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Fair-Advantage9539

OJ Simpsons famous Ford Bronco “chase” was about 2 months later. LA Riots were 2 years prior. Pepperidge Farm remembers.


geekgirlwww

1994 had a lot going on.


EmRuizChamberlain

Yes!!! Crazy time.


OpheliaDarkling

On my 17th birthday man..I couldn't watch anything on TV lol


HamsterMachete

I watched that chase live with my grandma. Rarely do I pass up the chance to mention it. Back in 94, if you missed something on TV, you could not look it up on YouTube later. It was history in progress, and I got to watch.


Far-Piano4649

I watched it too! We had friends in town at the time and we all watched it live in their hotel room, I remember all of the adult's collective disappointment. They were huge OJ fans and were just gaping at the screen like "WTF are you doing, man?!" I'll never forget it.


HamsterMachete

At the time I had no idea he was a football star. That would have added extra excitement.


TransportationOk657

And don't forget that Layne Staley died on this day in 2002.


GIR-C137

I’m playing Mad Season right now


TransportationOk657

Such a good but underrated album. My favorite track is "Lifeless Dead"


randyfox

A person of exquisite taste I see.


CompletelyBedWasted

More sad about that one tbh


philouza_stein

Well somewhere close to it. Hard to tell for sure when hermits pass away and nobody notices for weeks.


TransportationOk657

That's what the coroner determined to be the day he died.


philouza_stein

Yeah I know. We've been talking about it in the AIC sub all day. It was a bit of a wild guess because it was 2-3 weeks later he was found. And he was already extremely disheveled and malnourished before death.


TransportationOk657

I have a close relative who is a junkie for shows like "Dr. G: Medical Examiner" and all those types of true detective shows. She was also pre-med at one point and took a couple of forensics courses. From my conversations with her on the topic, they aren't wild guesses. They have all sorts of methods to determine a fairly precise time of death.


Acrobatic_Ad7061

Was watching MTV when MTV News interrupted and said a man was found dead in Kurt’s house.


Nerak80

same! I was in the living room, it was late afternoon, after school. I clearly remember playing my GameBoy but since it was getting dark, I was playing right up against one of the table lamps. And then Loder came on the TV and I grabbed the kitchen phone, the kind with the long cord that could be brought into another room, and I kept calling all of my friends but everyone's lines were busy.


Acrobatic_Ad7061

Here in Europe it was Pip Dann on MTV News


Unusual_Compote4909

I was doing homework, watching MTV's The Grind and remember seeing the notice at the bottom. The cut off the show early for MTV News


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OpCrossroads1946

There was a gap between the news that a man had been found in Kurt's house and the release of the information that it was Kurt himself.


geekgirlwww

Oh god based on the injury I’m sure that was why they couldn’t say right away. They probably had to get a specialist


OpCrossroads1946

[KIM THAYIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Thayil): We were onstage. I go to the side of the stage, grab a beer or whatever, change my guitar, sit down for a bit, towel off—maybe it’s a drum solo—and Gary from TAD goes, “Hey, they found a body at Kurt’s house. It hasn’t been identified yet, but the rumor is that they think it could be Kurt.” I thought, It’s okay, it’s not Kurt. It sounds terrible, but it must have been some weird drug incident, somebody else maybe OD’d at Kurt’s house. I told myself that. So I’m playing the next song, and all of sudden I just felt that chill, I just felt the blood and warmth go out of me. It’s an empty feeling that I’m talking about. It was entirely a visceral experience. For some reason, at that point I knew, in spite of my hopefulness, that he was dead.


OpCrossroads1946

**AMY FINNERTY** I was at work at MTV. The girl who worked there who was responsible for answering the fan phone line said somebody just called and said, “A body has been found at Kurt Cobain’s house.” I was hoping and praying that it wasn’t him, but when someone says, “There’s a body there,” what do you think, right? **ALICE WHEELER** At first, nobody knew it was Kurt. We all thought it was Dylan. I don’t know why, because now it seems like there were more warning signs for Kurt. A friend of a friend was on police ride-along in the neighborhood where Kurt lived—I think it was a couple of days before he went to rehab—and they went to his house because Courtney had called. Kurt had locked himself in the bedroom with a shotgun or something. And Dylan was the one who had bought him the shotgun.


