People always assume a guitar players abilities just off of their band/solo material without realizing we sit at home and jam for hours on hours playing a variety of different genres
Some truly have a style tho no matter what gear they're using. Some players are very one dimensional which isn't a bad thing. While some are trying all sorts of stuff that likely doesn't sound like their music,band,brand,or style at all.
@@dannygjk Master of his own style. Hell, when i was younger, Kurt n Hendrix were my heroes. So that’s the sound that came out, and exactly the feedback i got from ppl. Kurt’s “sloppiness” w/ Hendrix dbl stops. Did it always sound good? Prob not, heh!
I think that Kurt as a guitarist played everything with intuition, he sat and wrote/recorded so many songs and played so often be it alone or with his band, that he got incredibly comfortable with the kind of unbridled noisy yet melodic style that became distinctive of Nirvana. I think some of his best playing comes from the few songs where he takes a genuine traditional solo, like Sappy or Serve The Servants and even Blew, those all feature very competent ideas and manage to not only fit the songs but also be incredibly memorable, which i would say is the mark of great solos. In the last clip where he's "shredding" on In Bloom, he's parodying Van Halen (after an uncomfortable moment with a drunk EVH backstage) and even though it's a spiteful ironic attempt you hear how different of an approach it is to what Kurt actually does on the track, the original is simple and dissonant while carrying a lot of emotion, meanwhile this faux-EVH sound is obviously very out of place and doesn't fit at all in the moment.
There's a great deal of satire, sarcasm and tongue in cheek humour in Nirvana. Also crazily there's blues in there. I love Kurt he's amazing, unsurpassed.
Ya, his guitar is often sarcastic, and his overall musical style is founded on irony, like a good blues player. The mournful and dissonant side of his playing is so much like the Delta Blues that Kurt can lay an authentic claim to being a bluesman. Even he didn't want to!
kurt was aware of the blues and dissonance approach, kurt was obsessed with leadbelly a classic blue legend who inspired many. so yeah i know blues is what was kurts foundation in darkness and alternative music sounds.
He was there, this was Nirvana In Utero tour, and apparently Kurt did this because Eddie showed up in backstage earlier drunk and friendly to Kurt, but then he saw Pat Smear and called him brown or something like that
@@iaminsfiredbytrustfration8502yes, he was literally backstage begging to play pat smear’s guitar (“c’mon, let me play the mexican’s guitar”) and generally being a washed up racist drunkard
Kurt Cobain was making fun of Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen showed up backstage drunk saying “Nirvana is the new sound, I’m old and washed up. Wouldn’t it be cool if I was on stage so we can have an old meets new passing of the torch moment?!?!” Pat Smear is backstage and Van Halen points to him and says “ It’s not a big deal,let me play the Mexicans guitar!” Kurt who had great respect for Smear and always hated dumb macho racist jock types took great offense to this and decided to imitate “shredding”
He did a lot of pretty fast stuff on bleach like love buzz and mr moustache his earlier stuff was actually a lot more technically difficult like mrs butterworth I think it’s pretty cool :D
There actually is a short video clip of Kurt sitting by himself, playing the "all along the watchtower" chord progression on an electric through a small amp at a Halloween party from 88' or 89' that you can find on yt... Also, in my opinion the 2 best examples of him demonstrating what he was capable of technically on guitar, were the band's cover of "White, Lace & Strange" (which includes what rolling stone called "the shreddiest guitar solo you'll ever hear kurt play") & the improvised jam from their October 92' studio session with Jack Endino that was used as the main menu music on the DVD that came with their "with the lights out" box set [edited for grammar & clarity]
I think a great way to discribe how Kurt played is that he was an artists musician and a musicians musician. He played the insturment and flet it kinda like Hendrix. He curated just enough that it sounded good but not too much to the point of being consumed by perfection.
