“Someone throws a carrot stick and someone throws a grape. “There were about 30 of us sitting in a party with Sonic Youth,” he explained. Here is where Kurt Cobain picked up the thread. “He was being spoon-fed Gerbers baby-food, because he couldn’t chew,” said bassist Krist Novoselic. The band were on tour in Belgium, and preceded the battle of edibles with some warm-up juvenile behaviour, swapping the name-tags set up for a backstage dinner at a festival that meant 12 Ramones and friends were placed at a table of four and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was left on his own. In a feature published in Classic Rock, though, Kurt Cobain told journalist Everett True about the time Nirvana got involved in that old staple of infantile high japes – a food fight. Have you read Charles R Cross’ ace biography of the band, Heavier Than Heaven? Everyone knows there’s not a happy ending, but there’s not a happy beginning or middle either. Nirvana, group portrait, backstage at Nakano Sunplaza, Tokyo, Japan, 19th December 1992 AND Photo of SONIC YOUTH, 1992įrom the outside, being in Nirvana looked like pretty heavy business.
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