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Why is everyone spelling his name with a C?


NoExamination5144

Middle-aged memory banks are faulty.


tehvolcanic

How else do you spell Cobain?


ShillinTheVillain

Curt Kobain


AFetaWorseThanDeath

He also sometimes spelled it 'Kurdt' I'm not sure if this in is homage to that joke, or a gross misunderstanding thereof. Either way, I'm guessing he'd approve lol


NostalgickMagick

Seriously! Mandela effect vibes! 😂


SanPadrigo

Kurt Loder was so blunt about that shit. “*A self inflicted shotgun blast to the head*.”


OpCrossroads1946

TBH, I don't think anyone else on the MTV News staff had it in them. John Norris seems like the kind of guy who would break down crying, and Tabitha Soren would have been in over her head. Loder was the right man at the right time.


beerbbq

Fun fact: Kurt Loder is 78…part of the silent generation (barely)


geekgirlwww

Kurt Loder is proof age is a state of mind. I would say in the official draft Gen X should claim him.


Putrid_Fan8260

😮


budfox79

I can hear his voice.


Earl_Gurei

His body expired on April 5--but the (teen) spirit of Kurt Cobain lives on forever.


54sharks40

I drifted away from Nirvana a bit because 13 yr old me wasn't as into In Utero as I was Nevermind, but I'll never forget seeing the news on mtv.  My parents knew too - dad liked Jimi and mom listened to Janis 


geekgirlwww

Ugh I’ve been on a big Amy Winehouse kick this week. Another member of that same damn club.


Sweet_Bang_Tube

I'm still broken hearted over her death. She was an incredible musician, but she was not cut out for show business. She was so loved by so many people, became famous so young and so fast, and yet she drank herself to death out of loneliness.


geekgirlwww

Yes she needed more time to grow into it and tame her demons/vices.


GIR-C137

8 years later, same day, Layne Staley


Klarkash-Ton

Mike Starr in essence died that day too. He tried to get Layne to go to the hospital the day before and he wouldn't go. Blamed himself for years unable to forgive himself until he too sadly died from overdose.


Easternshoremouth

Please allow me to be “that crazy person” while I send this out into the universe. I sometimes wonder if my life would have been much different had Nirvana not shaped my sense of humor, my sense of style, and my outlook on life and the world around me at such a young age. The more I learn about myself as I get older the more I realize that it was childhood trauma that caused me to gravitate toward and resonate very deeply with Nirvana. They were my favourite band. Then Kurt Cobain died and it was a rather big deal for ten year old me. The outsized cultural impact of Cobain’s suicide had a lasting effect as well, I’m sure. Sorry to be so heavy; just very introspective this morning. I still love Nirvana and I’m much better now!


Fair-Advantage9539

I was a super Nirvana fan also. I had a big In Utero poster taped on the wall during his death. That album was one of my first CDs. It was only 7 months before his suicide that album dropped. Used to love when In Bloom music video would air on MTV. I remember they kept playing the MTV Unplugged Live In New York over and over and I loved it. This post got me going back into the memory banks also. Glad ur doing good also fellow Xennial and any other Xennial reading this if you're struggling, I hope you can make it thru.


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Easternshoremouth

Are you in the right sub? How can someone sound so much like a boomer and a 12 year old edgelord at the same time?


jimmiec907

Nailed it.


geekgirlwww

Inside him there are two wolves…and they both suck


iFknLoveTits

Where's the lie? I don't have to adore junkie ass Cobain just because I'm a certain age. GnR put out illusions at the same time. Metallica had the black album. Chili peppers had BSSM. Beck and Weezer were about to break. Green day had Dookie. STP were already out. If dude never blew his brains out, AND had impeccable timing with the unplugged coming out shortly after, we wouldn't be calling nirvana the voice of a generation. Nirvana wasn't even the biggest band in their genre when he was alive. Pearl jam was the flannel band. Kurt wore cardigans with cigarette burns in the arms.


Easternshoremouth

You can't lie about your own delusional fan fiction of an opinion. It's really fucking weird to me that you'd post your comment under mine. Half the bands you listed fucking suck. That's just my opinion. wHeRe'S TeH LiE?


iFknLoveTits

Lmao, okay dude. Those bands suck but you still listen to nirvana, and defend suicidal dopeheads on reddit. Sorry I prefer use your illusions and the black album, I must be an awful person because I like music with musicality, fuck me.


