![]() Hey, he got to collaborate with William S. I took many of his words and shaped them in to a poem. I also wrote a poem, a few years on, my own collaboration with Kurt Cobain. I remember writing that “when Kurt Cobain put his brains/to the wall/with a shot-gun shot/he got a better reception/then at any concert…” (hey, I was young – and stoopid. But that’s more than he perhaps deserves (if you ask some people). Well, when I say a lot, I mean two or three. I have written a lot of poems about Kurt Cobain. But he is like a wonderful post-modern folk singer (backed by a hippie-rock backing band) at the same time. And he has this detached look, like he knows it’s all for crap, he’s a sell-out, selling grunge to people who drive convertibles. He chose to highlight The Meat Puppetsin the middle of a set by his own band. I still love the fact that Kurt chose to play, by my count, six covers in his set of 14 songs. It’s not a great visual feast, but it’s a cool set of songs. But it was a real blast to finally see it on DVD. I had seen the concert on video, of course. In fact I was often listening to it when I should have been attending classes. Ah, we were young.Īnd I listened to the CD of Nirvana Unplugged a lot when I was at university. We drove to Napier and gate-crashed a party where some bogan band was playing some bogan-song covers. A life-sized face of Kurt Cobain was cut out and pasted over the face of a life-sized poster of Hulk Hogan. We all drank beers in the garage (it was essentially That Nineties Show – only not as many cameras, often only the one – held by the shaky hand of the guy who slept in said garage). It meant a lot to me and a few of my friends. When Kurt Cobain died I was still in school. I bought that inbetweener album, Incesticide from there too, actually. It was Sounds…oooh – I wonder what it will be next? (“ Tonight Matthew I’m essentially a shell, an empty building with a few handfuls of remaindered stock in place of my soul…section…”) I remember buying it from the same music store in Hastings the one that has always been a music store. And I loved it.īy the time In Utero was released I was driving. I remember he played me a vinyl copy of Nirvana’s Bleach. I was still buying things like MC Hammer. He liked bands like Metallica and Suicidal Tendencies. ![]() So that made him cool to an aspiring drummer. I should have played softball.īefore that ever happened I remember visiting a family friend in Auckland. And was caught on the boundary shortly after. ![]() So I took it with me and sat, trance-like listening to Kurt roll a bunch of marbles around in his mouth (aka singing) while I waited to bat. I got a ride into town, bought the tape and was frustrated that I had no real time to listen to it before cricket that day. I can remember heading in o Hastings (I wasn’t old enough to even drive at the time it was released). I remember buying Nevermind on tape – and listening to it (on tape!) on my walkman. I think Kurt Cobain was often a bit of a twit. I’m not sure how great it is as I have a rather biased view towards Nirvana. This is a classic concert – an important concert to me. So I just watched Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York on DVD. ![]()
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