moon opposite Mars
Moon conjunct Saturn
Moon inconjunct Mercury
Venus inconjunct Saturn
Lilith in Leo directly opposite Venus
George Harrison
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Sun trine MoonSun square 8th house Saturn and Uranus in GeminiSun quincunx 10th house Pluto in LeoMoon dissociatively conjunct AscendantMoon square PlutoMoon quincunx Venus and Uranus Mercury opposite PlutoVenus dissociatively opposite 11th house Neptune in LibraVenus trine PlutoVenus and Uranus quincunx AscendantMars opposite 9th house Jupiter (rx) in CancerSaturn conjunct UranusSaturn and Uranus trine Neptune9th house Lilith in Cancer conjunct Jupiter (rx); opposite Mars10th house Chiron (rx) in Leo square Moon
George Harrison
Asc: Libra
Sun: Pisces, 4th house
Moon: Scorpio, 1st house
Mercury: Aquarius, 4th house
Venus: Pisces, 5th house
Mars: Capricorn, 3rd house
Sun trine Moon
Sun square 8th house Saturn and Uranus in Gemini
Sun quincunx 10th house Pluto in Leo
Moon dissociatively conjunct Ascendant
Moon square Pluto
Moon quincunx Venus and Uranus
Mercury opposite Pluto
Venus dissociatively opposite 11th house Neptune in Libra
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Venus and Uranus quincunx Ascendant
Mars opposite 9th house Jupiter (rx) in Cancer
Saturn conjunct Uranus
Saturn and Uranus trine Neptune

9th house Lilith in Cancer conjunct Jupiter (rx); opposite Mars
10th house Chiron (rx) in Leo square Moon
Gary Webb (Gary Numan)Sun: PiscesMoon: ScorpioMercury: PiscesVenus: AquariusMars: CapricornSun square SaturnMoon square Venus & MarsMoon conjunct Neptune(rx) & Jupiter(rx)Moon tightly sextile Pluto(rx)Venus square NeptuneJupiter tightly sextile PlutoEros conjunct Venus in AquariusPsyche tightly conjunct Neptune in ScorpioLilith in Aries tightly trine Saturn in Sagittarius
Gary Webb (Gary Numan)

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Moon: Scorpio
Mercury: Pisces
Venus: Aquarius
Mars: Capricorn

Sun square Saturn
Moon square Venus & Mars
Moon conjunct Neptune(rx) & Jupiter(rx)
Moon tightly sextile Pluto(rx)
Venus square Neptune
Jupiter tightly sextile Pluto
Eros conjunct Venus in Aquarius
Psyche tightly conjunct Neptune in Scorpio
Lilith in Aries tightly trine Saturn in Sagittarius
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Sun: Pisces
Moon: Virgo
Mercury: Pisces
Venus: Aries
Mars:
Taurus

Lilith loosely conjunct Amor in Scorpio
Psyche loosely conjunct Moon in Virgo
Eros in Capricorn square Venus in Aries and Juno in Libra
Juno tightly conjunct Uranus in Libra
Sun opposite Moon
Sun sextile Mars
Sun sextile Jupiter in Capricorn
Sun square Neptune in Sagittarius
Moon opposite Mercury
Moon trine Mars
Venus opposite Uranus
Saturn in Gemini opposite Neptune
Saturn trine Pluto in Libra
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
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Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Asc: Virgo
Sun: Pisces, house 6
Moon: Cancer, house 10
Mercury: Pisces, house 7
Venus: Pisces, house 7
Mars: Scorpio, house 2

Several Grand Water Trines including: Sun/Merc/Venus/Saturn/Chiron (Pisces), Moon/Jupiter (Cancer) and Mars/Neptune (Scorpio)

Pluto directly conjunct Ascendant
Uranus conjunct Ascendant
Ascendant opposite Sun, Mercury, Venus & Chiron
Sun square Neptune
Venus conjunct Saturn
Lilith in 7th house Aries inconjunct Ascendant, Mars, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
Juno in Leo dissociatively opposite Sun

Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)

Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Asc: VirgoSun: Pisces, house 6Moon: Cancer, house 10Mercury: Pisces, house 7Venus: Pisces, house 7Mars: Scorpio, house 2Several Grand Water Trines including: Sun/Merc/Venus/Saturn/Chiron (Pisces), Moon/Jupiter (Cancer) and Mars/Neptune (Scorpio)Pluto directly conjunct AscendantUranus conjunct AscendantAscendant opposite Sun, Mercury, Venus & ChironSun square NeptuneVenus conjunct SaturnLilith in 7th house Aries inconjunct Ascendant, Mars, Uranus, Neptune & PlutoJuno in Leo dissociatively opposite Sun
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Asc: Virgo
Sun: Pisces, house 6
Moon: Cancer, house 10
Mercury: Pisces, house 7
Venus: Pisces, house 7
Mars: Scorpio, house 2

