Kurt Cobain and the day it all changed.
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2024
- Thirty years ago, we woke up to the news that he was gone. Remember how everyone was talking about it?
It was a time when depression and addiction weren't talked about the way they are today, especially how it tangled up with the chaos of fame.
Depression and addiction affect so many, and it's not as easy as choosing to be happy or not. It's complex, clinical, and can deeply impact one's life.
Just wanted to toss out some thoughts on being sensitive towards artists and the ongoing dialogue about what it means to find happiness and what it may mean.
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This is a really important essay. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much for this video. You put it all in perspective. I was 22 years old, living in FL. It was 6:30 - 7:00 AM & I was getting ready for work. My phone rang, it was my sister in RI; my 1st thought was something happened to 1 of my parents or grandparents. She asked me if I’d heard the news I asked what news? She then told me Kurt had passed away. I couldn’t move, it was like everything just stopped, stood still. I still can’t believe he’s gone
I was 24 when Kurt Cobain died. My wife was pregnant at that time and we were both devastated when we heard the news of his suicide. As a tribute to him we named our son after Kurt. ❤
lol
Yeah but he was murdered.
Imagine naming your kid after a depressed, drug addicted, suicidal person. Lame
@@winkstar9265 no he wasn't. are conspiracy theories your way of coping?
@@John__Dough I refuse to believe your comment is that of a functional person
Awesome video George. Sensitivity is overlooked and underappreciated at the same time. Both a blessing and a curse. I've lived with it, and amongst it. My brother's 5 year anniversary is April 12. Another talented, sensitive soul lost.
I lived within FM distance of Toronto and had last period off that day. I sat in my car with buddy, listening to 102.1 The Edge when Alan Cross announced Kurt Cobain's fate that day. Heard to believe that was 30 years ago today.
I'm not always on board with everything you propose, but you nailed it today. It isn't better to burn out than to fade away. Stardom and all it's trappings take a toll, on some more than others. And understanding ALL of Kurt's life and death may serve as a lesson to all.
Anyways, I'm off to watch "Live at the Paramount." Watching Kurt, Dave and Krist playing at their peak is the way I want to remember Nirvana.
I loved this, what a great essay. I've never heard someone put Kurt's story so succinctly yet so elegantly. It was bittersweat, and thought provoking. It left me both thinking of what could of been and appreciating what we have of him.
Great video!! Nirvana and kurt have been and still are a massive part of my life. I don’t know about everyone else but for some reason im really feeling his loss this time round. Maybe because im getting older myself, 47 now and just remembering being young is probably part of it. R.I.P Kurt💙
The story sold to the public about Kurt Cobain’s death is part of the tragedy. People find comfort in the simplicity of the Icarus narrative, the “be careful what you wish for” cautionary tale of a rock star who just couldn’t deal with the fame. Ask these people to look at evidence and they immediately adopt the arrogance of one who already knows it all.
Such a great video. I was born in 1999 and, crazy as it sounds, I had never thought of Kurt as someone who “had it all.” The cultural mythology positions him as a sort of patron saint of the 27 Club, talking only about his addiction, his depressive tendencies, the massive and mysterious physical pain he was in - all these things that prefigure his death and make it feel inevitable in hindsight. I hadn’t heard any of his music until relatively recently and had no metric by which to appreciate that he really was talented and artistically successful, not just an automat Rich and Famous Rockstar like so many celebrities of my day. It’s cool to see someone instead remembering him as sensitive, intelligent, powerful and yet kind.
Really appreciate this. When I think of the first time I heard nirvana, it was absolutely his voice that totally grabbed my attention. I was lucky enough to see them on a ‘good’ night in ‘93 and Kurt was happy, joking and really enjoying himself on stage. I’ll never forget the smile and that vibe. Long Live Boddah.💙🎁
This was beautiful. Just what I needed. Appreciate you George.
"Depression is a constant reminder that you're somewhere you don't wanna be." That is extraordinary. I was 13 in 1991, the perfect age going into the 90s. I was there, I definitely remember, and I'll never forget seeing his face on the news in '94. I was stunned and didn't fully know it, it took a while to process. Great video!
This video resonates with me deeply, wise words George, thank you. Happiness is few and far between. Happiness are the moments of calm with connection. Happiness is not something I know well.
I feel lucky Kurt shared his pain so I could have a thread to help me survive things he didn't.
Remeber that hapiness is one of many emotions we need to manage and balance. Go easy on yourself and give yourself credit for getting through the ups and downs. many of us here are the same, one foot at a time with self praise and awareness. cheers
@@what163 that's kind of you thank you.
