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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.

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