Yes I would probably agree with you on that one Keenan. Not the typical cliche questions most journalists ask. Though obviously Jon Savage had a longer sort of set time with Kurt Cobain to interview him with. And yes, that was obviously an agreement with both parties. But yes, Jon Savage definately had the luxury than say what most other journalists would have dreamed of then. And not just then, but more so now in hindsight.
@@Elutai Hey that is English maybe you need To go back to school secondly I will write a fucken paragraph if I fucken want too. If you don't like it just ignore it. I know there are some BIG WORDS in the paragraph, but shit, not my fault if you cannot read.
Jon Savage is a very respected music writer. He was there for the start of the British punk scene and wrote a brilliant book documenting the period called ‘ England’s Dreaming ‘. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. This is a great interview, one of Kurt’s best. I think Kurt really respected Jon. You can hear it in this interview. It’s like 2 mates just chatting, rather than a proper formal interview. If only more people in the music business, especially at that time, were like Jon then I don’t think Kurt would have hated it so much. In fact if more people around Kurt at that time were like Jon then I think things might have turned out differently. Maybe. This interview was flowing naturally and it seemed like Jon almost forgot that he had to talk about things that he was asked to by whoever he was doing it for.
@@markl1930that's fine. Life is all about different opinions. It would be bloody boring if everyone had the same point of view. No problem at all. Have a great day.
0:00-2:35 (parent’s divorce and relationship with parents) 3:40 (copping out of things) 5:00-5:53 (isolation while growing up 5:55-6:12 (early music tastes) 6:19-8:56 (ancestry) 8:58-9:43 (high school) 9:44-10:38 (school shootings and school revenge movies) 11:29-13:39 (treatment of Native Americans in the U.S 13:43-16:21 (introduction to punk rock) 17:13-17:40 (what Kurt liked about punk rock) 17:53-20:09 (misogyny & sexism in music and broader society) 20:35-22:41 (questioning sexuality, gay friend and homophobia) 22:43-23:32 (gay statements in songs) 24:15-27:07 (Songwriting) 27:46-30:38 (pro-gay and pro-feminism in music)
12:10 Native americans were not supported at all by mass media at that time, but Kurt was sensitive to their struggles. Oh Kurt, what a beautiful soul you are. ❤️
Kurt just got a bit more intimate during this interview. A pleasant conversation based on real true events. A little up close yet personal. Not private questions. Just blunt answers to all of the questions that the interviewer was asking him about. I like the way he openly freely answers all of them without any hesitation.
During 1993 Kurt became so good at talking to press and taking it serious and be open about how he had only just found a way to make use of his fame. He was clearly very excited about the phase they entered as a band. They also developed very fast change during that last year. In 7 years of Nirvana, stylistically the first 4 or 5 years just blend into each other slowly, but during 1993 and 1994 they went from In Utero to the Unplugged/more acoustic cover sound. That's a huge turnaround. This last period is important for the legacy as it's enough to be counted as a separate phase I think, but it only lasted for about 5 months until he passed away. So unnecessary that he died, but it also makes me wonder something very out of the norm happened in their inner circle and he wasn't expecting such an abrupt and scary end himself either. But clearly, there was enough troubling him to decide there was no way out. Yet had he quit the band after Nevermind and died two years later, the impact of his death wouldn't have been as terrible.
Kurt wanted to take his music another direction. I think that fact alone had a lot to do with his suicide. He had said somewhere he wanted to be like Johnny Cash. A guy playing songs acoustically. Noone was gonna let that happen. I always wonder what would've happened if he had just kept that one date with Michael Stipe to record a little.
What a deeply intelligent and thoughtful person. When someone dies in such a violent and tragic way it becomes hard not to see their entire life through that lens of that event. But there was so much more complexity and nuances to his character. It’s so interesting to hear his personal reflections in conversation with Savage who he clearly respected. This interview is so different from the MTV ones all over UA-cam. Having to engage with the MTV circus in the early 90s looks excruciating for Nirvana - they were pinned and the resident, alternative freaks and totally pigeon holed by the media.