@@TalkLinkMusic-gd7fz exactly, he wasn't a virtuoso with a bunch of training and trying to play as tight as possible. He felt it and when he played it was uniquely him. That's a big reason why there'll never be another Kurt. Same way there'll never be another Hendrix, Lennon, Chester, and so on.
He Is not a "musicians musician". That applies to bands or musicians not often appreciated by the common folk without mainstream appeal because they are not Easy to digest.
@@rmv9194Kurt may not have been a guitar player's guitar player, but he was a composer's composer, so I would definitely have to call him a musician's musician, even if this title applies to him in a less typical sense.
The Story behind the Clip at the end That is Kurt mocking Eddie Van Halen (who showed up drunk backstage and wanted to Jam with Nirvana and Kurt was trying to politely deny his request about that's not what they do, and that they have no right handed guitars for him to play) but then Eddie Van Halen started making racist remarks about Pat Smear from the Germs/Nirvanas Second Guitarist on the In Utero Tour, and that pissed Kurt off where he was like well when were done you can come on stage and play by yourself, and during the show he mocked EVH by playing the "In Bloom" solo like that (the clip you shown) and the end of the show when Kurt started drilling a Drill into the Bridge pickup of one of his Stratocasters, and was trying to spin it above his head, Krist sarcastically started singing the Kinks "You Really got me" which is technically the first track on Van Halen's Debut album after Euroption.
I've been making up stuff on guitar since I was in HS. I've got some ideas that Kurt might have liked. However I've never come up with anything as good as "All Apologies". That one really shows he had talent to me. Its kind of like Andy Summers repeating guitar theme in "wrapped around your finger" in that it sounds so easy what he's playing but it's actually pretty involved,
Keep writing. Sometimes the best riffs and hooks sneak up on you. Kurt had true talent, but also he was an honest songwriter, Just that can do wonders!
I think the blues influence was at least in part conscious he said leadbelly was his favorite guitar player and the last performance he ever did ended on a leadbelly song. weather planned or not it does feel significant.
The 60's had The Beatles, the 70's Led Zep, the 80's had...NWOBHM (can't think of a band that personifies the 80's) the birth of thrash, the 90's had Nirvana. Then we had post grunge; a genre that took too long to fade out. What has Rock n' Roll had since those three bands I named that changed music forever? Not to discount Soundgarden, AIC, ect...Both bands that I like better then Nirvana, but it was the Nirvana sound that changed things. 2000's,10's and now 20's I can't think of much in Rock that has been monumental for bout the past 30 years. Maybe I'm being pessimistic about the future of Rock'n Roll IDK. Fill me in on something I may have missed or overlooked. "Rock is dead They say. Long live Rock"! Pete Townsend
Van Halen was the band of the 80s, but Michael Jackson would have to be the biggest pop star in music of that decade. As for the 2000s, love them or hate them, the band was Nickelback. They dominated the decade in mass-appeal, sales, radio play and hits.
@@CoffeeStain-MusicMight be right about Van Halen, but did they change Rock'n Roll forever, like Beatles or Zep? Eddie ,I think may have changed guitar players. As far as cultural impacts in music, I don't see much since Nirvana. I'm waiting on some game changing band ,I guess
Even though new metal came out in the nineties, it really exploded on the 00's. I guess that was the genre that changed stuff on the 00's. The 00's also had a surge of indie rock bands like the Strokes, The Vines, White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, etc. But I don't think they really made anything new or disruptive, although I really like their sound. After that, I can't think of anything else.
Kurt could have played at a very high technical level, like Dylan could have, or George Harrison, etc. Songwriters generally just don’t care. They don’t spend the hours a day practicing scales and the necessary things like that.
Kurt's choices in his solos are extremely refined, and if someone can't understand what his influences are based on that I judge them as a person. LOL. IDGAF. Sue me.
I would like you to make a video analysis about of how at all their albums , the nirvana guitar's solos have an excellent beginnings , knots and ending outcome; they have a good structural form for each songs at the moment that kurt and nirvana band were recording in studio.
