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Originally Posted by shirttail
They played what he wanted them to play on his songs.
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So he cracked the whip then?
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We'd still have those songs if Grohl and Krist had never existed.
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Because you know.. they weren't human or anything.
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It's like saying Drumbo & Zoot Horn Rollo should control Beefheart's estate.
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That is an entirely different kind of artist or band. Krist and Kurt wrote all their songs together when they first formed the band, and that dynamic only shifted slightly after Nevermind. However, Kurt did not write the bass or drum instrumentation, so logically those who did deserve their cut, whatever it should be. The way the Nirvana royalties are structured is that Krist and Dave were given 100% of a small porton of the songs so that the math would add up as to being roughly 1/3.. HOWEVER this piece meal situation set it up so that later Courtney cold posthumously release material that the Cobain estate owned exclusively and NOT release anything that Dave and Krist owned EVEN if they played on it and FURTHER what is uglier is that because Kurt did sing or play guitar on the music that KRIST AND DAVE legally own 100% according to those deals Courtney's lawyers have STILL prevent the release. Its why all the 1990s TV performances took so long to come out on DVD, endless legal wrangling and copyright negotiations.
To be sure, Krist and Dave wrote the bass/drumwork in a process with Kurt, and those songs without them are not "finished" or are not necessarily "Nirvana" so much as "Kurt's demo tapes" which is what we hear on some of the With the Lights Out box set material..