Late last month Rolling Stone reported that Love worked with Activision – makers of the “Guitar Hero” series – to get Cobain’s character just right, supplying the company with photos and videos and giving her input on the Nirvana frontman’s wardrobe and hair style. Love later admitted through a series of ranting tweets that she did discuss an avatar with Activism but that she never gave the final approval for Cobain’s cartoon character.

“activision is fulllof s**t they have a a contcrct called a deal memo that said upon approvale they could use an avatar i approved I,” Love tweeted. “and i never inteneded to aPPROVE this s**t.” She then threatened to “sue the s**t out of Activision.”

Grohl and Novoselic released a joint statement, urging Activision to re-lock Cobain’s character. “Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world.  We feel he deserves better,” the former bandmates wrote.

Jon Bon Jovi said he probably wouldn’t have been too happy if the situation was reversed and he was in Cobain’s Dr. Martens.

“I don’t know that I would have wanted it either,” the Bon Jovi frontman told BBC News. “To hear someone else’s voice coming out of a cartoon version of me? I don’t know. It sounds a little forced.”

Bon Jovi said he was also asked to have his likeness transformed into a “Guitar Hero 5” character but that he turned down the opportunity.

“I had the paperwork, they wanted me to be on that game and I just passed,” he said. “But no-one even broached the subject with me that I would be singing other people’s stuff. I don’t know how I would have reacted to that.”

Activision released the following statement Sept.10, a little over a week after “Guitar Hero 5” hit shelves in North America:

“Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero 5.”

Although Love claimed that she and her daughter Frances Bean “get NO money for this,” Activision has since reiterated that a valid contract was signed and that Love did get paid.

“There’s absolutely a contract and we know that the check has been cashed,” Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosenweig told NME.com. “It’s really not Guitar Hero’s confusion. We went and spoke directly to the estate and made it crystal clear, got the rights, paid for the rights, and really we’ve done what we’ve always done.”

Love has responded with the following Twitter message: “Call me and tell me what check and for how much. You liquidate Kurt and you tell me I’ve cashed a check? We didn’t get a cent,” she wrote. “Now Mr Activision if you want to fix that I’d very much appreciate it. You’ve humiliated me and my daughter. People think we did ‘Guitar Hero 5’ for money when in fact we got not one cent.”

Since the Kurt Cobain/“Guitar Hero 5” controversy erupted, Love has since changed her Twitter account to private. I’ve sent in a request to follow Love but she hasn’t yet approved me worthy enough to read her nearly incoherent, rambling, but usually somewhat amusing thoughts.

Click here for the BBC News story.

Click here for the NME.com story.