New Nirvana Book Due January 2009

Legendary grunge pioneers Nirvana will see a retrospective book of interviews with the band and articles about the band compiled from 1988 through 1992.

The book will be titled, unsurprisingly, "The Nirvana Reader: 1988 – 1992" and will see the light of day through Rock Reader Books.

The compiler and editor responsible for the book is John D. Luersson. Says Luersson:

"There have been way too many Nirvana books. So what gives me the right to put The Nirvana Reader together? Well, for one thing, I'm tired of the conjecture. I'm sick of the conspiracy theories, and I really just wanted to go back to the start and read about the band as they evolved during the first four years."

The book will be available on January 5, 2009.

Thanks for the info to Punknews.org.

Comments

[TheThinMan]

Wow, another Nirvana book, and he just wants to "go back to the start" so he can make a lot of money off a beaten horse...

[archangelseren]

enough is enough. write something original much?

[pawnshopguitars]

Courtney love must be running out of drug money. Why can't they just leave them be? Hell, it defies the whole point of what Nirvana stood for to keep making money off of their name.

[smidy]

Keep on milking it

[MerryGoRound]

Milk It. " Test Meat! Doll Steak!" etc.

[diaspora]

MerryGoRound wrote:

Milk It. " Test Meat! Doll Steak!" etc.

true man

[False_God]

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biography-Cobain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

[soundgarden19]

Jesus Christi he's got like what seven biographys already.

[Sammy2K7]

False_God wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biograph y-Cobain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

thats for that man, ill check that book out

[tands]

i already know all there is to know about Nirvana, grunge is dead, lets see some books on someone new

[cam_sampbell]

False_God wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biograph y-Cobain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

+1

I've got it and it's brilliant :P

[bananajammin]

It really does defy the point of his whole career... he was avoiding the superficial fame that he's now been thrust into from beyond the grave. Ridiculousness. Heavier than Heaven is a fantastic read, and it's the only one that should have been written.

[nathan7007]

i like nirvana but how much shit do you need theyve been gone for like what 14 years?how much do you need to know about a band. ****

[TSCREAM420]

False_God wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biograph y-Cobain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

ZThat book might as well have been written by Courtney herself she was looking over cross' shoulder the entire time that book was written!!!! its horrible!!!!! Everette True's BOOK IS THE BEST ONE!!!! TRUST ME IVE READ THEM ALL!!!!! YOU WILL HAVE FACTS IN THERE THAT NEITHER CROSS OR AZZERAD NEVER HAD IN THEIRS. EVERETT TRUE WAS THE KID FROM ALMOST FAMOUS BUT IN REAL LIFE AND WITH NIRVANA!!!!

DONT READ HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN ITS A COURTNEY LOVE SCAM!!!!

[drainyou_sweden]

yeah... i liked heavier than heaven but have also heard that it contains some facts that might not be true.... besides from that one I can recommend the book by Everett True.

[str84ever]

bah Nirvana weren't grunge pioneers.

Try Melvins, Neil Young etc. as pioneers.

[TSCREAM420]

nathan7007 wrote:

i like nirvana but how much shit do you need theyve been gone for like what 14 years?how much do you need to know about a band. ****

everything until u get the truth! which i feel has not been set out yet, and probably never will as long as courtney is alive!

Checked

[blindfatkid23]

i will only read another nirvana book if it's written by dave or krist

[This1GoesTo11]

Yawn.

[Ricky4635]

Kurt Cobain is dying again ever time someone trys to make money off of Nirvana. Nirvana wasn't about the money. Only would be good is it was writen by.... I don't know..... MAYBE SOMEBODY WHO WAS IN NIRVANA. I mean come on! This guy probably never even met Mirvana once.

[Ricky4635]

bah Nirvana weren't grunge pioneers.

Try Melvins, Neil Young etc. as pioneers

How is Neil Young a poineer of grunge! Neil is awesome but, he hasn't played grunge let alone help make it.

[freshtunes]

This is what I'm looking for. Documents of the early years, not some authors opinion on Kurts death.

[G-loony]

I'm only gonna buy this if this has NOT been brought out by Universal OR has been checked by Courtney love, Only then i will prolly buy it !

[tona_107]

Ricky4635 wrote:


bah Nirvana weren't grunge pioneers.

Try Melvins, Neil Young etc. as pioneers

How is Neil Young a poineer of grunge! Neil is awesome but, he hasn't played grunge let alone help make it.

