2/28/2024 0 Comments Kurt cobain unplugged playlist![]() I was just hoping that if the drugs got out of his system then he could think more clearly and that would be a good time to have better conversations with him. I couldn’t shake him out of being depressed, I couldn’t cheer him up or get him to feel there was hope. ![]() “I spoke to him on the phone when I got home and talked to him one last time. When Goldberg – who had been one of Nirvana’s managers throughout their peak years and was now a trusted confidante and adviser – told him to quit heroin for good, Cobain complained about feeling trapped by the constant attention of being one of the most famous rockstars in the world, and argued that, if William Burroughs could live a long and creative life as a junkie, why couldn’t he? At one point he fled to an upstairs bathroom when management associate Janet Billig began flushing his prescription drugs, fearing a second overdose. He insisted he needed a therapist rather than rehab, and began flicking through the Yellow Pages to find one. Glassy-eyed, increasingly angry and feeling – in Love’s words – “ganged up on”, Cobain wouldn’t crack. As each of the friends, industry associates, counsellors and bandmates present – Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic was there, alongside live guitarist Pat Smear – urged Cobain to get clean, get help and get on with living his charmed-yet-cursed life, they knew they were running out of chances. The previous week police had been called to the Seattle house, where Cobain had locked himself in a room with several guns and a bottle of pills. Three weeks earlier, he had overdosed on champagne and Rohypnol in Rome, which Love would claim to be his first suicide attempt. They had all been invited by Cobain’s wife Courtney Love as part of an intervention over Cobain’s spiralling depression and drug abuse, but each would have known how high the stakes were. On 25 March 1994, Nirvana’s former manager Danny Goldberg joined nine other people at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle to beg for Kurt Cobain’s life.
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