Kurt Cobain

Frances Bean Cobain Fights Husband Over Kurt Cobain Guitar, Named Face Of Marc Jacobs Clothing Line

... death and there were only 300 of the Martin model made before it was discontinued. The left-handed Cobain also made adjustments to the instrument to accommodate his playing, which makes it all the more unique. Now it’s in the hands of the court. According to TMZ , Cobain has asked the court to allow her to inspect the instrument to make sure that it’s been kept in cherry condition and she’s asked that the guitar be handed over to an art shipping company for safe keeping until the court battle is resolved. The instrument was once insured for $1 million and experts now believe that its worth several million dollars. A judge has yet to rule on the request. In other Frances Bean Cobain news, she’s been selected as the face of the Marc Jacobs spring/summer clothing line campaign. Jacobs revealed the news by posting a David Sims photograph and offering a bit of reflection on his ...

Imagining A 50-year-old Kurt Cobain

... in more unexpected areas. Rap superstar Jay Z quoted Nirvana's breakthrough hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in his track "Holy Grail," which featured Justin Timberlake. Stan Cuesta, a French music journalist who has written a book on Nirvana, said the group's fan base remains surprisingly young. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has enjoyed a recent resurgence with nearly 500 million views on You Tube. "Nirvana's audience today isn't the people who listened to the group at the time. It's young people. It's funny as some of them weren't born when Kurt Cobain died 23 years ago," Cuesta said. - Kurt Cobain in an internet era -. But Cobain - with his ragged cardigan and thick blonde locks - may be better known for some younger fans for his look rather than Nirvana's music, Cuesta said. "Kurt's poster is in everyone's bedroom like Che Guevara's poster used to be, even if people don't necessarily know much about Che's political activities or Nirvana's music," he said. Cobain - whose suicide note quoted Neil Young's line that "it's better to burn out than to fade away" - may have hated his contemporary image. But what would Cobain have been like as a 50-year-old in 2017, an era when most ...

12 Great Quotes From The Nirvana Frontman

... liner notes. "Although I listened to Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, and I really did enjoy some of the melodies they'd written, it took me so many years to realize that a lot of it had to do with sexism. The way that they just wrote about their dicks and having sex. I was just starting to understand what really was pissing me off so much those last couple years of high school. And then punk rock was exposed and then it all came together. It just fit together like a puzzle. It expressed the way I felt socially and politically. Just everything. You know. It was the anger that I felt. The alienation." – Blank on Blank , 1993. Nirvana, 1991 Howard Tyler/ZUMA. "I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer ...

Frances Bean Reveals What Would Have Made Kurt Cobain Cry If He Were Alive Today

... Bean Cobain (@alka_seltzer 666) February 5, 2017. 1000 musicians playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in perfect sync with eachother > > __link__/Vevh 3 UPJ 7 Y. — sawyer (@sawyershall) February 2, 2017. Frances Bean Cobain revealed in Vogue that she is starring in Marc Jacobs’ Spring 2017 campaign. She told Vogue she isn’t too happy about fashion’s current obsession with ’90 s nostalgia. “I don’t fucking care what they did in the 90’s; I wasn’t around and it’s not relevant to me,” she says. Cobain was born in 1992. “Yes, the 90’s were influential, for sure, but it’s just not my cup of tea. When it’s shoved down your throat every day for 24 years, you just stop caring.”. The irony of the runways’ love affair with grunge—a look her parents helped to popularize and one that Jacobs showed in the luxury space with his now famous Spring 1993 Perry Ellis collection—isn’t lost on her either. “I find it interesting where grunge originated from, and then where it was taken, which was high fashion,” says Cobain. “My dad was so poor that they kept going to Goodwill to get donated ripped jeans. It wasn’t a ...

15 Of Kurt Cobain's Most Inspiring Quotes, From Standing Up To Bigotry To Embracing Feminism Photos

... because finally I'd found a male friend who I actually hugged and was affectionate to and we talked about a lot of things.". "I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.". ON RAMPANT HOMOPHOBIA. "I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.". ON HOW BEING LABELED 'GAY' GAVE HIM FREEDOM. "I used to pretend I was gay just to f-k with people. I've had the reputation of being a homosexual ever since I was 14. It was really cool, because I found a couple of gay friends in Aberdeen which is almost impossible. How I could ever come across a gay person in Aberdeen is amazing! But I had some really good friends that way. I got beat up a lot, of course, because of my association with them. People just thought I was weird at first, just some f-ked-up kid. But once I got the gay tag, it gave me the freedom to be able to be a freak and let people know that they should just stay away from me.". "I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.". ON GOVERMNENT. "The duty of youth ...

Black Book Guitars To Auction Off Kurt Cobain's Guitar, 10 Percent Of Proceeds Go To Charity

... to Cobain, according to Nirvana’s guitar technician Earnie Bailey. In late 1992, [Cobain] was staying at the Inn at the Market in Seattle, and called to ask me if I could find him this specific model. After locating this one, I told him of several other 1960 s Italian-made sparkle finish guitars in local shops, and he requested that I buy every one that I could find … After delivering the guitars to his hotel room, he stated that he was keeping the Hagstrom as a Christmas gift to himself, and giving the remaining guitars away to his friends. It’s a charming story, and shows Cobain’s kindness toward his friends, and a rare moment of indulgence for himself. Cobain’s well-known struggles with addiction and depression led Black Book Guitars owner Nate Fasold to decide on Transition Projects as the recipient of the auction’s partial proceeds. A former trauma nurse, Fasold said he can see the connection between addiction and homelessness. What I like about Transitions is that it helps people in need transition from homelessness to housing. A lot of their population struggles with addiction, and adequate shelter is something that helps the people I work with at the trauma ...

Here Are The Five Best Nirvana Rarities

... company suit vetoed it, perhaps realising there’s a limit to how widely an album with that name will be stocked. This surprisingly sunny pop song ended up as a hidden track on the Beavis and Butthead Experience soundtrack, and was slated to appear as the ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ B-side, before this was shelved following Cobain’s suicide. MOIST VAGINA. Another song with a less-than-ideal title for the suits at Geffen. This was the B-side for ‘All Apologies’ and features a chorus where Kurt wails the word ‘marijuana’ over and over. What’s not to love. It’s hard to see why this classic, hooky pop song was left off Nevermind, unless it was simply too catchy to fit comfortably on an album already teeming with pop hits. One of Cobain’s very best songs. A screaming, squawking song that is the polar opposite to its A-side ‘Lithium’. One of Cobain’s more raw vocals, and a pointer ...

What Really Happened To Kurt Cobain? Top Doc Drops A Bombshell About The Late Star

... that is exactly what the new Reelz series, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Kurt Cobain, hopes to answer. As Radar reported, Cobain was just 27 when he was found dead from a gunshot blast in his Seattle home. But as the Reelz special reports, Cobain lived a troubled life, and battled years of addiction. “Kurt initially got into heroin because it seemed to him to be a pain killer,” said Cobain biographer Christopher Sandford. “His whole teenage years, he was looking for various pills and prescriptions  to help get over his bad back, his bad stomach.”. Psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos has heard the “turning to drugs to escape pain” excuse before. “While that is I guess kind of understandable in the short term, it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s still a choice,” she said. “And the excuse of, ‘well I had no choice because I was in pain’ is one that again you hear a lot of addicts using.”. Near the end, Cobain was spending about $700 a day feeding his drug addiction. Autopsy results revealed that Cobain had a lethal dose of heroin in his blood at the time of his death. ...