17 Years Ago...

Dissidentman

I was waking up the next morning after a party at Umass, and MTv was on announcing he had been found dead.

loveontwolegs

I was a senior in high school and was at my BFF's house when I found out. I was still living with the secret shame of my grandfather committing suicide a few years prior, and all I said was "That stupid fucker."

I carried the secret of how my grandfather died for years because of the shame surrounding suicide. I only wish that we could have had more resources to save him.

I will be walking this year to honor Grandpa Lou, and my friends Tony and Frank. Please consider making a donation:

http://www.afsp.org/

lillwild1

loveontwolegs wrote:

I was a senior in high school and was at my BFF's house when I found out. I was still living with the secret shame of my grandfather committing suicide a few years prior, and all I said was "That stupid fucker."

I carried the secret of how my grandfather died for years because of the shame surrounding suicide. I only wish that we could have had more resources to save him.

I will be walking this year to honor Grandpa Lou, and my friends Tony and Frank. Please consider making a donation:

http://www.afsp.org/

I was just getting ready to leave for class when I read this post. You are my hero today.

PearlOfAGirl

I remember watching MTV when they announced the news on Kurt's death... I cried for days...

I hope you're getting the peace you've always wanted Kurt... R.I.P. :(

The Juggler

high school. friend was a huuuuuge nirvana fan. dude was depressed for months...to the point where a lot of us thought it was an act.

but my initial thought, for some reason, was "oh no, i hope eddie doesn't do the same thing." i was kinda stupid as a kid.

The Juggler

i will say this though, i would LOVE to know what their sound would be like if he didn't take his life. that unplugged album is phenomenal and provides glimpses of where they may have headed.

then again, if he lived, i wouldn't have been surprised to see them break up around that time anyway.

BinauralJam

The Juggler wrote:

i will say this though, i would LOVE to know what their sound would be like if he didn't take his life. that unplugged album is phenomenal and provides glimpses of where they may have headed.

then again, if he lived, i wouldn't have been surprised to see them break up around that time anyway.

Totally Agree, what would Nirvana 20 be like? or would they still have broken up and Kurt quit music only to return for a rare on stage song with Foo.

The Juggler

BinauralJam wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

i will say this though, i would LOVE to know what their sound would be like if he didn't take his life. that unplugged album is phenomenal and provides glimpses of where they may have headed.

then again, if he lived, i wouldn't have been surprised to see them break up around that time anyway.

Totally Agree, what would Nirvana 20 be like? or would they still have broken up and Kurt quit music only to return for a rare on stage song with Foo.

i could picture nirvana getting all eclectic and shit as they got older.

rafie

The Juggler wrote:

BinauralJam wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

i will say this though, i would LOVE to know what their sound would be like if he didn't take his life. that unplugged album is phenomenal and provides glimpses of where they may have headed.

then again, if he lived, i wouldn't have been surprised to see them break up around that time anyway.

Totally Agree, what would Nirvana 20 be like? or would they still have broken up and Kurt quit music only to return for a rare on stage song with Foo.

i could picture nirvana getting all eclectic and shit as they got older.

I was listening to "In Utero" a couple of days ago and I was pretty (I know you love that emoticon Juggler ). Does not really stand the test of time for me. Nirvana = Overrated. That being said, I too would have loved to see where they would have ended up musically if Kurt was still around.

gabers

Was bar hopping in Mainz, Germany at the age of 21 with friends and local German girls when one of them mentioned it kind of off the cuff. I remember everyone kind of laughing it off and I asked her to repeat. She did and I could tell that she was serious. I just remember feeling shocked. It was hard for me to enjoy myself that night after that bit of news.

Lizard

I remember being in the dentist's chair and watching it on TV. Not sure if I 1st heard it there or not but I vividly recall watching a story on it while getting my teeth cleaned!

Nothingman54

I was 13, I was riding my bike and a kid that lived down the street said Kurt cobains dead and I said I don't give a fuck. I was 13, didn't know much of anything about nirvana. It wasn't until my 20's that I fell in love with nirvana. I cry when I watch unplugged, the last long. Knowing that was his last time on tv. Here's to a true artist.

davidtrios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVLD0L-9u0g

2:27-3:05

Genius.

tinkerbell

I was 12. I remember seeing it on the news. I wasn't really a fan then - not till I was around 16. Since, I have read Heavier than Heaven - the poor guy was so lost in his depression and drug addiction. Everybody will always wonder 'What if?'

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I was 19. A girlfriend called me to tell me (and she was laughing about it!). I turned on Muchmusic and that's all they were talking about. I didn't quite comprehend at the time what it would mean to me. I sort of just thought "wow, that's shitty", but it has affected my life profoundly since then.

I often also wonder what Nirvana would have been like, but I agree with whoever said they wouldn't sound like anything, Kurt would have left Nirvana, which is apparently what he was planning on doing, according to the note he left.

Too little music left behind. I bought that box set, and all I could think was "wow, if I died and someone went out and sold all my jamming tapes that sounded like crap, and made my home movies into a dvd for sale, I'd be fucking PISSED".

*quickly hides all jamming tapes and home movies*

MoonTurtle

sitting on my bedroom floor, finishing homework, mtv on, and poof kurt loder on the screen

PearlOfAGirl

This is interesting!

Web Searches Surge for Frances Bean

Posted Tue Apr 5, 2011 5:19pm PDT by Michael Krumboltz in Stop The Presses!

On April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain took his own life at his home in Seattle, Washington. Tuesday marked the anniversary of the Nirvana rocker's death. His daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was not yet two years old when her father died. Now 18, Frances is focusing on her future, and online interest is heating up..

Over the past 24 hours, web searches on "frances cobain" and "frances bean cobain" have doubled. Lookups for "frances bean photos" are also jumping. Considering how famous her father was (and how controversial her mother, singer Courtney Love, continues to be), it's interesting to note that Frances has kept a relatively low profile..

Interviews with Frances Bean are rare, but online queries are not. Of particular interest to Web searchers: her middle name. According to TMZ, she earned the unusual middle name after Kurt saw an image of her on the ultrasound. Kurt allegedly remarked that the as-of-yet unborn Frances looked a bit like a kidney bean. The name stuck..

Frances, like many celebrity children, has famous godparents. Michael Stipe of REM is her godfather and Drew Barrymore is her godmother. She's interned at Rolling Stone magazine in recent years, but it does not appear that she is focused on journalism at the moment. In 2010, she gave an art show in Los Angeles under a different name, the mysterious moniker of "Fiddle Tim." .

Why the alter ego? It could be a desire to earn success without family connections. She clearly has problems with those who, in her opinion, rely on famous family members. In 2009, she let those thoughts be known on social networking site Twitter. Frances ranted about Lindsay Lohan's younger sister Ali. To Ali, she wrote: "You blatently (sic) don't care how your recognized, its the objective to get famous and that is what makes you replaceable and a recycled idea.".

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Thoughts_Arrive

I was 9 yrs old, in the living room with my sister and her school friends who were working on a school project.
The evening news announcer broke the news and my sis and her friends were shocked, I didn't really know who he was at the time so I was oblivious to it all and could not appreciate such a significant event in rock history.

markymark550

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

I was 9 yrs old ..... I didn't really know who he was at the time so I was oblivious to it all and could not appreciate such a significant event in rock history.

Pretty much the same for me, except I was 10 years old. At the time I understood it was important because he was rich and famous, but since I hadn't become interested in rock music yet, I didn't fully grasp just how significant it was.