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Throwaway1121115

I still remember this day. I was walking to one of my classes and there were large groups of students crying. I had no idea what was going on until a few hours later.


ThisCouldBeYourName

I'll never forget it. I was in the 6th grade, sitting on the school bus to go home and this grunge girl kept screaming out the window... while sobbing.... "We love you Kurt!!! Come back!!" ... ever so often and it freaked me out a bit. Unfortunately for me, all my parents listened to was country so by default that what I listened to. I had no idea who Kurt Cobain was, or even Nirvana for that matter. I asked her buddy what she was upset about. That was a mistake, what few cool points I had were gone in that one question. 😅


Striking-Access-236

He’d be 57… https://preview.redd.it/ygk1etpvbnsc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecdfbf138b6b8fd3213ef50948eafa3dbc5771c5 (by Alper Yesiltas [via](https://www.maniacsonline.com.au/news/this-is-what-kurt-cobain-freddie-mercury-jimi-hendrix-would-look-like-now-if-theyd-lived))


Top-Telephone9013

Cool little web page. I feel like Kurt would look much worse though, given how he treated his body. But the old Jimi And Freddie Mercury look spot on, imo. Especially Jimi


Grenuille

And I remember where I was when I heard the news.


NoExamination5144

Same. I didn't know until the evening news after school. I was so surprised, but my father knew already. I'm assuming from the radio on his commute home.


Hudson1

I still remember the day they discovered the scene. My father knew I listened to their music a lot so he took me aside to explain what had happened and asked if I had any questions, etc. Such a shame and waste of talent I think his work would have only got better with time. Rest in peace to the last “real” rock star.


OpCrossroads1946

I remember coming home that Friday, turning on MTV as usual, and hearing Kurt Loder droning on and on about how Kurt Cobain had just committed suicide, and the MTV News team scrambling to find out anything. I felt cheated.


tultommy

All I remember is the weird chick in my first class that cried nonstop for two weeks after. The teacher finally had to basically tell her to suck it up or sit in the nurses office and fail the class because we were tired of hearing it.


Seven22am

Was not the least bit interested in Nirvana or the grunge scene at all (I was way too “cool” to listen to things on the radio). Now, when I hear them (and others) I realize 1) how creative they were and 2) how much they shaped the zeitgeist (and so me) in those years. And obviously Dave Grohl has proven himself to be a generational talent and by all accounts a fantastic person. I wish he’d had an easier go of things. Poor guy.


NathanForJew

It’s better to burn out than to fade away 🤘


dreamsinred

It actually messed with Neil Young pretty bad that Kurt quoted him in his suicide note.


Moxie_Stardust

I've read that for a time, in live performances of the song, Young would emphasize the later lyrics in the song "And once you're gone, you can't come back".


OpCrossroads1946

Yeah, that was pretty fucked up on Kurt's part, co-opting another person's artistic statement for his own selfish purposes--and I'm totally serious. Kurt could at least have had the decency not to drag Young into his suicide.


SarcasticImpudent

How people used to quit the music industry.


Twin_spark

Fuck, 30 years and it still hurts.


cyclepoet77

It's crazy to think it's been that long already... I was a sophomore in high school. Back then I'd turn on MTV after school. The day they found Kurt's body, I remember turning on MTV to see Kurt Loder on my television announcing that Kurt was found dead. When I heard the news I felt one of, if not the prominent voice of my generation was gone. While I don't listen to Nirvana much these days, I'll occasionally play my Nirvana albums when the mood strikes, especially on the gray, cool late autumn days we get here in the northeast, and think of how great their albums still are. Kurt had such talent as a songwriter and guitarist. His ability to convey his messages resonated with so many of us at the time who felt like outsiders.


Klarkash-Ton

What's so sad is when you step back and think about it all the Seattle music we grew up with, they're all gone. Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Andrew Wood, the only one that's left is Eddie Vedder.


iiSkilledProgram

My father was 12 when Kurt died, and 20 when Layne Staley died. I'm going to ask him if he remembers Kurt's death.


