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  • NOT deep

    NOT punk

    NOT grunge

    pure crap

  • @OuTRunner12 not sure if you can tell Kurt Cobain of all people whats deep, punk, and grunge 

  • The one around 1:30 is fucking incredible.

  • he was just on drugs

  • In my opinion, Kurt hated being worshipped like some f..kin god, so he played solos like that just to f..k with everybody. He knew his way around the guitar very well.......

  • @Fortitudemagnitude exactly...as in parody

  • kurt cobain era el puto amo pero hay que reconocer que esos solos son de chiste jajaj

  • playing the guitar upside down

  • I just did this. God damn.

  • i like the solo at 1:10

  • yes i agree in a way,I've heard a lot of players that while being technically accomplished

    are not exciting or interesting as players,one of my favourite solos of this type is Lou Reed

    HEAR HER CALL MY NAME with the velvet U a mass of noise &scratchy notes,but a great

    solo!

  • You all should go to a NOISE show !

  • Kurt was'nt really playing the giutar in a normal way,rather He was extending the sonic range of the electric instrument.Hendrix did much the same thing,even Lou Reed was into the "noise" that the electric guitar can produce.

  • Some people think that "good guitar playing" is about doing fast arpeggios and all that circus. They can't understand a simple expression of a personality on the instrument. Good music is not about skills but about personality, emotions and expression.

  • @MrDirt86 ULTRAA GAAYYY

  • @GuitarAlex198 What's gay? Music is gay. I will sell my guitar and go on a gym. That's not gay.

  • @MrDirt86 Nice irony bro.I was refering to you though not the music.Come on.The solos sucked balls.Although Im a huge fan of Nirvana and Im not talking like a guy that knows Nirvana for Smells like teen Spirit.I know more that 45 songs of them.Admit it.

  • @GuitarAlex198 You just didn't understand what I wanted to say. The most important part of the music for me is it's authenticity. I don't think that Cobain's "solos" suck balls. That was pure awesomeness and in your face act of nonconformism. It was really unbelievable that something like this got into mainstream and inspired many people to listen to authentic rock music and play guitar. This music is exploding, I feel it in my bones and it never gets old.

  • @MrDirt86 Well then I think we both have different opinions.

  • @MrDirt86 Agree 100%

  • @MrDirt86 well said.about time someone talked some sense.maybe they should go listen to slash.

  • @dreadedwheat26 Well, I like music more complicated technically than Nirvana too, including Guns N' Roses but I can't say they're better than Nirvana. I just can't compare a noise, alternative rock band with typical hard rock band. It's pointless. My favorite guitarists are Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Marty Friedman (Megadeth stuff from 90's), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Kaoru and Die (Dir En Grey).

  • @MrDirt86 you should check out gary lucas too,u might like him. the man is a wizard. he played with captain beefheart and jeff buckley,amongst others.

  • yeah..... he cant play guitar

  • @CarlG0932 he can he's just screwing around

  • @wompshnewp73 yeah but on Kerrang top 100 guitarist a few years ago Kurt got 18th, while on the other hand Angus Young got 73rd best guitarist of all time.. now to be fair Angus plays a million times better than him, Even Edge from U2 got 93rd. :O he should be alot higher up

  • People like Kurt because he played whatever he wanted. That's called Punk Rock. Read a book, you 15 year old badasses.

  • don't hate on cobain he was an amazing songwriter it matters little to me that he was a less then gifted soloist

  • Kurt cobain suck at guitar, and very much :s

  • It would be better if it was a little better quality then i could really put my opinion out there.

  • its out of those random assortments that comes the most epic solos. when he gets what he's trying to convey the right way u know. he's an amazing guitarist

  • If it wasn't cobain it wouldn't be anything near as cool for sure. That's why its Kurt playing here and not some retard in a guitar centre

  • Obvious sonic youth influence.

  • You twats. He's obviously fucking off. THAT IS WHAT GRUNGE IS.

  • 0:09 grazie!

  • 1:48 aah... Kurt and his Golden hair :'3

  • Kurt could bust breathtaking solos out, but some times he did in deed produce shit. Ought it to bother us in the slightest? By all means, not ever. All artists make shit from time to time.

  • lol at 3:52

  • ahhh the intro makes me laugh xD remains me of the drummer of my band picking up a guitar xD

  • Its funny because he sounds liek ass(InAgoodway) And he can still get more gigs and shows and girls and anything else then us

  • its called distortion, my chemical romance  noobs

  • he distorted his songs, on purpose. and it was beautiful.

  • most are from only months before he died...

  • I tend to not give a fuck when playing solos in my band too...FEELS FUCKIN AWESOME!

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  • 1:30 pretty cool

  • btw the solo of 'Serve the Servants' was way not strange at all, unless you find the album version strange too.

