Happy Birthday Kurt.

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited February 2013 in Other Music
Happy Birthday dude xxxxooooo
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Happy B-Day

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  • julesandian
    julesandian Posts: 487
    Happy Birthday Kurt, Never forgotten.
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Happy birthday to Kurt. Can't thank him enough for the music, wish he was still with us.
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
    ~not a dude~
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  • Constant Recoil...
    Constant Recoil... Posts: 1,276
    Listened to Nevermind 3 times on repeat today. Happy birthday Kurt! Thanks for the music!
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Happy Birthday, Kurt.
    You are very much missed. :cry:
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    its hard to picture kurt at 45. what would he look like. would he be bald? would he have a short hair cut? would he still be making music, or would he have moved on to movies or be an author? What would that collab album with michael stipe have sounded like? What would the music he made in 2012 sound like as compared to the stuff in 1994? Would he be an acoustic singer songwriter solo? or would nirvana still exist? Would he be playing blues?
    What would he make of the music scene in 2012? of gaga? and bieber? what would he make of arcade fire and radiohead? what would he make of pitchfork? indie rock?
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I played Nirvana songs on my strat tonight!
    And been listening to their albums all day.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Happy 46th Birthday Kurt. R.I.P.
    Your music continues to inspire me.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Agg
    Agg Posts: 462
    Happy Birthday, Kurt. I was only 3 when he died, so his death didn't have an impact on me then, but it sure does now. I can't imagine what I would be listening to today if I have never found Nirvana (I probably would have never started listening to PJ). He may be gone, but he and his music will never be forgotten.
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    2015: Global Citizen Festival
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its hard to picture kurt at 45. what would he look like. would he be bald? would he have a short hair cut? would he still be making music, or would he have moved on to movies or be an author? What would that collab album with michael stipe have sounded like? What would the music he made in 2012 sound like as compared to the stuff in 1994? Would he be an acoustic singer songwriter solo? or would nirvana still exist? Would he be playing blues?
    What would he make of the music scene in 2012? of gaga? and bieber? what would he make of arcade fire and radiohead? what would he make of pitchfork? indie rock?

    I was thinking this same thing. He'd probably love gaga for her originality, and he'd say something like "Bieber seems like a nice kid, he can play the guitar, which is more than I can say for most pop artists today".

    And then he'd rip Backspacer to SHREDS.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its hard to picture kurt at 45. what would he look like. would he be bald? would he have a short hair cut? would he still be making music, or would he have moved on to movies or be an author? What would that collab album with michael stipe have sounded like? What would the music he made in 2012 sound like as compared to the stuff in 1994? Would he be an acoustic singer songwriter solo? or would nirvana still exist? Would he be playing blues?
    What would he make of the music scene in 2012? of gaga? and bieber? what would he make of arcade fire and radiohead? what would he make of pitchfork? indie rock?

    I was thinking this same thing. He'd probably love gaga for her originality, and he'd say something like "Bieber seems like a nice kid, he can play the guitar, which is more than I can say for most pop artists today".

    And then he'd rip Backspacer to SHREDS.


    as many of us have. 8-)
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  • Berasapj
    Berasapj Posts: 292
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    I played Nirvana songs on my strat tonight!
    And been listening to their albums all day.

    I did the same thing, but on my epiphone :lol: love playing Nirvana and love their music

    Happy Birthday Kurt :!:
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    Waiting for the next PJ euro Tour

    Hoping not to get drown in the wave of life
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,855
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its hard to picture kurt at 45. what would he look like. would he be bald? would he have a short hair cut? would he still be making music, or would he have moved on to movies or be an author? What would that collab album with michael stipe have sounded like? What would the music he made in 2012 sound like as compared to the stuff in 1994? Would he be an acoustic singer songwriter solo? or would nirvana still exist? Would he be playing blues?
    What would he make of the music scene in 2012? of gaga? and bieber? what would he make of arcade fire and radiohead? what would he make of pitchfork? indie rock?
    A part of me thinks that Kurt would never have lived to be 45. He just seemed like he was destined to leave us too early.