Awesome video, George. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I was just about to turn 16 a month later. It definitely changed everything for me personally and lots of others. Thanks for this
"..I must have died alone, a long long time ago.." re-listening to these lyrics on the 30th anniversary of his death on the 5th was quite haunting 🥀 r.i.p Kurt
It's so strange and serendipitous that I started reading Mark Yarm's "Everybody Loves Our Town" on Friday the 5th, and am finishing it today, the day I see this video. Life is weird, terrifying, and wonderful. Thank you for this essay.
I had just turned 30 when he died. I was in Vancouver at the time. In 2019 my dentist committed suicide. It continues to take lives both famouse and not. Thank You for this.
A part of me died 30 years ago. And that void, that emptiness is still there. Never recovered from that. Many things happened in my life since that day. Many things have been piled on top of that day…
But I just realized that in a way I’m still that teenager seating on my bed in my bedroom at my parent’s house, staring at Kurt’s face on a poster after hearing the news. Shocked. Numb.
I lost a friend I never had.
Life forces me to keep moving.
But sometimes, things like this beautiful video make me look back. And that day is so distant now, in the horizon of my memory.
I can still see it though.
Thanks for reminding me of him.
Nicely said Strombo. This also reminds me of Martin Streek. For WNY kids growing up listening to Martin Streek, he made Toronto seem like the center of the music universe and was always sweet to us when going up clubbing and to shows. The world should miss both of them. Thankfully we have Strombo to keep caring about people.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. It hit really really hard
I was a mechanic at a Dealership. Heard the news on the radio. Took the rest of the day off.
I was in my early 20's when Kurt Cobain died. It was devastating news for me and a lot of my friends. This is really well done...
Thanks for this George. I've been searching for talent like his since he left.
Thank you so much for this piece, George. So well done.
This is just incredible George. Thank you for this
Amazin, you’ve captured that moment,feeling with a clarity that is rare
Love this, thank you❤🙏🏼
You are an amazing music journalist. Thank you for this. I was a little too young to understand what happened at the time but you make it clear how important Kurt was and videos like these are vital in continuing his legacy.
Thanks for this man. I was playing in a bar band for a living back then and too caught up in my own little world to realize what we lost. As the year have gone by I appreciate what he meant more and more. You summed things up so eloquently.
Thank you for this George.
*So much wisdom in this video...Such depth, awareness and evolved realization.*
Thank you for this George🖤💫🥰
Beautiful said ,thank you !
Your words, and compilation of quotes from great minds (including your own), are a beautiful tribute to someone so many felt close to through his music. Really well said, George. And leaves us all with a little bit of conversation we can discuss within our minds, to ourselves, for at least a little while.
Thank you very much for this.
George, this was so perfect. Beautiful.
I was playing a gig with my old band Unkle Alice the day he passed away at the iconic Saskatoon venue Lydia’s. It hit like a wrecking ball I was a fan, but not a super fan. They had played amigo’s supporting “bleach” a few years earlier. A couple blocks away. But I was too young for that show. It was a heartbreaker. But I will remember that show and night forever. I think we played more ferocious than we would have otherwise. Thanks for the tribute George
A very important message. Thank you
Extraordinary piece👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. You nailed it with regards to the intertwine paradox OF "sensitivity. "..
May someone who heard this receive a message of hope for themselves, to seek the joy, happiness from the art of giving and receiving.
So very well said George, thank youuuu, this brought tears to my eyes. I'm grateful you've helped me narrate my feelings and thoughts. I have been watching and listening to you since much music LOUD days. You always had a way of speaking to celebratries with down to earth real question not superficial bull. I deeply feel what you saying about how vulnerability and sensitivity is a super power. I appreciate people like you and Zane Lowe. 🖤💜
Hey George, I’m so glad to see you continuing to share your insights and love for music on UA-cam. I’ve been watching you since I was a kid and you were on Much Music.
As a singer/songwriter who experiences ADHD & C-PTSD, was inspired by Kurt Cobain from a young age, and absolutely love Gabor Mate, this video hit me on several levels.
Well said video sir!! I really appreciate it.
Cobain was a genius. I live 20 miles away from Aberdeen Washington. Nirvana was my first rock concert. RIP Kurt
Beautiful and insightful. Thanks for this. ❤
That was excellent George. Cheers.
Thanks so much for this ...
Awesome Video George!!
