Kurt Cobain was planning a first solo LP before he died and had recorded an entire album’s worth of demos, according to Hole‘s Eric Erlandson.
Speaking to US TV station Fuse, Erlandson said the album could have been Cobain’s White Album, and was set to be recorded with a selection of collaborators. “He was headed in a direction that was really cool,” Erlandson revealed. “It would have been his ‘White Album’. That’s really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people.”
“I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That’s why I was really sad when he died. He was cut short. Who knows where this music would have gone?”
On the possibility of the demos ever being officially released, Erlandson admitted he wishes ‘something would come together’, and added: “I think the fans would be a lot happier. If nobody ever hears those songs, except for like three people, then that’s the way it goes. I heard some talk about somebody putting together some raw, rough acoustic thing.”