Slash & Kirk Hammet & Tom Petty Talks about Kurt Cobain 

Tom Petty quote for the win: "And then Kurt came in like, you know, like a Phoenix, you know. Like, he cut them down like wheat before the sickle, you know. Whhosshh, you're done!"

Its funny at 3:33 Gwen says that if Kurt was still alive today he could still be inspiring people to write music... but the truth is he still is inspiring so many people even 20 years after his death.

John Frusciante was the only person in that video that actually talked about an aspect of Kurt Cobain's music. God bless him

3:53 - Kurt Cobain, the sound of his screaming especially on something like Scentless Apprentice: "A complete celebration of insanity...such a wonderful sound. When I listen to it, I think about what it must have felt like to feel that sound coming through you. Incredibly powerful."

I'm a 100% pure rap hiphop fan. But NO ONE can deny the impact Kurt Cobain left on music, not even his genera alone, even rappers on multiple songs shout out and reference Cobain. RIP Kurt, your a legend and one of the few dudes in the music industry who kept it 100% real. On another note, as if I didn't respect Metallica enough they go on MTV and throw in that little Kurt Cobain tribute

I'm glad that Slash appreciated Kurt even if Axl wasn't very kind with him

Love the comment by Gwen when she says "Maybe if he was still around we would not have the music we have now; we'd have people writing great music again."

Tom Petty is the man

min 0:32 "and then Kurt came in like a Phoenix, he cut them down like wheat before the sickle, swhooosh! You are done!" Well put hippie dude, well put.

R.E.M. was waiting for him to come to LA to start making an acoustic album with them. He had the ticket.

I love John Frusciante. The guy is a true natural talent.

When Metallica plays Teen Spirit you REALLY see the diff between a drummer, Dave Grohl, and Lars Imrich.

and here we are 20 + years later with Music being MUCH worse than even the glam/hair metal scene was. Lesson here is that mediocrity and stupidity will always prevail in the end.

Half these guys have such big egos, they talk about their own band and experiences rather than Kurt. Tom Petty seems to just admit he's a fan and focuses on Nirvana.

Tom Petty, my lovely badass. Thank you for your music. RIP

"'So glad we got rid of the guys with hair spray and leotards .. " Amen.

So many great artists complementing Kurt and Nirvana, respect to them all.

Love how Slash says Kurt was amazing when Kurt and Axel hated each other. Than again Slash and Axel kind of hate each other so whatever.

Kurt was such a huge Metallica fan that he never mentioned them once in all the interviews he did talking about bands he liked, bands he was listening to, or bands that influenced him. Such a huge Metallica fan, yeah.

john frusciante has the best comment by far

When you realize Kurt was really respected and loved for his talent by the rock community and not by the business pig men, but he never realized about that.

despite his reserved manner, frusciante is an endless reservoir of profundities. i always enjoy hearing his insight

kurt sounded like such a nice guy

nirvana was the most influential band of the 90s

As a metal fan who enjoys a bit of grunge music, the moment I heard Kurt was a big Metallica fan made tear up a little bit, here we have a big name in music passionately gushing and being hyped as fuck over another big name in music, it's just like the situation with Metallica getting to play with their Idols, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Saxon, Judas Priest, Diamond Head and Queen. where the big name finally achieves his dream of making it big and standing side by side with his Idols.

The irony of Gwen Stefani talking about if Kurt were alive there be less shit music.

There is not a day that goes by that i dont listen to nirvana, and my 6 yr olds favorit song is come as you are lol. I was little when he passed but iv grown to love nirvana as an adult, its my favorit band. My point is that he is gone, but the music lives on and is still impacting people everyday and i think he is happy about that. R.I.P KURT.....YOU FUCKING ROCK!!!

RIP Kurt all your fans (including me) are going to remember you forever

Kurt was one of my favorite people of all times, he started a movement and new era of music forever, he died or was killed young but his legacy will be last forever. Rest in peace my dear friend, I love you.

I love how Kirk is hyped while telling a story about kurt

part of me is glad that kurt cobain isn't a 45 year old washup struggling with drugs and playing shitty super bowl halftime shows

Cobain was just getting started. He was only getting started....

Damn I miss Kurt... and forgot how good Nirvana was

I love Nirvana, I love Kurt, and I love even more the fact that other great artists, that I admire very much, admire Kurt´s music creation as well.

The guy who talked about Scentless Apprentice clearly was a real fan and not just a "Smells like the only Nirvana song you know" person.

Where's Frusciante translator when you need him?