Thanks for this G . 😊
I had just turned 14 that February, I found out at a dance. RIP Kurt you are missed💔🥺
Aww, you've perfectly worded my thoughts from all these years... 🥰
I didn't buy a ticket for the In Utero tour which never happened in the end because I felt like I didn't want to add more pressure to Kurt the human ❤
...it would've felt almost perverse if I was to stand at a gig gawping at Kurt when I knew how pained he was 😑
Thank you for this heart felt video 🥰🥰🥰 X
Your absolutely awesome brother👍 thanks for this
Kurt Cobain was a stunning talent. I loved that period and the honesty Kurt brought us. He was a sublime artist. I agree with Cyril Wecht, “Dead men don’t pull triggers.”
Cyril Wecht is a bonafide loony and Kurt was very much alive when he pulled the trigger. the pool of blood around his ear proves it. you might want to find another conspiracy theory to latch onto.
When Kurt died, he was pretty much a walking God, putting out music on a level never matched since. Then he was gone, I was 13, I remember the day so clearly. It's like a star vanished to darkness in the universe never to be replaced. It took me 20 something years to realize that losing someone you admire at the very moment he was your hero is something that never quite heals. His humbleness has been an inspiration and a value i carry since then. Thanks Kurt for everything.
I was 14, this exact time 30 years ago. School trip to Paris for the week. Over the moon with wanton exhilaration from being out of my homeland (Ireland) for the first time. Lucid dreaming almost, every waking minute there. Massive Nirvana fan, Kurt was my God. My best mate emerged from his hotel room, and he told me what happened. I bolted into my room, switched on MTV, and the presenter of the nightly show, "Most Wanted", Ray Coakes, infromed the horrid realisation to music loving Europe. My then 14 year old mind could'nt process the Whys?/Hows of it. Never thought of things like that before, and this confusion was a torrent of weirdness now, as it was like black ink smearing into the moving pictures of my otherwise amazing sights and sounds of being away on holiday like that. I arrived home a few days later, and then I think it really struck me like lightning what happened. I find it fascinating and unreal that, 30 years after, here were are talking all over the world to each other like this about this.
Now we can see how we didint deal with addicts and mental illness right back then .
Great video, sir. You have earned yourself a “like” !
Jesus christ George...please once and for all tell us why you arent still doing your thing or a version thereof . From your very early days at mm ive followed you and love your voice..interview style . Canada ..everyone misses it and needs it back . We need an hour
I was 12 years old and just got home from school, Tuned into much music like I always did and that's when I found out, First suicide I ever heard about that effecting me in someway
good one George....Thanks.
Una de las mejores formas para describir lo que due y sigue siendo Kurt Cobain hoy en dia. Excelente trabajo 🙏🏻
Wow, thanks for that, seriously true and profound
Very well expressed
I lost so many friends and acquaintances around the same time Kurt died. It was the drugs that took what I knew of them and distorted it to the point life was left hollow, without the edge to keep us on point. Heroin was so deadening and anti social, it usurps ones personality to the point they become the drug. I lost too many to blame it on an emotion of "happiness lost". This isn't why we still face the same epidemic of happiness lost with the current messy social drug death problem. Its a society that cares more about the stock market than what we need to care for, its less shameful than ever
I think that's what it is. I'm not religious but it really is some deal with the devil shit. It's too bad man.
Wishing you the best. Wishing for a world where we live in a society, not an economy.
I was 13 when it happened and i never got over it. It’s engraved in my heart.
I was 15, I almost went with him. It's also engraved in my heart, a part of me forever.
This was beautiful.
Also I think it’s important to note that he suffered chronic pain due to crone’s disease. And after having a partner who also had to deal with that, it can create real emotional distress. Ever been hangrey. Imagine not being able to eat because it causes you pain. Not a good time. Then you find h. And you feel no pain and can almost function. And your government won’t pay for drugs that won’t kill you. Sorry Kurt. You were amazing
I really enjoyed and took a lot from this video. Thank you for posting your thoughts on the tragic ending of Kurt and how it still resonates and haunts all who were 'set free' in many ways by his music. He was one of us and as you said it is a never ending tragedy that his early death just did not have to happen, but it did. Personally I am still not convinced his death played out as the media reported it, there are just too many loose ends, but regardless, we did lose the 'point man' of our generation and it just should not have happened. Kurt alluded to he felt like he sold out and according to the letter he left behind (which really does not read as a suicide note IMHO) he did mention he was not enjoying the music anymore. John Lennon went on his lost weekend and then decided to be a Dad and got out of music for years. But suddenly, the music came back to him in such a profound way with some of the timeless classic songs on his last album Double Fantasy. I so wish something similar would have happened for Kurt and he would have picked up the mantle as the spokesperson for his generation and we would have had more of his music and wisdom that was to us a treasure. Of course, what happened to John was horrific and as well should have never happened. Ultimately, we are grateful for the music Kurt gave us (and of course John!), but there should have been so much more.