Several Grand Water Trines including: Sun/Merc/Venus/Saturn/Chiron (Pisces), Moon/Jupiter (Cancer) and Mars/Neptune (Scorpio)

Pluto directly conjunct Ascendant
Uranus conjunct Ascendant
Ascendant opposite Sun, Mercury, Venus & Chiron
Sun square Neptune
Venus conjunct Saturn
Lilith in 7th house Aries inconjunct Ascendant, Mars, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
Juno in Leo dissociatively opposite Sun

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What if Krist Novoselic showed up in Milton Keynes with the Foo Fighters?  I mean it’s basically definitely not going to happen, but if it did I’m quite sure I’d cry upon missing it.

Town Won't Name Bridge After Kurt Cobain


ABERDEEN, Wash. –  The City Council in Aberdeen, Wash., voted 10-1 against a resolution to rename a bridge after the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.

Eight citizens and several council members spoke against renaming the bridge, which is unofficially named after pioneer Alexander Young.

KXRO reports the vote against the Cobain rename drew applause from the audience at Wednesday's council meeting. Some people were concerned about memorializing the grunge rock musician because of his drug use, suicide and negative comments about his hometown.

The council did vote to name a small body of land on the Wishkah River the Cobain Landing.

One of Cobain's biggest hits with Nirvana was a song called "Something in the Way" which recounted a time the musician was homeless and living underneath a bridge.
 

Your Tour Guide – Hole


Last night Courtney Love came to town.  I suppose we should begin to refer to her as Courtney Michelle, but I don’t think that a name change is going to re-brand this women in any serious way do you?   Look, there is no denying Courtney has her detractors.  The women has been through hell and some of it was her own doing.  Still, at 45 years young (for now that is, she has a birthday coming up on July 9th), she seems more able to let the criticism bounce off of her.  She’s got balls and I admire her for that.  I was on the fence about attending, but the truth is, as soon as I saw  Hole listed as a June show at Boston’s House of Blues, I was drawn to the show.  I was jokingly calling it a train wreck I just had to see, but I was wrong.  Oh, she did space some words during her impromptu rendition of a recent outtake called Stand Up M*F’er, but she and her band did some solid work last night.  Some idiots through some stuff up on the stage, mostly beer bottles and water bottles, but she never lost her cool, not even for a second.  I was praying she wouldn’t.   Why let her detractors win?  A guy next to me mumbled to his girlfriend as Courtney was trying to remember the words at one point and said “this is what I came to see.”  I remember nodding against my will.   Thanks not really what I can to see even though I’d heard the rumors.
I don’t care what anyone says about women like Sinead O’Connor or Courtney Love.  When you rock, you rock…end of story.   Love does like to stop the show and almost chit chat with her audience.  I don’t have any problem with that.  It makes her human.  Last night, for instance, we learned that her smash hit “Doll Parts” was written at somebody named Joyce’s house near Harvard Square.   We learned that one of the first albums she ever owned was a Leonard Cohen record and she covered one of his songs during the show called “Take This Longing” after a nice intro.  We learned that some of the lyrics to her song “Awful” were written about a then 22 year old rocker named Gavin Rossdale (of Bush fame) and that he was hot way back when.  We learned that everything we do in life is all about getting laid (what’s the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results again?…I better work on this).  And we learned Courtney wears $800 panties…which we witnessed on the outside of her leggings.   There was a 50-50 chance of a wardrobe malfunction at one point, but all this aside, Hole put on a great show as far as I’m concerned.  I get a real kick out of her whole rock chick persona, but you still have to deliver the goods.  She does that and then some.
After a “Dirty Water” voice warm up they dug into “Pretty On The Inside” which morphed into “Sympathy For The Devil.”  Curious, but I wasn’t thinking about covers going in.   Later on they covered “Play With Fire” which you may recognize as another Rolling Stones classic, but that was dedicated to all the bitches in the audience living off of Daddy’s money.  An issue she clearly has had trouble with over the years.  In a completely unrelated story the next  song following “Sympathy” was her hit single “Skinny Little Bitch.”   If you came to hear “Doll Parts, Miss World, Violet, Plump, Celebrity Skin, Malibu, Awful, Reasons To Be Beautiful” and on and on she didn’t disappoint.  I would have thrown in “Softer, Softest” and “Asking For It” for good measure, but I’m not complaining.   The thing is, she seemed to be having fun instead of going through the motions.  One woman whined, just enough so she could hear, when she started covering “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails, but she professionally finished the song and then told her politely to go see “Panic at  The Disco” or something if she didn’t like it.  The crowd was more with her than against her for a change it seemed.   Like I said earlier, some  slugs did toss stuff at her to see if they could get under her Celebrity Skin, but she ignored them.   One gigantic dude, dressed in heels and full Courtney Love regalia got her attention during one of her numbers and Courtney laughed and smiled like you rarely see her it seems.   She had a nice rapport with both the audience and her band  which, according to Wikipedia, consists these days of Micko Larkin on lead guitar, Shawn Dailey on bass and Stu Fisher on drums.  All were excellent.  Apparently, we learned in another one of Love’s chatty moments, there have been 16 members of Hole over the years.
I have to tell you, I was expecting an uneven performance and what I got was my money’s worth.   Most of her new record, Nobody’s Daughter, was played and several of those tracks, such as “Pacific Coast Highway,” complete with its own intro about a relationship with a city (presumably Malibu) and or individual that has gone sour, were very well received.  For me personally though, “Letter To God” with its tear your heart out lyrics, is really a step in the right direction for Love.  I don’t know if she’ll ever be completely healed, but she seems relatively coherent and friendly these days.  The covers of Big Star’s “Thirteen,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” and Nine Inch Nails “Closer” were a blast.   I am rooting for her to succeed.   I don’t care what she’s done, who she’s done, what her politics are or what people think of her; she rocks.  She’s in New Jersey tonight, but if you get a chance go and see her when she shows up in your town.  Her band is tight and she’s soldiering on nicely.  If you are a Hole fan you won’t be disappointed.  And, as in my case, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Rock Star Birthday Blurbs – Kurt Cobain



