Twenty years later, in Seattle, a band co-formed by the late Kurt Cobain was looking for a name and chose the same one. That was the beautiful thing of it – we didn’t have to dig deep.” “Some people think Kurt Cobain sang with our band” Almost everything we did with our music and with the band was spontaneous. I knew the word ‘nirvana’ was about being on a higher level of meditation and almost being able to zone out mentally. “A lot of people at that time in the 60s were going to Tibet. I knew about music and Hindi philosophy and some Buddhism,” adds the 75-year-old singer-songwriter. “We knew a bit about the Eastern philosophy. The pair signed to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records in the UK as the psychedelic 60s were in full bloom. But the next morning Alex called me said, ‘I think I might have a better one.’ I asked him what it was and he said, ‘Nirvana.’ I said, ‘OK that’s a good name, we’ll be Nirvana.’ It was a good moment of inspiration.” “I came up with the name Karma, which we both loved. “Alex and I were enjoying songwriting together, but we said to each other at some point that we better get a name together for the band,” Patrick Campbell-Lyons tells uDiscover Music.
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