Joe Satriani spoke about Kurt Cobain’s guitar talent

In an interview granted to Classic Rock, the guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani he had the opportunity to talk, among other things, about Kurt Cobain explaining that he really appreciated the frontman’s guitar playing Nirvana committed suicide with a rifle shot on 5 April 1994.

These are Satriani’s sentences about Cobain and the group that symbolized the grunge movement: “I was very happy with those Nirvana records. He was a great guitarist. If you go back and look at the Nirvana clips you realize that this guy plays everything he should playing. He doesn’t look at what he’s playing, so obviously he really knows the instrument. And he plays with one of the greatest drummers of all time (Dave Grohl, the Nirvana drummer now frontman of Foo Fighters, ed.), so he doesn’t. it would have worked if he wasn’t a good guitarist.”

These words of Joe Satriani they might be surprising, since grunge, of which Kurt Cobain he was an undisputed hero, it was almost the opposite of the kind of music Satriani played. Grunge wanted to take rock and roll back to the basics with short, punchy guitar solos.