Or also, I would like you a analysis video where listening your description and comparison of technical voccal of kurt cobain in his called : hair spray of queen studio version versus the voice of singer prince and his song : kiss 💋 lot us would wait your reaccion video at regards it
I agree with you, though Kurt Cobain was really a Drummer and started out that way, he certainly played guitar 🎸 well and his technique deserves to be viewed as being as good if not better than some of the Greats. I played rhythm guitar well on my own before getting classical training. And some people who already have some mastership of guitar playing, still pick up new tricks in other styles. I can play most styles of music 🎶 but these days I mainly concentrate on Singing.
Finding your voice in any creative pursuit can be tricky, sometimes. Or even your "correct" instrument. I can see where it might have taken Kurt a bit to accept his destiny as a singer-guitarist/frontman, lol, pretty big job. Sounds like you're an all-around musician -- I can't sing a note but wish I could. 😀
Kurt knew how good he was at guitar technically speaking and he worked with what he had and made the best of it and it worked really well imo. It just goes to show you your tone and originality can go along way in your guitar playing which is why he'll always be one of my top 10 favorite guitarists. He made some of the most memorable guitar riffs in history and they were all simple as hell but were original and sounded good. I think thats why alot of guitar players don't stand out like they used to nowadays. Not many guitarists have original tones anymore that lets people know immediately when they hear the first note who it is. Tone is everything! Lol
The reality is he was a sloppy player at best by professional standards. That said, he came up with some killer riffs and knew how to apply them to his musical ideas....and a million dollar production team didn't hurt, either.
Was he what many consider to be a top notch professional guitarist? No. He was an artist and a very good guitarist though. And he wrote some of the best hooks and lyrics to complement his song writing and guitar playing skill.
At the 11/27/93 show when Kurt does the jam on "Heartbreaker" then when the band joins in, Kurt changes the riff to part of Black Sabbath "Into the Void" Riff part during the Bridge riff I'm assuming it is considered ... Idk If Kurt did this Intentionally or by mistake... But cool riffing none the less, as he is smoking a Benson & Hedges Ultra Light Deluxe Menthol 100s cigarette while he started playing that Zeppelin Jam after they Played "Milk It" if my memory serves me correctly.
I think of Kurt's playing like this: An alien, like Steve Vai, can study human flesh his whole life, but can he really understand it as well as someone, like Cobain, who was born in human flesh?
Kurt Cobain not like to do shredding and longest guitar solos.. But he's showed how music can be better without unnecessary solo and shred.. For example he can play good solo for "school", "in bloom" and "sappy" and that sounds better and catchy
All artists (and therefore art) fall on a spectrum from technical craft to raw emotion/concept. It is extremely challenging to do both in balance and those are the legends of the game. (Prince, SRV, EVH, Zappa, Mark Knoffler come to mind.) Kurt was never interested in being technical and clean (the whole grunge movement was a rejection of this in music. It was sloppy on purpose.) He could play pretty well, but it was his emotional expression, concepts, and untimely demise that made him legendary.
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He sounded more like Jimi Hendrix to me. Rhythm style similar to say John Lennon level. Songwriting close to the Byrds, very Beatles and a lot of hardcore punk grit.
I've always thought of Hendrix and Cobain as though they were two sides of the same coin. The amount that they have in common, both personally and professionally is downright bizarre. It is only natural that they sound similar.
cmon mannnn get reallll just listen to the music and youll realizeeee bruhhhhh wtf is your problemmmm.... just by your comment i know youre insaine.... im about to crash out for real.... im getting pissed low keyyy
Yeah that’s not exactly what I would call shredding. The people were probably who said he was doing it just to insult EVH after an altercation earlier between the two bands performing. I mean yeah he’s playing fast, but it’s all just a bunch of random notes and tons of tapping (like Eddie). To me that sounds like how I’d sound my freshman year of college coming back to the dorms completely wasted and my friends egged me on to play loud. All I’d do is grab a speed pick and start playing fast random crap.