Great comment. I totally agree with you. Jon Savage has written a brilliant book called ' England's Dreaming '. Have you read it?? It's about the punk scene in England from 1976 onwards, which he was part of. It also covers the post punk scene that followed.
@@mrkipling2201 thanks! I have indeed. It’s a wonderful book that I recommend to everyone. It’s gotta be one of the all time greatest books about music and English cultural history. I guess there are some parallels between Nirvana and the Sex Pistols. They both had a seismic impact on pop culture. And the resulting fame exerted a tremendous pressure on them.
@@james2450great point. Courtney could be considered the 1990's version of Nancy Spungen as well!! Nirvana were bigger here in Britain than America originally, after their 1989 tour with Tad. My friend's older brother saw them play live on that tour, at the London School of Oriental Art. He had a copy of Bleach and was playing all the time back then. That's when I first started getting into Nirvana as well, although it wasn't until he got a copy of the Sliver single that I became a huge fan. I need to obtain another copy of England's Dreaming actually, I haven't read it for ages.
@@mrkipling2201 That’s really cool. Live Nirvana is sadly a bit before my time. I got into them during the late 90s in my teens. Unplugged in New York is one of the first albums I deeply connected with. It’s galling to listen because you can see how much potential they had to do more. I recently read Stuart Braithwaite biography (from the band Mogwai). His gigography is enviable. Despite being 15 at the time he managed to see them 3 times. The afternoon performance at Reading 91 are mentioned, and Glasgow touring Nevermind. I love the idea of seeing Nirvana at a small venue in Glasgow.
@@rebd00mer93 Same! I listen to about a son most nights as i go to sleep. Soothing and takes me back to simpler times. Even though he's gone it's comforting to know he is a shut-in like me. Listening is almost like he never really left.
Kurt Cobain fan or not, this is one of the better interviews I've come across. Lots of variety in the questions, intelligent and insightful answers from Kurt.
Well he is English!! It doesn't make the interview worse or detract from it at all. In fact, it makes it better in a way, because we hear Kurt talk about subjects that we haven't heard from him before in other interviews he gave.
I wonder if Kurt ever listened to Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald?? I hope he did because it’s a classic early house track. Shame he didn’t get to experience the countryside in England.
They did that UK tour when they went to Nottingham/Sheffield etc. So they weren't far at all from, say, the Peak District - It would be a shame if they actually never left the M1 during this time though.
maybe the beginning when kurt talked about making amends with his dad, and the interviewer said he recently made amends with someone close too. other than that the interview didnt really sound like a therapy session. honestly i think its kurt voice that makes it sound like a therapy session. his voice is so calm that most things he talks about make it sound like a therapy session. like imagine kurts voice being more aggressive and louder; it wouldnt sound as much like a therapy session then
"the most terrifying thought i could think of is being locked inside of something, in a closet or something" I heard he wrote a lot of In Utero in a closet. No wonder we got terrifying songs like Milk It and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter and Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
I believe Kurt came minutes away from dying of a heroin overdose, what must have been, later in the evening on this same day after a dinner with record biz people. Courtney saved his life in the bathroom of the hotel where they were staying. The following day (July 23rd) was the much-discussed Roseland Ballroom show that, behind the scenes, many thought would be canceled because of Kurt’s near death experience.
@@barnabyjones2203 Depends on when he talked about it. At times, he would be honest to varying degrees and others he lied bald-faced. I will say, it’s his private life. He doesn’t need to air out the details of his drug abuse to Kurt Loder on MTV or to an interviewer for Rolling Stone. I don’t blame him for lying then. But he was also lying to loved ones in his private life. That pretty much goes with the territory of living that kind of lifestyle though.
