Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by MELVILLE HOUSE

Author:MELVILLE HOUSE [MELVILLE HOUSE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

COBAIN ON COBAIN

INTERVIEW BY EDGAR KLÜSENER

AUGUST 10, 1993

edgar klüsener: I think the bonus track on the CD, “Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip,” it sounds very spontaneous. Did you record that on the spot?

dave grohl: Which song is it? Is it the organ thing?

kurt cobain: We made that song up on the spot. I just started playing the guitar part and then Krist and Dave started playing and then, as we were recording, I just made up the lyrics.

krist novoselic: That’s the one. We recorded that song in Rio de Janeiro.

grohl: Oh, yeah.

novoselic: At this tiny BMG B studio that hasn’t been used for, like, six years, they have this Neve board. They blew the dust off it, and we just plugged in and started screwing around. And we did that song; it was totally spontaneous. It was just one of those things.

klüsener: Yeah, it gives that feeling.

novoselic: It’s free association.

klüsener: What the hell does the title mean, anyway?

novoselic: In Utero? I think there’s, like, an in vitro pregnancy, then there’s conception…

klüsener: No, I mean of that song.

novoselic: Oh, “gallons of rubbing alcohol…will cleanse the strip”?

cobain: I guess it’s our contempt for the hairspray Guns N’ Roses/Poison scene that was going on in LA a few years ago.

klüsener: Something else I found out…Oh, no, one question beforehand: The way you recorded this was on an 8-track machine, is that true?

grohl: No, that’s not true.

cobain: It was a 24-track. It’s the same board that recorded Back in Black by AC/DC.

klüsener: And what was the story that some of the songs have been remixed?

cobain: Two songs were remixed.

klüsener: Which were?

cobain: “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.” ‘Cause the vocals weren’t loud enough and I wanted to put some harmony vocals in the background that I failed to do when we recorded with Steve [Albini], so we asked [producer] Scott Litt to come down and do it. It took about a day or two.

novoselic: Yeah. Complete.

klüsener: But I noticed this, not only on this record but on the records before too: there are some very fine harmonies and melodies on it. Which makes me wonder: Does one of you have a sort of musical education?

cobain: Absolutely not.

grohl: I don’t think any of us did.

cobain: I have no concept of knowing how to be a musician at all, whatsoever. I mean, I don’t know the names of chords to play; I don’t know how to do major and minor chords on a guitar at all. I couldn’t even pass Guitar 101—full Guitar 101, you know? Everyone knows more than I do.

novoselic: I took accordion lessons when I was a little kid.

grohl: I played the trombone, I think when I was about eight.

cobain: I was in band, and I played snare drum during junior high and grade school. I never learned how to read music. I just copied the other people who took the time to learn how to read, and it was just so simple, you know? Boom tap boom tap boom tap-tap

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