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Melvins frontman, Buzz Osborne, has explained why they fired Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain from producing their album ‘Houdini’.Cobain was brought in to produce the 1993 album and at some point in the midst of creating the LP, Melvins let the iconic singer go. Osbourne slammed the long-standing rumours that claimed that the band fired Cobain due to him wanting to write all of their songs for them.The Nirvana frontman was fired due to his addiction issues, Osborne revealed in an interview with Loudwire: “We fired him because he was too screwed up to finish working on the record.”After being asked if there was a “catalyst moment” that triggered the split in a recent interview with Revolver, Osbourne said: “Yeah – that’s exactly what happened.

Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad has claimed that Kurt Cobain was “jealous” of his bandmate Dave Grohl.The author recently appeared on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast to talk about an expanded version of his 1993 book about the band, Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana.In the original release, Cobain described a guitar part written by Grohl on ‘In Utero’ track ‘Scentless Apprentice’ as “boneheaded”.When asked about the quote on the podcast, Azerrad responded (via Loudwire): “I thought that was a little condescending, frankly.”Elsewhere in the Come As You Are book, Cobain is quoted as calling Grohl “the most well-adjusted boy in the whole world”. The writer claimed that the late frontman was jealous of the drummer who would go on to form Foo Fighters because of this.“I think Kurt partly was mocking Dave for being fairly together and normal,” Azerrad explained.