When I arrive in town, one of the first things I do is to call Kurt Cobain at home, where he's waiting for his wife to fly back from Atlanta where she’s been remixing the new Hole album with R.E.M. We both look at Kim, who’s sitting on the bed between us, lost, drifting in her own reverie. "You lived somewhere where there’s no electricity?" "You don’t have a pot-smoking period in your life?" he persists. Maybe my complete lack of sleep is finally getting to me. Maybe the tape recorder is stuck on a loop. I feel a distinct sense of deja vu coming on. "Bang pots and pans," she laughs, stoned. How about you, Kim? What do you normally do on New Year’s Eve? You’re gonna get drunk? You never get drunk before you play. "We’re playing in San Francisco, and we’re going to have pyro-technicians come and shoot off some fireworks. "Get drunk off my ass, and play with pyrotechnics," replies Nirvana’s singer. Kim Deal: "What are you going to do on New Year’s Eve, Kurt?" As Everett True, tired and emotional after an eventful encounter with Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal, reports, things just didn't work out to plan. Co-headliners of the show were meant to be Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the twin god-heads of grunge, whose longstanding rivalry was going to end in a public reconciliation. For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill and The Breeders, whose 'Cannonball' is MM's Single of the Year.
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