Where were you? Kurt Cobain Edition (1 Viewer)

[Soulfly3]

In honor of April, and the new documentary coming out soon...

Bring it back

 

[sbonomo]

Was the 5th when it was announced or when the time of death was listed as ?? I guess I can look it up. Thought it was a bit later. Like the 8th of April.

He died the 5th, the body was recovered on the 8th.

Death certificate goes down on the 5th, so that's when it's "celebrated"

Thanks for clarification because my birthday is the 7 th and would of sweared it was on the radio the next morning.

hey, we have the same b-day . I don't rember what the heck i was doing, but i do remember his wife was annoying. I was probably a bigger fan after death than before. Never been a huge fan either way.

 

[flapgreen]

Didn't matter enough to me for me to remember where I was.

 

[flapgreen]

I was driving back to college when I heard Aaliyah died in a plane crash. I had to pull over for a few minutes I was so upset.

lol

 

[Juxtatarot]

I was at work and someone (I don't remember who) told me. They probably heard it on the radio. II was in the same building I am now as I type this. I have my own office now though.

 

[TheAristocrat]

My cousin called and told me to turn on ESPN. Had some family get-together and all he and I really did was wait for MTV news alerts and listen to Nirvana albums. Not particularly memorable but I know where I was.

Thinking back, I thought it was going to be one of those epic moments in my life but a few years progressed and I realized that a lot of musicians flame out like this. Hadn't yet done drugs so I didn't have that perspective yet either.

 

[eoMMan]

I was driving back to college when I heard Aaliyah died in a plane crash. I had to pull over for a few minutes I was so upset.

lol

It's not funny. I was in love. I had her posters up all over my dorm room. So talented.

 

[Leviathan]

I was at home watching CNN when the news broke. Can't say that I was really upset as I was just a casual fan.

Later that day I went to The Wherehouse to rent some movies. When I checked out, the cashier mentioned something about Nirvana. I broke the news to him that Kurt had committed suicide. He was completely shocked and I could tell that he was very upset. Felt bad for him.

Huh....that reminds me. My cousin went to high school with Kurt and Krist in Aberdeen, WA.

 

[Soulfly3]

Funny to remember how SLOW news travelled pre cell phones and social Media

Could literally go days without news you get in seconds now

 

[Limp Ditka]

I was driving back to college when I heard Aaliyah died in a plane crash. I had to pull over for a few minutes I was so upset.

lol

Aren't you the one still wiping your tears on your Urlacher jersey?

 

[nirad3]

I seem to recall hearing it in my car... parking lot of my dorm at UC Santa Barbara.

 

[Weeber]

Where were you when Nivana was kill?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

No clue about where I was or doing, its not like it was the Kennedy assassination.

 

[Soulfly3]

No clue about where I was or doing, its not like it was the Kennedy assassination.

correct.

the cobain death changed the course of history.

 

[Jayrod]

No clue. Wasn't a fan and to this day I'm still kinda meh on Nivana.

 

[skol asylum]

Pretty sure I was watching MTV in my dorm room at UND and saw Kurt Loder or whoever give the news.

 

[zamboni]

Don't really recall. I think Kurt Loder texted me the news though.

 

[Sinn Fein]

I can't remember if I cried, when I read about his widowed bride.

 

[pantagrapher]

It would have been second semester of my freshman year in college. I was already a fan when I got there, but my roommate, a musician, was just obsessed with Nirvana and Kurt. He had every obscure show and recording of the band you could imagine. He watched videos of past performances. He played and sang pretty much every song. He read Cobain's biography. Apparently there's a part where it mentions he once put a cigarette out on his cheek. So one night when we were at a party, my roommate, drunk, put a cigarette out on his cheek. That's how insane he was for Kurt Cobain. So I remember when the news came more because of how upset he was than how upset I was. Took a guy who was already negotiating some dark mental places and sent him reeling into despair. He videotaped that awful Courtney Love reading-of-the-letter ceremony on MTV with all those kids holding candles and crying in the park. I saw him a couple times that summer and he told me he wasn't coming back to school. And sure enough, he dropped out.

One of our mutual friends from college finally found him last year on Facebook (long story, but he went by a fake last name in college for some reason, so none of us knew his real name). Our little group all friended him and at first he seemed kind of embarrassed that we'd found him. I mean, we'd often wonder what ever happened to him and here he was. He's now a guitar instructor at some music academy. Has a wife and a daughter. Seems happy and well-adjusted. Interesting guy.

Anyway, that my story of where I was when Kurt Cobain died.

 

[Touchdown Syndrome]

I was a teen and delivering flowers for the flower shop my mom used to own.

Heard it on the radio.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

No clue about where I was or doing, its not like it was the Kennedy assassination.

Having my '87 Honda brakes turned at local shop after having a rather unpleasant disagreement with the asst. mgr. at Midas because the regular mgr. was at lunch. I brought a pb and baloney sandwich and sweet, thin BBQ chips from home and read the August '88 Reader's Digest they had in the waiting room. Also bought a Diet Mt. Dew out of the slider bottle machine - 35 cents #####es.