04/03/2022
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL RIGHT.
Between the last show on March 1st in Munich and March 30, when Kurt flew to Los Angeles to begin his 28-day treatment at Exodus, had been a lot: the Rome episode, the Seattle dispute just to say about two, and everything related you can find on this page.
L. A. then, March 30 1994. He was assigned Room 206 and went through an intake session with a nurse, then a therapy session with a counselor who later specified Kurt “was totally in denial that he had a he**in problem.”
KURT COBAIN DENIED HE HAD A DRUG PROBLEM ALL RIGHT
So according to his statements, he was just going through and off an old situation and he could be perfectly in demand to handle his stuff
Basing on the Clinic statements, the people who visited him there didn’t see in him any withdrawal symptoms, indeed they found him “so fu***ng great” (Joe "Mama" Nitzburg, Pat Smear, Jackie Farry).
A few miles away at the five-star Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, look at that: his wife was with a doctor supervising a withdrawal treatment plan called “hotel detox” (how ‘s that).
The nanny Jackie had the chance to bring Kurt Cobain his baby twice.
First day, he played with Frances and complained to Farry about his battles with the wife over Lollapalooza *. Second day, Kurt played with his baby for almost an hour, then they left and he went outside smoking a cigarette. There was another rockstar resident, Gibby Haynes of the Butt-hole Surfers. It is narrated he told Kurt about a friend who escaped Exodus by jumping over the wall in the backyard. The two laughed since Exodus is a free place, not lockdown at all.
It has been recorded Kurt refused about 30 calls from his wife in those two days at the clinic, that’s why she finally sent Smear to him.
Pat Smear and Joe "Mama" Nitzburg (close friends of his wife) were there too and for a couple of hours. Kurt’s wife sent them to deliver a note and some fanzines "she thought he would like”.
It should have been something “urgent” that made Kurt suddenly leave the place to reach Seattle.
Later that evening (April 1st), Kurt went outside again around 7.25 pm to smoke a cigarette, and an hour later Exodus staff noticed him missing.
* Nirvana had been offered the headlining spot at the giant alternative music festival Lollapalooza, which would have brought the band millions of dollars. But when he returned from Rome, Kurt declared that he wasn’t going to participate. According to Carlson, who saw Kurt the day he returned from Rome, Courtney was furious: “She kept on screaming at him about how much money he was giving up and said if he didn’t want to do it, she’d be glad to take his place.”
In a video of the backstage for the show in Portugal just in February, 6, 1994 on the In Utero Nirvana tour(Unseen till Nov 2010), Kurt says: we’re going to tour Australia and we’ll do Lollapalooza in June.
Even if CL stated Kurt refused to play (and she had a lot of advantages from that), he actually would had played. Beside the fact he was under contract to major corporations and he was contractually obligated to do it...the only point is : since the European tour was interrupted then in March, the whole future was uncertain for Nirvana as band too.
Speaking about the Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. Nirvana was supposed to headline the show, but they officially pulled out of the headlining spot between April 4-6 (rumored to be because the band was going to break up). Only a little later they found Kurt's body.
NOTE. When he completed the intake on March 31, no shotgun receipt has been recorded as part of his belongings. But you know it has been found (basically planted) intact in the jacket next to his body when Kurt was found dead on April 8.