The mystery, or not, surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain seems kind of pointless to me.  The guy is gone.  I read the book Love & Death  by Max Wallace a couple of years ago now and while it was very entertaining, I didn’t put much stock in it to be honest.  If there was even a shred of credible evidence that hellcat  Courtney Love was involved I figure she’d be behind bars by now.   It’s not like she hasn’t fractured a few laws in her time so they’d be all over her like a cheap suit if she had anything to do with this fiasco.   The rise and fall of Nirvana isn’t much more than an unbelievable footnote in Rock history, but it’s still very aggravating to me.   The reluctant Rock Star thing gets old in a hurry doesn’t it?  None of mere mortals can really know what the pressure is like I suppose, but it sure seems like you’d have to have some kind of idea heading into something like getting on stage before you actually do it don’t you?  I love live music, always have.  That’s not to be confused with live albums mind you, but there’s something about seeing your favorite tunes being performed live that has always done it for me.  I can’t explain it to be honest.  I know scores of people who wouldn’t be caught dead at a rock concert.  Too bad for them.  But if performing live isn’t your thing, can’t you just morph into Steely Dan or XTC?  I mean, you have to a dominate studio band for sure, but isn’t it possible?   When it came to  Kurt Cobain I think he just didn’t want to be dissected in any way shape or form.   I know his stomach was bothering him in ways I probably can’t imagine, but you’d like to believe he had other options wouldn’t you?
Do you remember all of those MTV Unplugged Records in the early 90′s?  They were all the rage.  10,000 Maniacs, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Alice in Chains, Neil Young and on and on.  The greatest big bad daddy all of all MTV Unplugged records by far?  Yep.  Nirvana.   The date was November 18, 1993.  Nirvana, ignoring their hits for the most part, played an acoustic set before everybody that was anybody it seemed, and covered artists like David Bowie, Leadbelly, The Meat Puppets and The Vaselines.   It was eclectic and mesmerizing.   The lights weren’t out, but it was less dangerous.  Candles and Cobain.  I videotaped it off of MTV, I bought the CD, I bought the DVD and I read all about it.   Come to think of it, the only other MTV production I did that with was Page & Plant’s No Quarter.  Now my DVD collection is full of one off like The Beastie Boys “I F*%king Shot That!” or any number of Rockumentary type DVDS complete with live performances.  How often do I get to them?  Almost never, but I love owning Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged.   For one thing, it was about six months before Kurt checked out and it preserves his powers at his peak forevermore.  I don’t even know where to start when trying to compare the death of Kurt Cobain to some of earlier heroes like Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix…frankly I’m not at all sure there is a comparison…but it’s definitely vexing.   How great was Nirvana?  I know I loved ‘em more than Pearl Jam at the time, but I don’t myself reaching for their records all that often anymore.   Some of that is that terrestrial radio only plays about seven Nirvana songs anymore, but some of that is that time marches on.  If he were around to state his case I might think differently, but it was April 5, 1994 that Cobain erased himself.  We’re coming up on 17 years now.   He just doesn’t have the body of work that forces us back.  Plus the success of The Foo Fighters, while not Nirvana, is quite the distraction…in a good way.  Still, 35 million records sold worldwide (just for those three studio albums mind you) shows you how big Nirvana was.
If he had lived, February 20, 2011 would have been Kurt’s 44th birthday if my math is correct.  I may have told this story already, but I’ve been repeating myself for years now on this site so why stop now.   There is a building in Brighton Center, MA that I drive by every time I visit my chiropractor, that I distinctly remember being initiated to the sound of Nirvana around 1991 or so.  Bleach?  Never heard of it until the re-release.   Nevermind, released September 24, 1991, didn’t set the world on fire instantly, but the buzz was none stop for two years it seemed.   When I finally got the hang of “In Bloom” and “Lithium” I was just like everyone else who loved this band.  I was all the way down the line with them.  