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Calls After Midnight: Kurt Cobain Reached Out to Iggy Pop

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Before his death in 1994, Kurt Cobain once placed a late night call to Stooges frontman Iggy Pop and left the wiley singer a message asking if the pair could team up sometime soon for a studio collaboration. Pop claims he made repeated attempts to contact the Nirvana frontman but to no avail.

The 60-year-old says, "He called me up once at two in the morning. But this was when I was old enough to start going to bed at 9:30. When I’m not gigging I’m sensible so I didn’t take his call.

"It was cool because it was a great musician at his peak and he’s going, ‘Iggy, this is Kurt Cobain, let’s get in the studio man.’ "So he leaves me a number for the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. And then every time I would call it was like, ‘Mr. Cobain is under the bed,’ or ‘We haven’t heard from Mr. Cobain in three days.’"


Talk about a missed opportunity...

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blackroseMD1

blackroseMD1

San Diego, CA
April 2003

APR 27, 2007 06:05 PM

I think I'm going to cry.

Kurt Cobain + Iggy Pop = The best thing ever.


frown frown

*cue Cobain bashers now*

masterfrederick

masterfrederick

Beaverton, OR
November 2006

APR 27, 2007 06:19 PM

Cobain was a fucking talentless hack who caused music to SUCK OUT LOUD for ten years, first with Grunge, then that whole fucking "Alternative" fiasco. Thanks to that chest-thumping droolbaby, all one suddenly had to do to get a contract with a record label was to sing (badly) lyrics that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and have a guitarist with TCS (Three-Chord-Syndrome) play off time to a drummer that knows only two beats. Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.

ARRR!!!

DucksAreCrazy

DucksAreCrazy

Lexington, KY
December 2006

APR 27, 2007 06:27 PM

So I'm guessing you didn't much like him.

xfinitex

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI
August 2005

APR 27, 2007 06:33 PM

blackroseMD1 said:
I think I'm going to cry.

Kurt Cobain + Iggy Pop = The best thing ever.


frown frown

*cue Cobain bashers now*



masterfrederick said:
Cobain was a fucking talentless hack who caused music to SUCK OUT LOUD for ten years, first with Grunge, then that whole fucking "Alternative" fiasco. Thanks to that chest-thumping droolbaby, all one suddenly had to do to get a contract with a record label was to sing (badly) lyrics that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and have a guitarist with TCS (Three-Chord-Syndrome) play off time to a drummer that knows only two beats. Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.



I think you must be psychic, blackrose.

In my mind, I think this would have been pretty great as well.

Saraphine

Saraphine

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

APR 27, 2007 06:33 PM

blackroseMD1 said:
I think I'm going to cry.

Kurt Cobain + Iggy Pop = The best thing ever.


frown frown

*cue Cobain bashers now*



It's like you're psychic!

Gerry_D

Gerry_D

Los Angeles, CA
May 2003

APR 27, 2007 06:33 PM

i miss kurt

Saraphine

Saraphine

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

APR 27, 2007 06:34 PM

I wish Kurt was still alive today, but I can hardly speculate the outcome

mamet

mamet

Charleston, SC
March 2005

APR 27, 2007 06:41 PM

masterfrederick said:
Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.



You're a classy dude.

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

APR 27, 2007 06:44 PM

I'd heard about a possible Michael Stipe collaboration, but I don't think it ever got to the point where Cobain actually made a call like that.

masterfrederick said:
Cobain was a fucking talentless hack who caused music to SUCK OUT LOUD for ten years, first with Grunge, then that whole fucking "Alternative" fiasco. Thanks to that chest-thumping droolbaby, all one suddenly had to do to get a contract with a record label was to sing (badly) lyrics that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and have a guitarist with TCS (Three-Chord-Syndrome) play off time to a drummer that knows only two beats. Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.

ARRR!!!


Yeah, Dave Grohl was a shitty drummer. What ever happened to that loser anyway?



abracadabra

abracadabra

Seattle, WA
April 2004

APR 27, 2007 06:56 PM

masterfrederick said:
Cobain was a fucking talentless hack who caused music to SUCK OUT LOUD for ten years, first with Grunge, then that whole fucking "Alternative" fiasco. Thanks to that chest-thumping droolbaby, all one suddenly had to do to get a contract with a record label was to sing (badly) lyrics that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and have a guitarist with TCS (Three-Chord-Syndrome) play off time to a drummer that knows only two beats. Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.

ARRR!!!



obviously , you have never written a song in your life and aren't famous yourself..hence the jealousy..good luck being nobody

P72

P72

Salt Lake City, UT
April 2004

APR 27, 2007 07:01 PM

masterfrederick said:
Fucker should have offed himself when Nirvana was still in the garage.



put on you tutu and put on your Madonna CD you tasteless MF without a heart.

adjunct

adjunct

Philadelphia, PA
July 2002

APR 27, 2007 07:08 PM

masterfrederick said:
Cobain was a fucking talentless hack who caused music to SUCK OUT LOUD for ten years, first with Grunge, then that whole fucking "Alternative" fiasco. Thanks to that chest-thumping droolbaby, all one suddenly had to do to get a contract with a record label was to sing (badly) lyrics that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and have a guitarist with TCS (Three-Chord-Syndrome) play off time to a drummer that knows only two beats.


He was hardly the first person to accomplish that.

bethamphetamine

bethamphetamine

I'm lost
April 2007

APR 27, 2007 07:13 PM

even if you didn't like his music, you can obviously somehow see that he was a great influence on music in the 90s. and that alone i find is very admirable.

AshcanRantings

AshcanRantings

San Francisco, CA
January 2007

APR 27, 2007 07:26 PM

I own just about every Nirvana anything ever and I'm a huge fan, but even I'll admit they were nothing special. Don't get me wrong, I love Nirvana dearly, but Kurt wasn't some incredibly talented revolutionary genius and the group certainly didn't produce thegreatestmusicever. Kurt Cobain was an icon of a generation--a plain old simple nobody dropout that got to be one of the most well-known people in American culture... and I think that's why people like him. Even though he was a completely dysfunctional fuckup, everybody could/can relate to him in one way or another.
/irrelevant twocents

I would have loved to have heard this... I miss Kurt frown

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

APR 27, 2007 07:42 PM

AshcanRantings said:
I own just about every Nirvana anything ever and I'm a huge fan, but even I'll admit they were nothing special. Don't get me wrong, I love Nirvana dearly, but Kurt wasn't some incredibly talented revolutionary genius and the group certainly didn't produce thegreatestmusicever. Kurt Cobain was an icon of a generation--a plain old simple nobody dropout that got to be one of the most well-known people in American culture... and I think that's why people like him. Even though he was a completely dysfunctional fuckup, everybody could/can relate to him in one way or another.
/irrelevant twocents

I would have loved to have heard this... I miss Kurt frown



You seem to forget where music was in the early 90s, and how Nevermind blew the cultural landscape away.

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