@@dodgedforgottenn given his personality type and the circumstances of his life I understand his actions. However, I myself find it repulsive to think of living in so many lies. He could have declined to do interviews. He could have screened the questions. And the lies were not relegated to only drug use i'm quite certain. But who knows the real story. Maybe he was black mailed into doing interviews.
@@barnabyjones2203 Interviews were a standard part of the record biz PR machine. They were pretty necessary for publicity to sell records. Remember, people actually purchased music then and most of a band’s income came from record sales. Touring grossed money, but nothing like it does now, especially the way Nirvana did it. And Nirvana were not the music legends they are today. They were a big band, but they had to play along to get theirs. They weren’t the Rolling Stones.
Jon Savage. A very well known music journalist and author who Kurt respected a lot. Jon was part of the punk scene in England in 1976 onwards and wrote a brilliant book called England's Dreaming, which was about that time. The start of Punk in England and on to the post punk scene. In fact I haven't read it for years, I must get another copy of it.
I saw them at the Roseland when I was 14 and never knew any of that had happened until decades later. Also saw them a few months after that at the old Coliseum that was on Columbus Circle. That was after In Utero was out. Nobody sensed trouble ahead. It’s all right there for all to see though.
@@cactaceous thats awesome so jealous. Friend of mine was supposed to but didn’t go. Regrets it to this day but did still see many iconic shows there. His favorite was tool
@@GangGreen80 I was supposed to see the Portishead show at Roseland that was recorded and released. Long story regarding my freshman year of college girlfriend. She gave my ticket to a friend. Bothered me for years.
Bro what a waste of a brilliant mind and talent… dude… I know it made his myth even greater… but he would have gone on to influence the creative world until old age
Probably. Dave did it and I would say Kurt and Dave were on a similar level of talent. Dave, a slightly better musician, Kurt, a slightly better song writer and ear for melody. We were not worthy of being alive to see these titans working together to entertain us and share their art with the world.
Kurt was too nice to tell the reporter that he didn't care what he was saying in the last part of the interview, in which the reporter talked too much...
1:40:00 "...yeah, I think Courtney's more of a threat than I am." I know this statement isn't in the context of what we now know, but damn if those words from Kurt himself don't cause a heavy heart. 😥 Miss this creative & thoughtful guy. Awesome, chill interview.
It's so bizarre and foreign feeling to hear them laugh about the concept of Kurt killing everyone at his high school, but instead opting to kill himself first. They had no idea that in just a handful of years, that kind of thing would actually start taking place over and over again, not to mention, Kurt actually killing himself less than a year later.
I don't know if it would have made a difference - but I'd like to think that if Kurt was still around maybe he'd have been the kind of maturing voice some of those same kids who did these horrible things would've respected enough to listen to when he said, "That's not how you handle your grievances with life." We'll sadly never know.
It was probably recorded to a cassette tape or something like that. Nothing fancy, probably just one recording device and that's all. Old school interviewers would record the conversation just for themselves to transcribe it later
I don't understand why journalist were so selfreferential when they were near to Kurt Cobain, they may needed to make him know that they were same species
Great interview! It is obvious from this interview that Kurt was not a suicidal person. Suicidal people don't talk and engage like he did. Thus, it is highly unlikely that his death is a suicide.
Plenty of suicidal people talk and engage so that they dont worry anyone they care about. You can be suicidal and depressed and still show up to work, and music IS work. Interviews are work. Music was something he loved to do in the first place, and could have been something to get him out of bed everyday until everything else got too hard.
There's no template for suicide. My uncle was talking to me about the future LITERALLY while he was setting up the apparatus to hang himself. We were making plans to meet up post-COVID lockdown. I was a nurse for 14 years. I've literally been trained to look for signs of self harm. He exhibited NONE of them.
I think we all pretty much know now that he wanted to divorce her and move to the next phase of his life. His supposed suicide note was not a suicide note, it was all about him wanting to move on away from being a rock star and that he’d lost the excitement. The last part of the note was written by her and they also found a notebook where she’d been practicing his handwriting and it’s sinister as heck when you think about her going around and asking people to off him for money. Total psychopath hag.
