In a recent interview with BBC 6 Music, Butch Vig, a former producer for Nirvana, went into detail about his recording experiences with the band on the Nevermind album.
In the interview, he mentioned a strange habit that Kurt Cobain would do while in the studio. From Metalhead Zone:
“The first day, I remember we were getting ready to record and then Kurt just put his guitar down, he went and sat in the corner; and I said, ‘Are you OK? Do you need anything?’
And Krist pulled me aside and said, ‘It’s OK, he just gets in these funky moments here, we just got to leave him alone and he’ll come out of it.’ And sure enough, like, about an hour and a half later, Kurt just got up, picked up his guitar and said, ‘Let’s go’ – and we recorded.
I had to sort-of learn how to deal with that but, yeah, they were amazing. Krist just had a funny sense of humor and there was some tension in that session because Kurt was not particularly always happy with Chad’s drumming, and I could just see and feel that tension building.”
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