Kurt Cobain cleaned toilets to fund Nirvana demo

With hits like “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Nirvana are one of the best-known bands on the planet, and their tragic end through Kurt Cobain’s suicide became a myth. bassist Krist Novoselic has now spoken in an interview about the band’s difficult beginnings, when they barely managed to scrape together enough money for their first demo. Among other things, Cobain cleaned toilets to finance the recordings, as Novoselic said.

“He had a job as a janitor,” he said. “He would go out in the evenings to clean a dentist’s office or something. There is some crazy story about what happened. He cleaned toilets to make money to record this record.” Rick Beato, who runs the Everything Music channel on YouTube, interviewed Novoselic along with Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and producer Jack Endino, who produced Nirvana’s debut album Bleach ( 1989).

Novoselic looks back on the height of Nirvana’s fame with mixed feelings. “There were all these blessings, but there was also a lot of pain, you know?” he said. “Kurt had his addiction. He was under a lot of pressure. He was sort of ‘the guy’ – he got more attention than we did. He was up front, he was the singer. When I think back to that time, it was a happy, beautiful time. But there was much suffering. I mustn’t get too involved with it. And the way it ended was awful.”

Krist Novoselic took a lot of time to process

Novoselic said it also took him a lot of time to process his time in the band and Cobain’s death: “That time in my life from 1991 to 1994 feels like 20 years to me because it was so compressed. And then it ended so horribly. It took me years to break free from this pressure. And all the problems that come from being under so much stress.”

+++ This article first appeared on musikexpress.de +++

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