They had other guitarist and techs, they were gona pick up pat smear, I play guitar long time…… we leave signatures in our playing I don’t think that’s him, the attack is way differently, also been listening to nirvana since highschool, have all their albums on burned cd lol
……. Ok, ya had video evidence…… that might have been him, he was just button mashing in the right area there, not really shredding, if ya asked him to play that again the same way he’d tell ya you crazy lol
I mean, yeah he could play decent, but nothing you played there was really an amazing example. The heartbreaker solo had a few good bends and the rest was pretty sloppy. Thats ok, he could do what he needed but to. There is nothing here that is super surprising though
Wouldn’t exactly call that shredding. More like taking a shot at Eddie Van Halen. That was in no way a serious attempt at that style of playing and it’s horrible, as he intended it to be.
sorry, but he is extremley sloppy even on the clean stuff, this is what separates good from great. i doubt don felder ever recorded anything so sloppy, and im not trying to be insulting. Kurts standout quality was innovation not technical expertise.
He was garbage. I saw them in 90'. This was before Grohl joined the band. Yeah, they were raw and anti pop. But sometimes noise is just that. Dave was the genius in that band .
People always assume a guitar players abilities just off of their band/solo material without realizing we sit at home and jam for hours on hours playing a variety of different genres
Some truly have a style tho no matter what gear they're using. Some players are very one dimensional which isn't a bad thing. While some are trying all sorts of stuff that likely doesn't sound like their music,band,brand,or style at all.
So KC was a master?
@@dannygjk Master of his own style. Hell, when i was younger, Kurt n Hendrix were my heroes. So that’s the sound that came out, and exactly the feedback i got from ppl.
Kurt’s “sloppiness” w/ Hendrix dbl stops. Did it always sound good? Prob not, heh!
Yeah I love playing blues but flamenco or classical can keep me captivated for hours
trying to do those pull offs on love buzz convinced me he was excellent at guitar.
He's wayyy more technical than people think. Truly like a virtuoso punk player, lol. He'd prob. hate that oxymoronic description, but it fits.
I think that Kurt as a guitarist played everything with intuition, he sat and wrote/recorded so many songs and played so often be it alone or with his band, that he got incredibly comfortable with the kind of unbridled noisy yet melodic style that became distinctive of Nirvana.
I think some of his best playing comes from the few songs where he takes a genuine traditional solo, like Sappy or Serve The Servants and even Blew, those all feature very competent ideas and manage to not only fit the songs but also be incredibly memorable, which i would say is the mark of great solos.
In the last clip where he's "shredding" on In Bloom, he's parodying Van Halen (after an uncomfortable moment with a drunk EVH backstage) and even though it's a spiteful ironic attempt you hear how different of an approach it is to what Kurt actually does on the track, the original is simple and dissonant while carrying a lot of emotion, meanwhile this faux-EVH sound is obviously very out of place and doesn't fit at all in the moment.
There's a great deal of satire, sarcasm and tongue in cheek humour in Nirvana. Also crazily there's blues in there. I love Kurt he's amazing, unsurpassed.
Ya, his guitar is often sarcastic, and his overall musical style is founded on irony, like a good blues player. The mournful and dissonant side of his playing is so much like the Delta Blues that Kurt can lay an authentic claim to being a bluesman. Even he didn't want to!
What’s crazy or surprising about someone who described Leadbelly as their favourite artist having a blues influence?
@@robertdegraaf8708 The fact that its not blues
No blues at all
@@TalkLinkMusic-gd7fzEven in his Youth is total Blues infused. It could almost be an old Leadbelly tune if you strip away all the distortion
kurt was aware of the blues and dissonance approach, kurt was obsessed with leadbelly a classic blue legend who inspired many.
so yeah i know blues is what was kurts foundation in darkness and alternative music sounds.
