Comments on: Where Were You When You Heard That Kurt Cobain Died?

By: Sierra Valve

Sierra Valve — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:01:01 +0000

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By: Remote Control Inc.

Remote Control Inc. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:58:38 +0000

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By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:53:58 +0000

@John P Strohm: Btw, John, you kinda win at alt-rock memories here: "I was playing guitar for the Lemonheads in '94, and we shared management with Nirvana."

Not saying it's a contest or anything, but your perspective is pretty unique.

By: KikoJones

KikoJones — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:02:28 +0000

@raycummings: Yes, Layne deserves some props too. Especially since his former bandmates have recently decided to carry on w/o him.

By: cassidy2099

cassidy2099 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:44:25 +0000

@raycummings: I remember where I was when I heard about Layne Staley. I was doing my radio show in college and my co-host made the comment that "now he truly is the Man In the Box". The rest of us groaned and that pretty much ended any talk about it. It's actually a really sad story.

By: NotPop

NotPop — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:10:31 +0000

I was going Go-Carting with a friend, in the morning when we were getting ready his Mum yelled out "Kurt Cobain committed suicied". Though I was shocked by the news, my friend just replied "Ha! What a Dickehead!" and that was that. I looked up to my friend to much to put forward my opinion and had to wait until the next day to develop my reaction, which was a mixture of shock and general gloom. I remember wizzing around in my Go Cart just thinking of Kurt and what the gravity of it all meant. Strange day.

We weren't listening to Nirvana much at the time, we were fans but they were a mainstream band in Australia and by the time In Utero came out I was far more into old Sonic Youth and a host of lesser known and even lesser remembered bands of the time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:06:30 +0000

@Chris N.: I totally agree.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:03:10 +0000

I was in college, my one short year of school before I dropped out. Strangely, the week before there were (local?) rumors that Eddie Vedder had died. So, naturally, I thought Cobain’s death was a hoax too. That day, I got food poisoning from the cafeteria and spent the next few days in bed. I watched the MTV coverage pretty much non-stop in my dorm room. Mostly what I remember is the memorial with Courtney reading his suicide note and a lot of Kurt Loder reportage.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:59:57 +0000

not that as many people will comment or anything

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:59:33 +0000

one of these years, we need a post like this for layne staley.

By: Jess Harvell

Jess Harvell — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:52:03 +0000

sophomore year of high school. i had already stopped listening to them obsessively, in large part because of the dozens of bands i'd discovered in the previous three years thanks to nevermind's success as the final push into alt/indie/punk rock (and often directly via namedrops in nirvana features and interviews). i think word had gotten around before school had let out for the day, though i could be misremembering; i definitely watched a lot of mtv that afternoon/evening in a compulsive daze now reserved for coverage of national tragedies and apocalyptic weather events. for some reason i remember the immediate aftermath being a much heavier trip for my sister, though she was two years younger and had only recently started listening to the band in earnest.

By: kurometarikku

kurometarikku — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:44:40 +0000

I remember feeling old for the first time, because I got the news from CNN. I didn't quite believe it. I lived in New Haven and was heading into NYC for the Raincoats/Liz Phair show at the Academy. I stopped in Times square in a fog, there was dirty snow on the ground still. It finally sunk in when I saw it blinky lightbulbs on one of the news tickers.

The Raincoats and Liz both made mention of it.

People still make fun of me for being affected by it now.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:24:43 +0000

Freshman year of high school, I was on spring break with my family in DC. Perhaps it was the next day and I had been busy with museums and stuff, but it was front page of the Washington Post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:23:17 +0000

I was at work, heard it on the local classic rock station.
I remember that all my co-workers save one didn’t know who Kurt Cobain was and I had to explain it to him by saying “You know the guy that does the ‘Here we are now entertain us’ song”. Weird sensation to hear such sad news around people who are indifferent to the news.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:20:15 +0000

(Fun fact: I watched the OJ-and-AC-White-Bronco car chase at the same job mentioned above, on a mounted-to-the-ceiling TV, as it was happening. Everybody – bartenders, wait staff, rich-as-f*ck patrons, etc. – stopped what we were doing, eyes glued to the screen.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:10:09 +0000

For me, this was a pretty personal thing when it happened – I don’t think I had any clue how huge it was culturally, until all the magazines started chiming in. (Magazines! If this had happened yesterday, I’d have said “blogs.”)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:08:15 +0000

this post is HEAVY.

By: KikoJones

KikoJones — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:04:58 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: "...when that thing hit in 1991-1992, it was like manna from heaven for a lot of my outsider-type friends. The 'jocks' and stuff didn't come to the party until much later, if ever. And what's wrong with music being popular and appealing to lots of people?"

Lucas, how dare you question the bedrock axiom of indie rock alchemy?! Don't you know that once an artist and/or their music is enjoyed by the masses it turns to shit, regardless of the quality of the music itself? Shame on you.

Cobain never fancied himself a spokesperson for anyone but himself. It's not fair to saddle him with what a lazy media and blind followers have laid upon his feet all these years. Nirvana and their co-horts, in and out of Seattle, were not the spokespersons for my generation--nobody was up for the job--but they wrote the soundtrack. And after living in the shadow of the classic rockers, punks, and new wavers, etc. we finally had our own music, which I'm proud of and will always cherish. And Nirvana was an important part of that.

By: philip sherburne

philip sherburne — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:51:09 +0000

I had been backpacking across Crete with my college girlfriend, largely out of touch with anything resembling civilization. Having arrived back in town in order to catch a ferry to another island, we were killing time nursing endless coffees at a cafe on the plaza. Needing something to read, I walked over the to the newsstand, where the international edition of Time or Newsweek read in great big type, “DEATH OF A ROCK GOD,” or some such. I immediately assumed that a Beatle or Stone or some such had kicked it, and was completely floored when I opened the mag to find out who it was. It didn’t really register. I liked Nirvana, but I wasn’t a huge fan; mostly, I think, it was that they, like me, came from the Northwest, and we were of similar ages. It just seemed so unlikely, and yet uncanny–one of those “There but for the grace of God go I” moments. Except for the fact that I didn’t have a raging heroin habit or a hit record to my name. But yeah, Greece.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:42:13 +0000

@GrioirDoibin: Yep, I was gonna point this out: Spin certainly spent more than two pages covering Cobain's death. Come on--how could it be otherwise? He was basically the mag's bread and butter.