I feel that his success gave him a sense of pressure ❤
Excellent George. Spot on. I remember this day. And the shock of what happened to Curt. I asked Why? I was haunted by the connection of Curt’s words and how he crafted these in a song. It was brutal and angry and to this day, I still try to blow out the speakers so others can listen with me.
For my generation, I am 64, and there was another person, who wanted out. Out of the limelight and be his own person for a while and seemed very happy. His words were,
People say I'm crazy
Doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game. Our generational genius, John Lennon.
His life was taken. But, the feeling we all had, just as with Curt, was the same. Both of them were just Watching The Wheels Go Round.
I was so fucking mad and sad and couldn’t understand why he left us. I was 24 and full of life and I’ve always had a great appreciation for music and Kurt was the first person the world shared died that had a very very heavy profound affect on me, I felt like I lost a brother a friend someone I truly gave a fuck about. God bless him for what he gave and more importantly what he left us. I miss you brother
incredible video from an incredible dude about an incredible dude
Thanks, man.
We have had dreams of doing exactly what you have been doing & so much more ❤️🔥🖤🔥
Thank you for honouring Kurt in this way! Tying into the eclipse just shows your brilliance. Let’s all be happy.
I used to watch you on Much in around 2004. This was around the same time I first barely heard of Kurt Cobain, despite being 90s born. I wish I knew more about Nirvana and many other great 80s and 90s and some 2000s bands at the time. I have been a fan of them, Metallica, and Pantera for just about 18 years.
I taped everything on TV that day, Much, the news etc... still have that VHS
I just wish I could write as eloquently as you spoke, but I feel that I speak better then I write 😫😖 I always feel like people think I’m attacking them, when I’m really just speaking/excited/confused & somedays extremely frustrated/disappointed about a lot a lot of things via text/ messages 🥴
Kurt cobain will always live on in our hearts Take Time out to Listen to Engender 's MUsic on UA-cam Rest in Peace Kurt
This made me cry. How u miss Kurt so much. But he was murdered when he was trying to leave music ,his band,his "wife" .. to focused to on his beautiful new baby girl. One that reminded him what important and pure in this world. I'm currently working on a few mini doc on him because he deserves understanding and more respect than he has been given.... thank u Kurt for being the difference and the example like no other of how understanding empathic ,moral etc etc etc a man can be.
Much love my brotha. Maybe we’re just happy 😅
I would say money is a key to happiness. This is particularly true for needs, as opposed to wants. People don't think about it if they have enough to pay all their bills. However if you don't have enough just for the essentials (like food) you end up worrying about bills all the time. Struggles in life are things everyone goes through. Approaching 60, I can say a religious belief system has helped. Of course music has been also a pleasure over the decades. Relationships also have a great value to get through life. You are a lucky person if later in life you have 2-3 close friends.
At 7:57. I was in graduate school when Cobain died. The sensitivity to feel deeply is a trait felt by many successful musicians. We seen many unfortunately take their own lives. I see many of the living musicians appear to have mental health struggles. It could be anxiety, panic attacks, depression, or other factors. In an age of social media it also elevates the problem. Cobain did not have social media to contend with. I have often wondered what would be the fate of musicians during the MTV and Much Music days if social media was part of their career. It would been mentally damaging to any young artist such as anyone in the 1990s. In 2024 many artists are speaking up about what they are going through. Some musicians have done self-imposed hiatus periods where they don't record or tour. However this is not a reality for many who have to slug along despite the difficulties.
Happy Monday G 😊. “Well she wouldn’t call me dude “ 😂😂😂😂
Dam this was deep
Kurt Cobain was in chronic pain all the time. Trust me having pain that never goes away, is brutal on you mentally physically emotionally every aspect of your life
Sure, being rich, successful and beautiful _might not_ make me happy, but I should still get a chance to try them and find out for myself.
Amen
Heroine was definitely the nail in the coffin. If you can manage to stay somewhat sober, depression can eventually become manageable. He should've moved out of Hollywood (where it seems everybody's crazy and depressed) and start hanging out with more regular people. I always thought if he was still around, he would've had a huge personality change and probably denounce everything he said in the past, maybe even want nothing to do with the grunge stuff. It's too bad we might of gotten some really meaningful acoustic/folk albums.
He never lived in Hollywood. Lived in Seattle. Depression was the nail in the coffin. Heroin was just him self medicating his mental, and physical pain. Sobriety alone is never the answer. Medication and therapy is what he needed.