Never touch heroin... whatever you do

Tom Petty was and still is a TRUE TROUBADOUR. He will be remembered for being a great human being, an amazing lyricist. When listening to TomPetty and The Heartbreakers the relation to the meaning of this bands music completely is relatable to most people. I love the era of GRUNGE but really didn’t connect to that label of this style of music. What it did in my view was completely energize us all. I simply loved it all. Alice and Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam will always be favorite bands for me. RIP Layne Staley and Chris Cornell. DAMN IT! We could have had so many more great songs from those guys.

Here's a list of some the songs that paved the way for an album like "Nevermind" to get big. Guns N Roses "Welcome to the jungle" Which talks about the extreme poverty and cocaine addiction the band were going through, according to Slash' book, the band in the wintertime actually demolished a wooden fense of the appartment they were living in at the time in order to warm up the place by burning the material indoors because of them not being able to pay the heating bill. Metallica "One" Now Metallica were seasoned veterans, and already had several world tours on their portfolio by the time that "And justice for all" was released. But it was a stroke of luck that made this very unlikely song and it's eerie video the thing that propelled them into the mainstream. It certainly wasn't the usual "Unskinny bop" multicolor video that the MTV audience at the time was used to seeing. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Knock me down" Like Metallica the Peppers had been around for several years greeted usually with indifference, nobody expected their blend of rap, Funk and rock to work. This was the first song of theirs to be put on decent rotation on MTV and the first song that had people recognising them on the street. In Anthony Kiedis' book "Scar tissue" he recalled that he and guitarist John Frusciante were getting into a cab and the driver went "Hey you're those guys from that song 'Kick my ass' I love that song!" And that song is really dark talking about founding member Hillel Slovak's heroin-related death. Pixies "Debaser" If there's one band who already had the template on what Grunge should sound like, it would be The Pixies, the whole Loud-quiet thing and screamed vocals was already there. Jane's addiction "Stop" Now if bands like the Pixies were instrumental for Nirvana and other punk based bands to get big, it was Jane's addiction who made it possible for bands like Smashing Pumpkins to add Pink Floyd like long passages and solos in their work. This video also shows a scene from which bands like Pearl Jam came from: the Surf community. The Cure "Lullaby" Again, the Cure had been around for a long time before they finally cracked the USA. God knows how many goth band that's around right now took a page from their book when this frankly creepy nightmarish video appeared on MTV. Robert Smith said that he didn't think that The Cure was an influential band until Dinosaur Junior covered "Just like heaven" and in doing so introduced The Cure to an American audience. Pantera "Cowboys from hell" Now if the general consensus of the changing musical tide was going from "Let's party" to "Party's over" can be contained into one song, it could well be THIS one, combining the fury of a massive bar fight, the "FUCK YOU!" attitude of punk and the ferocity of a Gatling Gun. Metal was here to stay and it was more brutal than ever.

Tom Petty, John Frusciante, Kirk Hamment, Slash, this is a fucking cool compilation. I know it's late, but thanks for putting this together.

I wish I could understand what John Frusciante was saying I truly value his opinion on this matter. Wish this would be re-uploaded with better quality.

Holy crap! John Frusciante!!

John is truly a Genius... and thank God he is still alive at least

Tom Petty one of the best quotes ever, just makes you smile.

Frusciante is known to play Nirvana covers as well. There's a clip of him playing Lounge Act acoustically.

The most Gifted and talented Kurt Cobain and the Nirvana were indeed one of the greatest milestone in music. They brought a new kind of music with such a simple and low profile style of delivering but quite rude. Great guys Kurt's initiative and music will reign as long as the this civilization exist.

"And then Kurt came in...like a Phoenix..you know" -Tom Petty

everybody loves him ! That's so cool , i will him to (: R.I.P. Kurt ♥

He was a genius songwriter. The stuff he wrote wasn't that complex, but songwriting is a gift. He also had a lot of raw emotion that few artists have.

Petty, Green Day, Brad of Aerosmith, Kravitz, Kedis of RHCP, Metallica, Stefani of No Doubt (bck then) , Smashing pumpkins, Slash, - Some of the B E S T !!!!!!! Giving praise for another one!!!! Fantastic!!!!

The medley Metallica played was pretty cool.

I todally agree rock and rolll need kick in the ass the Beatles did it then Nirvana and now Justin Bieber today

Loved the 80s AND the 90s... Unfortunately mainstream music since the end of the 90s has been nothing but pure trash, lol.

