Nirvana - About A Girl Guitar Cover
Kurt Cobain wrote about a girl for his girlfriend, Tracy Marander, after she complained that he never wrote a song for her. After spending an entire evening listening to The Beatles first US album, Meet The Beatles, over and over, About A Girl was born. According to Chad Channing, who was Nirvana's drummer at the time, Kurt didn't have a title for this song when he brought it to the studio. "I remember we were rehearsing the song not long before we went in and recorded the record, Bleach. Kurt was just playing the song and we were working it out. I asked Kurt what the song was, and Kurt was like, 'Well, I don't really know.' And then I said, 'Well, what's it about?' And he says, 'It's about a girl.' And I said, 'Well, why don't you just call it 'About A Girl'?' And he just kind of looked at me and smiled and said, 'Okay.' We went with that." Later in an interview with Rolling Stones magazine, Kurt Cobain said, "Even to put 'About a Girl' on Bleach was a risk." "I was heavily into pop, I really liked R.E.M., and I was into all kinds of old Sixties stuff. But there was a lot of pressure within that social scene, the underground – like the kind of thing you get in high school. And to put a jangly R.E.M. type of pop song on a grunge record, in that scene, was risky." Kurt Cobain's legend status makes it easy to forget how young the man taking these risks was – just 21 during the recording of Bleach.
Tuning: Standard
Equipment used: Univox Hi-Flier phase III, Boss DS-1 and Fender Mustang IV amp.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
[Chorus]
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free (I do)
[Verse 2]
I'm standing in your line
I do hope you have the time
I do pick a number too
I do keep a date with you
[Chorus]
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 1]
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
[Chorus]
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
No, I can't see you every night
Free
[Outro]
I do
I do
I do
I do
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