Jon Bon Jovi disapproves use of Kurt Cobain’s image in Guitar Hero video game
September 18th, 2009 - 4:32 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Sep 18 (ANI): American singer Jon Bon Jovi has disapproved the use of late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s image in a new edition of Guitar Hero video game.
Jovi, 47, agrees with former Nirvana rockers Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl’s protests of being “dismayed and very disappointed” after learning their bandmate’s likeness can be used to play songs by other artists in Guitar Hero 5.
“I don’t know that I would have wanted it either. To hear someone else’s voice coming out of a cartoon version of me? I don’t know. It sounds a little forced,” Contactmusic quoted Jovi as saying.
When approached by bosses from game giant Activision to appear alongside Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Cash in the game, he declined the opportunity.
“I had the paperwork, they wanted me to be on that game and I just passed. But no one even broached the subject with me that I would be singing other people’s stuff,” he said.
“I don’t know how I would have reacted to that. I don’t know that I would have wanted it either,” he added.
Cobain’s widow Courtney Love announced last week she was taking legal action against Activision chiefs, insisting that she would never have agreed to the project if she knew Cobain would be “reincarnated” for renditions of Bon Jovi’s hit. (ANI)
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