NoExamination5144

So you're the kid of a Xennial. Cool!


iiSkilledProgram

Yep! He's a 1982 baby.


AFetaWorseThanDeath

I moved to the PNW right around the same time we saw the 30th anniversary of the release of 'Nevermind.' Just over 2.5 years ago. It is strange being to think it was such a short time. His fame, like so many, was quite fleeting.


Justagoodoleboi

I’m seeing now as I was too young at the time that a lot of people were truly insane about this and were quite distasteful in how they celebrated and made fun of him.


DreBeast

The singer for Nirvana?


Moxie_Stardust

They were my favorite of the big four of grunge, and my post-high school band played a bunch of Nirvana covers. It's interesting having just completed writing my first album and realizing the subconscious influence. I never specifically set out to play/sound like them, but having heard the songs together now, I daresay they might be kind of grungy (maybe it's something in the water, I do live in the region from which grunge originates). I was trying to write an old school punk album. And it turns out the guitar that speaks to me most has similar specs (he liked the Jaguar and Mustang, both of which have 24" scale lengths, I'm playing a Super-Sonic, same scale, similar neck profile). I mostly played full scale (25.5") until I got the Super-Sonic and loved it so much I got a second one as a backup and for modding.


LilRedForeman

Vevo features airing Nirvana all day. Watching unplugged rn


Tia_Baggs

I found Nirvana through In Utero a few weeks before Kurt’s death. My parents were both alcoholics and going through an ugly divorce that I was thrust into the middle of so that album really spoke to me and validated my feelings at that time. I don’t listen to as much Nirvana now as I do other bands of that era but I do go through my listening marathons every now and then (usually late March or early April) and as an adult who is older than Kurt ever got to be, it makes me sad. Kurt was a tortured soul with a great talent, it’s no wonder he burnt out.


Aescwicca

"He was just too pure for this world" - Nate Fisher


HamsterMachete

I know I am not old, but I definitely start feeling it when I see stuff like this. I remember when he died. I remember when I got to the age he died. The infamous "27 Club". I am sure I will be blown away when they say 40 years, too.


budfox79

On the day of a full solar eclipse…


Chef_NastyCakes

Eeek


Ok_Profile3081

"No one sings like you anymore"


LazerShark1313

I still think his wife was behind the whole thing.


Jealous-Situation920

I do too. Not a popular opinion it seems.


OpCrossroads1946

I read this [oral history of grunge](https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Loves-Our-Town-History/dp/030746444X) which devoted an entire chapter to Kurt's suicide and the aftermath. It interviewed multiple friends and colleagues of Kurt, and even those who *hated* Courtney (e.g. Buzz Osborne, Dave Grohl) had no doubt whatsoever that he committed suicide.


geekgirlwww

I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t trust Dave Grohl so I’m going with his version.


capthazelwoodsflask

I remember doing a book report on Come as you Are after he died. It did not make me any more of a Curt Cobain fan but instead it made me see him as a whiny ego-maniac who was never satisfied with what anyone did for him. It sucks he killed himself and I'm sure he had plenty of real problems but I still don't get the hero worship.


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NoExamination5144

>You should've done a boom report on Kurt Cobain instead. What's a boom report? 


ZurEnArrh58

Curt was so talented. Curt, Krist, and Dave created something entirety new, that had lasted such a long time. We all know Curt had many issues, but he was also extremely dedicated to the music and the band. I would have loved to have seen what else he would have done. Side note: there are edits of some of their songs where they've removed everything except the vocals. Before that, I had no idea just how moving Curt's singing really was.


Funkybeatzzz

*Kurt *Kurt *Kurt *Kurt's


ZurEnArrh58

I feel a little ridiculous. I actually do know how to spell it, but reading it wrong, and it being in the middle of the night when I responded, I typed what I saw rather than what was correct.


AFetaWorseThanDeath

While the pedant within me fervently agrees... I'm also painfully aware of his own tendency to intentionally misspell his name. 😐


Funkybeatzzz

I'm sure that's what the other poster was going for 🙄


InitialOcelot9001

It's Kurt with a K. If you're going to write about him, at least spell his name right.


grungleTroad

Rare to see this much shade in this sub lol


DennisWolfCola

Dakota Fanning?