Look at what the political perspective that Kurt was promoting ended up doing to places like Seattle, and Portland. I couldn't finish the interview, the male feminist thing is so cringe.
@serajane7 your comment about equal rights for women being "so cringe" made me cringe. The fact that you stopped listening to the interview when you heard an opposing point of view is very telling.
@@francoamerican4632 OP is too weak minded to even listen to another viewpoint. A viewpoint that’s on video from years ago, by a dead man who can’t even communicate with him or argue back. I don’t understand what’s so scary about feminism or women having equality to this person
@@francoamerican4632 I'm going to guess you're a liberal by that misrepresenting strawman attack, I didn't say anything about women's rights one way or the other. BTW, I was promoting 3rd wave feminism at its inception as someone who was involved in the " riot girl" scene in early 90s Olympia. The same scene that influenced Kurt's thinking on feminism. Ive experimented with a lot of varied ideologies, and religions since then. In the end if an idea, or way of being isn't practically beneficial, or doesn't bring balance, harmony, and sovereignty it's disposed of immediately, like as immediate as the Western world should dispose of feminism. What we need is truly strong healthy masculine men to protect what ever ideal we would like to uphold, and that won't happen with radical marxist feminism.
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Kurt’s voice ❤
Everything's
This is probably my favorite Kurt interview
Yes I would probably agree with you on that one Keenan. Not the typical cliche questions most journalists ask. Though obviously Jon Savage had a longer sort of set time with Kurt Cobain to interview him with. And yes, that was obviously an agreement with both parties. But yes, Jon Savage definately had the luxury than say what most other journalists would have dreamed of then. And not just then, but more so now in hindsight.
@@thomaspurcell6442 speak basic english dude you dont gotta write a paragraph detailing when where why because and how
@@Elutai
Hey that is English maybe you need To go back to school secondly I will write a fucken paragraph if I fucken want too. If you don't like it just ignore it. I know there are some BIG WORDS in the paragraph, but shit, not my fault if you cannot read.
@@Elutai oh my god, an actual paragraph. that must have hurt your poor brain.
@@silentway74 it did :(
Such an attentive, humble, down-to-earth guy.
Rest In Peace, Kurdt!
Jon Savage is a very respected music writer. He was there for the start of the British punk scene and wrote a brilliant book documenting the period called ‘ England’s Dreaming ‘. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. This is a great interview, one of Kurt’s best. I think Kurt really respected Jon. You can hear it in this interview. It’s like 2 mates just chatting, rather than a proper formal interview. If only more people in the music business, especially at that time, were like Jon then I don’t think Kurt would have hated it so much. In fact if more people around Kurt at that time were like Jon then I think things might have turned out differently. Maybe. This interview was flowing naturally and it seemed like Jon almost forgot that he had to talk about things that he was asked to by whoever he was doing it for.
I agree with everything you said 👍
I don't.
@@paulmcduff1930thanks, it's much appreciated.
@@markl1930that's fine. Life is all about different opinions. It would be bloody boring if everyone had the same point of view. No problem at all. Have a great day.
😊😊😊
0:00-2:35 (parent’s divorce and relationship with parents)
3:40 (copping out of things)
5:00-5:53 (isolation while growing up
5:55-6:12 (early music tastes)
6:19-8:56 (ancestry)
8:58-9:43 (high school)
9:44-10:38 (school shootings and school revenge movies)
11:29-13:39 (treatment of Native Americans in the U.S
13:43-16:21 (introduction to punk rock)
17:13-17:40 (what Kurt liked about punk rock)
17:53-20:09 (misogyny & sexism in music and broader society)
20:35-22:41 (questioning sexuality, gay friend and homophobia)
22:43-23:32 (gay statements in songs)
24:15-27:07 (Songwriting)
27:46-30:38 (pro-gay and pro-feminism in music)
Thank you❤
you gonna finish this?
