BMG better get out some more Elvis comps and box sets - aint no way the King's gonna stand for this!

where's hendrix and two-pack.

they both still put out new albums every year.

renny

That one surprised me -- never thought his albums sold all that well. Relatively speaking, of course. Then again, some of his work has been pure genius....

Y'know, if Tupac's record company reissued three of his albums in a budget box set, like Sony does with some of its artists, they could call it a "6Pac."

(Sorry, just a random thought.)

That'll probably pay for a solid six months' worth of smack.

Courtney Love Plans Kurt Cobain Biopic

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Courtney Love has acquired the rights to Charles Cross' biography on her late husband Kurt Cobain, "Heavier Than Heaven," and plans to turn it into a movie.

Love is now reportedly in talks with a number of top Hollywood studios to bring the Nirvana frontman's life story to the big screen.

In a posting on her fan site MoonwashedRose.com, Love revealed the film project is "in an embryonic stage," adding, "(There's) no script and no director attached.

The project will be the first official film about the late rocker, who committed suicide in 1995, although moviemaker Gus Van Sant cast actor Michael Pitt as a Cobain look-alike in the 2005 movie 'Last Days,' which was widely believed to be the director's unauthorized account of the Nirvana star's life.

Copyright World Entertainment News Network 2006

Well, that's what happens when the well starts to run a little dry...

Nirvana wouldn't have been special w/out Grohl's drumming. He's like a Mitch Mitchell or Ginger Baker, more than just a timekeeper but rather an incremental part of their sound.

She sounds pretty levelheaded considering her parentage. At least she's not a Paris Hilton. I hope she finds her passion and gets to have a life of her own - and avoids the road her parents went down with drugs.

At first glance I thought that said "the band's 100th anniversary". I was about to post a smartassed remark about how it seems like only yesterday I saw Nirvana open for Al Jolson and stop the show with a killer cover version of "Slow Boat To China".

Who approved this? I suspect this is the last kind of "honor" Cobain would have wanted.

Ooops. Taft is a poor reader.

But Courtney Love is a poorer widow.

First of all Kurt Cobain died in 1994, not 1995.

I saw Gus Van Sant's movie "Last Days"; it was horrible. The DVD I rented had stop in the middle of the film and I did not even notice that it had stopped for five minutes (that's how dull it was). If they make a Nirvana movie it would be interesting to see who would play who. At the same time, I am not sure if I would even see it?

This made me laugh.
I would like to see a well made film about Nirvana, sure.

Well, Nirvana did celebrate their 40th anniversary last year...

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Nirvana
Origin Ireland, Greece, England
Genre(s) Progressive rock, symphonic rock, soft rock, psychedelic rock, power pop, baroque pop
Years active 1967–present

Label(s) Island, Pye International, Demon, Edsel
Members
Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Alex Spyropoulos
Nirvana are a UK-based progressive rock band formed in 1967, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s - and still sporadically active to the present day.

The band were formed in the summer of 1967 in an era when melodic pop/rock music with baroque and chamber arrangements and instrumentation was highly-prized. The band consisted of two songwriter/performers: Greek-born Alex Spyropoulos and Irish-born Patrick Campbell-Lyons, who met in London. They produced a number of singles (notably "Rainbow Chaser", "Pentecost Hotel" and "Tiny Goddess"), for the fledgling Island Records label.

The band were signed by Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell in the era when he also signed the bands Traffic and Free. Blackwell considered Nirvana one of his prize signings in his early forays into progressive rock and showcased the band by presenting them at prestigious concerts in venues such as London's Saville Theatre.

In October 1967, the band released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell entitled The Story of Simon Simopath. The album was probably the first narrative concept album ever released, predating story-driven concept albums such as the Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), the Who's Tommy (April 1969) and the Kinks' Arthur (September 1969).

Musically, the group blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music, primarily augmented by baroque chamber-style arrangements to create a unique entity.

The next year, 1968, their follow-up album, All Of Us, featured a similar broad range of musical styles. Their third album Dedicated To Markos III was released on the Pye label in May 1970.

In 1971 the duo amicably separated for a while, with Campbell-Lyons the primary contributor to the next two Nirvana albums, Local Anaesthetic 1971, and Songs Of Love And Praise 1972. Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

Though the band have not achieved commercial success, from their inception they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics.

Musical Styles
The group were in the school of baroque-flavoured, melodic pop-rock music typified by the Beatles of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver", the Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and God Only Knows, the Zombies of Odessey and Oracle and Time Of The Season, the Procol Harum of A Whiter Shade of Pale, the Moody Blues of Days of Future Passed and Nights in White Satin and the Kinks of Waterloo Sunset. The majority of the tracks on Nirvana's albums fall into that broad genre of contemporary popular music, not easily categorized but perhaps best described as the baroque or chamber strand of "progressive rock, soft rock or "orchestral pop".