Neil Young is popularily recognized as the godfather of grunge.

[DanteLord]

I just wanna know if courtney killed him. which isnt entirely implausible, knowing how batf**k crazy she is.

[Dallen_007]

I still think Christopher Sanford's biography is best. It's more detailed and faaaarrrrr less biased then Heavier than Heaven.

[nirvanafan11111]

your all kidding yourself if you think nirvana werent about making money, what do you think kurt spent all his money on sweeties, ive loved nirvana for a long time and all i care about is there fecking music! Who cares if Kurt killed himself its not as if any of us can change anything! Also In Utero is a stunning album!

[g00fy_130]

Let me get this straight. A guy does drugs for years, marries a *****, gets depressed and kills himself, and he's a frickin' music legend and hero?

WTF ever.

[ShivaSteampunk]

this has gone beyond beating a dead horse.

we're now in the realm of milking a dead cow

[the_bear_shark]

g00fy_130 wrote:

Let me get this straight. A guy does drugs for years, marries a *****, gets depressed and kills himself, and he's a frickin' music legend and hero?


You forgot the part where he wrote the music for Nirvana...

WTF ever.

[lilboisX3]

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

[weezergeek182]

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

exactly

[dieloony2]

sounds more interesting then any of those dime a dozen biographies.

i'm amazed at the disrespect nirvana gets, i can only guess it's somewhat envy talking, Considering current music the world needs them more now then ever, it's a shame they can't be.

[nirvanafan20]

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

Now this is a shame since Kurt even though he wasnt the best guitarist he did have his own sound something that many cant say for themselves. ex. Slash(angus young rip off) and Zakk Wylde( Randy Rhoads). Now no one on the face of the earth sounded like kurt. They couldnt replicate his bigmuff guitar riffs or his solos. He isnt remembered for playing guitar anyway. his lyrics, voice, and melody is where kurt falls into a legend category. There hasnt been writing like that since the day he died. You could say he was a shitty guitarist, a junkie, or that hes a pussy for killing himself, but one thing you cannnot deny is that he was a brilliant writer. By the way is you really want guitar songs that prove hes decent: sappy,in bloom, come as you are, serve the servants, etc.

[Plugs44]

wait, kurt cobain's dead?

[David_Bowie=GOD]

Sammy2K7 wrote:

False_God wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biograph y-Cobain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

thats for that man, ill check that book out

too bad its the courtney love version of the story.

[koalabacon]

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

by your logic then, buckethead or michael angelo batio would be the best guitarests ever.

kurt cobain was considered one of the best guitarists becaus of his INFLUENCE. grunge was a huge musical movement and he was responsible for bringing it to the mainstream[NOT inventing it, just bring it to the public] and for its end to popularity. sure buckethead can shred like a motherf**king god, but has he done anything like that to the world of music?

[Demon Lord]

Plugs44 :
wait, kurt cobain's dead?

LMAO nice one

This book won't be any better than any of the rest, give it up he was in a band and is now dead. If Kurt knew the fame and money that was made because of his death he probably wouldn't have done it purely on principle. It was about the music so if you like it then buy that, not the book.

[ShivaSteampunk]

weezergeek182 wrote:

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

exactly

who the **** cares about talent?

being able to play 1748917148 notes per second may be a good way to get laid, but it doesn't really do a ton for you as a musician

[GREENWARRI0R]

Just let Nirvana die already, jeez.

[arcticradiohead]

i love how people immediately bitch about beating a dead horse the second anything nirvana comes up, and yet we can go thru a led zeppelin article every week, and everybody will get on and wack off to how great they are. i love zep, but other than the reuinon in december, they haven't done anything newsworthy since before nirvana was even around

[DrShreddington]

whoopsie, and by son I of course mean daughter.

[Metallicam]

Ricky4635 wrote:


bah Nirvana weren't grunge pioneers.

Try Melvins, Neil Young etc. as pioneers

How is Neil Young a poineer of grunge! Neil is awesome but, he hasn't played grunge let alone help make it.

Maybe if you listened to more than Heart of Gold you would know...

[kurtshapedbox]

soundgarden19 wrote:

Jesus Christi he's got like what seven biographys already.

