Review: Remembering Kurt Cobain as a sweetly childlike, achingly opaque creative force
The ever-expanding library of books about Nirvana and its frontman, Kurt Cobain, is surprisingly light on first-person accounts. Most of its canonical texts, like Charles R. Cross’s “Heavier Than Heaven” and Michael Azerrad’s “Come As You Are,” were written by journalists.
Goldberg drops no bombshells, but “Serving the Servant,” which features recollections from Courtney Love, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and others in Cobain’s orbit, enlisted mostly to fill in gaps in the author’s memory, is empathetic and absorbing, illuminating but not gossipy. Goldberg was backstage at a Chicago club when Kurt and Courtney first got together, three weeks after the album’s release. Love was formidable and vulnerable and messy. She enjoyed getting mad at things. Goldberg liked her right away; no one who disliked Love would have survived for long in Cobain’s inner circle, anyway.
In concert, Grohl began singing harmony vocals, presaging his eventual role as lead singer of the Foo Fighters. Goldberg suggests Cobain found this unnerving. “I hear Dave doing harmonies every night and he is a much better singer than you might think,” he told Goldberg, who adds, “Kurt’s tone had a touch of envy to it, as if he were looking over his shoulder in more ways than one.”
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