Friday,
11th September 2009
According to Pitchfork, Courtney Love, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are none-too-happy about Guitar Hero’s use of Kurt Cobain’s likeness in the game. Krist and Dave released a statement:
We want people to know that we are dismayed and very disappointed in the way a facsimile of Kurt is used in the Guitar Hero game. The name and likeness of Kurt Cobain are the sole property of his estate— we have no control whatsoever in that area.
Courtney Love posted the following to her Twitter page in her own, eloquent style:
FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT APPROVE KURTS AVATAR FOR GUYITARHERO5. i think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar
This, according to Activision, is just not true:
Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero® 5.
By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.
