The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the official companion podcast for the new HBO documentary, Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, which premieres on HBO and HBO Now on Monday, May 4th at 9 p.m. Eastern. My name is Hugo Lindgren.

And joining me in our New York studio is the director of the documentary, Brett Morgan.

Welcome.

Thank you, man.

In 1988, using a four-track cassette recorder, Kurt Cobain put together a sound collage of disparate audio elements that he called Montage of Heck.

It was pure, free-form expression of his relationship with the world.

Montage of Heck is also the name of director Brett Morgan's

comprehensive documentary about the Nirvana Frontman, who loathed being called, quote,

the voice of a generation. The documentary has been years in the making and is the first Cobain

documentary made with full cooperation and support of the musician's family. Montage of Heck

dives into the life of Kurt Cobain, the fragile and contentious artist, who, in his

mother's own words, was, quote, on a collision course with the world. Using his journals,

Super 8 footage, and animations, as well as never before heard recordings, the documentary

quite literally brings you into Cobain's world, from his turbulent upbringing in Aberdeen,

Washington, to his tumultuous relationship with success, and finally to his suicide in 1994 at the age of 27.

Well, let's talk the easy stuff. So you were what kind of Nirvana fan? You were how old when they were making their mark?

Well, I was the same age as Kurt. So I saw them play at my school cafeteria in Hampshire College in 1990 for about 150 people.

And then I saw them a couple years later at the form, the second and last show in the United States.

And did you kind of love them immediately?

No.

No, why not?

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