Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Kathleen Hanna on the Creation of Smells Like Teen Spirit

Kathleen Hanna tells a really funny story of spray painting an anti-abortion clinic with Kurt Cobain. Hanna got drunk during the course of events that night and spray painted "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit." Hanna was commenting of Cobain's girlfriend Tobi Vail, also Hanna's Bikini Kill bandmate, wearing the deodorant Teen Spirit.

Another interesting side note: Bikini Kill were big fans of the L.A. all girl band the Pandoras. Bikini Kill was very sadden about the death of Pandoras front woman Paula Pierce. Here is what Vail wrote about Pierce in a fanzine.

Hanna praised the Pandoras on her blog.

"Has anyone noticed that the title ‘Stop Pretending‘ was already used by perhaps the best all girl garage group of all time, The Pandora’s ??? So in addition to everything else, dude accidentally ripped off both a song and album title by an amazing all girl band. I mean it’s almost like a crazy psychedelic feminist musical nightmare."

Update: Kathleen Hanna professes her love of the Pandoras on Twitter.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

WTF: Billy Ray Cyrus & Kurt Cobain Were Friends?

Holy Achy Breaky Heart: Billy Ray Cyrus talks to GQ about his friendship with Kurt Cobain. To quote Lloyd Bridges' famous line from Airplane!, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."


"I stepped back. I was suppose to go out and do another world tour. I said no. I canceled my tour. Kurt Cobain had just died, and that really had an impact on me. He was one of those guys that became a friend to me that I never expected. We met at a venue one night, some big coliseum somewhere - his rig was pulling out and mine was pulling in - and I was standing in the shadows, 1 a.m. in the morning, and he's 'Hey man, congratulations - you pissed the whole world off.' We shook hands, and I said, 'Thanks man... I love what you do.'" After that, Cobain congratulated him at an awards ceremony when most of his peers did not. "We crossed paths a couple more times," says Cyrus, "and then I was in St. Louis..."


Cyrus went further in explaining his connection to Cobain to a skeptical Chris Heath. Cyrus says they both recently became fathers of baby girls.

"That's what we talked about, that we each had a little girl," Cyrus said. The babies were Miley Cyrus and Frances Bean Cobain.

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