An old friend of Kurt Cobain’s, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, claims that 90% of the recent critically acclaimed Cobain documentary Montage of Heck is complete bullshit.
In a piece for The Talkhouse, Osborne dissects the film, calling the filmmakers out for a major lack of fact-checking. Osborne goes way back with the Nirvana guys, having attended high school with Cobain and playing with his band at Nirvana’s final show. Knowing him as well as he does, Buzz believes many of Kurt’s stories were just created to mess with people, and blames the film for lack of thorough research.
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“People need to understand that 90% of Montage of Heck is bullshit,” he writes. “Total bullshit. That’s the one thing no one gets about Cobain — he was a master of jerking your chain.”
Certain things he calls him out on are the “I tried to fuck a fat retard” story (“That’s too good a story to have gone this long without me hearing about it”), his stomach issues (“He made it up for sympathy and so he could use it as an excuse to stay loaded”), living under a bridge (“As far as I know, Kurt never set foot under any bridge in that town, let alone lived under one”), and Courtney’s claims of a previous suicide attempt (“She’d have us believe that Kurt tried to off himself when she’d only thought about cheating on him?”).
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“I find it amusing that the filmmakers never bothered to fact-check simple stuff like this, and just took Kurt and Courtney at their word,” he writes. “Unfortunately, it matters very little what the facts are; what matters is what people believe. And when it comes to Cobain, most of what they believe is fabricated nonsense. Montage of Heck does nothing to counter that. With that in mind, it’s really hard to take any of this film seriously.”