Melvins vocalist/guitarist Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne was by all accounts a close friend of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. As such, his damning assessment of the recent ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck‘ documentary on the rock icon carries some considerable weight. Osborne recently picked apart the feature for thetalkhouse.com. Some excerpts from that can be found below:
“I went to high school with Kurt and was a big part of all the Nirvana guys’ lives before and after they became famous. I thought very highly of Kurt, Krist and Dave. We were good friends when they were all flat broke, long before they could buy big houses and cars with credit cards. My band played with Nirvana at their last show. I was there for the beginning and I was there for the end, for the very good and the very bad.
First off, people need to understand that 90% of Montage of Heck is bullshit. Total bullshit. That’s the one thing no one gets about Cobain — he was a master of jerking your chain.”
Speaking on Cobain‘s widow Courtney Love:
“A lot of what she says in this documentary doesn’t exactly jibe with things Kurt told me himself, but I suppose that’s not surprising when you consider history becomes elastic every time Courtney Love opens her mouth.
For instance, she’d have us believe that Kurt tried to off himself when she’d only thought about cheating on him?
Wow. That’s a whole lot different from the stories he told me in regards to Courtney’s behavior — and this was well before he ended up dead. And that’s just one example.
When Courtney speaks, the truth is certainly there, but God only knows where it begins and ends. In the 20 years since Kurt’s death, the undisputed facts of some of her stories seem to change almost hourly. I remain unconvinced in regards to her testimony, and I don’t think I’m alone.”
The full read offers a lot of personal insight into the documentary and Kurt‘s life and can be read at thetalkhouse.com.
