Sit Awkwardly Through Kurt Cobain’s Guitar Hero 5 Performance

2:30PM August 28, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

You put Slash in a Guitar Hero game, that’s understandable. He’s an inconic guitar player, and was happy to sign on the dotted line. But Kurt Cobain?

You stay classy, Activision.

Guitar Hero 5 at IGN.com

Comments

  • Deadlydorito

    August 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    NOU stay classy San Diego

  • Stephen Alexander

    August 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    During the first verse of the song his mouth seems to be opening way too much for how quiet he’s singing. For the rest of the song it seems fine.

  • Sagarat

    August 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    I would love to of seen the Mo-cap recording for this…..
    Actually, I probably would not.

  • th30n3

    August 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM

    Do you get a Shotgun peripheral with that?

  • Chris Barns

    August 28, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    Kurt is just as big of an Icon and just as influential as Slash, even more so, fr me anyway. I think is quite apt for him to appear

  • Alex Hartman

    August 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    Who authorised this? His estate I guess?

    Johnny Cash is dead too, but his preview didn’t seem nearly as weird as this. Cobain’s got the uncanny valley up the ying yang.

  • dzc12

    August 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM

    I don’t think the issue is whether or not he deserves to be in the game. Its whether the real Kurt Cobain would ‘sell-out’ so to speak. And to weigh in, I don’t think he would…

  • Brendan Keogh

    August 28, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    I squirmed when Jimmi Hendrix appeared in World Tour. I think it is wrong that estates or record companies can decide ona dead person’s likeness being used. A living person making their own choice to be in a game, fair enough, but some respect for the dead would be nice, thanks.

  • Jay

    August 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    He’s no rockstar.

    He was the Lady Gaga of THEN! But now look at him…

  • sofari

    August 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    The world needs this like a hole in the … erm… foot?

  • Flux

    August 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM

    Yeah, this annoys me, I’ve been thinking that his work (and image!) being appropriated into a commercial venture like a video game is precisely what he was trying to avoid by topping himself – Courtney’s selling him out big time.

  • Flux

    August 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    Also, Lady Gaga < Cobain, by a looong shot…

  • Josh

    August 28, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    The real issue is that by putting him in a game, Activision have done what Cobain was fighting against through his life.

    It’s like everyone wearing Che Guevera T-shirts: By buying the shirts you are participating in the action that Che was against.

  • I Am Me

    August 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM

    well i guess courtney love has made another crap load out of this $$$$$

    I wish she would use a shotgun on herself

    anyway its very creepy but i cant wait to play.

    love peace and sympathy

  • Carlo Broeck

    August 28, 2009 at 6:09 PM

    now that they concentrate so much on specific characters, no guitar straps is kinda distracting

  • Pottsy

    August 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM

    He gave up on life and took the cowards way out. It’s sad but very true.

    He doesn’t deserve to be in this game.

    • Flux

      August 28, 2009 at 10:16 PM

      I tend to think that it’s phenomenally simplistic and unfair to refer to ANY suicide as “the coward’s way out” in this day and age, knowing as much as we do about mental illness as a contributing factor. Unless someone is committing suicide to evade a criminal trial or some such, it’s not cowardice, but the final symptom of a serious (possibly undiagnosed) health issue. In Cobain’s case, it is highly likely that he was bipolar, and never received proper care.

  • woody

    August 28, 2009 at 11:38 PM

    Here’s the quick fix solution to this…

    Don’t like it…don’t buy the f***ing game!

    Simple.

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