Kurt overdosed maybe on purpose after this interview that night
@@sadhu7191 nah
12:10 Native americans were not supported at all by mass media at that time, but Kurt was sensitive to their struggles. Oh Kurt, what a beautiful soul you are. ❤️
awwe the poor savages and their pagan beliefs were so innocent.... LOL
The whole state of Washington is dedicated to the native Americans? Have you seen the names of cities and how much land belongs to them?
@@slowboycapital read a book bigot
Kurt just got a bit more intimate during this interview. A pleasant conversation based on real true events. A little up close yet personal. Not private questions. Just blunt answers to all of the questions that the interviewer was asking him about. I like the way he openly freely answers all of them without any hesitation.
This interview is gold. I'm amazed at the lack of traffic this has.
During 1993 Kurt became so good at talking to press and taking it serious and be open about how he had only just found a way to make use of his fame. He was clearly very excited about the phase they entered as a band. They also developed very fast change during that last year. In 7 years of Nirvana, stylistically the first 4 or 5 years just blend into each other slowly, but during 1993 and 1994 they went from In Utero to the Unplugged/more acoustic cover sound. That's a huge turnaround. This last period is important for the legacy as it's enough to be counted as a separate phase I think, but it only lasted for about 5 months until he passed away. So unnecessary that he died, but it also makes me wonder something very out of the norm happened in their inner circle and he wasn't expecting such an abrupt and scary end himself either. But clearly, there was enough troubling him to decide there was no way out. Yet had he quit the band after Nevermind and died two years later, the impact of his death wouldn't have been as terrible.
Kurt wanted to take his music another direction. I think that fact alone had a lot to do with his suicide. He had said somewhere he wanted to be like Johnny Cash. A guy playing songs acoustically. Noone was gonna let that happen. I always wonder what would've happened if he had just kept that one date with Michael Stipe to record a little.
I think the event was probably him and Courtney breaking up and wanting to divorce her, but there was no way out . That and heavy drug use
Kurt was so good with words
What a deeply intelligent and thoughtful person. When someone dies in such a violent and tragic way it becomes hard not to see their entire life through that lens of that event. But there was so much more complexity and nuances to his character. It’s so interesting to hear his personal reflections in conversation with Savage who he clearly respected. This interview is so different from the MTV ones all over UA-cam. Having to engage with the MTV circus in the early 90s looks excruciating for Nirvana - they were pinned and the resident, alternative freaks and totally pigeon holed by the media.
Great comment. I totally agree with you. Jon Savage has written a brilliant book called
' England's Dreaming '. Have you read it?? It's about the punk scene in England from 1976 onwards, which he was part of. It also covers the post punk scene that followed.
@@mrkipling2201 thanks! I have indeed. It’s a wonderful book that I recommend to everyone. It’s gotta be one of the all time greatest books about music and English cultural history. I guess there are some parallels between Nirvana and the Sex Pistols. They both had a seismic impact on pop culture. And the resulting fame exerted a tremendous pressure on them.
@@james2450great point. Courtney could be considered the 1990's version of Nancy Spungen as well!! Nirvana were bigger here in Britain than America originally, after their 1989 tour with Tad. My friend's older brother saw them play live on that tour, at the London School of Oriental Art. He had a copy of Bleach and was playing all the time back then. That's when I first started getting into Nirvana as well, although it wasn't until he got a copy of the Sliver single that I became a huge fan. I need to obtain another copy of England's Dreaming actually, I haven't read it for ages.
@@mrkipling2201 That’s really cool. Live Nirvana is sadly a bit before my time. I got into them during the late 90s in my teens. Unplugged in New York is one of the first albums I deeply connected with. It’s galling to listen because you can see how much potential they had to do more. I recently read Stuart Braithwaite biography (from the band Mogwai). His gigography is enviable. Despite being 15 at the time he managed to see them 3 times. The afternoon performance at Reading 91 are mentioned, and Glasgow touring Nevermind. I love the idea of seeing Nirvana at a small venue in Glasgow.