People who worked with Nirvana
A who's-who of behind-the-scenes craftsmen - who went on to become Britain’s top producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers of the 1970s - chose to work with Nirvana in the late 1960s and in essence cut their studio teeth working with Nirvana. Two of these arranger/producers actually worked with Nirvana before working with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Nirvana’s producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers included:

Chris Blackwell, Island Records' founder who produced the band before hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley
Tony Visconti, Arranger/producer, before he worked with David Bowie, Marc Bolan, the Moody Blues and U2, among others
Mike Vickers, former Manfred Mann multi-instrumentalist, who undertook arrangement work for Nirvana in 1967 and 1968 before his work with the Beatles in 1969 arranging and programming the extensive Moog synthesizer contributions on their Abbey Road album.
Jimmy Miller, the US-born producer, who worked with them immediately before starting his five-album streak producing the Rolling Stones, including the Beggars Banquet, Exile On Main Street and It's Only Rock 'n Roll albums.
Chris Thomas, the producer, whose credits include The Beatles, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd (mixed The Dark Side of the Moon), the Sex Pistols and INXS.
Guy Stevens, A&R executive and producer, before his production work with Mott the Hoople.
Brian Humphries, the recording engineer, who started engineering Nirvana before going on to work with Traffic, Black Sabbath, McDonald and Giles and Pink Floyd (eventually engineering their acclaimed Wish You Were Here and Animals albums).
Others who worked on production with Nirvana include Muff Winwood (formerly of the Spencer Davis Group and arranger/producer Mike Hurst who worked with Jimmy Page, Cat Stevens, Manfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group and Colin Blunstone; arranger Johnny Scott who arranged for the Hollies and subsequently scored films such as The Shooting Party and Greystoke.

Top musicians who played on Nirvana sessions include: Lesley Duncan, Herbie Flowers, Billy Bremner (later of Rockpile/Dave Edmunds fame), Luther Grosvenor, Wynder K. Frogg, Clem Cattini and the full lineup of rock band Spooky Tooth.


Phasing
The Nirvana song Rainbow Chaser is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio technique known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as The Beatles' usage in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and the Small Faces in "Itchycoo Park". Phasing was, by 1967, heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia, and as Rainbow Chaser was the only Nirvana single to achieve commercial success, peaking at number 34 in UK Singles chart during May 1968, they were invariably tagged as a "psychedelic" band. However, despite their name, promotional photographs on the cover of their first album wearing "flower power" style clothes that implied associations with "druggy" music and distorted acid rock-style guitars, the band actually had no associations with that style of music. In fact "Rainbow Chaser" was the only Nirvana recording that had phasing or any other element of "psychedelic" music.


Reunion
The band reunited in 1985, touring Europe and releasing a compilation album Black Flower (Bam-Caruso, 1987) which contained some new material. (Black Flower had been the working title of their third album). In the 1990s two further albums were released. Secret Theatre 1994 compiled rare tracks and demos, while Orange And Blue 1996 contained previously unreleased material including a tongue-in-cheek flower-power cover of Kurt Cobain's song "Lithium" originally recorded by Cobain's grunge band of the same name, Nirvana.

The original band had filed a lawsuit in California against the Seattle grunge band in 1992. The matter was settled out of court on undisclosed terms that apparently allowed both bands to continue using the Nirvana name and issuing new recordings without any packaging disclaimers or caveats to distinguish one Nirvana from the other.

In 1999, the band released a three-disc CD anthology titled "Chemistry," including several previously unreleased tracks and some new material.

Their first three albums were reissued on CD by Universal Records in 2003 and received critical acclaim. In 2005, Universal (Japan) reissued Local Anaesthetic and Songs Of Love And Praise.

As of 2006, the two members Alex Spyropoulos and Patrick Campbell-Lyons are still sporadically writing and recording together.


Discography
Albums

The Story Of Simon Simopath 1967
All Of Us 1968
To Markos III 1970
Local Anaesthetic 1972
Songs Of Love And Praise 1973
Black Flower 1987 (reissue of To Markos III under original title)
Travelling On A Cloud 1992 (compilation)
Secret Theatre 1994 (rareties and outtakes)
Orange And Blue 1996
Chemistry 1997 (3-disc retrospective )
Forever Changing 2000 (compilation)

Fans Fury At Cobain's Converse Shoe Line

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Fans of late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain have launched a scathing attack on footwear manufacturer Converse - for planning to pay tribute to the grunge star with a series of shoes.

The company announced this week it is going to release a new line of Converse One Stars featuring Cobain's autograph alongside a selection of the rocker's diary entries.

But fans have posted a barrage of furious messages on music website nme.com, branding the move "exploitative" and demanding people boycott the commemorative sneakers.

One fan says, "This is disgusting, exploitative and goes against everything these artists stood for. Kurt Cobain should be remembered as a talented musician, not a brand.

"This idea is more about boosting the brand image of Converse. This has nothing to do whatsoever with music. It goes against everything Nirvana were about. It's simply corporate, marketed bollocks (rubbish)."

However, Cobain's widow Courtney Love has supported the move and given her permission for the diary entries to be used as part of Converse's 100th birthday celebrations.

Copyright World Entertainment News Network 2008

How do you market something like that....?


"The Shoe To Shoot Yourself In!"