Frances is NOT named after Francis Farmer. She is named after a member of the Vaselines, though Kurt says he'd wished he'd thought of naming her after Farmer.

Frances's middle name (Bean) come from the shape the appeared in a sonogram. Yes...a bean. A picture of the sonogram appears on the cover of the Lithium single on the left side.

Courntey was married in a dress of Francis Farmer's.

In Utero went through 2 name changes. It was originally to be called "I hate myself and want to die" and then later "Verse-Chorus-Verse". Both of these are songs from the In Utero sessions.

Stay Away was originally called "Pay to Play" and was recorded at that. A last minute change of taste caused the change.

From left to right, the pictures on in the "Incesticide" liner are:
Kurt, Krist, Dave, Dale crover, Chad Channing, Dan Peters.

The morning of the New Music Seminar: 7/23/93, Kurt OD'd on heroin. Courtney then injected him with an illgeal drug used to wake people who've OD'd on heroin. He went onstage and performed...no one knew the difference.

The rights for "Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story" were sold to Paradigm Talent, who planned to make a movie. Cobain's family prevented Azerrad from selling the rights to his stuning authorized biography "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana".

Where did the title for Smells like Teen Spirit come from?
One day Kurt and a friend were having a discussion wbout teenage revolution. They got drunk later on and his friend wrote on the wall, "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit", Kurt was inspired. He thought she meant he would be the type of person who could incite a teen rebellion. He went and wrote the song. And she thought that he just smelled like the deodorant. Kurt had never heard of the deodorant at that time, and he claims to have rarely used it himself.

What about the song, "Rape Me?"
Kurt insisted that it wasn't aimed at the media, but one line of the song is directed toward the Vanity Fair article and it's author, Lynn Hirscberg. "My favorite inside source", lynn claimed to have gotten info that Courtney did herion the whole time of her pregnancy from, 'an inside source'. The song itself is a song of justice, Kurt put it.
A guy gets rapes a girl, goes to jail, and gets raped again.

Is his real name Kurt, Kurdt, or is it Curt?
It is spelled Kurt. The odd spelling of Kurdt came from when the band recodrded "Mexican Seafood" for the Teriyaki Asthma compilation. When it came time to make the album, they realized that they didn't know Kurt's name...so they got a hold of someone who 'thought they knew' and it went from there. Incidentally, the people at Caroline Records (who also put out the Teriyaki Asthma compilation) received no money for the appearance of "Mexican Seafood" on Incesticide because they didn't bother with a contract. They had no contract because they didn't see much future for Nirvana.

What's the big deal between Kurt and Axl?
Axl had asked Kurt to join them on their huge tour. Kurt declined. Later Axl asked kurt to play at his 30th birthday party. Kurt declined.

This is from, "The Advocate" Feb 3, 1993. Kurt was asked 2 questions about Guns and Roses.
Q: Is there anything about Guns 'N' Roses's music you like?

A: I can't think of a damn thing. I can't even waste my time on that band, because they're obviously pathetic and untalented. I used to think that everything in the mainstream pop world was crap, but now that some underground bands have signed with majors, I take Guns 'N' Roses as talentless people, and they write crap music, and they're the most popular rock band on earth right now. I can't believe it.

Q: Didn't Axl Rose say something nasty to you at the Mtv Video Music Awards in September?

A: They actually tried to beat us up. Courtney and I were with the baby in the eatting area backstage, and Axl walked by. So Courtney yelled, "Axl! Axl, come over here!" We just wanted to say hi to him - we think he's a joke, but we just wanted to say something to him. So I said, "Will you be the Godfather of our child?" I don't know what had happened before that to piss him off, but he took his aggressions out on us and began screaming bloody murder.
These were his words: "You shut your bitch up, or I'm taking you down to the pavement." [laughs] Everyone around us just burst out into tears of laughter. She wasn't even saying anything mean, you know? So I turned to Courtney and said, "Shut up, Bitch!" And everyone laughed and he left. So I guess I did what he wanted me to do - be a man. [laughs]

Kurt told this story to the crowd at the Portland OR 9/10/92 concert.
What went on with the Vanity Fair article?
wanity Fair wrote an article about Coutrney and her drug use. They twisted the facts and got the Cobains into a lot of trouble. Kurt was asked 2 questions about it.
Once again this is taken from "The Advocate" Feb 3, 1994.

Kurt: I've never read an article that was more convincing yet more ridiculous in my life. Everybody from our record label to our management to our closet friends believed that shit.
She [Hirschberg] did a really good job of taking a piece of what Courtney had said and turning it into something completely different. I've seen that happen before - it's happened with me a lot of times - but this was such an extreme and done so well that I have to give her credit.
She's a master at being catty.

Q: What about the drug abuse?
A: Courtney was honest about herion excursion we went on for a few months. Then Courtney found herself pregnant and had a drug problem, and got off drugs. It's as simple as that. But it made it look like eight months after the fact, Courtney was still nine months pregnant and still doing drugs and everyone was really concerned. Like there was some aful den of iniquity going on in our apartment. I looked really skinny. Well, I am a skinny person, and I gain ten pounds every time I'm photograohed, so people assume I'm this chunky, normal weight person.
I'm just so tired of talking about this. We have to live with the results of this one article every fucking day. It's something we have to deal with all the time.

The results of this article were that there was an investigation into the Cobains that resulted in Francis being taken away for some time. (Courtney's sister took care of her) They finally got custody back after being able to prove they were good parents.

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