"It breaks my heart to see those stars..."

When I was pulling that old clip of John Hiatt doing "Icy Blue Heart," it was hard to resist pre-posting this clip of him playing "Perfectly Good Guitar" on the same German TV show.

When Hiatt originally recorded this song in the early '90s, it resonated in a kind of curmudgeonly way with me--this was right in the middle of the era when Kurt Cobain was sort of infamous for ending Nirvana performances by doing a Pete Townshend and trashing the stage with some more-than perfectly good guitars--those Fender Jags Kurt liked to play weren't exactly filling up the pawnshop racks, especially after Nirvana hit big and a lot of kids wanted the same thing he was playing. Of course, the Hiatt song outlived Cobain's guitar-smashing days, in the saddest, awfulest way possible. Whether Kurt regretted any of those Jaguars or would have cradled one... I guess it doesn't matter, does it?

Anyway, I know some people hate it, but I think it's a kicking song and it's my blog, so fuck you, eh?