User talk:Zimmyman

Is there an on-line archive of Rip magazine, or at the very least a date, issue number and page for the Cobain quote? K8 fan (talk) 18:06, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

There is no an on-line archive for Rip magazine at this point. However, the article being referred to is available online. I've posted the link below. I also own a copy of this issue.

I don't know how to put references next to the fact in a Wikipedia entry, so perhaps you can do it for us?

It was in a story by Katherine Turman, who interviewed him. It was in the February 1992 issue of RIP. The article was titled "Smells like...Nirvana." She was one of the editors of RIP magazine. She is also the co-author of the new heavy metal oral history, published this month, Louder Than Hell.

Here is the quote from the story: "Typical of Nirvana’s musical approach, Cobain, 24, plowed headlong into rock ‘n’ roll. He started out as a punk fan, learning about its heyday via the old Creem magazine."

And here is a link to the story.

http://www.nirvanaclub.com/index.php?section=info/articles&file=02.00.92-rip.html

Now can you please leave this in the entry? Thank you.
 * References from fan sites are not allowed. The article already contains a reference to Cobain's Punk education with this line "Melvins guitarist Roger "Buzz" Osborne taught Kurt Cobain about punk by loaning him records and old copies of CREEM.[5]"


 * From that reference:
 * "This is what I was looking for," he wrote in his diary in 1983 after seeing the local band the Melvins play live. The music's firmament in the power of the individual opened a door he never closed. Soon band member Roger "Buzz" Osborne started Cobain's schooling, loaning him records and old copies of the '70s rock magazine Creem."


 * I can add it. Do you have a page number or can you send me scans of the pages? K8 fan (talk) 16:04, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

That's a direct copy of the story that ran in RIP. I read the story. Ms. Turman herself told me about the quote immediately after the interview took place. Why are you being so stubborn about this? I would think a direct quote from the subject would hold much more weight than a narrative sentcne from a biography. At least that's what I always believed as an editor myself. Why don't you send a message to Katherine Turman --who interviewed him for this story -- and ask her? I'm handicapped and not going to wade through old magazines in my garage to provide you with a scan of the article, for godssakes.

https://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=Katherine+Turman&init=public#!/katherineturman