![]() While many predicted Frances Bean Cobain would be a musician, she has instead focused on her art work, and one could imagine her designing cover art for her father’s albums. While Dave Grohl seemed destined to form his own band like Foo Fighters regardless of if Kurt Cobain had died or not, it seems inevitable that the two would have collaborated more songwriting wise.įollowing up on the previous point, it does seem inevitable that Nirvana would have split and Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain would have focused on their own individual projects, but a Nirvana reunion also would have definitely been on the cards. I think he was afraid to ask me if we could do the song but with his lyrics that would have been fine, it would have been great.” He just wanted to write his own lyrics to it. Then there is a song called ‘Exhausted’ that apparently, he never said to me, but he liked the song a lot. That song ‘Alone+Easy Target’ Kurt really liked a lot. Kurt Cobain discussed his excitement about collaborating with Dave Grohl on “Scentless Apprentice” for In Utero, and he enjoyed the demos of songs for what would become Foo Fighters’ first album that he heard.ĭave Grohl said, “There were a few songs that Kurt liked a lot and wanted to turn into Nirvana songs, but for some reason he just never did. Who knows where this music would have gone?”Ĭobain, Erlandson, and Pat Smear recorded a 4-track demo of “Do Re Mi” in early 1994, with solo acoustic version Cobain did being released on posthumous albums and box sets. That’s why I was really sad when he died. He continued: “I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. Former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson, who was speaking to US TV station Fuse in 2012, said that Cobain was heading in “a really cool direction” and that the solo album could have been the singer’s ‘White Album’. Kurt Cobain was beginning to work on solo material in early 1994. There is no doubt Cobain could have done the same had he lived to see his 50th birthday. “I could sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash or something, and it won’t be a big joke.”Ĭobain’s surviving contemporaries Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell have gone on to have successful solo careers performing with a ukulele and acoustic guitar respectively. “It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitar and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a grunge rocker,” he said. We got a taste of what Kurt in Hole would have been like with an alternate version of “Asking For It” featuring Cobain on vocals with his wife Courtney Love.Ĭobain also discussed wanting to play acoustic, which he was only able to do on MTV Unplugged. “When I have played music with them, there’s a level of connection that’s a little bit higher than with anyone else I ever played with,” he added. “But to tell you the truth, I would rather just quit my band and join Hole. “I’d like to ,” he said in the interview eight months before his suicide. Kurt Cobain discussed wanting to join Hole in an interview that took place just under a year before he died. Kurt wouldn’t come out and wouldn’t answer the phone.” “I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for ten hours. “I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt out of a frame of mind,” he revealed. was in Miami recording an album at the time, and Stipe attempted to convince Cobain to fly to meet him. “I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen,” he explained. Stipe’s words suggest that he knew the suicide was inevitable. ![]() “The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. ![]() “I was doing that to try to save his life,” Stipe told Interview Magazine of the project in 2011. His death is a profound loss, and I just don’t think I can say anything else right now.” He loved Courtney and Frances Bean, and he loved Krist and Dave in Nirvana, he really loved those guys. We had a musical project in the works, but nothing was recorded. Stipe said after Cobain’s death in 1994, “In the last few weeks, I was talking to Kurt a lot. Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe were scheduled to begin a collaboration spring 1994, around the time Cobain died. To celebrate the Grunge icon’s birthday, Alternative Nation has compiled a list of 10 projects we could have seen Cobain take on had he lived. Today would have been late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday. I love you grams.Ī post shared by Frances Bean Cobain on at 11:39am PST
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