    However, if he had survived I think Nirvana would have run its course after 1 more record and he would be solo now. Dave would still have wanted to release his own stuff so there is the possibility that the world's view of him would change from "The Nicest Man In Rock" to "The Asshole That Broke Up Nirvana"!

    It would have been interesting to see Kurt take the Mark Lanegan approach to music - release solo albums but also follow his muse and record collaborations with different types of musicians. You know there would have been people queueing up to work with him. The Michael Stipe collaboration had so much potential, (their voices would be great together) and we know he recorded a whole album of Leadbelly covers with Lanegan that never got released.

    Of course one added bonus is that we may have a slightly-less-insane Courtney if Kurt was still around...
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    catefrances wrote:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its hard to picture kurt at 45. what would he look like. would he be bald? would he have a short hair cut? would he still be making music, or would he have moved on to movies or be an author? What would that collab album with michael stipe have sounded like? What would the music he made in 2012 sound like as compared to the stuff in 1994? Would he be an acoustic singer songwriter solo? or would nirvana still exist? Would he be playing blues?
    What would he make of the music scene in 2012? of gaga? and bieber? what would he make of arcade fire and radiohead? what would he make of pitchfork? indie rock?

    I was thinking this same thing. He'd probably love gaga for her originality, and he'd say something like "Bieber seems like a nice kid, he can play the guitar, which is more than I can say for most pop artists today".

    And then he'd rip Backspacer to SHREDS.


    as many of us have. 8-)

    I'm in the minority. I like that record. What I have always found contradictory in Kurt's message is that he loved pop music of the 60's (Beatles), but he claimed he hated pop music of the 80's and 90's. But he WAS pop music of the 90's. And he fucking loved REM, the epitome of pop music.
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  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    :evil:

    I have listened to everything he wrote. I have every book he contributed to, or published.
    I have all his music, I have all the dvds, and I have met some musicians that played with him.

    inspired from a radio host

    THANK YOU! But very sad about Andrew Wood

    So many things lost
    So many GREAT things came after

    Kurt really could smash gear, though
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  • Kathi
    Kathi Posts: 1,828
    He and Nirvana was what got me into rock music, so I'm forever grateful. I had an insanely lucky moment on Tuesday, I was able to meet both Krist and Dave and also Pat Smear at the Sound City Players gig in London, and then as I went home the next day I realized it's Kurt's birthday...it was a really important moment for me. Even though I missed Nirvana when they were around (I was 8 when he died), they gave me the gift of loving music, which is still the best thing in my life and will continue to be that. So Happy Birthday, and I miss you.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    A memorable image of an amazing musician who helps revitalize my faith in rock and roll:

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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I was 9 when he died, I remember the news story on it and the music video shows here playing Unplugged songs.
    I was too young to realise and appreciate how big he was, wish I was older then and a fan then.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    A week before he died, he was in Rome, I think. He overdosed on 60 or more qualudes , and almost died.
    This drug is illegal in the U.S. because there is no valid reason to prescribe it.? I watched this like a car crash.
    You don't want to see it, but you know it's going to happen, and you just watch in silence. He screamed for help, and there was no one there.

    "Crown of Thorns", is so meaningful. I could quote Shelly, Krist's wife, " You are just a junkie, Kurt"
    He replied "Fuck You, Shelly!"

    They tried, but it didn't really matter. Kurt is a very bad example of love gone bad. One of the last things he said about Frances, and he was super loaded, was "My own daughter doesn't even love me." She was 2 or 3 years old. The whole thing is a mess.

    If he would have held on, I'd wish him happy birthday.
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  • meveret
    meveret Posts: 110
    Yes I have found this to be contradictory as well. He was really wrapped up in the whole 80s punk underground vs. the mainstream battle. Yet he was signed to Geffen Records one of the biggest labels of its time. If there's one thing I can say about him is that he was a man of contradictions. And a man of great talent. And great sadness. I just hope he found the peace he couldn't have here .




    as many of us have. 8-)[/quote]

    I'm in the minority. I like that record. What I have always found contradictory in Kurt's message is that he loved pop music of the 60's (Beatles), but he claimed he hated pop music of the 80's and 90's. But he WAS pop music of the 90's. And he fucking loved REM, the epitome of pop music.[/quote]
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