Jesus Christ has more than 7 biographies. =P

[catchtherainbow]

arcticradiohead wrote:

i love how people immediately bitch about beating a dead horse the second anything nirvana comes up, and yet we can go thru a led zeppelin article every week, and everybody will get on and wack off to how great they are. i love zep, but other than the reuinon in december, they haven't done anything newsworthy since before nirvana was even around

Agreed. Ya wanna know what's the reason? Because nowadays cool people label Nirvana as "simplistic and mindless" when just a few years ago, "simplistic and mindless" angst was all the craze. I hate people who jump the bandwagon.

I love Nirvana no matter how many books people do to rip them off. Nirvana is no longer around so they're not the ones who are selling out.

[Powerhouse]

http://www.amazon.com/Heavier-than-Heaven-Biography-C obain/d p/B000HEYVPY/ref=pd_sim_b_10

The only book I will need. Read it twice and just thought it was the best.

+1. That book is amazing.

[ellendeling]

DrShreddington wrote:

whoopsie, and by son I of course mean daughter.

Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more

[southern_stylin]

carlsbad wrote:

DrShreddington wrote:

oh this is fantabulous. Another book devoted to making children read about suicide, im sure itll be a great necessity in keeping our community existing.

Sush. We're overpopulated anyway.

I agree, LEGALIZE SUICIDE!!

[Rooster666]

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.

kurt might not be the best guitar player ever but it would be hard to find someone who could write as many catchy riffs and songs as he did.

[missmurderisnic]

carlsbad wrote:

DrShreddington wrote:

oh this is fantabulous. Another book devoted to making children read about suicide, im sure itll be a great necessity in keeping our community existing.

Sush. We're overpopulated anyway.

LMAO XD That's messed up but sadly true XDDDD

[SMBoo28]

carlsbad wrote:

DrShreddington wrote:

oh this is fantabulous. Another book devoted to making children read about suicide, im sure itll be a great necessity in keeping our community existing.

Sush. We're overpopulated anyway.

so you support abortion carlsbad?
lol jk

[FuZzY(aus)]

uhhh their still bleeding milking it
get over it

[Strato-Massacre]

he says this book is mostly just interviews and articles? i actually might want to read this because of that. seems like it may be different than reading "nirvana did this, nirvana did that".

[Aint-it-a-shame]

Whooo....the Notebooks were good. Screw ya'll, Nirvana is kickass. XD

[PenFighter19]

Im gonna write a Kurt Cobain biography. Im call it, 'Kurt Cobain: Exploited in Life, Exploited in Death' or maybe 'Kurt Cobain: Rest In Peace and Make Me Money'.
Seriously, isnt this why he died in the first place?

[PenFighter19]

southern_stylin wrote:

carlsbad wrote:

DrShreddington wrote:

oh this is fantabulous. Another book devoted to making children read about suicide, im sure itll be a great necessity in keeping our community existing.

Sush. We're overpopulated anyway.


I agree, LEGALIZE SUICIDE!!

Im pretty sure anyone that commits suicide isnt worried about being incarcerated afterwards..

[AussieBassKid]

i love how he's only cover til 1992, so there's room for another book in a few months

[tomsawyer67]

let bygones be bygones. cmon these guys prolly got as many books as the beatles

[maelstrum415]

I think if Kurt knew how much dead horse beating and moneymaking that would come out of his death, I think he wouldnt have killed himself, just to reub it in those sick, bloated, chimp-spanking faces of the people who are riding on the moneytrain. My opinion.

Checked

[mosh_rocker2006]

tomsawyer67 :
let bygones be bygones. cmon these guys prolly got as many books as the beatles

POSTED: 11/07/2008 - 10:23 pm / quote |


That may be true, but the Beatles wrote rock history before Nirvana. Plus Kurt Cobain loved the Beatles, they're still and always will be the best rock band ever!
As for the book....im pretty interested to check it out. It seems there aren't a lot of interviews with the band. The other great Nirvana book was the biography of Kurt..."Heavier Than Heaven"

[Sgt.Pepper]

maelstrum415 wrote:

I think if Kurt knew how much dead horse beating and moneymaking that would come out of his death, I think he wouldnt have killed himself, just to reub it in those sick, bloated, chimp-spanking faces of the people who are riding on the moneytrain. My opinion.

Kurt would be proud of what you just said

[Serjem]

ShivaSteampunk wrote:

this has gone beyond beating a dead horse.

we're now in the realm of milking a dead cow

^what he said.