These pages are about Nirvana, Kurt, and the music they made!!! Ladies please refrain from writing out your dramas on this page! Keep it about the music!!!!

For Kurt indeed

Tom Petty is the man. Love the great things he said about Kurt.

Metalica Awesome! RIP Kurt

I remember hearing about his death on the radio and it was such a shock I had listened to never mind the night before coincidentally. There will never be another talent like him.

Perhaps Cobain envisioned a sweeping improvement in Rock music, starting with Nirvana, but little did he know that the "Grunge" wave would also gather up the normally giant group of morons along with it. The biggest irony for the end of this wave winds up being the biggest fans of his music became completely tone deaf to the quality music that preceded it.

Thankyou for highlighting Johns input on Mr. Cobains most poignantly powerfully moving vocal style.

4.50 Ed Bassmaster dressed up as Tequila.

I used to listen to punk music cassettes by that time, like Descendents, 7 Seconds, Dead Kennedys, I didn't dig MTV videoclips...I remember all my friends telling me nirvana were great, but I didn't know'em, but I was so pissed off and surprised that my new all time fav song was ignored by the rest of the world. It was called "smells like nirvana" and was by weird al yankovich. I just recorded on a VHS cassette one of the few times I watched MTV, and kept listening to it...till I knew it was a Nirvana song parody!

Anyway to get back on Kurt Cobain and his influence on killing off hair metal bands and early boybands like the New Kids on the block, people are still saying that when "Nevermind" came out that everything changed but I'll say that even before it got out, the music scene already was changing from "Let's party" to "Party's over" And it started as early as 1987 that Alternative rock and real metal (Not the LA sunset strip hair bands like Motley Crue, Cynderella, Bon Jovi and Poison) began to bubble up into the main stream if you take a look at the high selling albums that came out from 1987 until 1991 you'll see my point here. Because among them were: Guns N Roses - "Appetite for destruction" Metallica - "And justice for all" and "Metallica" (AKA "The Black album") Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Mother's milk" and "BloodSugarSexMagic" Jane's addiction - "Nothing shocking" and "Ritual de lo Habitual" The Cure - "Desintegration" The Beastie Boys - "Check your head" The Pixies - "Doolittle" Alice in chains - "Face lift" Soundgarden - "Badmotorfinger" Pantera - "Cowboys from hell" Sonic Youth - "Goo" and "Daydream nation" All of those albums already had the hallmarks of what made "Nevermind" such a huge succes. So despite what seemingly everybody says that Grunge happened seemingly overnight, they actually had four years of clues about the musical climate already changing but simply ignored them. I'd say the pivotal moment of when "Let's party" turned into "Party's over" was when Guns N Roses' "Appetite for destruction" was released. Because when it was released it fit the need of people who wanted something real: not the overblown "I screwed so many chicks" Hairmetal that was being pushed down their throats. Guns 'N roses in those days were a band in the vein of the Rolling Stones, not very gifted musicians with swagger and 'tude. "Appetite" was about drug and alcohol addictions, living in poverty, the ruthlessness of living in Los Angeles and the wrong kind of women. Even their big hit "Sweet child o' mine" had a very dark forbading tone "Where do we go now?" "Appetite for destruction" became a million seller almost from the get-go and in doing so paved the way for the other bands I mentioned to hit the big time. "And justice for all" would have been just another Metallica album if the single "One" hadn't been picked up by MTV and had people going "Whoa, this is different, I like it." which was the same reaction they had when "Welcome to the jungle" came out a year earlier. So while "Nevermind" wasn't the album that swiped all the overblown boybands and hairmetal acts away, it certainly was the last nail in the coffin.

I wonder what it would sound like to have that sound coming from you! Wow I absolutely loved that!

"Kurt was a Metallica fan!" Kirk... Shut up... You made Lars look like he cares about something other than himself...

0:34 - That gave me chills.

MTV today is TRASH.

RIP Kurt. We miss you

Metallica, Nirvana,..........Nirvana

I was in a local family owned bar the other night and they upgrated to one of those internet juke boxes that has all songs. So I play a Rammstien song that pissed everyone off. THE NEXT SONG WAS Eddie Veeder just breathe. they said your probably pissed off that someone jumped your song and played this. I said no I played this. That is what makes music so great that is so diverse .

Didn't need to see Kirk Hammett lying about being into Nirvana before they were big.. or about Kurt liking Ride The Lightning.

The best crossover of artist

of course Billy Corgan has to throw his opinion in there

There's something that i love with rock fans : they make live dead artists forever, so thanks to all of you guys, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana will live forever !!!

