Kurt Cobain's final Guitar World interview: “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that”

Rock singer Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994) performs on stage with Nirvana at the MTV Video Music Awards, September 10, 1992..
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Below is Guitar World's final interview with Kurt Cobain, conducted the week Nevermind was released in the fall of 1991. The original headline in GW's February 1992 issue was "Cool Hand Puke: Kurt Cobain tries to explain why Nirvana – third-hand guitars and all – is suddenly the hottest band in the country."

“We’re just musically and rhythmically retarded,” asserts Kurt Cobain, guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter for Nirvana. “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.”

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