I always point to Mexican Seafood as having some of his greatest guitar work
For sure
In the shredding part Kurt is making fun of EVH who is in the audience drunk
evh went to watch nirvana?.?
I think it was some kind of award show
He was there, this was Nirvana In Utero tour, and apparently Kurt did this because Eddie showed up in backstage earlier drunk and friendly to Kurt, but then he saw Pat Smear and called him brown or something like that
@@iaminsfiredbytrustfration8502yes, he was literally backstage begging to play pat smear’s guitar (“c’mon, let me play the mexican’s guitar”) and generally being a washed up racist drunkard
Kurt Cobain was making fun of Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen showed up backstage drunk saying “Nirvana is the new sound, I’m old and washed up. Wouldn’t it be cool if I was on stage so we can have an old meets new passing of the torch moment?!?!”
Pat Smear is backstage and Van Halen points to him and says “ It’s not a big deal,let me play the Mexicans guitar!”
Kurt who had great respect for Smear and always hated dumb macho racist jock types took great offense to this and decided to imitate “shredding”
School solo from bleach really showed it too
He did a lot of pretty fast stuff on bleach like love buzz and mr moustache his earlier stuff was actually a lot more technically difficult like mrs butterworth I think it’s pretty cool :D
The end of u know ur right too
There actually is a short video clip of Kurt sitting by himself, playing the "all along the watchtower" chord progression on an electric through a small amp at a Halloween party from 88' or 89' that you can find on yt... Also, in my opinion the 2 best examples of him demonstrating what he was capable of technically on guitar, were the band's cover of "White, Lace & Strange" (which includes what rolling stone called "the shreddiest guitar solo you'll ever hear kurt play") & the improvised jam from their October 92' studio session with Jack Endino that was used as the main menu music on the DVD that came with their "with the lights out" box set [edited for grammar & clarity]
I think a great way to discribe how Kurt played is that he was an artists musician and a musicians musician. He played the insturment and flet it kinda like Hendrix. He curated just enough that it sounded good but not too much to the point of being consumed by perfection.
Nice observations. 😎 He really loved John Lennon and found a way to similarly express his pain and humor through music.
@@TalkLinkMusic-gd7fz exactly, he wasn't a virtuoso with a bunch of training and trying to play as tight as possible. He felt it and when he played it was uniquely him. That's a big reason why there'll never be another Kurt. Same way there'll never be another Hendrix, Lennon, Chester, and so on.
He Is not a "musicians musician". That applies to bands or musicians not often appreciated by the common folk without mainstream appeal because they are not Easy to digest.
@@rmv9194 that's the thing though..he is, he's just one of the few who got the recognition he deserved.
@@rmv9194Kurt may not have been a guitar player's guitar player, but he was a composer's composer, so I would definitely have to call him a musician's musician, even if this title applies to him in a less typical sense.
Happy birthday Emily
Kurt Cobain himself said he was more of a composer than guitarist. The genius in Nirvana is beyond instruments.
Sure
Btw he s also an excellent guitarist, it s not because he can t shred like satriani that he sucks, he s skilled in another way
Spot on analysis. Well done!
Thank you kindly!
The Story behind the Clip at the end That is Kurt mocking Eddie Van Halen (who showed up drunk backstage and wanted to Jam with Nirvana and Kurt was trying to politely deny his request about that's not what they do, and that they have no right handed guitars for him to play) but then Eddie Van Halen started making racist remarks about Pat Smear from the Germs/Nirvanas Second Guitarist on the In Utero Tour, and that pissed Kurt off where he was like well when were done you can come on stage and play by yourself, and during the show he mocked EVH by playing the "In Bloom" solo like that (the clip you shown) and the end of the show when Kurt started drilling a Drill into the Bridge pickup of one of his Stratocasters, and was trying to spin it above his head, Krist sarcastically started singing the Kinks "You Really got me" which is technically the first track on Van Halen's Debut album after Euroption.
