Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was born to Wendy and Donald Cobain on February 20, 1967 in the small
logging community of Aberdeen Washington and his life ended on April 5, 1994. Kurt
fronted one of the greatest bands of our time called Nirvana. In this report I hope to
inform you about the life and mysterious death of Kurt Cobain.
Kurt had a good childhood, but a troubled adolescence. Partly because of his parents
splitting up in 1975 when Kurt was eight years old. Kurt chose to live with his mother.
Kurt's father remarried three years later.
Kurt got his first guitar for his 14th birthday. He took one guitar lesson and never
paid for it. Kurt says "I went and learned the power chords and never went back and never
paid for the lesson I guess I still owe that guy the $6 or whatever it was. I didn't go
back because once you know the power chords you can start writing your own songs."
Kurt's mother remarried in May of 1984 to Pat O'Connor and one year later in May of 1985
Kurt would drop out of high school at the age of 17. During this period of his life Kurt
got caught up with the drug community of Aberdeen and started heroin, an addiction he
would never defeat. Many blame his death on this horrendous drug. Kurt often lived under
a bridge along the muddy banks of the Wishkah river during that period.
Kurt had been just hanging out when he met Chad Channing and Krist Novaselic and they
would go on to find out that they each played music. Chad played the drums and Krist
played the bass. The three started getting together and jamming. They wrote some of their
own songs and sent out some demo tapes. They released a single in November of 1988. They
got signed to a small company and produced their first album titled Bleach. It featured
Chad Channing on Drums, Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals, and Krist Novaselic on bass.
Bleach only ending up costing $600 to produce and did not sell big. After recording
Bleach the band made a short west coast tour that started in February of 1989 in Seattle
and moved down the coast. However the band was just preparing for the tour for Bleach
which started on June 22, 1989 in San Francisco and ended in New Castle, England, the
bands first European show.
Nirvana started another short US tour in February of 1990 and one month later Chad left
the band to be replaced with Dave Grohl. To break in the new addition they did a seven
show west coast tour.
Chad wanted to move on and Dave was totally down with where Nirvana was headed so the
band said bye to Chad Channing and hello to Dave Grohl. Dave was a drummer who could
carry Kurt's uneven beat without a thought. The band with it's new addition was ready to
start recording again, this time it was another single and few more shows. Then on April
30, 1991 the band got it's big break, they signed with Geffen Records a huge record
company. With a new record deal under their belt Nirvana started recording it's next full
length album in May of 1991.
Geffen sent the band on a massive European tour in August of 1991, to hopefully boost
record sales over seas. That same month they made a music video for one of their new
songs called Smells Like Teen Spirit. After the tour of Europe the band went back to the
US and on September 13, 1991 the release party for Nevermind was held. One week later the
tour began in Toronto for Nevermind. Four days later Nevermind was released and debuted
at 144 in sales on the billboards. After touring for two months in the US the band was
once again going to Europe. The European tour started on November 2, 1991 in Bristol
England.
On January 24, 1992 the band went on a world tour. While in Hawaii Kurt marries Courtney
Love. Courtney was a groupie and Kurt's girlfriend. She was a also a heroin user. And we
would find out later that she was pregnant with Kurt's baby as well. While on the tour
Kurt wasn't feeling very well and collapsed a few times due to stomach pains.
The band wound up the world tour and on August 18, 1992 Francis Bean Cobain was born to
Kurt and Courtney who still went by Courtney Love, her maiden name. Francis was named
after a member of the band called the Vaselines and Bean came from what she looked like
in her sonogram.
On December 15, 1992 the band released its third full length album titled Incesticide.
Four months later the band went back to record it's last album in two weeks titled In
Utero. the album was released on September 21, 1993 and the band again went on tour on
October 10, 1993. The band took the tour to Europe in February of 1994, 29 days later the
last Nirvana performance is played in Munich Germany. Five days later Kurt was
hospitalized after a "suicide" attempt, due to an apparent drug overdose. He enters a
coma and awakens the next day asking for a milkshake. Three days later he leaves the
hospital under his own power. Exactly one month later Kurt's body is found in the
greenhouse above his garage by an electrical technician, who ironically calls a local
radio station first instead of the police.
Kurt had been shot in the mouth with a shotgun, This is where the mysterious part comes
in. The rest is full of contradictions and lies. The coroner reported the gunshot self
inflicted, however the Private Investigator Courtney hired pointed the finger at Courtney
and said murder. He did not mean that Courtney had pulled the trigger but that she had
planned it. His reasoning behind this was 1: the two were apparently getting a divorce
and Courtney had asked for the meanest most vicious divorce lawyer available and Kurt had
requested to take Courtney out of his will. 2: Kurt had just turned down 9.5 million
dollars to front the Lollapalooza tour. 3: the police reports said that Kurt had
barricaded himself in the room but the lock on the door could've been locked by anybody
by simply turning the lock and walking out the door shutting it behind them. 4: Courtney
kept telling Dylan Carlson to check the greenhouse. Dylan was Kurt's best friend and
helped Tom Grant look for Kurt, This is where my survey comes in out of 47 people
surveyed including fans, students, and teachers 20 said they believed that Kurt was
murdered and 27 said they believed that Kurt committed suicide, almost an even split.
Kurt left a big hole in the music industry and this was expressed by many of his fellow
musicians including Eddy Vedder of Pearl Jam and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Eddy had to say
"I feel bad that Kurt's not still writing songs because he was brilliant and that guy
could emotionally twang my heart-strings. Every song he wrote spoke to me."
Dave Grohl and Pat Smear, who had been a late edition for In Utero an back-up guitar
formed a band called the Foo Fighters with Dave on lead guitar and vocals, Pat on back-up
guitar again, and two new people. Krist went on to join a band called Sweet 75. Krist has
also become a "spokesperson" for the band being the only member that was with the band
all the way until the end. I hope i have shown you what Kurt's life and death were like.
There is much more information about this subject out there this is just some of it.
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