*"Multiple Musicians Talk About Kurt Cobain"

slash,metallica, dave, green day and more, all loved kurt and agree he changed music

did lars ever have a hairline?

Awwww I almost cried when he said Kurt is a fan of metallica my favorite band loves the other band I love

@Ivan Del Rio Dude im just reading your comments and as far as Kurt goes, yea i loved the man as a musician and i feel he gave us some of the worlds best song writing but you seem to be way to infatuated with Cobain more than a fan though which is whatever you wouldnt be the first. But than you start bashing people who are praising your hero and these are actually great artists lol. Lars is one of the best drummers ever, Kirk is amazing and has made some of the best riffs and solos in rock, and the reason i think people have such a big fascination with him is the same reason why alot of people who have past in the music industry get these kinds of fans, and its because they past in there prime, and you always wonder what if they were still alive and because of there short visit in the industry left him little room for mistakes and bad albums, coupled with his musical revolution makes him iconic. But what if someone from Metallica past and they only came out wit killem all and ride the lightning, Eminem only releasing Infinite n SSLP, or Guns N Roses coming out with only Appetite for destruction ( Big GnR fan and Axl Rose fan by the way which will probably piss you off also) than these guys and bands would be also so much more iconic than they already are. And if your argument is "he changed music" but so did Eminem being the first white rapper, Metallica being 1 of the big 4 to put Thrash metal on the map, and Guns N Roses being accepted in the realm of rock on the sunset strip without compromising there sound, selling out, being real, which earned them the title the most dangerous band in the world, All im saying is I understand your affection for him but dont let that blind you to being open minded to other music and trying not to judge or be condescending because the pressure is alot, bands grow and change as well as there music and some say than there sellouts. We dont know but Kurt if he were still here might of made a move that granted some fans to not like his turn. Dont be so harsh on judgment. And to clarify i am an immense Kurt Cobain fan and do wish he could still give us music.

wow its amazing 1 of my greatest band...hope you make live concert here in cebu philippines.....

Notice how in an interview in 1994 Lars said he thought nirvana was kinda ok but since nirvana became a rock n roll legend he jumped on the bandwagon :/

The ending medley was fucking amazing! Ive never seen that before.

Metallic doing teen spirit MY GOD amazing

music isnt the same today like now. man when i first listened to smells like teen spirit i thougt. here is somebody who understands the pain of an angry teen

O.k. Kirk, we heard you. Curt was a big Metallica fan.

Some people are talking all the wrongs about Nirvana and Kurt. They need a reality check. As far as i understand Kurt Cobain wrote songs that actually made the difference. At the time there were songs about Love and Rage , he wrote something closer to Life. Nirvana and Kurt Cobain will live on forever. Miss you Nirvana , Miss you Kurt ! Return If Possible !

I just realized that Cinna of the Capitol met Kurt Cobain. That guy must have so much fun in life.

define legend - kurt cobain. I don't think he suicided, he had no reasons to do it, he was killed... He was a legend, he is a legend, he will not be forgotten, nirvana best band ever!

It's time that rock and roll get another good kick in the ass.

Who the fuck is the guy wearing the orange tee 3:56 He looks and sounds like he's about to overdose. Just realised it's John Frusciante...Jesus Christ.

Kurt was a genious! He was able to shape his music into somthing that was so out of this world. Being able to combind pop and punk perfectly. And he could of done better things!

3:55 - the closest thing to kurt cobain , alive

Slash, Kirk Hammet, and Lenny Kravitz were definitely not the only significant guys in the video.

willy pumpkins is soooooooo fukn jelous ahhaha

dude theres such a big difference between the two. theyre respectable and awesome in such different ways.

i'm sorry he's dead. but this 'voice of a generation' thing, i mean they were like the right band at the right time (wrong time, from his perspective). lots of equally good bands before nirvana and at the same time were ignored by the mainstream. suddenly, for a couple years, largely due to mtv, suddenly millions of people were interested in a legit underground edgy punk influenced rock band (that were on a major label). it caused me angst, like "this music is not for you", all these people that were casual music fans or just liked what was popular. after he died, before long, popular music became lame again and remained so. but, it wasn't b/c he/they were exceptional, it was a fluke. he was, however, real good. r.i.p.

+DrPopCake that "guy" would be John Frusciante. He was actually clean for about 4 years at the time of the interview.

can somebody write to me what is john frusciante saying??? Please, I'd be so thankful please please!

Kurt and Tom Petty jamming out right about now!

he was murdered!