kurt cobain, guitar teacher

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first thing i learned how to play = 'teen spirit' solo

(also pretty much the only thing)

He truly was the voice of a generation in getting people to play guitar solos that copied the melody

A vote for "My Best Friend's Girl" is also a vote for "I Will" by The Beatles.

"But nobody can play it like Kurt Cobain."

Can't see why this would be true.

You're questioning the word of Antonoff of fun?

Guitar Center showroom poll:

Sweet Child of Mine
Smoke On The Water
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Ha. A few years ago I went in that place when the Korg Monotron came out and sales guy told me keyboard equivalent was "Linus and Lucy."

Guitar Center showroom is still pretty catholic: Smoke on the Water, Sweet Child, Eruption. One by Metallica.

Would be a better Guitar Center jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KtXf7q8eBo

"Come As You Are" is like GUITAR/BASS RIFFS 101.

A friend of mine used to deliberately play the riff to 'Smoke On The Water' in guitar shops to wind the staff up. It worked every single time.

"Come As You Are" is like GUITAR/BASS RIFFS 101.

oh i forgot, i also learned that when i owned a bass guitar

^^^^^^ first song I learned on guitar

You mean "Eighties".

yup, i learned to play largely through Nirvana songs

I would have thought he'd learned More Than A Feeling too since Smells Like Teen Spirit's riff is so similar.

Cobain openly acknowledged Boston's influence on the riff but a song wouldn't have to be one of the first ones he learned in order to influence one of his compositions years later

Imagine if Cobain learned how to sing from Brad Delp.

Seems like Brad Delp learned something from him though.

irl guilty lol

That's some dark stuff, man.

Guitar Center showroom poll:

Sweet Child of Mine
Smoke On The Water
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Haha, usually if I'm in a guitar store there's about a 40% chance that someone will play "Dammit" by Blink-182. Have heard "Sweet Child of Mine" multiple times, though.

I haven't played with a huge number of guitarists, but every one of them that I did practice with always warmed up by playing the riff to "Back on the Chain Gang".

Johnny Marr apparently used to warm up with the Pretenders, too.

yup i grew up learning to play thru green day and nirvana

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"Johnny Marr apparently used to warm up with the Pretenders, too."

and he later played with them, I think?

yup

http://pitchfork.com/news/54993-kurt-cobain-note-about-courtney-love-found-in-his-wallet-at-death-scene-shared-by-seattle-police/

don't know what to make with this

*of this

Why is this only coming to light now?

The conspiracy theorists will jump on this, but it doesn't really amount to much. He was mad at Courtney so he topped himself? C'mon. (not saying anyone on here's suggesting this, just responding to the shit that's likely to be thrown around).
A depressed junkie writes an angry note about his partner... and? It's undated, but I don't think Kurt was anywhere near SF in his last days. But even if he was, big deal. Everyone knows they had a stormy relationship, so reading things like this in isolation doesn't tell us a great deal.

Imagine how much more the conspiracy theorists would have jumped on it if it had been released at the time, though.

like can we just not ever talk about kurt cobain anymore

in the words of perry farrell
"i try not to think about the details because………it won't put you in a good mood."

"i try not to think about perry farrell because………it won't put you in a good mood."

yeAAHHH! ohhhh yeeeeAAAHH! oooohhhhh yeAAHHH!!

whoa oh oh oh

heaven let your light shine down

I've got this horrible - and look, this is borderline custos/dad humor, I get that - sketch in my head about Perry Farrell.

"Oh yeah, man? How bout I blow your mind with this? It's a beautiful little baby and it's mom is white and its dad is black. Bet you're squirming now, aren't you?"

"What's the big deal about that? I mean, the president of the –"

"AND whaddya gonna do Mr. Business Man when you come home one day and find your daughter in the domestic living room watching a show about a GAY person? Gonna lose your lid on that one."

"First of all, there's dozens of shows featuring gay characters and secondly –"

"YOU MUST SHIT YOURSELF ALL THE TIME, RIGHT?"

"And secondly, my daughter is a lesbian, so I don't think it would bother her too much."

(Repulsed) "Your daughter is a what now?"

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