Kurt Cobain

[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.

[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.