![]() ![]() Instead, he spends his wind–down time backstage, doting on his daughter, 1-year-old Frances Bean Cobain, a petite blond beauty who barrels around the room with a smile for everyone in her path. But there is no “ Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and when the house lights go up, so does a loud chorus of boos.Īccording to the Cobain press myth - “pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic,” as he quite accurately puts it - the 26-year-old singer and guitarist should have fired the soundman, canceled this interview and gone back to his hotel room to sulk. There are moments of prickly brilliance: Cobain’s sandpaper howl cutting through the Aragon’s canyonlike echo in the tense, explosive chorus of “Heart–Shaped Box” a short, stunning “Sliver” with torrid power strumming by guest touring guitarist Pat Smear (ex-Germs). The venue’s cavernous sound turns even corrosive torpedoes like “Breed” and “Territorial Pissings” into riff pudding, and Cobain is bedeviled all night by guitar - and vocal - monitor problems. Tonight’s concert - Nirvana’s second of two nights at the Aragon, only a week into the band’s first U.S. ![]() Ashirtless, disheveled Kurt Cobain pauses on the backstage stairway leading to Nirvana‘s dressing room at the Aragon Ballroom, in Chicago, offers a visitor a sip of his après-gig tea and says in a drop-deadpan voice, “I’m really glad you could make it for the shittiest show on the tour.” ![]()
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