When you began writing songs with The Raincoats at Hornsey College of Art, what gear did you start with? Get The Pick Newsletter All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox! I should get a custom bass because I play on the G string quite a lot higher up. It’s marvelous!”Kurt Cobain wrote about being obsessed with the Raincoats in the liner notes for 1992 Nirvana album Incesticide. He felt things about bands that had a certain honesty, that weren’t trying too hard to fit in.