“The most exciting time for a band is right before they become really popular. I’d love to just be in bands that just do that every two years. Every time I look back at the best times in this band it was just right before Nevermind came out. It was awesome.
“Without my choosing its become a job, whether I like it or not. Its something I love doing and I’d always want to do. But I have to be honest I don’t enjoy it nearly as much as I used to when I was practising every night… imaging what it would be like. And its nothing like what it was like the first couple of years actually playing in front of a few people. Loading up the van going to a rock show to actually play. The privilege of that can’t be reproduced after doing it for 10 years.” – Kurt Cobain
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I finally got a chance to check out Aux TV tonight. I had heard Dylan Willows talking about the channel on the morning Zone sometime ago. I never thought I had the channel…but I guess I do, as I was searching around and came across the documentary, Kurt Cobain: About a Son.
The documentary was amazing, sad, tragic and insightful. In 1993, Kurt Cobain gave his time for a series of audio taped interviews with a journalist he trusted (maybe the only one he did as he was found of tearing into journalists during the interview).
The interview was very thorough and talked about Kurt’s growing up, forming a band, moving to Seattle, becoming famous, meeting and marrying Courtney Love and the birth of their daughter before getting into some of his plans for the future (like how he planned on breaking up Nirvana and his goals on life for providing for Francis Bean).
It was interesting to get into the mind of Kurt Cobain in his own words and listen to him share his stories. It was at times hard to watch as we know the outcome of the story, especially when he talks about how much he loves his daughter and how he was so excited to provide a family for her.
If you have the time or energy, the documentary is on Youtube in 9 or 10 parts. You’ll have to get started at part 2 as Warner Music blocked the audio of part one because of copyright or some bullshit: About a Son part 2
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 