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Posted: 8:56 p.m. Monday, April 12, 2010

Tuesday April 13, 2010 

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By Stacey Taylor

 

One lucky man in Kurt Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington went to a garage sale and wound up buying some of Kurt Cobain's earliest demo tapes.

The 30-plus music tracks are thought to be some of the earliest known Kurt Cobain material in existence. The lucky guy bought a bunch of Phillips cassette tapes with the initials KDC marked on them in a black marker. The "KDC" is what got the garage sale buyer interested. KDC likely stands for Kurt Donald Cobain.

When the buyer got home and listened to the tapes, he was certain he was listening to a young Kurt Cobain's music, so he contacted a music industry lawyer. That lawyer got in contact with Cobain's record label and estate. Eventually the cassettes were verified as legitimate by music producers Butch Vig and Jack Endino. The lucky garage sale finder is now set to make a huge figure, potentially a million dollars or more, for the sale of those Cobain cassette tapes.

Here's the deal, according to blurt-online.com, the cassette tapes are actually from around 1975 when Kurt Cobain was just 8-9 years old. The songs feature Cobain playing acoustic guitar and the ukulele while singing. Someone is playing some sort of drums, though no one knows who that person is. Apparently there are a few songs that focus on guns and some of Cobain's childhood lyrics are, "You'll wish you were dead, when I point my gun at your head." Unfortunately Cobain died the same way he sang about as a child, by a gunshot to the head.

Due to the fact that Nirvana's music is still popular today, and the legend of Kurt Cobain has continued to live on, the cassette tapes will eventually be heard by fans. Cobain's label is trying to purchase the tapes from the garage sale buyer and it's likely at least parts of the songs will be used to create another way to make money off Kurt Cobain's memory.
-examiner.com

 
 
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