They would have just fit each other so well. And then Kurt could have been the screamer that Elliott was never. So to me, I always thought, damn, if they made a band or if they had met, I honestly feel Elliott would have been like a younger brother to Kurt and Elliott would have showed Kurt how to tone it back and be more musical, and more subtle. And Elliott loved Kurt, and he loved Nirvana, and he would ask me about him. Music, to both of them, was the most important thing. They were both people who loved music so much, and they were both so incredibly similar, I think that the music they could have created as a team would have kept them alive.

And that’s what bums me out so much, not just because of the fact that they both fucking died, but they could have been buddies and they might have even hung on for each other. I’m gonna go there now, I don’t know how Lennon and McCartney met, but if they hadn’t it would have been a complete miss of an opportunity.

He would have gone to one of the shows, or they would have met somehow. And if fucking Kurt had just stuck around for a few more months, which was when Elliott had started to record, I know for a fucking fact that he would have adored Elliott. And when you’re talking about the loss, if Kurt had just fucking stayed alive for a couple of more months, if you look at the timeline and you look at where both of them were geographically, they were only like two hours away from each other.

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