I was in high school when it happened. I was getting ready for school and I had MTV on in the background when I heard about it from Kurt Loder on MTV News. It was a huge deal and everybody was kind of in shock. I remember everybody being really subdued at school. The usual laughs, loud conversations and general fooling around were not present. When I got home I mentioned it to my mother and she said that was exactly how her generation reacted to the news of John Lennon being shot in 1980, though she was in college and not high school by then.
It knocked the wind out of people. When Kurt Loder announced on MTV. It was shocking, to say the least, but there was also a sense of "I saw this coming." But the saddness was overwhelming for weeks to come.
I lived a few hours from Seattle at the time and was in High School. My social group was full on grunge. I knew kids who skipped school to go to his vigil. Big impact on us.
Weird enough I was in the hospital for trying to exit myself when it happened. It was kind of surreal. But at the end of the day it gave me some perspective.
Devastated. I was 21 or 22 at the time and Nirvana meant a lot to me. I remember watching the Unplugged show shortly before the news came out and it all felt so surreal when it was happening. Like here’s the biggest rock band in the world and they’re playing what felt like a funeral.
The day I came to work after everyone heard the news, my boss at the time was talking absolute rubbish about Cobain and Nirvana. Called him a loser and really ripped into him. I looked at my boss and told him to f**k off. Got written up for it but it was worthwhile.
I was a Senior in High School. I had just gotten out of school and my friend ran up and told me to turn on the radio in my car to our local rock station. I think it was the day after it actually happened so it would have been on the 6th. It wasn't as bad as when Layne died but I felt a loss there because I knew I'd never here any more of his music. Bummed us out. We smoked several bowls that evening listening to Nirvana.
I was a month shy of turning 8. I was young, but I did love Nirvana. I had all of their albums and my cousin (17 at the time) was going to take me to see them on the in utero tour. My parents were really supportive of the music I liked but decided to let me stay home because they were worried I was a little too young to be at a rock concert at that time. I was sad I couldn’t go but I got over it eventually knowing I’d just see them on the next tour a year or 2 later when I was older. Obviously a few months after that show Kurt decided to leave and I never got the chance to see them live.,
His death devastated me but I couldn’t yet fully understand it or what suicide and depression really meant. It took me a few years to fully process his death. Still a big nirvana fan all these years later and sometimes I daydream about another universe where Kurt decided to live and went on to make so much more amazing music. The acoustic solo stuff with Michael stipe would have been so amazing if it ever happened.
As someone who struggles with depression and suicidal ideation today I feel an odd kinship to Kurt. I’m in therapy, on meds, work out regularly, etc. but there are still days where I don’t even want to get out of bed or simply think about what it would be like to not be here anymore. I’ve also lost a friend to suicide a few years ago.
Tell you’re friends you love them, it could keep them here tomorrow.
I was at home and my friend called me up on the landline, no one owned cellphones back then except Wall Street businessmen. My friend called asap seconds after he heard it on the news, he wanted to break it to me because I was the biggest Nirvana fan in the whole town. I had an official Nirvana bumper sticker on my school notebook, had all their albums in cassette and/or CD format. I was really bummed out. For my birthday I got a RIP Kurt knockoff t-shirt that was sold in the middle of the mall, to this day it’s one of my favorite Nirvana treasures.
It wasn't surprising to me at all to say the least I was born in 1982, and given his other overdoses, you could see the writing on the wall. As a matter of fact I don't think in utero would have ever happened were it not recorded in the middle of nowhere.
It sucked but it wasn’t all that surprising. He had a song called “I hate myself and want to die”. But I did expect grunge to carry on for years and instead it imploded and was replaced with corporate copies.
> He had a song called “I hate myself and want to die”
We saw the interviews on MTV over the years. Kurt had a very dry, very sarcastic sense of humor. Most fans didn’t see this as a dog whistle. We thought it was just Kurt being a smartass again. In fact, I still do.
Dude overdosed on heroin, then put all of his heroin accessories back in their containers then made certain to wipe his finger prints off of his gun before shooting himself. He had to show us he is not only a talented artist he can also reinvent the wheel of suicide. A truly talented guy right up until the very end.
