Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson has claimed that Kurt Cobain was working on a solo album just before his tragic death.

The co-founding member of the Courtney Love-fronted band, who recently released a book entitled 'Letters To Kurt,' told Fuse.tv that the rock icon was demoing new material before he committed suicide in 1994:

"[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album.

"That's really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people. I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That's why I was really sad [when he died]. I was like 'Oh man, not only are you cutting off a life, but a message to the world, a musical path is just left with... Bush and all this other stuff.' He was cut short. Who knows where this music would have gone?"

Erlandson also expressed hopes that the material recorded by the Nirvana frontman, whose daughter Francis Bean yesterday argued Twitter should ban her mother from using the social network site, will eventually see the light of day:

"I'm not in control of things. I just wish something would come together. I think the fans would be a lot happier. If nobody ever hears those songs, except for like three people, then... that's the way it goes."