According to an NME report , Nirvana’s former manager takes a swipe at Courtney Love in his new book, saying she played a role in the downfall of the band.  “Courtney’s very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band’s life and the beginning of another,” Danny Goldberg writes in “Bumping Into Geniuses:  My life Inside the Rock and Roll Business.  

Goldberg says that Love acted at Cobain’s “mouthpiece” and he recalls a time where he was asked to deliver hundreds in cash to the couple that they were allegedly planning to spend on heroin.  “I felt pretty uncomfortable as I delivered the package of $100 bills to her at the hotel…Abruptly, the dark cloud of drug excess had entered the band’s life. I was confronted by the baroque façade of lies and the awful glassy-eyed deadness that regular heroin use provides.”  

Say what you will about Courtney Love (and there’s been plenty that’s been said over the past fifteen-plus years): She lacks musical talent, is an egomaniac, and can be very calculating when it comes to her own career. Not to mention Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic can’t stand her. However, based on an excerpt of the book here,  it doesn’t seem like Goldberg is blaming Love for the band’s demise as much as the NME would like you to believe.  There seems to be more empathy from the former manager than blame. And the author clearly recognizes that Cobain was a textbook junkie all on his own.