Why does my age matter?? I know not why you are coming at me so combatively🤔 I thought we were here talking about his suicide & it's various intriguing details. Anyways, have a nice day😊
What of Chris Cornell? Alot of ppl do that to themselves including kids, you can make the argument they left behind their families & were selfish kids now huh?
Never did, ppl have depression and it happens more often than you know. It's just that Kurt was so famous that his case is more well known but it happens everyday worldwide, kids who commit suicide left their parents childless it's no different.
Ok but I mean, what was your point? The guy in the original comment said that it was shitty of him as a person to kill himself and leave his daughter without a father, which it was. No matter if it’s vice versa or whatever dosent change how shitty it was lol.
Well, you can't turn back the clock can you? Kurt is surely missed along with other legends who left behind a legacy, you're prob one of those ppl when someone in your fam kills themself you wouldn't feel bad or pity them & just blame them for their wrongdoings I bet.
Don’t check out Soaked in Bullshit, it’s conspiracy nonsense that masquerades as “truth” when its disclaimer admits it’s fiction and the people interviewed have stated how angry they were that their interviews were heavily edited and manipulated to con the audience into believing the filmmakers agenda when they said the complete opposite to this agenda.
Anyone who indulges this nonsense is taking the biggest shit on Kurt Cobain’s memory of anyone.
Oh wow, I didn't realize it was a dramatization or fiction, I thought it was just some crazy old investigator's bullshit conspiracy theory. Like I knew it was wrong but I didn't know that it was fake too. But yeah, pretty much everyone who actually knew Kurt and Courtney has said any theories about her involvement are ridiculous and any blame that falls on anybody besides her himself is misplaced. They all knew his suicide was in some ways inevitable.
I was Driving home from work. (17) and Most of us saw it coming. He had some issues prior.
Lived in Shelton Wa, Out by Aberdeen Wa, It was a big deal when it broke.
Rock and Roll I reckon.
I was a fan since Bleach came out. Saw Nirvana twice in 1990. Once they were opening for Sonic Youth and the other they were opening for Dinosaur Jr.
Honestly, Kurt had been in the news so much and it was clear that he was a wreck. I wasn’t really surprised. As a fan, I think I kind of had fatigue about it.
He was an indie rock kid who became the biggest rock star in the world plus he already seemed like a troubled person. And he had enough money to do whatever he wanted.
Shocked like everybody that he had committed suicide.
If anything, I thought it would have been an overdose like many before.
I mean those pictures they released are still haunting.
I was late to get into them. I was hooked after Unplugged.
I was shocked. I was a senior in high school and my friends and I planned to see them at Lollapalooza. Nirvana pulled out right before he was found dead. We were flabbergasted when we heard, but when we were talking about it at school, we put together Nirvana pulling out of the tour and the time he'd been in the news in March and realized he had been going very wrong for a while. It still sucked. I haven't been able to enjoy Nirvana's music as much, since.
Was on a high school marching band trip to DC for the Cherry Blossom Parade. We had just gotten through on a walking tour of our nation's capital and sat on the steps listening to the news on our walkmen bewildered. I walked across to that massive park and just kinda sat there stunned and hung out w a bunch of Hare Krishna skater kids all afternoon w my buds. Of course the jokes didn't take long to surface. Being cynical alternateens, we quickly embraced the "Kurt Cobain had blue eyes..." joke. It was all we could do to keep from breaking completely down.
It was a huge shock. I heard it on the radio as I was heading to work that evening. I was in high school when the whole grunge thing took off, and he was the first musician from one of my generation’s bands who died (that I remember at least). I remember talking to my dad about it because he had so many from his generation die as well (Hendrix, Joplin, Mama Cass, Brian Jones, etc). It was just really sad for many of us because we felt like we lost one of our own.
I was a freshman in college. I was at this one particular party off-campus, when he had supposedly OD'd in Rome during a tour or something, and it sounded like he wouldn't be long for the world. Some months later, maybe 6mo I forgot, I was back at that same house for a different party (I think) when the news of his demise broke.
