I Found My Friends The Oral History of Nirvana

I Found My Friends recreates the short and tempestuous times of Nirvana through the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band. The guides for this trip didn't just watch the life of this legendary band—they lived it. Soulsby interviewed over 150 musicians from bands that played and toured with Nirvana, including well-known alternative and grunge bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Dead Kennedys, and Butthole Surfers, as well as scores of smaller, but no less fascinating bands.

In this groundbreaking look at a legendary band, readers will see a more personal history of Nirvana than ever before, including Nirvanas consideration of nearly a dozen previously unmentioned candidates for drummer before settling on David Grohl, a recounting of Nirvanas famously disastrous South American shows from never-before-heard sources on Brazilian and Argentine sides, and the man who hosted the first ever Nirvana gigs recollections of jamming with the band at that inaugural event.

I Found My Friends relives Nirvana's meteoric rise from the days before the legend to through their increasingly damaged superstardom. More than twenty years after Kurt Cobains tragic death, Nick Soulsby removes the posthumous halo from the brow of Kurt Cobain and travels back through time to observe one of rock and roll‘s most critical bands as no one has ever seen them before.

“Nick [Soulsby] . . . demonstrates true passion for the music and a deep understanding of the musicians who create it. His words are more than just ciphers to echange for dollars, just as the music he's writing about was always more than just noise for profit."  —Kurt Danielson, lead singer, Tad 

Cobain on Cobain places the reader at the key moments of Kurt Cobain’s rollercoaster ride, telling the tale of Nirvana entirely through his words and those of his bandmates as they unleashed the whirlwind that would consume them for the last half of their five-year career. This is the most comprehensive compendium of interviews with the band ever released. Each interview is another knot in a thread running from just after the recording of their first album Bleach to the band’s collapse on the European tour of 1994 followed shortly by Cobain's suicide. Interviews have been cherry-picked to provide definitive coverage of the events of those five years from as close to the key moments as possible, so that the reader can see Cobain, rock’s last immortal icon, reacting to the circumstances of each tour, each new release, each public incident, all the way down to the end. Including a huge number of interviews that have never before seen print, Cobain on Cobain will long remain the definitive source for anyone searching for Kurt Cobain's version of his own story.

Nick Soulsby is the author of I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana and the coauthor of Dark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana in the Shards of Incesticide. His website, www.nirvana-legacy.com, is widely seen as an invaluable Nirvana resource.