The unsent letter to Dave Foster (drummer for Nirvana, 1988) - Foster continued to never show up for band rehearsals as he lived several hours away. Kurt Cobain & Krist Novoselic finally decided to fire Foster after he was arrested for assaulting the son of the mayor in Cosmopolis, Washington. He [Dave Foster] was never told he was being let go from the band, he realized his release after seeing a poster featuring ‘Butthole Surfers & Blood Circus w/ Nirvana in Seattle’.
![10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.
Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.”
Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”
Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m498bcM6i01qir6ydo1_1280.jpg)
10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.
Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.”
Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”
Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”
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Spank Thru [‘Fecal Matter’ Demo Tape, 1985]
“He arrived with a huge notebook full of lyrics, I showed him how to adjust a few things, how to record with the reel-to-reel, and he went right at it. The drums were strong and forceful, and the guitar riffs were fast and furious, with a powerful hook. The lyrical content was rebellious and angry. Mostly slams against society in general. Kurt didn’t like the social ladder in school. Kids thinking they were cool because they wore the “right” clothes or were handsome or pretty, or had money. His songs back then reflected his opinions about these things.” - Mari Earl (Kurt’s aunt).
Kurt’s telecaster
(Via:newwaveboy): A few months ago I set out to build Kurt’s telecaster that he called “his new favorite” during the last weeks of his life, which he used while composing new material. The mods that Earnie Bailey made on it were fantastic, particularly the Gibson PAF/Duncan JB humbucker combo. The pickups together sound gorgeous:
I built everything to spec including the curious “two-tone” bridge piece, with the exception of the neck plate, which I felt the urge to do something really unique and one-of-a-kind with:
Can’t lie; I’m quite happy with how this bad boy turned out!
The Melvins - “Eye Flys”. This song is featured in ‘Kurt Cobain: About A Son’.
![“I haven’t had the chance to see if it affects me musically [becoming a father] - I haven’t been writing songs recently. I haven’t attempted to write a song for months. The biggest impact of having a child is personally. I’ve always been chronically depressed, or at least pessimistic, for a part of each day. Now I only have to see Frances for 10 minutes and my spirits are lifted so high I feel like a completely different person.” - Kurt Cobain.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m47dje8fAP1qir6ydo1_500.jpg)
“I haven’t had the chance to see if it affects me musically [becoming a father] - I haven’t been writing songs recently. I haven’t attempted to write a song for months. The biggest impact of having a child is personally. I’ve always been chronically depressed, or at least pessimistic, for a part of each day. Now I only have to see Frances for 10 minutes and my spirits are lifted so high I feel like a completely different person.” - Kurt Cobain.
