Any frequent traveller will tell you that, when you’re out and about, sourcing recommendations from locals will almost always trump whatever you can find in the guidebooks. This can be true of where to eat, what to do and how to get about. legend Kurt Cobain clearly knew this – because, in 1993, the alt-rock icon called then- member Max Cavalera to ask where to score drugs in Brazil.
Cavalera co-founded Sepultura with his drummer brother Iggor in 1984, during their teenage years in Belo Horizonte. By the time the singer/guitarist had Cobain on the blower nine years later, his band were among the biggest in metal, touring globally and climbing album charts. Nirvana, meanwhile, were icons, having come out and dominated the mainstream two years prior.
Cavalera spoke about his unlikely call from Cobain during an appearance on a few years ago. The frontman – who now lives in Phoenix, Arizona – told the anecdote when asked about his coolest tour story. “It’s actually not really a tour story,” he began.
“I was here in Phoenix. “It was during [the touring cycle for 1993 album] . My son, Zyon, was just born, had just come out and Nirvana went to play in Brazil, big festival.
” A friend of Cavalera’s was also at the festival, performing lower on the bill as the lead singer of a hardcore band. This friend called Cavalera and, shortly after, put Cobain on the phone. “I was like, ‘Oh, shit! Kurt Cobain! Damn!’” Cavalera exclaimed to .
“I started talking to K.