It felt llike we were playing ukuleles all of a sudden.” I have nothing against hobos or ukulele bands, really, but that seems pretty accurate.

This album, of course, was enormously successful its impact was so dramatic that Guy Picciotto, leader of another band active at the time (Fugazi), said that compared to Nevermind “our record could have been a hobo pissing in a forest for the amount of impact it had…. But this is one of the possibly rare situations in which such a lawsuit is, in fact, completely stupid.Īs you’ve probably guessed after looking at the image above, or at least after reading the headline, because those are a couple of pretty solid clues right there, Spencer Elden is the human infant who appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind. Now, in many situations, a nonconsensual-freaking-penis-showing-incident would be not at all OK, and even grounds for a lawsuit.

And after thinking about that for another five years or so, and probably talking to a series of puzzled lawyers, he decided to sue. “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?'” Spencer Elden said in 2016.

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