Kudos to the late great Kurt for telling EVH: "U can't jam w/us onstage - Thats not what we do" - Fantastic & ballsy
Never thought of him as a blues player but your right good vid
Thanks for your support! 😎
If u knew music theory you would see it.
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I think the clip of him shredding is of him mocking Eddie Van Halen because of an incident backstage where he pissed Kurt off,calling Pat smear a slur
I've been making up stuff on guitar since I was in HS. I've got some ideas that Kurt might have liked. However I've never come up with anything as good as "All Apologies". That one really shows he had talent to me. Its kind of like Andy Summers repeating guitar theme in "wrapped around your finger" in that it sounds so easy what he's playing but it's actually pretty involved,
Keep writing. Sometimes the best riffs and hooks sneak up on you. Kurt had true talent, but also he was an honest songwriter, Just that can do wonders!
Whether Kurt was a good guitarist or not should not even be an argument. He was awesome, artistic, and many envy that.
Yeah, just look at Dave Grohl: amazing drummer, shitty songwriter and shitty husband.
HE WAS ACTUALLY ATTEMPTING TO PLAY A jIMMY PAGE SOLO.HEARTBREAKER I BELIEVE
I think the blues influence was at least in part conscious he said leadbelly was his favorite guitar player and the last performance he ever did ended on a leadbelly song. weather planned or not it does feel significant.
That's really cool, I didn't know he said that.... 😎
The solo to aero zepplin was insane
The 60's had The Beatles, the 70's Led Zep, the 80's had...NWOBHM (can't think of a band that personifies the 80's) the birth of thrash, the 90's had Nirvana. Then we had post grunge; a genre that took too long to fade out. What has Rock n' Roll had since those three bands I named that changed music forever? Not to discount Soundgarden, AIC, ect...Both bands that I like better then Nirvana, but it was the Nirvana sound that changed things. 2000's,10's and now 20's I can't think of much in Rock that has been monumental for bout the past 30 years. Maybe I'm being pessimistic about the future of Rock'n Roll IDK. Fill me in on something I may have missed or overlooked. "Rock is dead They say. Long live Rock"! Pete Townsend
Nice post! 😎
Van Halen was the band of the 80s, but Michael Jackson would have to be the biggest pop star in music of that decade. As for the 2000s, love them or hate them, the band was Nickelback. They dominated the decade in mass-appeal, sales, radio play and hits.
@@CoffeeStain-MusicMight be right about Van Halen, but did they change Rock'n Roll forever, like Beatles or Zep? Eddie ,I think may have changed guitar players. As far as cultural impacts in music, I don't see much since Nirvana. I'm waiting on some game changing band ,I guess
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Even though new metal came out in the nineties, it really exploded on the 00's. I guess that was the genre that changed stuff on the 00's. The 00's also had a surge of indie rock bands like the Strokes, The Vines, White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, etc. But I don't think they really made anything new or disruptive, although I really like their sound. After that, I can't think of anything else.
Kurt could have played at a very high technical level, like Dylan could have, or George Harrison, etc. Songwriters generally just don’t care. They don’t spend the hours a day practicing scales and the necessary things like that.
I love this series.
Kurt's choices in his solos are extremely refined, and if someone can't understand what his influences are based on that I judge them as a person. LOL. IDGAF. Sue me.
The feel of the guy tho....
2:27 its hard to believe he was 27. Looks in his 40s maybe early 50s 😮
He was really depressed... Seems glaringly clear looking back.
I would like you to make a video analysis about of how at all their albums , the nirvana guitar's solos have an excellent beginnings , knots and ending outcome; they have a good structural form for each songs at the moment that kurt and nirvana band were recording in studio.
That's a great idea for a vid, but I don't think I know enough about Nirvana to do it right away. I'll def. keep it in mind!