I recall I didn't find out about his death until later, when my flatmate, who was a greater fan, returned from her holiday. Having been a classically educated music-snob and no great fan myself, ere his music saved me from an unbearable radio-loop of christmas-songs only last December, I behaved very insensible on her loosing her secret crush, telling her she only had fallen for his looks, hardly for his music, that wasn't worthwhile. I buried my own Nirvana-CD's somewhere in the depth of my large CD-collection and never listened to them again.
Only last December I realized that my scorn for him might stem from my family loosing my uncle to suicide long before my birth, who had always been marked as 'that-idiot-uncle-of-yours, that was so brilliant, yet too stoopid to live'. In our family, there was always the echo of the sibling-rivalry for a brilliant but manic-depressed medicine-student and musician and singer with a photographic memory, who unsuccessfully tried to battle his war-trauma as field-surgeon in Stalingrad with heroin and who shot himself after his long-term but unfaithful girl-friend had crushed his wedding-plans on the 20th December 1946 - funnily in the 27th year of his life in the family's music-room that was then also used as a winter-garden - (not to mention that nobody in the family played music in there ever after, and my aunt telling me horror stories of still finding dried bits of her brother's brain, when they put the plants outside again in spring, she claimed to her nose the room had the stench of rot about it, even 30 years later, his blood having seeped through the floorboards, where it could not be cleaned out). As often in families the dead son was suddenly glorified and more important to their parents than the living siblings, and their failures were matched against his alleged perfections, and I inherited my father's and my aunts scorn towards their elder sibling, and because of their somewhat paralell lives, projected it towards Cobain, labelling him as 'another-too-stoopid-to-live', I wanted to have nothing to do with any more, not even listening to his music in an ungrounded fear, 'his destructive mindset' could somehow jump over.
By now I'm sorry I didn't care more for him and his music out of cultural arrogance. But my first regrets on having quarreled with people for outdrowning my Clannad and Enya with their Nirvana happened only two flatmates later who loved listening to Techno and Death Metal... After years of machine-drums, grunts and dragon-growls I finally find his voice and music welcome enough to play it again for my own pleasure. I had to turn 52 to be able to overcome my scorn.
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Only Stromboulopoulus could tell us this lesson objectively. And only the teens of that generation could understand what Cobain's death meant. The kids these days don't know what the original feelings of depression & anarchy really felt like, true feelings. That indestructible self-destructive feeling when listening to Nevermind. Listen carefully to Kurt's interviews from those last days, so much pain, but hope mixed in as well. If I think back to when I was 27, I was barely a man yet myself, and I'll equipped to deal with the emotions of being a new father. Like Strombo said, Kurt didn't have a chance to experience how wise you can become when you hit your 30s and then 40s... But I dare say, those days were far more interesting than the bleak social media stream of crap we call entertainment today. This was entertaining though, just like when we used to all watch much music.
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Upon hearing of the death of Cobain 3 young men travelled from Eastern Canada to Langley BC their mission to commit suicide...Sadly they followed through with this act of self destruction The more we praise these successful people after they die from drugs, suicide or misadventure The question should be asked 'Is it right to elevate these people and attempt to rationalize their life after death ? regardless of what they brought to the table in terms of art They f***ed over a whole lot of people with a most selfish act And that includes the 3 young Lives who were profoundly influenced by a Rock Star enough so to kill themselves To quote a song...Shove me into shallow water before i get too Deep " and yes i dig NIRVANA & Kurt along with the many others who had short Lives in the crazy world of Entertainment Thank you.
This made me not only cry, but made me happy at the same time. You always do, lmao like a sad damn lost but excited puppy dog🥹❤️🔥🖤 Always grateful to see & hear your thoughts & views, see your beautiful soul. Thank you, Love you
Fucking love this video
It hits hard what you say like holy fuck
Whats w the ad??,
He was our brother.
His baby got fd in silo. When he complained directly he was told he was network and that is what he should expect.
His family was in district already so he was network with there.
He was told he probably got his job because of that.
He had met Maxwell previously so he called him in his place and asked for them to transfer him there and told the story out of district.
Maxwell did try to buy him apparently which outted Kurt to USA.
People tried to add that was because his albums were gold but it was because his fam was there and so was he and there is no transfers between once in that long.
Though his albums were gold.
Nl was connected to China and we're buying through them and us sent him to be done there to not take blame as they knew he would be famous.
Sadly, he didn't go through his songs with me.
Just the song he would sing in different languages to his daughter.
Yo is this the same guy that did a tribute for layne staley?
Someone finally can speak so honestly and so perfectly about the real Kurt. Nice to hear the truth, not the whole conspiracy theory( uugh). A person who knows the truth... that he did commit suicide.
Killed by Love.
no he wasn't. get lost with this conspiracy theory