Cobain Debut On Guitar Hero Strikes A Sour Note With Love

Courtney Love, the widow of now deceased Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, is tweeting (warning, these tweets are profanity laden) at the top of her lungs about the appearance of Cobain's likeness in the video game Guitar Hero 5. According to her tweets, Love is considering legal action against Guitar Hero video game developer and publisher Activision for the use of her late husband in Guitar Hero. The Guardian newspaper reports that Love is especially upset where Cobain is lip syncing songs from other artists like Bon Jovi.



Love Tweets, "(I) never signed off on the avatar, let alone this ****ing feature!" she wrote. "There's been four breaches of a very strict contract."

Love is also upset at a profanity laden diatribe by Guardian blogger Everett True where True accuses Love and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl of selling out. In the blog, True posted a YouTube video of Cobain singing various pop hits with the subject line "Someone gives love a bad name: Hint Courtney)".



Activision tells the Guardian that Love was very involved in the process of incorporating Cobain's likeness into the game, even picking out virtual wardrobes and hairstyles. But Love (as shown in the tweet above) says she signed off on nothing.

Seems we'll be hearing a lot more about this video game battle and Twitter will give us an inside look at it every profanity laden step of the way.

-posted by Andrew