A Fuse.com interview with former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson reveals that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was recording a solo project before his suicide in 1994.

Erlandson, the former bandmate of Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, said the solo project would have been a magnum opus likened to the Beatles “White Album.”

“[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool,” Erlandson told Fuse. “It would have been his ‘White Album.'”

Erlandson added that the project was a collaboration with other artists: “That’s really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people. I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on.”

He told Fuse that the project included Cobain performing a cover song — and that a recording exists, but hasn’t been released. Erlandson wouldn’t reveal the name of the song.

“No, it’s not surprising,” he said. “It’s a very sweet, just touching song.”









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Erlandson said several rough demos exist, but they haven’t been released.

“I’m not in control of things,” he told Fuse. “I just wish something would come together. I think the fans would be a lot happier. If nobody ever hears those songs, except for like three people, then … that’s the way it goes.”

He said the demos are similar to Do Re Mi,” released on the 2004 box set “With the Lights Out.”

Read the fill story via Fuse.

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