Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Eddie Vedder About Kurt Cobain

“I went to buy some smokes and I saw this thing in the paper about Kurt ODing in Italy. I got home – I was alone in the house – and I remember all of a sudden shaking with panic. Feeling like that would be the worst thing – being panicked at the thought of the music world without him.”
~ Eddie Vedder, “Grunge is Dead” – Greg Prato

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Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder offered this touching tribute to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain at their first show after his death 20 years ago

“There’s a lot of space between us tonight…We’re not only kind of far, you know, we’re kind of elevated I noticed, a little more than usual. Either that, or I’ve gotten taller. But, I don’t think it’s very good to elevate yourself. That can be very dangerous. Sometimes whether you like it or not people elevate you, you know, whether you like it not. It’s real easy to fall…but I don’t think any of us would be in this room tonight if it weren’t for Kurt Cobain.”

Watch the entire performance below:

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Layne Staley About Kurt Cobain

 

“I mean, I have felt under pressure, but the pressure I’m under and the pressure that Kurt Cobain is under are two completely different worlds. He’s in a position where he was thrust into stardom. He went from playing 150-capacity venues to headlining arenas, and we’re just not at that level yet. But the pressure to continue, to work harder, to be a career band and not a flash in the pan, that’s definitely there.” –

Layne Staley

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Space Needle (Episode 84)

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Krist Novoselic About Kurt Cobain

 

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Butch Vig About Kurt Cobain

Cobain’s legendary impatience with multiple takes came to the fore at this time.

He really wanted to do everything on the first or second take. He’d do a couple of takes and say, ‘That’s it. I’m not gonna do it anymore.’ The tricky part was trying to figure out how to motivate him to give really good performances. Sometimes his first or second takes were brilliant, but sometimes they needed work. They needed to be more focused. What I ended up doing was recording everything he sang, even the warmups. A lot of times, I’d actually be going for a first take, but he would think it was just a warmup. Then I’d have the engineer flip to a new track and I’d tell Kurt, ‘Okay, you’re ready for your first take.’ If I was lucky, I could get as many as four takes out of him. Then I’d take the best pieces of each one and make a master out of it.

Cobain’s painful stomach condition would sometimes bring sessions to a halt.

He was very sensitive to certain foods. Sometimes we’d eat dinner and he’d get sick half an hour later and end up spending 45 minutes in the bathroom.

Butch Vig

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Dave Grohl About Kurt Cobain And Krist Novoselic

I looked at Krist and Kurt as soulmates. The two had such a beautiful, unspoken understanding of each other. Those two guys, together, totally defined the Nirvana aesthetic. Every quirk, all the strange things that came from Nirvana came from Krist and Kurt. I think [growing up in] Aberdeen, their experiences together in those formative years, had a lot to do with that.
— Dave Grohl

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Rob Halford About Kurt Cobain

Rob Halford (Judas Priest): “Kurt was an absolute genius. In the legacy of the Rock, he is as: Hendrix, Lennon, Joplin and Morrison. It was incredibly evocative, inspiring, controversial. For me, there was nothing larger then NIRVANA, because they shook the world. It has not come out nothing so cool.
There’s been nothing great since that band.”

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Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard: Ozzy Osbourne About Kurt Cobain

Ozzy
It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.
They sound like “Hard Rock meets the Beatles.”
Nirvana is in Ozzy’s top 5 favorite bands

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The Anniversary Of Kurt Cobain’s Birth

Kurt was born on this day in 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington.

I’ll be posting a quote about him every day this week to celebrate his life and legacy, this will be Kurt’s Week on Grunge Graveyard.

Space Needle (Episode 83)

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