He was so petulant though. The way he talks about his parents divorce and woe is me, fascination with cynicism/pessimism.
Thank you for sharing!! So nice to hear Kurt's talking and his thoughts.
this is a great interview. Kurt had an interesting and well thought out answer for each question.
Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing - amazing find and love hearing his voice, fascinating listen ❤
What a good podcast from my favorite content creator.
My favorite interview of Kurt
That soothing voice of his fits perfectly for ASMR.
I could listen to him for hours non-stop. 🥰 🤍 🥳
I'll listen to About a Son sometimes while going to bed. I love his talking voice. I live in WA all my life. Sounds like people I grew up with.
@@rebd00mer93 Same! I listen to about a son most nights as i go to sleep. Soothing and takes me back to simpler times. Even though he's gone it's comforting to know he is a shut-in like me. Listening is almost like he never really left.
Great post. Thank you 👍🙏
Such a wonderful soul and beautiful mind. Thank you for everything kurt. Thank you.
Kurt Cobain fan or not, this is one of the better interviews I've come across. Lots of variety in the questions, intelligent and insightful answers from Kurt.
He would be 57 today it's crazy
This is fantastic. Kurt is so open in this interview.
The best KC interview... By far!
If like Nirvana especially Kurt Cobain listen to this interview and save some time ❤
Right on
It works because it’s just two people having a conversation. That’s probably what got Kurt to open up
It's like a podcast before podcasting
wait until you listen to talk radio
1:18:55 sucks he trusted Cali DeWitt
Love to hear the way Kurt is asking simple basic questions in this conversation: "what?" :)
god, John Savage doesn't stop going on about england does he
god, quit whining will ya?
Self obsessed man.
Well he is English!! It doesn't make the interview worse or detract from it at all. In fact, it makes it better in a way, because we hear Kurt talk about subjects that we haven't heard from him before in other interviews he gave.
cant even express how much i love him but i loveee him
I wonder if Kurt ever listened to Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald?? I hope he did because it’s a classic early house track. Shame he didn’t get to experience the countryside in England.
They did that UK tour when they went to Nottingham/Sheffield etc. So they weren't far at all from, say, the Peak District - It would be a shame if they actually never left the M1 during this time though.
amazing, thanks!
I thought this was uploaded somewhere else. The comments explain that.
There was a lot more comments.
nice
This was more a therapy session
maybe the beginning when kurt talked about making amends with his dad, and the interviewer said he recently made amends with someone close too. other than that the interview didnt really sound like a therapy session. honestly i think its kurt voice that makes it sound like a therapy session. his voice is so calm that most things he talks about make it sound like a therapy session. like imagine kurts voice being more aggressive and louder; it wouldnt sound as much like a therapy session then
The day I was born. Had to click
this is on gh right ? i swear i remember this as a special feature or something
He was kind of sophisticated and kind of petulant/naive. Even for his age.
"They (Indiginous) were even more Isolated. They were looked down upon."
"When did you first hear punk rock?"
"the most terrifying thought i could think of is being locked inside of something, in a closet or something"
I heard he wrote a lot of In Utero in a closet. No wonder we got terrifying songs like Milk It and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter and Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
how is rfus terrifying? it was also written in 1990, so it couldn’t have been in a closet.
Nevermind is slick, okay
Serve the Servants: I just want you to know that I don't hate you anymore
One of my favourite Nirvana songs!😆
MONTESANO / Leland lived there too.
I'm just imagining the interviewer as the journalist guy from Ted lasso
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I believe Kurt came minutes away from dying of a heroin overdose, what must have been, later in the evening on this same day after a dinner with record biz people. Courtney saved his life in the bathroom of the hotel where they were staying. The following day (July 23rd) was the much-discussed Roseland Ballroom show that, behind the scenes, many thought would be canceled because of Kurt’s near death experience.
