re: Kurt Cobain - Montage of Heck

G'n'R was the first blow against hair metal in the mainstream (though there was a huge and active underground in the 80s that occasionally bubbled up to the surface like the Surfers or the Mats), and it's really kind of sad for Axl. He was a big supporter of Nirvana and viewed their bands as "allies" in the war against the LA hair metal scene, but Nirvana lumped them in with the "enemy" so they got swept aside as well in the coming tide.

I need to see this movie, but what I find fascinating is how many people COULD have been Cobain. There was just so many voices at the time, and it's really just luck that the Voice of the Underground got pinned to Cobain. I wonder how differently pop music history is if the zeitgeist centers around Mark Lanegan, Mark Arm, Evan Dando, Eric Bachmann, or Stephen Malkmus (or 20 other guys you could mention... or Kathleen Hanna to name one of the many girls it could have been).

Cobain probably had that perfect ambivalence towards fame. He really wanted his band to be huge, but he really hated the concept of rock stars.