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“I saw him play in Portland in 1988,” says Courtney. “I’m from Eugene. I thought he was really passionate and cute, but I couldn’t tell if he was smart, or had any integrity. And then I met him at a show about a year, or something ago."
”Butthole Surfers,“ says Kurt.
”And L7,“ adds Courtney, ”I really pursued him, not too agressive, but agressive enough that some girls would have been embarrassed by it. I’m direct. That can scare a lot of boys. Like, I got Kurt’s number when they were on tour, and I would call him. And I would do interviews with people who I knew were going to interview Nirvana, and I would tell them I had a crush on Kurt. Kurt was scared of me. He said he didn’t have time to deal with me. But I knew it was inevitable.“
Kurt adds, ”I would just like to say I liked Courtney a lot. I wasn’t ignoring her. I didn’t mean to play hard to get. I just didn’t have the time, I had so many things on my mind.“
”He had to write a hit record,“ says Courtney.
The turning point for their relationship was last September. Courtney was meeting with a record company exec. ”He said to me, ’What do you want? I can make you a big star,’“ says Courtney, ”And I said, ‘I want to see Nirvana in Chicago.’ So he got on the phone and spent, like, $1000 and bought me a ticket and I went. And that is when we got together.”
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“This picture has never been shown,” says Lavine of an outtake for a Sassy magazine photo shoot from 1993. “There was a little drama with this shoot: we had to send the band the pictures so they could approve it. They were a little wacky, I don’t know. I guess there was a lot of pressure on them and how they were to be perceived. This was the only session of them in the studio together. And they totally loved each other. They were all over each other. Kurt was really stoned that day.”
- Michael Lavine for Rolling Stone Magazine.
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