In addition to describing how the group created the album that broke open the rock world and rocketed them to superstardom seemingly overnight, Vig dove into the difficult topic of Cobain's struggles with mental health and crippling chronic stomach pain; Cobain died by suicide on April 5, 1994.
"He never talked about what his personal demons were, you know, he always said he had a lot of stomach pain and that could have been an ulcer, but there's no way to know exactly," Vig said of the health issues that plagued the singer."He never really talked much about what was going on inside his head. I think, for me, I was trying to decipher that in his lyrics."
Vig said he'd often ask Cobain what he was getting at in the lyrics, and Kurt would give a vague"It's just what I'm saying" answer, leaving Butch, like fans, diving into the words in an attempt to decipher their meaning to try to get into the singer's frame of mind."He never really articulated to me what the songs were about. And in some ways, as a producer -- and also as a listener -- I don't think you want to know what the song is about," Vig said.
And, despite the universal acclaim, chart-busting sales and instant-classic status, Vig said the group began to feel a kind of ambivalence-bordering-on-disdain for the very thing that helped them rise from obscurity to omnipresence., I understood that because you can't really be a punk rocker and then sell 20 million records, so you have to sort of disown and walk away from it," he said.
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