https://nirvana-legacy.com/2013/07/01/nirvana-lollapalooza-tour-ep-1994/
I’ve muttered on about Lollapalooza before, this is just a very brief addition to the topic. I noted that Perry Farrell and the organisers hadn’t been asked about it. A few brief attempts to contact Mr F didn’t get far so I just popped a question on Twitter – land of those incapable of making an extensive or wide-ranging argument or luxuriating in a flow of words (a comment on the medium not Mr F I assure you – he’s a sharp guy!) Anyways, just a minor addition to the store of Nirvana knowledge but he did reply with the following:
Not a major addition, more a touch more chronology indicating that the band did accept – after one of their usual bursts of word play and teasing. I shouldn’t credit Cobain with all light plays on words but it does hint that he either was involved, or that he had allowed someone to go ahead and agree on his behalf even if he had only the slimmest intentions of going ahead with it. The silence is just fairly typical passive-aggressive North-West behaviour – best not to reply than to offend by saying something someone might not like or might come back on. It was suggested to me the other day that this is a fairly common characteristic of the area – a bit like how I was once told that the Japanese would rather move office and disconnect the number than say no to you on a phone call. As I’m British and therefore make weasling out of blunt honesty a core part of my average day I can definitely sympathise.
I’d simply been curious regarding what point in time the invitation had been made – this is still up for grabs. I’ve never been a fan of the idea that Cobain plotted his end over a lengthy period of time and I was wondering whether the invitation was made in late 1993 or whether the band received the invitation in the spell from February onwards when he seems at his worst. Ah well, nice there are always questions.
Nirvana Legacy 
There’s video clip on youtube of Kurt backstage with Buzzcocks in Februrary 94 .
And in it at one point you can hear him talking to someone about playing Lollapoloza.
here it is from about 4min25 onwards:
Wow I blew my own mind .
This dvd has pretty much every single known day/week of kurts life It is insane .
It has the WHOLE history , Ive never seen anything like it .
You guys take some time to watch episode 1 there are 7
The invitation to lollapalooza was in July 1993, mentioned in this interview by Kurt said that the offer was 6 million dollars, then in December 1993, in an interview with Kurt Loder, said the offer was 9 million dollars, So there were negotiations throughout those 6 months and the offer increased by 3 million dollars, after the European tour of In utero began and after the Rome event, Kurt was supposed to reject those 9 million, likewise Tom Grant , he mentions it in his investigation, that
Courtney love was really irritated with Kurt’s decision to refuse to tour,
“If he does not want to play in lollapalooza, I’ll do it myself, if he does not care about the money, he should care about his daughter ”
Great data! Thanks for sharing.
My only dispute is with the word ‘investigation’ being pinned to anything Tom Grant ever did. He’s barely moved a muscle in 25 years!