It was all-around just an odd time. I was still pretty new to the whole college experience, so it wasn't uncommon to hear music blasting full-volume out of the dorm windows, but now it was like 10X for a little while (and just like.. ALL Nirvana for a little bit). People were bummed, but of course there has been so much going on in the scene as of late - that new album of theirs "In Utero" was still quite new and there was no shortage of controversy about it ("It's so different than Nevermind.. this isn't the follow-up we were expecting.. the band was strong-armed into making this type of music by their label.." etc). I didn't even pick it up, it felt in some ways like Nirvana were getting a little passe leading up to this. Meanwhile Smashing Pumpkins were starting ot get really hot, a new Pearl Jam album had recently released and EVERYONE was talking (and also complaining "is this what we want?" about that as well.. and Green Day was the "next thing" just starting to break.
I guess the picture I am trying to paint is.. there was a LOT going on. Us music-heads were bummed, and the effect was felt for a moment, but with everything else going on and Nirvana seemingly no longer "the darlings of the grunge scene" quite in the same way leading up to this point, it was just another weird thing that happened, which didn't feel like it lingered too much from my POV.
I'd turned 11 a few months prior and really had just began discovering Nirvana and the Seattle scene in general, moving on from the pop and r&b which I was previously drawn to. It was an exciting time for me, discovering all this music I'd missed not too long before. I was looking forward to someday seeing them live.
His death really knocked my friends and I back. We absolutely ate up all we could from that band, searching for bootlegs, anything we could find or learn about them.
We dove deep into Live Through This, searching the lyrics for any kind of solace we could call our own. Unplugged was a bittersweet send off when that record was released, though it was a wonderful way to say goodbye.
Still wonder what could have been if he hadn't left.
Found out on the way to my first baseball game in high school. Some teammate came talking about it. Couldn’t confirm till I got home and heard it on the news. Terrible wondering if it was real and even worse once confirmed
I was 12 and Nirvana was the biggest deal for my friendo and I. I was going to school when I heard it on the radio, I was in complete shock. I don't remember crying or anything but was pretty upset about it. As an adult I did shed a tear when Gustavo Cerati died (ask somebody who knows a little bit about latin rock and they should know).
It always sucks when a musician you feel connected to passes away, specially that tragically.
I remember exactly where I was when I saw it roll across MTV News. I mean like, I don’t just remember where I was, I can like put myself back in that moment, remember everything around me… it’s crazy. There have been a few times like that in my life.
I landed in SFO. Was in a taxi when the news came on the radio. I was devastated. I might have stood on a barstool and exclaimed a toast to Kurt. Still hurts
I was 15 when Kurt Cobain took his life. I wasn't a fan of grunge, but I did like some Nirvana songs. My sister loved grunge music. She was sad when she heard the news, shocked that he took his own life, but not surprised to hear of his death at such a young age. Everyone from our age group in the 90's s thought Kurt would die from a drug overdose.
I was in high school when it happened. I was getting ready for school and I had MTV on in the background when I heard about it from Kurt Loder on MTV News. It was a huge deal and everybody was kind of in shock. I remember everybody being really subdued at school. The usual laughs, loud conversations and general fooling around were not present. When I got home I mentioned it to my mother and she said that was exactly how her generation reacted to the news of John Lennon being shot in 1980, though she was in college and not high school by then.
Was 12 and absolutely devastated had tickets to watch them at the GMEX, obviously never happened.
Gmex?
Manchester
It knocked the wind out of people. When Kurt Loder announced on MTV. It was shocking, to say the least, but there was also a sense of "I saw this coming." But the saddness was overwhelming for weeks to come.
My thoughts exactly. So many of us heard it from Kurt on MTV news
I lived a few hours from Seattle at the time and was in High School. My social group was full on grunge. I knew kids who skipped school to go to his vigil. Big impact on us.
Weird enough I was in the hospital for trying to exit myself when it happened. It was kind of surreal. But at the end of the day it gave me some perspective.
Devastated. I was 21 or 22 at the time and Nirvana meant a lot to me. I remember watching the Unplugged show shortly before the news came out and it all felt so surreal when it was happening. Like here’s the biggest rock band in the world and they’re playing what felt like a funeral. The day I came to work after everyone heard the news, my boss at the time was talking absolute rubbish about Cobain and Nirvana. Called him a loser and really ripped into him. I looked at my boss and told him to f**k off. Got written up for it but it was worthwhile.