  • Priceless, cheers

  • maximum irony

  • Nothing fancy or pretty, just straight up garage rock.

  • 3:50 --> GENIUS

  • solos. you're doin' it wrong

  • @FloydianMario Just because it doesn't sound pretty doesn't mean it isn't a good solo. We're not comparing the guy to Hendrix, just recognize the greatness in a raw guitar solo, which is what we have. Reverb, distortion, massive feedback. Expand your musical mind outside of it's own walls.

  • @adamohmg It might be good to point out to him that Cobain was very against the Gulf War just as Hendrix was against the Vietnam War, and both played versions of the Star Spangled Banner to make make political statements against those wars. Cobain plays it like a moron maybe to show how moronic warmonger American "patriots" sound. I think he did a great job if that is what he was trying to do.

  • @FloydianMario

    How can you do a solo wrong? its a solo, thats where you play the guitar solo, thats like saying someone wrote their lyrics wrong, you can't do that its physically impossible.

  • I think Nirvana is a pretty cool guy. eh does anti-solos and doesn't afraid of anything

  • i love this guitar playing but sometimes I get the feeling the lot of you if this wasn't Cobain and you saw someone playing guitar in some guitar center or something you'd think it was utter shit.

  • @Evilfetus15 I like to fuck with the metal kids having solo wars on the rare occasions I'm in guitar center by riffing this way with the shittiest strat I can find. I've actually had people come up and compliment me for it so you might be surprised.

  • @ThisIsNotHappyDays Fucking with metal heads is quite entertaining.

  • @Evilfetus15 You're probably right. I still think it's shit, however. Kinda made me cringe.

  • @Evilfetus15 I couldn't agree more with this, word for word.

  • @Evilfetus15 It's so true dude.

  • @Evilfetus15 I think he purposefully played like shit in the later years because he wanted to alienate the teeny boppin mtv-lovin' audience, didn't really seem to work though, if only it had...

  • @circlejerks450 can you a imagine a world where this is the cool music? as a kid born in the 90s...i can't.

  • @Evilfetus15 Yeah, because everything is about the whole thing. Kurt's playing was awesome because it was totally spontaneous and connected with the music he was playing. If you play that cacophony without the bass and drums groove it will just sound stupid.

  • @Evilfetus15 the only reason he can pull it off is because it makes nirvana's songs sound creepy, which i think is fucking awesome.

  • @ScentlisApprentice There are a lot of bands who pull guitar playing like this off, Kurt was just influecned by them.

  • @Evilfetus15 touche, evil fetus. touche.

  • @Evilfetus15

    you are right.

  • @DoctorFush and you my friend.... are left.

  • @Evilfetus15 Kurt was utter shit, that's what made him great.

  • sounds like Blue Cheer...

  • p.s. - noob at playing guitar, cause I like Nirvana's songs!

  • that's how a noob makes a solo!

  • when your him you can rub a shirt on your guitar strings and the fans will still love ya for it

  • Cobain is a funny dude, takin flannels and incorporating them with the song. I'd do something like that lol

  • where were they playing at 3:54? somebody please tell me, that show looks awsome :)

  • Jesus, I didn't know kurt had hair that long! It looks good!

  • The drugs and its effects...

  • @rccbatv Go the hell away, he was just screwing around most of the time and having fun. He didn't care about having cool solos. 

  • @rccbatv Shit, drugs don't make me play like that.

  • 3:20 lol

  • I wonder what his solos sound like when hes having a bad day.

  • the craziest guitarist ever

  • He hated the 80s hairspray bands who used a lot of virtuoso solos. That's why he aimed for the simple/weird solos

  • kurt> flea

  • 00:30 Kurt Morello!

  • Great!!!

    I like him the same way I like Malmsteen or others. All unique, different style.

  • in this video: kurt cobain not giving a fuck

  • maybe if he wasnt famous, a lot of people would be like "fuck you, you are a shitty guitarist". Actually I love Nirvana, but I don`t think that Kurt used to be a good guitarist kkkkkk

  • dont listen to @churchofsatan23. Look at his username! He's aso the guy that uploaded the lars ulrich worst drummer ever vid. Hes a fucking metalhead. He listens to shitty music.

  • I can do these.....its easy, just make it up when your drunk/high :)

  • he didnt care cause no matter what he did, he would get praise for it.

  • a shitty guitarist.

  • @churchofsatan23 Screw you. Kurt is a freaking legend no madder how he plays.