[derekmichael]

99% of nirvana books out there are filled with lies. if you must read a nirvana book read nirvana by everett true... he was a close friend to the band and courtney but he doesnt let her bullshit lies interfere with the story and he tells it like it is. whatever you do, do NOT read heavier than heaven courtney love might as well have been the co-author!!

[BonezShaker]

koalabacon wrote:

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.


by your logic then, buckethead or michael angelo batio would be the best guitarests ever.

kurt cobain was considered one of the best guitarists becaus of his INFLUENCE. grunge was a huge musical movement and he was responsible for bringing it to the mainstream[NOT inventing it, just bring it to the public] and for its end to popularity. sure buckethead can shred like a motherf**king god, but has he done anything like that to the world of music?

+1 even though Kurt aint that good a guitarist.... without him there aint music today

[Dimebagjeff]

lolz....more nirvana stuffs coming out hoooooly get over it hes dead, stop with the MADNESSSSS

[break-me-in]

Well there has to be conjecture because Kurt Cobain constantly contradicted himself and deliberately ****ed with interviewers.

[livinliqid]

with all these books its hard to remember that nirvana, first an foremost, were A BAND! bands do music,not books, and i know i wont be buying this.

[BassFishin]

pawnshopguitars wrote:

Courtney love must be running out of drug money. Why can't they just leave them be? Hell, it defies the whole point of what Nirvana stood for to keep making money off of their name.

+1

also, there already is a book JUST like that. i found it at my college library. i mean, seriously, all it is is a bunch of interviews from....yea, 88-93 so....

[Metallicam]

/yawn

I stopped caring about these guys 14 years ago.

[Guitar Skater]

kurt cobain journals is my favorite, but the principal behind it is bad.

[markyboy101]

Rooster666 wrote:
not be the best guitar player ever but it would be hard to find someone who could write as many catchy riffs and songs as he did.

Noel Gallagher? John Lennon? Jimmy Page? To name but a few.

[A Bad Guitarist]

Next item up for bid: the legacy of a great musician who killed himself to 'escape the pressure of the spotlight'. Do I hear a dollar, one dollar?

right I'm bored of these cobain = hero/pussy comments. im going to delete them all, you want to carry on arguing about it take it to pm's.

checked

[metallica-cool]

im with ultius he doesnt suck dude(axl-explosion) you have some issues that you need to work out

[joblow]

pawnshopguitars wrote:

Courtney love must be running out of drug money. Why can't they just leave them be? Hell, it defies the whole point of what Nirvana stood for to keep making money off of their name.

Yeah, I seem to for get that too... thanks for making that point.

[alex0203]

Kurt is probably rolling around in his grave right now at how sad his legacy has become. Shame! Why would you put out another book on them? Just leave them alone and enjoy the music and live concert footage on youtube. Jesus...just let the poor man rest for a change. They've already milked him for what he's got.

[crazy8rgood]

nirvanafan20 wrote:

lilboisX3 wrote:

Nirvana wasnt really that good anyway. top 100 guitarists my ass.


Now this is a shame since Kurt even though he wasnt the best guitarist he did have his own sound something that many cant say for themselves. ex. Slash(angus young rip off) and Zakk Wylde( Randy Rhoads). Now no one on the face of the earth sounded like kurt. They couldnt replicate his bigmuff guitar riffs or his solos. He isnt remembered for playing guitar anyway. his lyrics, voice, and melody is where kurt falls into a legend category. There hasnt been writing like that since the day he died. You could say he was a shitty guitarist, a junkie, or that hes a pussy for killing himself, but one thing you cannnot deny is that he was a brilliant writer. By the way is you really want guitar songs that prove hes decent: sappy,in bloom, come as you are, serve the servants, etc.

Dude, how could you forget Aero Zeppelin?

COME ON!!!!

[yearzero]

Kurt and Nirvana are one of my biggest and longest standing musical influences.

And even though I'm as big of fan of theirs as I can be, I think its time to let them go. All we need now is the music

Checked


Stop all the bashing or you will receive a warning.

[(o)=:::]

Nirvana was not a bad band, i would debate them as grunge pioneers only because they were heavily influenced by the actual pioneers of mudhoney, I love both bands but mudhoney was the original grunge band (i count green river in with mudhoney cuz i can)

[the1]

Its funny that everyone says "Kurt would be turning in his grave etc"
NONE OF YOU KNEW HIM!