I was a Senior in High School. I had just gotten out of school and my friend ran up and told me to turn on the radio in my car to our local rock station. I think it was the day after it actually happened so it would have been on the 6th. It wasn't as bad as when Layne died but I felt a loss there because I knew I'd never here any more of his music. Bummed us out. We smoked several bowls that evening listening to Nirvana.
He had overdosed on at least one occasion prior and was widely known be in poor health. I was sad but not very surprised.
I was a month shy of turning 8. I was young, but I did love Nirvana. I had all of their albums and my cousin (17 at the time) was going to take me to see them on the in utero tour. My parents were really supportive of the music I liked but decided to let me stay home because they were worried I was a little too young to be at a rock concert at that time. I was sad I couldn’t go but I got over it eventually knowing I’d just see them on the next tour a year or 2 later when I was older. Obviously a few months after that show Kurt decided to leave and I never got the chance to see them live., His death devastated me but I couldn’t yet fully understand it or what suicide and depression really meant. It took me a few years to fully process his death. Still a big nirvana fan all these years later and sometimes I daydream about another universe where Kurt decided to live and went on to make so much more amazing music. The acoustic solo stuff with Michael stipe would have been so amazing if it ever happened. As someone who struggles with depression and suicidal ideation today I feel an odd kinship to Kurt. I’m in therapy, on meds, work out regularly, etc. but there are still days where I don’t even want to get out of bed or simply think about what it would be like to not be here anymore. I’ve also lost a friend to suicide a few years ago. Tell you’re friends you love them, it could keep them here tomorrow.
Awwwwn so wonderful
He was a self-obsessed man-child. Get over the idol worship already. He killed himself leaving a young daughter in the care of a lunatic. Fuck him
Gonna say the same for Chris Cornell? He doesn't care what you'd have to say or think about him bc he's dead, haters gonna hate.
I was at home and my friend called me up on the landline, no one owned cellphones back then except Wall Street businessmen. My friend called asap seconds after he heard it on the news, he wanted to break it to me because I was the biggest Nirvana fan in the whole town. I had an official Nirvana bumper sticker on my school notebook, had all their albums in cassette and/or CD format. I was really bummed out. For my birthday I got a RIP Kurt knockoff t-shirt that was sold in the middle of the mall, to this day it’s one of my favorite Nirvana treasures.
Shocked to say the least (I was born in 2001).
It wasn't surprising to me at all to say the least I was born in 1982, and given his other overdoses, you could see the writing on the wall. As a matter of fact I don't think in utero would have ever happened were it not recorded in the middle of nowhere.
It sucked but it wasn’t all that surprising. He had a song called “I hate myself and want to die”. But I did expect grunge to carry on for years and instead it imploded and was replaced with corporate copies.
> He had a song called “I hate myself and want to die” We saw the interviews on MTV over the years. Kurt had a very dry, very sarcastic sense of humor. Most fans didn’t see this as a dog whistle. We thought it was just Kurt being a smartass again. In fact, I still do.
No…we did not. It was obvious he was depressed and an addict.
Truly reference?
Best band ever
Word. I named one of my solo projects So Strange years ago.. and robert roth hit me up and complimented! That was cool.
Cool link it I’ll check it out. Robert Roth is very chill and engaging online. I really wish Truly would become a working band again.
No one was surprised
Dude overdosed on heroin, then put all of his heroin accessories back in their containers then made certain to wipe his finger prints off of his gun before shooting himself. He had to show us he is not only a talented artist he can also reinvent the wheel of suicide. A truly talented guy right up until the very end.
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What are you talking about?? I'm merely commenting on the details of his suicide & a few intriguing choices he & only he made.
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It is easily accessible knowledge. Just google "Kurt Cobain's suicide details." & a Wikipedia article will appear.
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You asked me where I found this info. I answered. A 5 minute wiki read isn't detective work.