I remember Incesticide, capitalizing on the Nirvana buzz with a “B” cut smorgasbord, was released in 1992 I took a shine to cuts like “Aneurysm” instantly.  I loved “Something in The Way” from Nevermind even with it’s exacerbatingsilence at the end of the track.  I chopped that thing to its rightful 3:15 or whatever with the beautiful Audacity software.  Love that stuff.  Nothing like being at the gym, totally concentrating on the hard body in front of you, when you realize the silence has gone on too long.   I fixed that years ago, but I’m always on the lookout for it now.   The Black Keys have one of those where if you let the track play it goes some twenty minutes.  Man I hate that .  Fixed that one too.   Anyway, see the the lunchbox and thermos above?  That’s how big Nirvana was.  Man I used to love my lunchboxes when I was a kid.  Now they beat you up and make fun of you for them, but they were quite the fashion statement back in the 70′s.  I think I had a Monkees lunchbox…I pray it wasn’t a Partridge Family one…but I digress once again.
Kurt Cobain was yet another heroin addict as his life came to a close.  I’m still finishing up KeithRichards’ 500 page life story and, as someone who never tried heroin, not even once, it gets a bit tough to relate after a few thousand of these stories.  Keith tells it like it was and even if his editor let his King’s English slide on occasion, the book is well written and highly entertaining.  I wish I could say the same for the Gus Van Sant’s movie Last Days, allegedly revolving around the final days of the life of Kurt Cobain.  If you can follow the ”plot” you are my hero.  I know it’s an independent film taking full artistic license, but that film just bored the daylights out of me and you know I wanted to love it.  A junkie’s life is definitely not glamorous, but I find it hard to believe the guy stumbled around in woods of the cold Northwest barely coherent for weeks on end.  Maybe I don’t get the junkie life, but this movie was a dog whatever story it was trying to relate.  And I love The Independent Film Channel.  I don’t need action or drama every instant.  I loved The Minus Man (1999) starring Owen Wilson for example.  Totally spacey and esoteric, but at least you had a handle on what was going on.  Last Days?  I knew the story in advance and I still couldn’t follow that drivel.  Sorry Gus.  Nothing personal.  Anyway, Kurt allegedly had some emotional issues to go along with his healthproblems.  It could be said that anyone who takes his own life, particularly with a beautiful daughter to care for, is in serious need of psychiatric care, but that’s not for me to say (even though I just did).
Nirvana ruled the Alternative Rock roost, even with serious competitors like Pearl Jam in their immediate space, from 1992 to about 1995 or so.   From The Banks of The Muddy Wiskah (1996) and other posthumous records tried to plug the void, but soon it was clear the Nirvana catalogue, published or unpublished, had been exhausted…at least legally to that point.  I rarely follow the Box Set migration, mainly because I normally own all of the CDs of the band in question, but I’m sure there a few tidbits from the couple that Nirvana has released in the 00′s.   I guess I just got tired of waiting around in Nirvana’s case.   Nevermind has been burnt to a crisp so if I reach for a Nirvana record it’s likely to be In Utero followed by Bleach.  Still, MTV Unplugged still gives me great joy.  I don’t know if this open wound will ever really be healed in the public eye, but it’s stories like these that just leave us wondering and wanting.  I never did get to see Nirvana play live.  My loss big time.  I know they played Spit or Axis (whatever it was called at the time) on Lansdowne Street here in Boston in the early 90′s, but I wasn’t quite hip enough at the time I guess.  That’s the quest at all times.  See this band before they get too big.  I think Soundgarden played Metro or Citi or Avalon (the Patrick Lyons edifice that morphed so many times it turned into The House of Blues when he got tired of doing the rebuilding himself) in the late 80′s or early 90′s too.  Did I bother to see them when someone uttered the very words I just did about seeing them before they get too big?  Nooooo.  Not cool enough.  I got my share in though and I still do to this day.  I don’t care if I’m half a century old.  Anyway, Kurt if you can hear my thoughts…I’m really sorry you felt like you had to split, but you gave us a lot of great music and for that I am thankful.  Happy 44th my friend from The Giant Panther.