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

Where did the title for Smells Like Teen Spirit come from? the deodorant?

One day Kurt and a friend were having a discussion about teenage revolution, they later got drunk 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. She thought that he just smelled like the deodorant. Kurt hadn't heard of the
deodorant at the time, he claims to have rarely used it himself.
 

What about Rape Me? Kurt always 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 Hirschberg. 'My favorite inside source', Lynn claimed to have gotten the info that
Courtney did heroin the whole time of her pregnance from 'an inside source'. The song itself is a song of justice (as Kurt put it),
A guy rapes a girl, goes to prison, and is raped there.
 

Is it Kurt, Kurdt, Curt...etc...? It is spelled Kurt, the odd spelling Kurdt came from when they recorded '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 ahold of someone who 'thought they knew' and it went from there. Incidentally, the people at Caroline records (who
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 cuz they didn't didn't make contracts for any bands.
 

What's the 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 03 1993. Kurt was asked 2 questions about Guns and Roses. Q: Is there anything about
Guns N' Roses' 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 so obviously pathetic and untalented.
I used to think that everything in the mainstrteam pop world was crap, but now that some underground bands have been signed
with majors, I take Guns N' Roses as more of an offense. I have to look into it more: They're really talentless people, and they
write crap music, and they're the most popular rock band on the 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 eating 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, try to get it if you can.
 

What went on with the Vanity Fair article? Vaity Fair wrote an article about Courtney 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 03 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 closest 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 alot 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 use?

A: Courtney was honest about the heroin excursion we went on for a few months. Then Courtney found herself pregnant,
realized she was 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 awful 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 photographed, so peopel assume I'm this chunky, normal weight person. I'm just so tired of talking about this.
We have to live with the resuslts of this one article every fucking day. It's something we have to deal with all the time.

The results of thie 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.
 

What are the hidden songs? Endless, Nameless appears on some pressings of Nevermind. The song begins 10 minutes after
Something in the Way ends. It wasn't included on the first printing (50,000).

Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip appears on import versions of In Utero. It is 20 minutes after All
Apologies.