  • @churchofsatan23 who do you consider good? i would say this is almost a type of avant garde. who are you or even I to say who is a bad musician especially one who is a accomplished one why? because there is a reason they are accomplished and we can all learn something from what that is. the entire thing is a part of expression not to be a showboat of how many single notes one person can hit in a bland old format its about how the notes are played that makes him an amazing guitarist

  • @churchofsatan23 He can't be all that shitty if he wrote some of the greatest rock songs ever. I read an article once that likened Kurt Cobain's style to a hurricane, it's sloppy but he still manages to keep the principle of the song; he plays whatever the fuck he wants without giving a shit. Why do you think it's called grunge? He's having fun and experimenting like any good guitarist. He's no Jimi Hendrix but thank fuck that he's no lil' Wayne either. There's a raw purity to his style.

  • awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!))))))))

  • Kurt made his guitars come allliiiive, yo.

  • The solo is alive when there is perfect drumming ! ! fuck that drum its fucking awesome !

  • please , people understand why he commited suicide....

  • This sounds like Britney Spears...no offense XD

  • It's punk rock 101, known as the anti-solo. When the punk rock culture came about, so were movies like Taxi Driver with Travis Bickle, an anti-hero. Just something to piss people off but still sound authentically cool. Became a universal ideal for the counter culture of bands of the time opposed to those who were "juke box" heroes. The anti-solo and feedback are my favorite aspects of dissonance.

  • 0:48 - 1:05 = shrooms. Kurt is the man

  • @Nirvaconteurs actually from what I've read, he shot coke all day and night that day in Rio with Courtney and Layne Staley and Mike Starr of AIC. And I'm some heroine. Maybe mushrooms too lol

  • @rsohlich1 and where did you hear that?

  • @tingly7654321 I've read it a few times and Kurt mentions he shot "coke with AIC all night" in an interview with a Vancouver journalists. Mike Starr (RIP) also mentioned how he overdosed with Kurt and Layne in Brazil in 93 right before Starr was kicked out of AIC. 

  • all you haters are pathetic this guy u guys are talking shit on is making more money dead thatn you will in your worthless lives

  • @damanschoolvlog you know nothing bitch, learn more about music soon, the more you learn, the more you respect wtih what Kurt had did

  • not strange, just bad

  • Listen to "the priest they called him" with kurt Cobain and william Burroughs if you want some real feedback

  • AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!! thnx to whom ever put together this beautiful video!! =D Very much enjoyed and appreciated !!

  • I respect Kurt but he is really shitty guitarist.

  • DRUGS

    

  • Kurt's playing didn't involve being in the right key. It's raw and its own kind.

  • @adamohmg oh come on ... it's easy to say that he didn't care about being in the right key ... so if it's so, everyone could become a musician ...

  • @FloydianMario haha realy?? do you personally know any fucking guitarist who could compose such solos as in Sappy, In Bloom, Blew or Serve the Servants?? NO?? then stop talking bullshit this man had really great taste and instinct when it comes to soloing... you clearly dont get his music

  • 3:50 I think that's the only time he ever attempted to clean that guitar.

  • Kurt with long hair... yumm

  • hehe :D this is kinda funny 

  • They say that Jimi Hendrix started it all. Eddie Van Halen reinvented it. But Kurt Cobain, was the KING, of FEED BACK.

  • @Desperadounico i think john frusciante was the king of feedback. here's two videos to back me up:

    /watch?v=fyUo3Zm7vX0

    /watch?v=uRavC4xpz2s&feature=r­elated

  • @abledanger6

    No way Frusciante can compete in the guitar feedback department. The feedback king is Steve Albini, Cobain is among the top 5 I'm sure. But Albini gets the crown with no close 2nd. check this: /watch?v=mm-xFpgBh7Q

  • @Desperadounico thurston moore or lee ronaldo are the kings of feedback

  • Stop bashing Kurt!!!!!

  • Me:i see where he's going with this very interesting.

    Simon Cowel:No that was absolutly rediculous

    Me:He has potentioal ok!?! so he ran out of ideas why would anybody care hes KURT COBAIN!

    Simon Cowel:it was just disurbing...

    Kurt:FUCK YOU!!

  • just goes to show when ya famous you can play any old shit and get away with it

  • at 0:48 Kurt pops the red pill and goes down the rabbit whole with Morpheus.

  • cocaine + marijuana + heroin = Kurt solo

  • muito show principalmente em 3:50

  • what i like best is that all the elitists think that "what is good" can be measured with metronomes and dynamics and other important sounding crap. "if it sounds good, then it is good" don't forget, music majors snobby snobs, all yer little rules that there telling ya about where invented by poeple doing what they thought sounded good. the key of fuck you. ask yer pro fessor...

  • Was he drunk in some of these?

  • i love you kurt cobain<3

  • yea its called art you ignorant fucks, not every solo has to sound like guns and roses or led zeppellin, its atonal and its for people who think outside of what we are told music is supposed to sound like, if you dont like go fucking listen to something else

  • I WANA PARTY WITH THEM!!!

