I think the tension would've proven too much. Particularly when you have otherwise healthy guys making 1/4 of what the addict was making, and their efforts are fueling his life choices.brian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:58 pm I also think "Scentless Apprentice" is possibly Nirvana's best song ahead of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", but I realize I'm well in the minority on that.
I won't beat a dead horse because it's only an opinion and they're both great albums, but I think the song writing is just much better/stronger on In Utero. One of the reasons Cobain's death sucked so much beyond the obvious is that I think Nirvana was actually getting better and there's no telling what they might have been able to do had he lived. They could have been up there with the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, up in that stratosphere. I really believe that.
They'd have put out another record, but Grohl would've been drawn into other work other musicians (QOTSA, for example), and Cobain would've gone the route of a Neil Young.
EXCERPT FROM 'HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN' BY CHARLES R. CROSS
Page 241: "When the band signed their original publishing deal, Kurt had agreed to evenly split songwriting royalties with Novoselic and Grohl. This was generous, but at the time no one imagined the record would sell millions. With the phenomenal success of 'Nevermind', Kurt insisted these percentages be shifted to give him the bulk of the revenue - he proposed a 75/25 split on the music, with him getting 100 percent of the lyrics - and he wanted the agreement to be retroactive. "I think once 'Nevermind' was playing itself out, Kurt began to realize that [publishing contracts] weren't just theoretical documents; that this was real money," observed attorney Alan Mintz. "The publishing splits meant lifestyle issues." Krist and Dave felt betrayed that Kurt wanted the new deal to be retroactive, but they eventually agreed, thinking the other option was dissolving the band. Kurt had resolutely told Rosemary Carroll-now simultaneously serving as lawyer for Kurt, Courtney, and Nirvana - he would break up the band if he didn't get his way. Though Grohl and Novoselic blamed Courtney, Carroll remembered Kurt being unmovable on the issue. "His focus was laser-like," she observed. "He was very clear and very persistent, and knew to the penny what he was talking about. He knew what he was worth, and he knew he deserved all the money, [since] he wrote all the lyrics and the music."