Some say he was lying pretty bad about his issues. Do you think that's the case?
@@barnabyjones2203 Depends on when he talked about it. At times, he would be honest to varying degrees and others he lied bald-faced. I will say, it’s his private life. He doesn’t need to air out the details of his drug abuse to Kurt Loder on MTV or to an interviewer for Rolling Stone. I don’t blame him for lying then. But he was also lying to loved ones in his private life. That pretty much goes with the territory of living that kind of lifestyle though.
@@dodgedforgottenn given his personality type and the circumstances of his life I understand his actions. However, I myself find it repulsive to think of living in so many lies. He could have declined to do interviews. He could have screened the questions. And the lies were not relegated to only drug use i'm quite certain. But who knows the real story. Maybe he was black mailed into doing interviews.
@@barnabyjones2203 Interviews were a standard part of the record biz PR machine. They were pretty necessary for publicity to sell records. Remember, people actually purchased music then and most of a band’s income came from record sales. Touring grossed money, but nothing like it does now, especially the way Nirvana did it. And Nirvana were not the music legends they are today. They were a big band, but they had to play along to get theirs. They weren’t the Rolling Stones.
It was on the same day as the show
Great interviewer.
The English guy who won't stop talking about England?
Jon Savage. A very well known music journalist and author who Kurt respected a lot. Jon was part of the punk scene in England in 1976 onwards and wrote a brilliant book called England's Dreaming, which was about that time. The start of Punk in England and on to the post punk scene. In fact I haven't read it for years, I must get another copy of it.
And then he overdosed the next morning, got revived, played at the roseland that night
I saw them at the Roseland when I was 14 and never knew any of that had happened until decades later. Also saw them a few months after that at the old Coliseum that was on Columbus Circle. That was after In Utero was out. Nobody sensed trouble ahead. It’s all right there for all to see though.
@@cactaceous thats awesome so jealous. Friend of mine was supposed to but didn’t go. Regrets it to this day but did still see many iconic shows there. His favorite was tool
@@GangGreen80 I was supposed to see the Portishead show at Roseland that was recorded and released. Long story regarding my freshman year of college girlfriend. She gave my ticket to a friend. Bothered me for years.
FAMILY
Bro what a waste of a brilliant mind and talent… dude… I know it made his myth even greater… but he would have gone on to influence the creative world until old age
Probably. Dave did it and I would say Kurt and Dave were on a similar level of talent. Dave, a slightly better musician, Kurt, a slightly better song writer and ear for melody. We were not worthy of being alive to see these titans working together to entertain us and share their art with the world.
32:31 Soul Asylum rocks!!! Whoooo. Listen to thier first couple albums that stuff is amazing.. hang time, horse, clam dip EP all that stuff too
Kurt and Darby Crash has a similar writing technique.
Kurt was too nice to tell the reporter that he didn't care what he was saying in the last part of the interview, in which the reporter talked too much...
At the start he literally described my relationship with my parents
Not to be underestimated: Mars in Scorpio
oh that sting! 🦂 🪐❤️🔥😆
18:47 that was a very English sounding "no" from Kurt.
1:40:00 "...yeah, I think Courtney's more of a threat than I am." I know this statement isn't in the context of what we now know, but damn if those words from Kurt himself don't cause a heavy heart. 😥 Miss this creative & thoughtful guy. Awesome, chill interview.
"what WE know now" 🤡 Take it from Socrates. You know nothing.
Why have I never seen this before.. and I thought I was a nirvana junkie since sept 91
I feel claustrophobic in a family of 3. I love being alone
It's so bizarre and foreign feeling to hear them laugh about the concept of Kurt killing everyone at his high school, but instead opting to kill himself first. They had no idea that in just a handful of years, that kind of thing would actually start taking place over and over again, not to mention, Kurt actually killing himself less than a year later.