  • if I may say, I honestly think that anyone can do solos like this (if you can call this a solo), with the sufficient amount of drug ... kurt cobain was just a junkie with a guitar, pencil and paper. Theres no talent in his way of playing guitar ... sorry kurt fans, but that`s the true.

  • @arturitoaav its not about talent, its about emotion; and he had a fucking lot of that, and his songwriting skills were immensely talented, as was his sense of melody.

  • @therunningtap IM AGREE WITH THAT, BUT HE HAVE NO ABILITY TO PLAY GUITAR!!! MY COMENT IS ABOUT THAT !!!! THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND !!!! ...

  • @arturitoaav he did have the ability to play guitar, and come up with great riffs and songs, fuck you and your CAPS LOCK!!!!!!!!!

  • @therunningtap jajaja still dont undestand???? jjajajaa NOT MY PROBELM!!!!!!!

  • @arturitoaav yeahh apart from writing some of the most genre defining riffs in the history of music.... im sure he's lookin down and smiling at your million selling groundbreaking albums.....

  • @tooltard and what abaut your´s haha ? , because Im thinking you also have a million copy sold.

     No... ??? Im realy sorry .

  • @arturitoaav no mate, not even close actually, which is exactly why i dont feel the need to leave an arrogant clueless comment on the page of an artist i will never even come close to in terms of talent and originality. Your opinion posing as fact was not needed you pretentious cunt.

  • @tooltard ok, If this means so much to you... Im sorry !!!! I will stop disturb kurt and his fans ok??

  • @arturitoaav ill fucking break you in half, jerk off

  • @axel4clover1 I really want you to try it !!! jajajjaa !!!! honestly, im sure that youre a fucking kid !!!! im 25 asshole!! jaja so, come on and try stupid bastard!!!

  • @arturitoaav obviously your opinion counts since you too have obviously released an album that has sold over 30,000,000 copies and inspired thousands of kids to start bands...

  • @dixon247366 and obviously your opinion counts since you read my coment an felt interested jajaja ... not my problem that your idol was a total creation of mtv !!!! I like nirvana but, kurt was just that !!!! a junkie in the TV... thats the reason of his success.

  • @arturitoaav yeah you've got a point there, just like how he would often contradict himself on his opinions of his success, but it does take some talent to be able to write music and lyrics that still have an impact on culture 20 years after their release

  • @dixon247366 ok, Im agree with that, but this solos doesnt have talent !!!! this is just the act of a very high guy ... thats my comment about!!!! The problem is that people just read and not undertand the paragraph, thats all.

  • @arturitoaav Do you really think that Kurt is attempting to play solos like Van Halen (which are boring) here? You realise that he is just hitting random notes or are you that stupid?

  • @arturitoaav stop trying to be offensive.

  • @LukeGriffths121 you're just as stupid as whoever you're paying out if you think atonal music is "just hitting random notes"

  • @mcnablerakawumpyjoe you're fucking stupid if you think music and creativity is all about being in key and playing the 'right' notes. Moron.

  • @LukeGriffths121 don't insult me before you've even read/understood my comment. You said "he is just hitting random notes". Atonal music (look it up dickwad) is not "just hitting random notes" it is the musician making an informed choice to play notes that are not defined by a key signature. I never said I thought music and creativity was all about being in key and playing the "right" notes. You simply misunderstood my comment, furthering your idiocy.

  • @mcnablerakawumpyjoe You're such a moron. You haven't made a point here have you? Believe what you want kiddo, I'm just glad I'm not you. Kurt is just hitting random notes, call it 'atonal' or whatever you want but he is and it sounds fucking cool and chaotic. So if you don't think music and creativity is about being in key, what is your problem with Kurt?

  • @LukeGriffths121 Hahaha you're glad you're not me, that's cool. Anyway, there IS a lot of chance music in Kurt's playing (simply put: hitting random notes). What I was sort of trying to get at is that we don't know whether Kurt intended to hit the notes he did because well we're not him. He may have intended to hit specific notes and he may have intended to be completely random but it was probably a medium between the two. I never actually bagged Kurt I really love Nirvana and Kurt Kobain.

  • @mcnablerakawumpyjoe cobain not kobain but yeah you got a point

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  • Oooh Kurt was awesome ! What a load of talent-less "look at me" crap. Idiot.

  • This is what you call a solo?...

  • He make solo like no body. He dosen't make fucking pentatonic like all rockers.

  • Be yourself? That's what people are saying? People are saying he is original for this? Uh, I hate to break it to some of you guys, but Jimi Hendrix was original. Cobain was just trash...particularly when he was high like this. I mean at least Hendrix sounded ok when he was stoned. This is just utter crap. I mean I know he's dead and all and people will be like show respect and thumbs down this, but oh my God, for people who are so music critical, Cobain fans sure have no taste at ALL.