Give Us Kurt

It has now been revealed tha 120 tapes of unreleased material featuring Kurt Cobain sit in a vault — and there is a good chance that is where they will stay. The collection includes recordings of Kobain alone as well as tapes of the band throughout its career, including Nirvana's first show in Seattle in April 1988, four-track basement demos, bedroom tapes of Cobain singing and playing on new songs as well as embryonic versions of classics like "All Apologies," and the band's last complete recording, "You Know You're Right." The Cobain estate, which is managed by Love, expects to have dozens of songs to place on a series of releases. But the source acknowledged that the majority of the tapes have not yet been screened and that it's unknown how much of it is actually releasable. The vault also includes eight or nine recordings that Cobain made with musicians other than Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl, including ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel and sometime Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear. It's unlikely, though, that any of it will see the light of day until Love's dispute with Grohl and Novoselic is resolved and Universal agrees to "redefine Nirvana's deal" to meet her standards, the source said. So blame the bitch Courtney Love, who I think is just trying to milk more money out of Kurt's work.