Axl & Duff Mentioned in Kurt Cobain Article
Both Axl Rose and former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan are mentioned in an article about the last days of Kurt Cobain's life. Read the full article by Jacques Peretti at The Guardian.
"...In Seattle, we met up with Duff McKagen, bassist in Guns N' Roses who'd bought a ticket on Delta Flight 788 to Seattle on April 1st 1994, and found himself sitting next to a crumpled figure wearing sunglasses.
It was the first irony of Cobain's final week. Having jumped the wall of the Exodus Recovery Center near LA (a kind of Priory for big American rock stars), Kurt found himself sitting next to a junkie rock star on the flight home. Duff is amazingly frank about what happens when two drug addict musicians meet up on a plane. "You cop some dope and then talk about quitting ... 'Yeah, this is the last time right?'"
Like Duff, Kurt was forced into rehab by an intervention. Following a failed suicide attempt in Rome, Cobain was confronted by wife Courtney and the band with a chilling ultimatum: give up heroin, or you will never see your daughter, Frances Bean, again.
It took this prospect to force Kurt into Exodus, but he only lasted a day, jumping over the wall (he could have walked out - the doors were open. He chose to jump over the wall). We spoke to his counsellor Nial (it's the first time he's ever spoken on camera). Nial said that Cobain was nowhere near facing up to his addiction. Duff agrees: "Addiction? It wasn't an addiction, right?"
Back in Seattle, Cobain proceeded to start scoring inordinate amounts of heroin, heading on out to the seedy-as-fuck Aurora Avenue to score them in Room 226 of the Marco Polo Motel (checking in as "Bill Bailey", the real name of Axl Rose)..." Full Article
The upcoming documentary "The Last 48 Hours Of Kurt Cobain" will be shown on BBC2 in December.
Comments
Number of comments : 5
11/5/2006 | 12:53:21 AM by Schmidt
Poor Duff, will they ever learn to spell his name right? :D Nice read though.
11/5/2006 | 2:36:20 AM by Wii
When Kurt checked into the Motel as Bill Baily, was this also during his last week in life??
11/6/2006 | 5:43:32 PM by big j dog
Kurt Cobain was a worthless junkie that couldn't hold a candle to Axl musically. Axl should have kicked his ass at the VMA's when Kurt tried to mess with him.
2/12/2007 | 2:47:06 AM by mh
did duff go along to the motel they did dope then duff left is that what its saying who was the guy that kirt bought some guns from he was a old friend who was a on again off again junky
4/16/2010 | 12:11:33 PM by jay
what a load of rubbish. where are the evidence from these people who saw Kurt those days, none of those people have come forward and spoke to Tom Grant about the conversations the days they Kurt was missing.
Duff only sat next to Kurt on the plane flight to Seattle after that never spoke to each other once the went there own ways after the flight.
Only a couple people in that can recall speaking to Kurt on April 2nd was Micheal Dewitt, Taxi driver, and after that Kurt went into a restaurant on the same day. after that no one saw or spoke to him. It was Tom Grant that found the name Bill Bailey (Name Kurt used) April 5, that was cheaked in the The Western Evergreen, told Courtney about this, she said she sort it out and find out if it was Kurt, she then told Tom Grant it wasnt him(Hum) Also what about El Duce, the guy who was offered $50,000 by Courtney to kill Kurt, he took a lie dectector test and passed, he was found dead 8 days later after talking on the Kurt and Courtney documentry about Kurts death, that he knew who did kill Kurt. (Hum..) still think he killed himself, go on WWW.JUSTICEFORKURT.COM or WWW.COBAINCASE.COM see more true evidence than just lies by the media.
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