Or also, I would like you a analysis video where listening your description and comparison of technical voccal of kurt cobain in his called : hair spray of queen studio version versus the voice of singer prince and his song : kiss 💋 lot us would wait your reaccion video at regards it
I agree with you, though Kurt Cobain was really a Drummer and started out that way, he certainly played guitar 🎸 well and his technique deserves to be viewed as being as good if not better than some of the Greats. I played rhythm guitar well on my own before getting classical training. And some people who already have some mastership of guitar playing, still pick up new tricks in other styles. I can play most styles of music 🎶 but these days I mainly concentrate on Singing.
Finding your voice in any creative pursuit can be tricky, sometimes. Or even your "correct" instrument. I can see where it might have taken Kurt a bit to accept his destiny as a singer-guitarist/frontman, lol, pretty big job. Sounds like you're an all-around musician -- I can't sing a note but wish I could. 😀
Nice video man
Appreciate it! 😎
Kurt knew how good he was at guitar technically speaking and he worked with what he had and made the best of it and it worked really well imo. It just goes to show you your tone and originality can go along way in your guitar playing which is why he'll always be one of my top 10 favorite guitarists. He made some of the most memorable guitar riffs in history and they were all simple as hell but were original and sounded good. I think thats why alot of guitar players don't stand out like they used to nowadays. Not many guitarists have original tones anymore that lets people know immediately when they hear the first note who it is. Tone is everything! Lol
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The reality is he was a sloppy player at best by professional standards. That said, he came up with some killer riffs and knew how to apply them to his musical ideas....and a million dollar production team didn't hurt, either.
Happy birthday Emily!!!! (Kinda late ik)
how kurt cobain really sounded like on guitar? like kurt cobain. question answered
Was he what many consider to be a top notch professional guitarist? No. He was an artist and a very good guitarist though. And he wrote some of the best hooks and lyrics to complement his song writing and guitar playing skill.
Thats not kurt @1:30 its an aussie skater kid, the guitar is as big as him😂
lol
I really like your explanation of his playing
Appreciate it!
This is how you sound talking. Brother I already heard how Kurt Cobain plays the guitar, on the records.
At the 11/27/93 show when Kurt does the jam on "Heartbreaker" then when the band joins in, Kurt changes the riff to part of Black Sabbath "Into the Void" Riff part during the Bridge riff I'm assuming it is considered ... Idk If Kurt did this Intentionally or by mistake... But cool riffing none the less, as he is smoking a Benson & Hedges Ultra Light Deluxe Menthol 100s cigarette while he started playing that Zeppelin Jam after they Played "Milk It" if my memory serves me correctly.
This comment is why I stopped obsessing over Nirvana as a teen and began exploring other music. Who TF cares what kinda of cigarette he was smoking?
I think of Kurt's playing like this:
An alien, like Steve Vai, can study human flesh his whole life, but can he really understand it as well as someone, like Cobain, who was born in human flesh?
Kurt Cobain not like to do shredding and longest guitar solos.. But he's showed how music can be better without unnecessary solo and shred.. For example he can play good solo for "school", "in bloom" and "sappy" and that sounds better and catchy
try siginging and playing some of kurts tunes its hard af
I completely agree. I tried to “sing”and play drain you and it’s hard to do both and stay on beat.
amazing break down
5:42 He could join Slayer instantly.. Sounds just like Kerry King playing one of his solos 🤭
All artists (and therefore art) fall on a spectrum from technical craft to raw emotion/concept. It is extremely challenging to do both in balance and those are the legends of the game. (Prince, SRV, EVH, Zappa, Mark Knoffler come to mind.) Kurt was never interested in being technical and clean (the whole grunge movement was a rejection of this in music. It was sloppy on purpose.) He could play pretty well, but it was his emotional expression, concepts, and untimely demise that made him legendary.
HAPPY BIRF EMILY
I'm pretty sure the first bit is a Heartbreaker cover.
