![]() ![]() There was beer on the floor.” She was glad her comment had gotten attention, but she hadn’t expected to be pinned to the floor by this little waif of a boy. “It was in front of the jukebox,” Courtney remembered, “which was playing my favorite song by Living Color. Kurt responded with a flirt of his own: He grabbed Courtney and wrestled her to the ground. Kurt did look a bit like Pirner, the lead singer of Soul Asylum, as his hair had grown long and tangled-he washed it just once a week, and then only with bar soap. “You look like Dave Pirner,” she said to him, meaning the remark to sound like a small insult, but also a flirt. ![]() ![]() Courtney was wearing a red polka-dot dress. Already infamous in Portland, Love was holding court in a booth when she saw Kurt walk by a few minutes before his band was set to appear onstage. Kurt was there for a Nirvana gig Courtney had come with a friend who was dating a member of the opening band, the wonderfully named Oily Bloodmen. The setting was the Satyricon, a small, dimly lit nightclub in Portland, Oregon. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love first locked eyes on each other at eleven in the evening on Friday, January 12, 1990, and within 30 seconds they were tussling on the floor. ![]()
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