10 years ago..... well Joel was four months old so Ray and I were still in the grips of new parenthood and i'd just celebrated my 25th birthday. I remember reading about Cobain's death, feeling sad but also a little angry because he had a daughter of a year or so old and he'd left her behind. It was her i thought of more than her father.

Uh, well I was about 8 and, perhaps coincidentally, didn't have a clue who Kurt Cobain (or Nirvana, for that matter) was...

woah 10 years? yeah I remember it on the news and everything. My sisters boyfriend had tickets to see Nirvana too but I think he decided to keep the tickets as something special rather than get his money back. Can remember my sister tellnig me about it though, she was pretty shocked as she was really into Nirvana at the time.

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by SPIKE
woah 10 years? yeah I remember it on the news and everything. My sisters boyfriend had tickets to see Nirvana too but I think he decided to keep the tickets as something special rather than get his money back.

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I have a friend who still has two tickets for the Brixton gig they were meant to play on April 5th, the day he died.

People are already cashing in

£500 reserve??!! thats disgusting! [and i am a pretty dispicable person myself ] i was 16 and i remember liking some songs but not being into them as much as my best mate i remember hearing the news and just thinking damn. nivarna [like queen] was HUUUUGE in italy a lot of the people i knew there were devistated and at first didnt believe the news.
(please excuse my spelling it's dark where i am)

The odd thing was my attitude was like, oh Kurt Cobain died oh ok.

It was only a couple of years ago I got into Nirvana, brought the albums then the T-shirts, then the poster, people must assume that as he was my generation I am one of the people who were into him as a teenager, not someone who got into it years later.

To be honest and I dont want to offend people, I dont particuly care as he was just a singer who took his own life which was his decision. I only feel sorry for his daughter and thats it. I dont get upset at peoples deaths that I dont even know.

Layne Stayley died 2 years ago a couple days back as well. I kinda miss him more :/

(Edited by Spikeo 08/04/2004 18:52)

Not sure why, but I don't recall listening to Nirvana 10 years ago, not 100% what bands I was *into* in 1994 as I went through a few phases but wasn't really buying a lot of albums of anything.

I'm not even sure if I was still buying Kerrang at that time. I bought it regularly around 1990-91 as I had a stack of penpals via there at the time (wonder where they all are now )

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by bipolar
i was 16

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So that makes you 26 now! (maths is my strong point )Woooh for some reason I can't believe you are 26, you always seem younger

I remember the shock of Elvis' death. Even though I was into punk by then and he'd become an overweight parody of his former self, it was impossible not to feel like something really important had gone forever. Then Marc Bolan, Sid Vicious, John Lennon. Does that make me the oldest git on here?

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by Alan
Uh, well I was about 8 and, perhaps coincidentally, didn't have a clue who Kurt Cobain (or Nirvana, for that matter) was...

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Ditto! I was lost in take that and boyzone and other such talented acts...*ahem* x

Undead I remember Elvis's death very clearly. My mother was, and still is a huge fan. I was eight at the time and she had the TV on and was watching the news in the morning and we never had the TV on before teatime in those days. Don't remember much about Marc Bolan's except that it was exactly a month after Elvis's. So no, I don't think you're the "oldest git" here

I was a huge fan of Nirvana. Got into them from listening to Bleach around '90. Saw them live at Newcastle Mayfair on the Nevermind tour. I'm pretty sure my highest ambition around that period was to BE Kurt Cobain. They were the soundtrack to my university years, and all the highs and lows I went through in that period.

But I'd kinda got tired of reading about Kurt hating his fame (why'd you sign for Geffen then?) and I was moving on in my life, musically and literally. So, when the news came out I have to say my reaction was 'what a complete arse!". Then I started thinking about Francis Bean and got really angry.

Yet I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard. In fact, I can picture it. And I can feel the emotions I felt then. A mix of anger with some sense of futility and pointlessness.

Wasn't til a couple of years later that I kinda got over myself (I didn't live his life, so how can I judge his actions? What right did I have to?) and let myself feel the sorrow at the loss of a great artist, and a waste of a human life.

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by Eve
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Ditto! I was lost in take that and boyzone and other such talented acts...*ahem* x

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Ditto again...I was 7, I just knew some messed up dude had died and left a wife and a child. The next time I felt something like that was when Paula Yates died. I thought Kurt was really talented and Nirvana have some brilliant songs but I'm bored of the never-ending documentaries and tributes on Sky music channels now.