I've only been doing drugs for an hour'." Can I give him your number?' And he was like, 'Steven Tyler got to be a junkie for 18 fuckin' years. I told Kurt, Holy shit, Steven Tyler called my office and he wants to help you. In Everybody Loves Our Town (opens in new tab), the definitive oral history of grunge, Gold Mountain Entertainment's Janet Billig, recalled, "Right when It started coming out that Kurt was doing drugs, I remember Steven Tyler called and wanted to help. In a bid to try to help the younger musician avoid pitfalls of which he had personal experience, Aeromith's frontman went as far as contacting Nirvana's management in 1992 to enquire about getting Cobain's phone number to set up a heart-to-heart chat with the vocalist/guitarist. "There was a point where I didn't have a band and I didn't care."Īs he watched Nirvana's meteoric rise in the early '90s, Steven Tyler says he recognised the "pain" in Kurt Cobain's eyes and later discovered that Nirvana's frontman was using heroin. "I have an addictive personality so I found certain drugs I loved and didn't stop to the point of hurting my children, hurting my life, hurting my family, hurting my band," he admitted on Fox News programme OBJECTified in 2018.
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