Nirvana band members dismayed that Kurt Cobain is an unlockable character for “Guitar Hero 5″

September 10, 2009 by J!-ENT

Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are dismayed and very disappointed that Kurt Cobain will be an unlockable character on the video game “Guitar Hero 5″.

The guys issued a joint statement to the press:

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.

Videos on youtube show the Kurt Cobain singing Public Enemy and Bon Jovi. Yeah, we agree…that’s not right.