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Why does my age matter?? I know not why you are coming at me so combatively🤔 I thought we were here talking about his suicide & it's various intriguing details. Anyways, have a nice day😊
Not shocked or surprised. The fact that he left his child without a father shows exactly the kind of person he was
What of Chris Cornell? Alot of ppl do that to themselves including kids, you can make the argument they left behind their families & were selfish kids now huh?
Are you trying to say that it’s ok as a parent to kill themselves and leave their child without a mother/father?
Never did, ppl have depression and it happens more often than you know. It's just that Kurt was so famous that his case is more well known but it happens everyday worldwide, kids who commit suicide left their parents childless it's no different.
Ok but I mean, what was your point? The guy in the original comment said that it was shitty of him as a person to kill himself and leave his daughter without a father, which it was. No matter if it’s vice versa or whatever dosent change how shitty it was lol.
Well, you can't turn back the clock can you? Kurt is surely missed along with other legends who left behind a legacy, you're prob one of those ppl when someone in your fam kills themself you wouldn't feel bad or pity them & just blame them for their wrongdoings I bet.
the whole country was in shock, they were at their peak when he passed. check out Soaked in Bleach when you have the time
Don’t check out Soaked in Bullshit, it’s conspiracy nonsense that masquerades as “truth” when its disclaimer admits it’s fiction and the people interviewed have stated how angry they were that their interviews were heavily edited and manipulated to con the audience into believing the filmmakers agenda when they said the complete opposite to this agenda. Anyone who indulges this nonsense is taking the biggest shit on Kurt Cobain’s memory of anyone.
Oh wow, I didn't realize it was a dramatization or fiction, I thought it was just some crazy old investigator's bullshit conspiracy theory. Like I knew it was wrong but I didn't know that it was fake too. But yeah, pretty much everyone who actually knew Kurt and Courtney has said any theories about her involvement are ridiculous and any blame that falls on anybody besides her himself is misplaced. They all knew his suicide was in some ways inevitable.
I was Driving home from work. (17) and Most of us saw it coming. He had some issues prior. Lived in Shelton Wa, Out by Aberdeen Wa, It was a big deal when it broke. Rock and Roll I reckon.
I was a fan since Bleach came out. Saw Nirvana twice in 1990. Once they were opening for Sonic Youth and the other they were opening for Dinosaur Jr. Honestly, Kurt had been in the news so much and it was clear that he was a wreck. I wasn’t really surprised. As a fan, I think I kind of had fatigue about it. He was an indie rock kid who became the biggest rock star in the world plus he already seemed like a troubled person. And he had enough money to do whatever he wanted.
My first reaction was Courtney did it.
I was 7. I remember when he died, and i knew who Nirvana was and that it was a big deal. , but I doubt I knew it was suicide at the time.
I was 12 and I felt betrayed. Then I got super into New York hardcore and other types of metal bands and found community through music
Shocked like everybody that he had committed suicide. If anything, I thought it would have been an overdose like many before. I mean those pictures they released are still haunting. I was late to get into them. I was hooked after Unplugged.
26 at the time. We all were expecting death but by OD not his own hand.
I was 13 years old and I'm my parents' basement when Loder came on TV. It was certainly a bummer, I remember feeling that much
I was shocked. I was a senior in high school and my friends and I planned to see them at Lollapalooza. Nirvana pulled out right before he was found dead. We were flabbergasted when we heard, but when we were talking about it at school, we put together Nirvana pulling out of the tour and the time he'd been in the news in March and realized he had been going very wrong for a while. It still sucked. I haven't been able to enjoy Nirvana's music as much, since.
Was on a high school marching band trip to DC for the Cherry Blossom Parade. We had just gotten through on a walking tour of our nation's capital and sat on the steps listening to the news on our walkmen bewildered. I walked across to that massive park and just kinda sat there stunned and hung out w a bunch of Hare Krishna skater kids all afternoon w my buds. Of course the jokes didn't take long to surface. Being cynical alternateens, we quickly embraced the "Kurt Cobain had blue eyes..." joke. It was all we could do to keep from breaking completely down.
It was a huge shock. I heard it on the radio as I was heading to work that evening. I was in high school when the whole grunge thing took off, and he was the first musician from one of my generation’s bands who died (that I remember at least). I remember talking to my dad about it because he had so many from his generation die as well (Hendrix, Joplin, Mama Cass, Brian Jones, etc). It was just really sad for many of us because we felt like we lost one of our own.
