New Nirvana Biography: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl Revelations

journalist in the Nineties, there could have been no better phone call. Not long after Michael Azerrad hung out withreached out to ask him if he wanted to write a book about Nirvana. He agreed, and after nine months of breakneck work, he managed to getmore than doubles the length of the original edition with new material from Azerrad’s interviews, fact-checking, and fresh revelations. As a literary exercise, the conversation with yourself in this book is really interesting.

He disavowed the idea that he followed music journalism. But I could tell from our conversations and just the way he spoke about rock music that he’d read quite a bit of music journalism. He understood that all the great artists constructed myths about themselves that kind of enhanced their image, or in today’s parlance, their brand. Kurt was really aware of that, and he put it in action with me, for sure. It was only 30 years later that I got a chance to debunk some of it.

I think Kurt partly was mocking Dave for being, you know, fairly together and normal. He’s a popular, well-adjusted guy, he really is. I think partly Kurt was making fun of that because he wasn’t a freak like Kurt. And I think Kurt was a little bit jealous of Dave because Dave did have his act together.

In writing this book, I learned the difference between honest and candid. Honest means you’re telling the truth and candid means you’re saying stuff that’s pretty intense, but may or may not be true. I think Kurt was more candid than honest sometimes. In the original mix, the bass sounded a little bit more like a tuned bass drum, like more thump-y. And then a couple other songs he said, “I think the vocals could be louder.” And those turned out to be the songs that they raised the vocals on. This all happened before anyone else heard the album. So I think that the ensuing brouhaha was just a bunch of BS as far as I can tell.

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