Guitar Hero 5 / Cobain / Courtney - no Love


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Cobain/Love/Guitar Hero 5

We've documented the slow-motion digital volleys between Courtney Love and Activision over the inclusion of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5 as an unlockable and playable character. The latest in this dramatic saga is actually a double header with some special guests joining the fray.

First, Love again started slinging tweets, though some requiring a secret decoder ring to fully understand (such as "are they doing this to defelct the bad pr?Blame courtney? they know they are fullof s*** and oi need to have the preleaselawstuf"). In summary, Love indicated that she only had a "deal memo" with Activision, but not a signed contract, to use a Cobain avatar that she okayed for use in the game. However, in another tweet, she stated that she never intended to approve the deal, predicts that Activision will have to do a recall on the game and tells followers to "wait til you see what MY lovely lawyer has cooked up."

In addition, TeamXbox was forwarded a joint statement issued by Cobain's former Nirvana bandmates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic:

This is a statement regarding Nirvana, Guitar Hero and the likeness of the late Kurt Cobain.

We want people to know that we are dismayed and very disappointed in the way a facsimile of Kurt is used in the Guitar Hero game. The name and likeness of Kurt Cobain are the sole property of his estate - we have no control whatsoever in that area.

While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character. This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in "re-locking" Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future.

It's hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists' music alongside cartoon characters. Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better.

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl

Source: TeamXbox

:rolleyes: I don't know .... well I agree with Novoselic & Grohl, Kurt looks ridiculous singing some songs (I had a laugh watching him dancing while singing "superstitious" ) but in the other side that junkie that can't even spell right :x

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hmmm, so that just made this game HUGE publicity. A ton of people will not rush out to buy it before they "recall the game off the shelves to fix it", or they end up locking it through live, etc.

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yup, I think they are going to patch out Mr Cobain or shoving a lot of money to that rehab

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