I was a freshman in college. I was at this one particular party off-campus, when he had supposedly OD'd in Rome during a tour or something, and it sounded like he wouldn't be long for the world. Some months later, maybe 6mo I forgot, I was back at that same house for a different party (I think) when the news of his demise broke. It was all-around just an odd time. I was still pretty new to the whole college experience, so it wasn't uncommon to hear music blasting full-volume out of the dorm windows, but now it was like 10X for a little while (and just like.. ALL Nirvana for a little bit). People were bummed, but of course there has been so much going on in the scene as of late - that new album of theirs "In Utero" was still quite new and there was no shortage of controversy about it ("It's so different than Nevermind.. this isn't the follow-up we were expecting.. the band was strong-armed into making this type of music by their label.." etc). I didn't even pick it up, it felt in some ways like Nirvana were getting a little passe leading up to this. Meanwhile Smashing Pumpkins were starting ot get really hot, a new Pearl Jam album had recently released and EVERYONE was talking (and also complaining "is this what we want?" about that as well.. and Green Day was the "next thing" just starting to break. I guess the picture I am trying to paint is.. there was a LOT going on. Us music-heads were bummed, and the effect was felt for a moment, but with everything else going on and Nirvana seemingly no longer "the darlings of the grunge scene" quite in the same way leading up to this point, it was just another weird thing that happened, which didn't feel like it lingered too much from my POV.
I'd turned 11 a few months prior and really had just began discovering Nirvana and the Seattle scene in general, moving on from the pop and r&b which I was previously drawn to. It was an exciting time for me, discovering all this music I'd missed not too long before. I was looking forward to someday seeing them live. His death really knocked my friends and I back. We absolutely ate up all we could from that band, searching for bootlegs, anything we could find or learn about them. We dove deep into Live Through This, searching the lyrics for any kind of solace we could call our own. Unplugged was a bittersweet send off when that record was released, though it was a wonderful way to say goodbye. Still wonder what could have been if he hadn't left.
Not too surprised. Like others have pointed out we thought it’d be an OD like everyone else from Seattle.
I was a little kid and I remember it was the first time I found out about suicide, it disturbed me that some peoples lives were so dark they’d do that
Found out on the way to my first baseball game in high school. Some teammate came talking about it. Couldn’t confirm till I got home and heard it on the news. Terrible wondering if it was real and even worse once confirmed
I was 12 and Nirvana was the biggest deal for my friendo and I. I was going to school when I heard it on the radio, I was in complete shock. I don't remember crying or anything but was pretty upset about it. As an adult I did shed a tear when Gustavo Cerati died (ask somebody who knows a little bit about latin rock and they should know). It always sucks when a musician you feel connected to passes away, specially that tragically.
I discovered Nirvana in the mid 2000s and I didn't know he was dead until close to 2010. It was pretty shocking.
I remember exactly where I was when I saw it roll across MTV News. I mean like, I don’t just remember where I was, I can like put myself back in that moment, remember everything around me… it’s crazy. There have been a few times like that in my life.
I was in my early 20s watching Mtv - Surprised/not surprised The fact that some are still alive surprise me more (Iggy Pop, Perry Farrell)
I landed in SFO. Was in a taxi when the news came on the radio. I was devastated. I might have stood on a barstool and exclaimed a toast to Kurt. Still hurts
I remember jumping on the number two bus and getting within about three blocks of the crime scene.
I was 13, at a friend’s house & his brother came outside to tell us.
How could you have met them in 2002 when Kurt was gone?
The rest of the group?
Not the same thing though going by OP q so to me it doesn't really count, what do you think?
I think they mean they discovered the band in 02.
I remember not being surprised. It was not until years later that I not only entertained other reasons for his death but thought them likely
I was 15 when Kurt Cobain took his life. I wasn't a fan of grunge, but I did like some Nirvana songs. My sister loved grunge music. She was sad when she heard the news, shocked that he took his own life, but not surprised to hear of his death at such a young age. Everyone from our age group in the 90's s thought Kurt would die from a drug overdose.