Chords for Tony Wilson / Billy Corgan on Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

Okay, I'm going to go down one last avenue just because I want to do this and then you
can say whatever we want but just the last avenue and this is this and this is
getting personal but it's the story isn't it the story that we had the other
day about Mr.
Atensio my partner for many years here in Los Angeles the
_ former manager of Joy Division, New Order, _ James Addiction, _ which other fucking
bands has he managed? _
_ What's Gwen's band called?
No doubt, no doubt, that's right.
_ Tom does all these things and _ I've worked with Tom for a long time but I
didn't know that Tom once upon a time many years ago thought he was managing
Hole _ and _ _ _ he decided that the future for Courtney was to give her
$750.
It was actually $1,100.
I didn't want to correct him.
No, no, well okay, so just explain to me.
You know _ why I was $1,100?
[C#] Because she wanted me to
give her the money to give back to him.
Okay, because she was gonna screw him
because not screw him screw him but she was gonna screw you wasn't she?
No, okay.
The idea was she would go to Chicago to get her band support out on your tour.
Is that right?
You tell me.
No, she wanted to come, she was in [B] love with me and
wanted to come to [D#] Chicago to see me and that's what she told him to get
the money.
Oh, she told Tom I'll go to Chicago and get on the Smashing
Pumpkins tour.
Yeah, I'll go to Chicago and fuck Billy Corgan on the Smashing
Pumpkins tour but he didn't know she'd already fucked me.
Okay, fine.
So he gives her $1,100.
She didn't have to come to Chicago to get on the tour. _ _
_ So she came to Chicago and
_ I wasn't expecting her.
Didn't she phone you saying she was, should she come?
She called me and said well how do you feel about me coming to Chicago and I
sort of ambivalently said sure and [N] by which she informed me I'm already here
I'm at the airport.
_ _ _ And you're with your girlfriend at this point?
Well my girlfriend at the
time wasn't aware of this concept so I was putting this sort of all of a sudden
awkward double bind.
Plus you know I love Courtney but you know Courtney's not the
type of girl you just say okay just sit down for a moment let's just be calm and
think this through.
It wasn't really like that.
[F#] So she showed up looking very sexy
you know ready to rock as we say in Pumpkins world and I kind of freaked out
_ [C#] and and tossed her out on her ear.
Yes.
[G] Not thinking that she was going to walk
five minutes down the block and [C] run into Kurt Cobain and the rest is history.
Which she did?
Yeah.
That was when she met Kurt after she [G] threw her out of the hotel?
Well she'd been with Kurt on some level previously but it wasn't sort of a
full-blown romance and then she hooked up with Kurt that night.
_ They were
together and then the next morning she called me asking me if she could come
over to my place by which I said well if you slept with you know Rockstar A you
can't come back to Rockstar B and and [Bm] and she I think she went off to
Minneapolis and [G] next thing you know they were getting married and it was all this
you know thing.
Well the next thing I heard is that [N] Tennessee I was watching TV three
weeks later and suddenly he sees Kurt being interviewed at this very early MTV
interview and there right next to him is his former _ protégé Courtney and he
realizes that that's the end of that's the end of his $1,100.
_ It's the end of
because she'll obviously become managed by by Kurt's management and Kurt's the
whole thing would go yeah he was right.
So he's to blame?
Well he's $1,100 out.
_ Yeah but he also ruined my romance. _ _
Okay well I wonder if we should end on this
note of _ _ satirizing Mr.
Atensio _ _ _ or we should give you a last chance to say
something about the music business.
I mean _ do you find it fun to
talk about this the fact that you probably not asked about you asked
about your music and the rest of it but as you say you're business savvy.
Yeah I
love the business.
_ _ Say that