I had some experience in walking artists through the early stages of fame but nothing to match the meteoric rise of Nirvana. I often felt helpless when I’d see the anguished expressions that sometimes crossed his face for no apparent reason. I think it was dawning on Kurt that the success he had worked so hard for would not erase a lot of the emotional scars that he had lived with since childhood. I was reminded of Peggy Lee’s mournful song “Is That All There Is?”
