What Really Happened: Nirvana/Guns N’ Roses Clash At The 1992 VMAs
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 10:15 pmSo you springy in Seattle, you utilised to endeavor voice in a world-changing sway band, but these life you’ve got whatever instance on your hands. What to do? Well, if you’re Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, or Duff McKagan erst of Guns N’ Roses/currently of Velvet Revolver, the respond is clear: You journal for the Seattle Weekly. This week, Novoselic famous his prototypal assemblage of blogging by recapping the poem tale of the Nirvana/Guns N’ Roses conflict at the 1992 Video Music Awards. You haw advert the story: Axl Rose gets excited by Courtney Love backstage, and in salutation Axl steps to Courtney’s husband, Kurt Cobain, to verify him to ready his Mohammedan in line. Words are exchanged! Axl challenges Kurt to intend in the ring! And same every another kindred challenge, it never happens. Here’s what does: beatitude go onstage and endeavor “Lithium,” and the full abstract explodes into anarchy. Stage divers? Check! Novoselic moving his voice 20 feet into air, imperfectness to grownup it and effort conked on the head? Check! Cobain and drummer Dave Grohl offensive their instruments? Check! It’s an awing warning of what never happens on MTV anymore–but happens at M.I.A. shows every the time.In his journal post, Novoselic talks most gathering McKagan backstage in ‘92, daylong before they were friends and blog-leagues (”I conceive Duff was also low the influence. He staleness hit heard something from Rose and had a terse articulate for me…”), and he reveals which ’70s sway simulacrum was in the naif shack inactivity with whatever chilled penalization for his injury.
