Kurt Cobain

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Surprised no ones brought it up yet. Today is the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's (and ultimately Grunge Rock's) death. Hard to believe it's been 18 years since he died. Boy time can really fly sometimes.

[palitoy]

Gah! I was 23 when he passed, hard day for me.

John Candy passed that week as well.

[Mikey]

I think nobody brought it up because (for the most part) suicides aren't really remembered anniversaries.

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Eh...whats the difference between a suicide and a drug overdose. Still a dark day for music regardless of how it happened.

[Tothiro]

I was bummed all day yesterday, but MLK was 44 years ago.

I saw the last show Kurt performed. He was really, really gone. Like out of his skull high. At one point Kris and Dave just walked off stage together and left him there. Kurt did some kind of meandering acoustic stuff. The lighting guys didn't seem to know what to do. It was not a good sight.

[Brazoo]

Ick - what a terrible day. After a day at college I met a girl I was seeing for a coffee and she told me. She didn't care about Nirvana at all - and for some reason she had this smug look when she told me - like it was a punchline to a joke or something really trivial - which, to her I guess it might have been.

I can't believe I stayed with her for almost two years. Ugh. Sour days.

[jwyblejr]

One of the few guys that loved the fact he was spoofed by Weird Al.

[hobub]

Wow time flies, he's the same age in years as I am. He'd be 45 if he were here today.

[mego maniac mark]

I still think Courtney had something to do with it

[timb]

http://timbaron.com/Portfolio/large_images/large-Cobain.jpg

[Tothiro]

I don't think she had much to do with it beyond being a hot mess.
Besides ... Kurt actually wrote about a plan to do something like that after getting famous in his journals in high school from what I understand. He was a troubled guy.

[Thor]

I remember being shocked by the announcement.

[stabilio]

This makes me feel old. I met Cobain/Nirvana by chance in early 1992 while waiting on line inside NBC studios at 30 Rock to see Late Night with David Letterman. It was a Friday and Nirvana was the scheduled musical guest for SNL the following night. They were in for rehearsal and all 3 of them came walking down the hall where they had us lined up, to get a tour of Letterman's studio before the show. The mostly older people on line had no idea who they were and basically were just looking at the "freaks" that were coming by. I stopped them on the way back out and told them I was a fan and they all signed a piece of paper which was all I had with me at the time (long gone unfortunately but it was pretty much scribble anyway).

Side note - after the Letterman show, we left the studio and hailed a cab and right as we were getting in the cab, Chris Farley came running towards us and begged us for our cab as he was in a rush to get somewhere. We gave it to him.

I managed to see Nirvana live once, the week before they taped Unplugged in Nov. 1993. Definitely a memorable show.

Also should mention that today is also the 10th anniversary of the death of Layne Staley of Alice in Chains. I was actually an even bigger fan of them than I was of Nirvana.

[toys2cool]

man I was 14 and in 8th grade, remember it like it was yesterday...all my rocker chick friends crying and all the guys super depressed :embarassed:

[toys2cool]

http://timbaron.com/Portfolio/large_images/large-Cobain.jpg

very nice :2thumbsup:

[4NDR01D]

I saw a picture of his daughter Francis Bean the other day, at 19 she's a full grown woman, and it kinda sunk in how long it had been.
I didn't really believe it the day he died, rumours of a drug OD death had been going around for a while and always proven false, somehow even with the major news sources confirming it, it didn't sink in until weeks later. Think I was 18 at the time.

edit: just realized as I posted that that his daughter is older now than I was then. *sigh*

[Earth 2 Chris]

I remember thinking what a waste. I guess he was just a person with a lot of mental problems. He seemed to be in constant conflict with achieving his goals and wanting nothing to do with them.

Chris

[MIB41]

He represented a different generation from mine, so I never followed him or connected with his music. But I respect the loss that fans feel in his absence. I think his fans feel for him the way I feel for John Lennon. It's a very personal connection, so I always offer my respects whether I'm connected or not.

[Sowth]

He represented a different generation from mine, so I never followed him or connected with his music. But I respect the loss that fans feel in his absence. I think his fans feel for him the way I feel for John Lennon. It's a very personal connection, so I always offer my respects whether I'm connected or not.

You're right, I was a Nirvana fan and it was a very sad day, we were on our way to a younger mate's 21st birthday party, it certainly turned that into a pretty sombre affair. They are one of the few bands I distinctly remember hearing for the first time, I was involved in the live music industry at the time and they blew us all away.

I heard them live in '92 (I'd say "saw them" but it was a tiny venue and I was stuck out the side lol), I had a buddy who was lead singer of a band that supported them live in Oz, he partied with Dave and Krist but said Kurt was well and truly under the spell of Courtney and didn't do anything without her, to his loss.

I've been a Beatles fan since I could talk, and remember well the shock and sadness of Lennon's death, and even Elvis to a lesser extent, but Kurt's was much closer to home. That it's been 18 years is hard to fathom.

[boynightwing]

I was 17 and just starting to date my first girlfriend. We were on the phone when she saw it on the news.

Also, Justin Bieber was born a few days before Kurt killed himself. Is there a connection? (kidding)

[J.B.]

Cheer up guys; you've still got this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8oT9ag631Q)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/SkullLeader1/Mego/krist.jpg

[Adam West]

It was sad to hear the news but my own memory is a bit hazy. My father died a couple of weeks earlier and I was still mourning his loss.

[Bill]

It's funny, I stumble upon this post while listening to PiL's "Rise." John Lydon started it all and Kurt's was the last note ever played.


Anger is an energy

[palitoy]

Weird I'm listening to Rise...

[Bill]

The great mind thinks alike.

[galaxyexplorer42]

Nirvana was an important band for me as they got me back into new music again. By 1991, my favorite bands at the time like Husker Du, Scratch Acid & the Replacements had all pretty much broken up. Nirvana was new & cool, and they were into the same music that I was into, which I guess struck a responsive chord in me, so to speak....

[johnmiic]

I remember was working in a mid-town art supply store in NYC with an old friend of mine. My college days were pretty much over. Management kept WPLJ on in the store for everyone to listen to. They broke programming with a news update reporting he had died in the early afternoon.

[BlackKnight]

all my rocker chick friends crying and all the guys super depressed.


All the Dudes were Crying Here.

[huedell]

I stopped taking on the more "emotional" lyrical artists by the
time NIRVANA debuted... so they were kinda a non-issue to me...
BUT... speaking of Cobain's influences, I always found it charming how he often referred to the Beatles as inspiration and even likened Nirvana's
pop sensibilities... or at least thier level of fame (I never really understood
Cobain's meaning)... to what Cheap Trick had done in the 70s.

[Den82]

14 years ago yesterday Wendy O Williams committed suicide. I care more for her than Cobain.