[stevezy]

this dude wrote a book on Weezer called "Rivers Edge" that was pretty in depth if you didn't know too much about the history of that band, so if he did the same amount of research for this book, it ought to be pretty good.

that said, the stuff in the weezer book was mostly stuff any hardcore fan would already know, but a good read for a casual fan.

[DOA24]

great song writer > great guitarist

[dejaentendu182]

jesus christ another book? I was sick the first time i heard heart shaped box on guitar hero then was even sicker when the "kurt cobain edition" converse came out. when will this shit end?

[dejaentendu182]

jesus christ another book? i was sick when i first heard heart shaped box on guitar hero and was even sicker when the "kurt cobain edition" converse came out. when will this shit end?

[jacob9545]

WTF anyone that thinks courtney had killed Kurt are losers. they fail to see that he was a depressed loser that happened to write alot of good songs. much respect to him but killing yourself? he was and will always be a ****ing loser who happened to make good songs. everyone get over yourselfs!

[alfonzo99]

Heavier Than Heaven was basically the Courtney Love Show. Dave Grohl should write a book about Kurt.

[randyaintdead82]

ellendeling :
DrShreddington wrote:

whoopsie, and by son I of course mean daughter.


Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more

lol i love that song heres another line from it with a little tweak

wont you believe it its just his luck

[UnsungPlayer42]

Maybe the ghost of Cobain will come back and bitch about all the books about Nirvana

[srvkicks@$$]

yay another book about a dead band named nirvana whose frontman was some jacked up loser that couldnt play guitar so he decided to kill himself. i cant wait to not buy it

[Tapping_Ninja]

markyboy101 wrote:

Rooster666 wrote:
not be the best guitar player ever but it would be hard to find someone who could write as many catchy riffs and songs as he did.

Noel Gallagher? John Lennon? Jimmy Page? To name but a few.

Yeah but more people would regonzie a nirvana song then any of their songs... plus John Lennon sucked imo... Page was ok and the first guy I don't know who he is.

But to the point, there shouldn't be anymore books... I think

srvkicks@$$ wrote:

yay another book about a dead band named nirvana whose frontman was some jacked up loser that couldnt play guitar so he decided to kill himself. i cant wait to not buy it

To be honest he's probably a better guitarist then you'll ever be. He was to a point inovative in his style. Sure he used a bunch of power chords, but come on listen to a lot of good song, the catchy part of song is the rhthym and cobain had a good since of rhthem, plus he used very unorthadox patterns

[MerryGoRound]

There are those who don't understand the genius of kurts simple is more methods...these people have their head to far up their own asses to realise good music when they hear it.
Was he an unbeleivable guitar player? No. Would the songs he wrote have been better with a more accomplished guitar player? No ****ing way. Theres more to writing a song and connecting to an audience than a flurry of guitar notes. Its actually quite the reverse.

[ComexAsxYouxAre]

blindfatkid23 wrote:

i will only read another nirvana book if it's written by dave or krist

I AGREE!!

[threedaysgrace9]

For God's sakes, i wish that everyone would get over Nirvana. Not a great band by any means. Ok guitar work, horrible vocals. Like really horrible. They're gone. We need no more books. And why the hell is this front page news on UG? ugh

[kranoscorp]

pawnshopguitars wrote:

Courtney love must be running out of drug money. Why can't they just leave them be? Hell, it defies the whole point of what Nirvana stood for to keep making money off of their name.

I was under the impression that Courtney Love was dead. Didn't she die 1-2 years ago due to drug overdose?

[andrea78]

tomorrow they will sell even the kurt's underwear!!!! Oh my god...this is only f***n business. I saw them in Rome in 1991...How time flies! I wanna remember them with their music and not with some stupid book that enrich courtney Love's wallet!!!!

[NirvanaJake]

MerryGoRound wrote:

There are those who don't understand the genius of kurts simple is more methods...these people have their head to far up their own asses to realise good music when they hear it.
Was he an unbeleivable guitar player? No. Would the songs he wrote have been better with a more accomplished guitar player? No ****ing way. Theres more to writing a song and connecting to an audience than a flurry of guitar notes. Its actually quite the reverse.

truest thing ever.
****en dragon force and alike bands who feel the need to do 500 mph solos. Totally unnecessary.
Spit out something true, with some heart, and allow passion to stream throught your guitar and out your amp. Thats real music. Music isnt about being the best, its about being the truest and most passsionate. And Nirvana followed those guidelines.

As for the book, im lookin forward to it.

[Minarik]

dont blame courtney man.. crack is expensive these days