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Friday 23 November 2007

Sleepless In Seattle Interview December 1993


December 25th, 1993. By Everett True.

For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill and The Breeders, whose 'Cannonball' is MM's Single of the Year. Co-headliners of the show were meant to be Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the twin god-heads of grunge, whose longstanding rivalry was going to end in a public reconciliation. That was the idea anyway. As Everett True, tired and emotional after an eventful encounter with Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal, reports, things just didn't work out to plan. Snap says Steve Gullick.
Melody Maker - December 25th, 1993. By Everett True.

Kim Deal: "What are you going to do on New Year’s Eve, Kurt?"

"Get drunk off my ass, and play with pyrotechnics," replies Nirvana’s singer. "We’re playing in San Francisco, and we’re going to have pyro-technicians come and shoot off some fireworks. Isn’t that cool?"

You’re gonna get drunk? You never get drunk before you play.

"Okay," he admits. "Afterwards."

How about you, Kim? What do you normally do on New Year’s Eve?

"Bang pots and pans," she laughs, stoned. "Go out on the streets. Yeah!"

Kurt wants to know if I smoke pot. I shake my head.

"No?" he continues, amazed. "Have you never smoked pot?"

I feel a distinct sense of deja vu coming on. Maybe the tape recorder is stuck on a loop. Maybe my complete lack of sleep is finally getting to me.

Yeah, of course I have.

Kurt isn’t satisfied.

"You don’t have a pot-smoking period in your life?" he persists.

No. I squatted once, though. Do you know what squatting is?

"You lived somewhere where there’s no electricity?"

Something like that. A guy OD’d in the room next to mine.

"But you can’t OD on pot," he laughs.

We both look at Kim, who’s sitting on the bed between us, lost, drifting in her own reverie.

No, you’re right. You can’t.

ou just become... one more, sleepless in Seattle.

When I arrive in town, one of the first things I do is to call Kurt Cobain at home, where he's waiting for his wife to fly back from Atlanta where she’s been remixing the new Hole album with R.E.M. producer Scott Litt. What do you talk about with someone you haven’t seen for six weeks or so, and whose lifestyle is so different from your own?

We discuss the insecurity that emerges from the lack of sleep caused by jet lag and/or alcohol, how tired we feel we feel and how much we hate Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. Such an all-American jock! Kurt, having just arrived back from another gruelling leg of the Nirvana "In Utero" US tour. Me, having flown for 13 hours straight, to try to arrange this Melody Maker Christmas cover story.

"Do you still want to try to do this thing with Kim?" the singer asks at one point, as I struggle vainly to keep my eyes open.

Sure.

Sure, I do.

"Just tell me when, then. I need to go to sleep now,"

The feeling’s mutual.

The MTV New Year’s Eve spectacular, featuring Nirvana, Cypress Hill, Pearl Jam and The Breeders, is being pre-recorded live at Pier 48, a cavernous, freezing warehouse somewhere along Seattle’s lake-front. Kids have been queuing for up to eight hours in the pouring rain to be witness to what looks to be a legendary reconciliation between the city’s two supposed leading exponents of "grunge" — indeed, the two bands who have, between them, defined the genre.

On worldwide (MTV) terms, anyway. (read more from www.nirvanafreak.net)

Source: www.nirvanafreak.net

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