Ya it def. is.
Kurt can play , he has these weird rhythm to him that he sings over somehow it’s not as easy as it sounds
Ya! Cross-tempo style -- it's an old blues thing, but Kurt really had a unique way of doing it. 😎
I had heard that he was mocking Eddy Van Halen who was at that show with that solo.
That video of Kurt, ''shredding'' lol he's taking the piss because he knew Eddie Van was backstage and he wanted to get up with the band. 🤣
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Kurt had a great ear for music 🎶 he died with music in him 😢 that music is only for him.
He sounded more like Jimi Hendrix to me. Rhythm style similar to say John Lennon level. Songwriting close to the Byrds, very Beatles and a lot of hardcore punk grit.
I've always thought of Hendrix and Cobain as though they were two sides of the same coin. The amount that they have in common, both personally and professionally is downright bizarre. It is only natural that they sound similar.
Quick question but where did you find the isolation guitar track of heart shape box?
He totally rips near the end of Gallons… Hendrix vibes
Aways playing in e lol definitely blues.. but kurt practiced alot.. dave said he did.
Happy birthday Emily.. whoever that is
I don't think it's him playing guitar on Heartbreaker
There's a vid clip of him doing it at the end.
Great
I was there, decent show. I got to see the Bleach tour and nevermind tour as well. for me the Bleach show was best. IMO.
He was just 27, if he didnt die he could be a lot better when he will turn 37
Nirvana the besta Band. Kurt the king.
Kurt practised all the time
you just describing your impreseions over isoleted guitar tracks
Dave Mustaine was right about Curt...
blues? you are crazy, just by your voice i kow your are crazy,
cmon mannnn get reallll just listen to the music and youll realizeeee bruhhhhh wtf is your problemmmm.... just by your comment i know youre insaine.... im about to crash out for real.... im getting pissed low keyyy
Yeah that’s not exactly what I would call shredding. The people were probably who said he was doing it just to insult EVH after an altercation earlier between the two bands performing. I mean yeah he’s playing fast, but it’s all just a bunch of random notes and tons of tapping (like Eddie). To me that sounds like how I’d sound my freshman year of college coming back to the dorms completely wasted and my friends egged me on to play loud. All I’d do is grab a speed pick and start playing fast random crap.
They had other guitarist and techs, they were gona pick up pat smear, I play guitar long time…… we leave signatures in our playing I don’t think that’s him, the attack is way differently, also been listening to nirvana since highschool, have all their albums on burned cd lol
……. Ok, ya had video evidence…… that might have been him, he was just button mashing in the right area there, not really shredding, if ya asked him to play that again the same way he’d tell ya you crazy lol
It's basically Kurt mocking shredders, for sure.
Are you having a laugh 😃
I mean, yeah he could play decent, but nothing you played there was really an amazing example. The heartbreaker solo had a few good bends and the rest was pretty sloppy. Thats ok, he could do what he needed but to. There is nothing here that is super surprising though
Wouldn’t exactly call that shredding. More like taking a shot at Eddie Van Halen. That was in no way a serious attempt at that style of playing and it’s horrible, as he intended it to be.
He had such a great feel
sorry, but he is extremley sloppy even on the clean stuff, this is what separates good from great. i doubt don felder ever recorded anything so sloppy, and im not trying to be insulting. Kurts standout quality was innovation not technical expertise.
Ugh no, just no.
Well he really died before he actually learned how to play
He was garbage. I saw them in 90'. This was before Grohl joined the band. Yeah, they were raw and anti pop. But sometimes noise is just that. Dave was the genius in that band .
Dave Foster?
I saw some list that rated him as one of top 10 best guitarist ever😂😂.
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You are thrash
He actually sucked on guitar . Its not a talent he has ....., its his Muse doing it .
They stink
What a hack. Just because heroin made him sad doesn't mean he had guitar skills.