Wasnt a suicide tho
Kurt didn't kill himself.
I don't know if it would have made a difference - but I'd like to think that if Kurt was still around maybe he'd have been the kind of maturing voice some of those same kids who did these horrible things would've respected enough to listen to when he said, "That's not how you handle your grievances with life." We'll sadly never know.
or did they?
@@adityatyagi4009he did
did you like them because they were English?
lol
Haha he does have a thing about that in this interview 😆
5:05 🔭🐥
what a great interview....two sensitive people talking; 45:50 says alot
Did anyone go to Aberdeen to interview Kurt's gay friend?
Is there a video version?
Nope.
Boring that they didn't film this but it is a good interview. R.I.P. Kurt
They need to amp up the interviewers voice and compress it a little. It’s too distracting like it is it comes in like an interruption.
It was probably recorded to a cassette tape or something like that. Nothing fancy, probably just one recording device and that's all. Old school interviewers would record the conversation just for themselves to transcribe it later
43:35 Kurt rips ass. YW
I don't understand why journalist were so selfreferential when they were near to Kurt Cobain, they may needed to make him know that they were same species
Great interview! It is obvious from this interview that Kurt was not a suicidal person. Suicidal people don't talk and engage like he did. Thus, it is highly unlikely that his death is a suicide.
Plenty of suicidal people talk and engage so that they dont worry anyone they care about. You can be suicidal and depressed and still show up to work, and music IS work. Interviews are work. Music was something he loved to do in the first place, and could have been something to get him out of bed everyday until everything else got too hard.
There's no template for suicide. My uncle was talking to me about the future LITERALLY while he was setting up the apparatus to hang himself. We were making plans to meet up post-COVID lockdown.
I was a nurse for 14 years. I've literally been trained to look for signs of self harm. He exhibited NONE of them.
It's strange how it was only his wife that was telling people that he was suicidal. His close friends were saying the exact opposite.
I think we all pretty much know now that he wanted to divorce her and move to the next phase of his life. His supposed suicide note was not a suicide note, it was all about him wanting to move on away from being a rock star and that he’d lost the excitement. The last part of the note was written by her and they also found a notebook where she’d been practicing his handwriting and it’s sinister as heck when you think about her going around and asking people to off him for money. Total psychopath hag.
Why does everything revolve around Kurt? perform your own music.
55:57 homie she had you killed
Kurt was so naive and brainwashed smh
how
@@kaitlynlaura6088 they're getting triggered by his punk rock values.
And you're not?
Ok conservative lol
Bro believes in equal rights and you call him brainwashed. Not everyone is a conservative retard.
Look at what the political perspective that Kurt was promoting ended up doing to places like Seattle, and Portland. I couldn't finish the interview, the male feminist thing is so cringe.
If you want the fame you have to represent their agenda … you lose all free will & you have to give up a blood sacrifice
Equal rights and being treated like a human being is cringe?
@serajane7 your comment about equal rights for women being "so cringe" made me cringe. The fact that you stopped listening to the interview when you heard an opposing point of view is very telling.
@@francoamerican4632 OP is too weak minded to even listen to another viewpoint. A viewpoint that’s on video from years ago, by a dead man who can’t even communicate with him or argue back. I don’t understand what’s so scary about feminism or women having equality to this person
@@francoamerican4632 I'm going to guess you're a liberal by that misrepresenting strawman attack, I didn't say anything about women's rights one way or the other. BTW, I was promoting 3rd wave feminism at its inception as someone who was involved in the " riot girl" scene in early 90s Olympia. The same scene that influenced Kurt's thinking on feminism. Ive experimented with a lot of varied ideologies, and religions since then. In the end if an idea, or way of being isn't practically beneficial, or doesn't bring balance, harmony, and sovereignty it's disposed of immediately, like as immediate as the Western world should dispose of feminism. What we need is truly strong healthy masculine men to protect what ever ideal we would like to uphold, and that won't happen with radical marxist feminism.