Showing posts with label Nirvana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nirvana. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Kurt Cobain's Music Theory


Nirvana's Nevermind topped the US charts on it's way to selling over 10 million copies.
As we see, Kurt Cobain was at best ambivalent about the album or what it represented.
Nevermind proved to have a seismic effect on nineties music.

Cobain's 'anti-macho' mindset would inform his instinctive approach to the guitar: he was a player with an exceptional ear for both emotive melody and for riffs that set mospits alight.
He told Fender's Frontline magazine in 1994: "The battle is the pleasure. I'm the first to admit that I'm no virtuoso. I can't play like Sevogia. The flip side of that is that is that Sevogia could probably never had played like me."

Indeed Kurt's schooling in the art of all things guitar was rudimentary at best: "I took lessons for a week, I learned how to play Back In Black by AC/DC, and it's pretty the Louie Louie Chord, so that's all I neede to know. I just started writing songs on my own. Once you know the power chord, you don't need to know anything else."

Story behind Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kurt Cobain's Lovestory


Smells Like Teen Spirit:

Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill's drummer) was Cobain's something like girlfriend,but not exactly girlfriend, more like one sided Love by Kurt's side only.Kurt was in Love with her.
Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill's vocalist) was Dave Grohl's girlfriend.


Once Kurt, Tobi, Dave an Kathleen were to a party and Kathleen wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on the wall, actually Teen Spirit was Tobi's deodorant and Kurt have observed the smell.
Almost every song of Nevermind was written for Tobi. But she broke his heart.
Songs like "Lithium" (Cobain cahnged he lyrics after the splituup bcause he wanted it to be about the relationship),
"Drain You", "Lounge Act",
"Stay Away" which says Stay Away... God is Gay..., etc.

Courtney Love said that he was "too F***king in love with her, that seemed stupid",
and that she came in to show him his worth,
but when Kurt reached famous life, Vail came back to him, but Love said to her:
"Get out of here, b*tch".