Depending on which website you ask, the photo above, taken May, 1986 in Aberdeen, WA, is either a mugshot from when Kurt Cobain was arrested for trespassing or from when Kurt Cobain was arrested for vandalizing a wall with the expression “God is gay.” Or maybe it was “Homo sex rules.” Or, if police records are to be believed, “Ain’t got no whatchamacallit.” Internet confusion abounds over which incident the shot is connected with and what he actually spray painted when he did spray paint something, but what’s clear is that Cobain was arrested twice in a concise period of time, and when asked years later about his vandalism bill, he wanted people to believe he wrote something provocative that referenced homosexuality. The specifics become less significant when you consider that the phrase “God is gay” reached more eyeballs by way of interviews than it ever would have on that wall in Aberdeen, and even more ears as the final lyrics of the 10th track of one of the best selling records of all time.
Cobain’s vandalism may involve elements of myth, but his distaste for homophobia was well documented. Two exa
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According to Buzz Osborne, leader of the Melving, Kurt Cobain, steer singer of Nirvana, was imprisoned for one night. Both were close friends and the story goes back to their teenage years, and as is well known, Cobain used to spray paint the walls of his hometown, Aberdeen. Cobain loved to write “God is gay” on the wall, a phrase that ended up in the song “Stay Away”.
“We turn a corner next to a bank and, suddenly, there are police everywhere. We ran in different directions, but they caught Cobain. He tried to hide, but ended up in jail ” – he said.
Cobain spent one day in prison. When Cobain died, a journalist called Buzz Osborne, questioning what he thought about putting a memorial to Cobain in Aberdeen.
“I said they should put it in the cell where they left him” – he said.
With information from BLITZ.
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In Utero, the follow-up to Nevermind, was deliberately abrasive while Nirvana often refused to perform Smells Like Teen Essence in concert. But their MTV Unplugged concert - released as an album after Kurt's death - showed how the band could have survived in the longer term.
It's extraordinary for a live register - in that it sidesteps the band's hits in favour of more obscure songs and a slate of covers very few people had ever heard of (including three tunes by The Meat Puppets). But it is beautifully, nakedly emotional. Kurt performed the set in one unbroken take, surrounded by lilies (the flowers of death) hunched over in his oversized cardigan. His fingers sometimes fumbled on the unfamiliar acoustic guitar, but that only heightened the frailty of his lyrics.
If the band needed to find a way out of the corner they'd backed themselves into, this was it. Like Dylan going electric, but in reverse.
"I'll never forget after we did Unplugged, how happy Kurt was - he was so happy," bassist Krist Novoselic told the BBC's Seven Ages of Rock pro
