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Courtney Love On Paul McCartney & Nirvana Performing Together: 'Not Amused'
Posted: 12/12/2012 7:29 pm EST | Updated: 12/12/2012 7:45 pm EST

When Nirvana reunites tonight in NYC -- with Sir Paul McCartney replacing Kurt Cobain on vocals -- Courtney Love won't be cheering ... she'll be yelling obscenities, because she's pissed about the gig.
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are playing at the 12-12-12 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden -- their first show together in 20 years -- but Cobain's widow tells TMZ she is "not amused" about Paul's involvement.
Courtney is clearly more of a Lennon fan, than McCartney because she added ... "Look, if John were alive it would be cool."
Love is also upset at Krist and Dave for calling tonight's show a Nirvana reunion because she says Kurt was the heart and soul of the legendary band.
For the record ... Sir Paul and the guys will be playing a brand new song they wrote together. It's unclear if they will cover classic Nirvana songs.

*eyeroll*

still hoping that nirvana's rock'n'roll hall of fame induction will feature the sole performance of love/novoselic/grohl

lol I def remember a Rolling Stone interview where Courtney says she was the huge Paul stan in the marriage

Courtney keeps it real

The 12.12.12 show was playing on MTV on Sky as we were channel hopping earlier - Michael Stipe and Chris Martin doing "Losing my religion".

that was toward the end

the thing was so damn long

I was completely unaware of this show til Ira mentioned it onstage at YLT last night... Thought the Paul thing was a joke.

courtney has a point, as she often does.

Kurt was the soul of Nirvana.

that@said, it was awes

Fuck, if that song last night is what Nickelback sounds like now, maybe I need to quit ignoring them.

can Ringo replace Grohl in the Foo Fighters?

there was a recent Seattle doc that laid into the 'new fake grunge' bands, that basically said "You hate Nickelback? You ever seen 'em live? Do so, then report back / decide"

(me? Don't hate 'em, don't need 'em)

Paul has often written 'Rock' songs, but he's never had a 'rock' band doing them ..

(I exclude 'Helter Skelter' and the Let It Be album, obv)

I've seen Nickelback live. They were terrible.

I'll always remember Nickelback not for their songs, but the way a Portuguese audience once made their feelings towards them known...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDV3ERyc0k

I was there when the shit hit the fan at Nickelback.

Anyway, as a person both partial to Paul McCartney AND Nirvana, I quite enjoyed the performance. I'm also enjoying the fact that it seems to have wound a fair few people up.

I saw it all go down.

"YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOME RRROCK AND ROLL, OR YOU WANNA GO HOME!?"

doing a new song seems like a smart idea -- I mean, by and large most musicians would rather play something new than a song they played a hundred times, also lots of emotion with a reunion minus kurt makes it just weird to have a guest singer on a 'beloved' track...and the way they all play together automatically sounds like nirvana by default because that's the muscle they're using...it was a great tribute, in my opinion. And it still left that space where Cobain was relatively untouched.

idk, all I know is it felt p rockin to me

and complemented the rocked out kinda singing/playing that Macca has done in the past vis Helter etc.

i dug it

the end.

lol why did those portugese ppl go to the nickelback concert if they hated them?

They were probably the opener for someone else.

i guess that must be the case. they seem like too popular a band to be the opener, but maybe that video was from a long time ago.

festival

Why would anyone name their band "Nickleback"?

lol why did those portugese ppl go to the nickelback concert if they hated them?

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:47 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/cu3Sq.png

And now, Avis Rent-A-Car is proud to present the second best band in America. Will you welcome Garfunkel, Messina, Oates, and Lisa singing their number two hit, "Born to Runner-up!"
[Audience boos]

should we poll which is the better lead singer of Nirvana

I'm sure Dead Kurt genuinely appreciates the absurdity of being replaced with a Beatle playing electric slide ukelele, but the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck. The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

But whatever, it was the perfect Nirvana reunion for Pearl Jam fans, and at the very least it annoyed Courtney, which is always a good thing.

Oh yeah also the hurricane relief thing. That's good, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPUQRQMDEm0

del griffith otm

The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

Disagree that this was the whole point of Nirvana.

yeah that's a little absurd

it was definitely part of them tho

The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

That explains why Kurt was such an unabashed Led Zeppelin fan, and had Meet The Beatles! and Get The Knack in his top 50 albums list.

but the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck

Yeah, lyrically, completely disagree musically.

the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck.
― del griffith, Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it was way noisier and messier than that kind of music ever is

I'm mystified at the idea of a band having a "point."

should we poll which is the better lead singer of Nirvana

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:17 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/78313608/The+Point+Harry+Nilsson.png

the new song was fine imo but honestly it would've been more fun if they'd rocked out "Helter Skelter" together instead of doing a "HS" knockoff a few minutes after Paul and his band ran through the original

the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck.
― del griffith, Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it was way noisier and messier than that kind of music ever is

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:47 PM (2 minutes ago)

Exactly, if you swapped out the lyrics for something abstract or darker and swapped out the players for people you may think are "cooler" and changed nothing else about how it sounded I'd be surprised if anyone here still had a problem with it.

That explains why Kurt was such an unabashed Led Zeppelin fan, and had Meet The Beatles! and Get The Knack in his top 50 albums list.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

i kinda dug the mccartney/nirvana jam

Yeah I was expecting them to help out on Helter Skelter.

I have a feeling people who didn't like it were prepared not to before it started.

there weren't enough Kaoscillators hanging from gold chains, these guys are clearly behind the times

still really impressed by the Helter Skelter/Blackbird/I've Got A Feeling/Let Me Roll It setlist picks, though, Paul secretly has good taste in his own shit