Interesting enough, one of the band members Nirvana had was kicked out of the band, went to Soundgarden, got kicked out of that band too, then joined the military, became a member of a special forces team and got the nickname "Rockstar", left the military, went to college and got a degree in Philosophy, and now works in a successful bar in NYC. That's a hell of a story.
Hysterical fact about the cardigan Kurt wore during the unplugged show, he bought it at a thrift store for 3 bucks, some ultra posh store is now selling a copy of it for like 900 bucks. No joke.
Every stoner/hesher in my school (including me) wore ratty t-shirts, equally ratty flannel over-shirts (never buttoned), faded/threadbare Levi’s and busted Converse sneakers (they were cheaper than Nikes and they lasted forever). We wore that stuff in the mid 80s because we were too poor to afford nice clothes. It wasn’t a fashion statement. It was poverty. When grunge hit in the late 80s, every rich kid at my school was decked out in a crisp, new flannel shirt. Cheerleaders would pay us ten bucks a pair to shoot holes in brand new Levi’s with shotguns. Underclassmen paid us to dub our old Zeppelin and Sabbath albums onto tapes that their parents bought them (Debbie Gibson, Whitney Houston and so many other assorted lame bands/“artists”) so they could be corrupted by “devil music” on the down low. Those were the days.
@@sardonicus76 that's a cool story and I remember those days. Everyone wanted to wear grungey flannel plaid. But to say Whitney was "lame" is just flat out wrong. She had one of the best voices to ever come out of the states. Her version of the Nation Anthem STILL hasn't been surpassed.
hey, is there any advice for when you are in that situation? i keep getting told i have a choice, but that doesn't fill one with confidence, ty in advance
I drove through Aberdeen right before Covid last year and stopped by the bridge and Kurt's old house. The guy that owns that house is turning it into a museum and he was super nice and took a picture of us on the front porch. He said there were tons of drawings on the walls Kurt did when he was growing up.
I loved his music. He was in my opinion, a closet genius. This may sound odd coming from my background, (I am a pastor), but the authenticity of his music was clear, profound, and very personal. He sang from his heart.
Yeah…… people who use their brains don’t believe in man made religions. Have you heard the many, many, MANY songs from Nirvana bashing religions? You might be out of your element dude.
Dead men don't pull triggers. Lack of blood at the scene indicates that his heart had already stopped beating when that gun was fired. Despite what some claim, Kurt's cranium was not spread all over the room, the only sign of trauma was a small trickle of blood coming from his ear and the wound.
Kurt wanted us to face the truth, not hide behind conspiracy theories like cowards. If he could see all the conspiracy theories today, he would probably kill himself again. If you follow the evidence it’s clear that he killed himself and Courtney Love tried to get people to stop him. Face the truth!
We could've been living in a world where we hear the name "Kurt Cobain" and instead of thinking of some troubled rockstar, we'd be thinking of a sailor in the navy who wrestled in highschool.
That would not be fine. I think Kurt would be okay with his overall exit appeal created by his death. His character screams it. Who would want Cobain to have been any other way than he was? Sheer self destructive brilliance 🤪😝🤑🤮😵🤯
My mom grew up in aberdeen and went to highschool with kurt and his sister kim. She even partied with them which i am mad jealous of. She said she didnt talk to kurt too much because he was quote "shy, reserved, and awkward" but she did get to see him play at a couple of parties which is so incredibly cool to me. What i wouldn't give to have witnessed those early days with her 😃
@@matthewschneider3391 I always habe and always will think Kurt Cobain hung the moon. I was 14 when he died, and a huge fan, like bad. It broke my heart and traumatized me to a degree as well.
A tragic loss for the musical world. The Unplugged in New York album is probably the best live recording ever. Kurts voice during that performance gives me the chills.
I know he hated the "voice of a generation" label, ( Bob Dylan hated that too) but he and Tupac did make music that spoke to the youth of that era, perhaps better than anyone else in the 90s.
@@jonnysupreme I have to admit that while I've heard of oasis, I'm not familiar with their music. Did they struggle with the voice of a generation label as well?
@@sjw4life546 nah Oasis loved being rock stars and openly said so, which was actually pretty refreshing by the mid-'90s. The Gallagher brothers' (the two key figures of the band) background was almost like a British version of Kurt's- working class, divorced parents, deliquency, clashing with their dad. But they took things in a far more optimistic direction, which was also a breath of fresh air at the time. I'm Australian and Oasis were also huge over here. I kind of think of them at their peak (first two albums) as being like the UK's answer to AC/DC. Back-to-basics blue-collar rock that has so much fire and energy that it can appeal to just about anyone. And like with AC/DC, Oasis is also great party/drinking music.
I worked in an Emergency Room for several years. It was in a small beach town. Because there was a campground at the beach, there was also a good sized homeless population. Many of the campers ended up at one time or another in the ER. Many of them were in the ER for drug issues. Yes. Many of them were self medicating. That’s what so many people don’t understand. Emotional pain can be unbearable. Honestly it can be so severe that it becomes terminal. It’s impossible to know or understand another persons pain and we as a society need to be more understanding. So many of the people that are written off as drug abusers are really in need of mental health care and right now, in this country, you are unlikely to be able to access good mental healthcare unless you have great medical insurance. Or deep pockets. My poor homeless community had neither. There was little we could offer them. It still breaks my heart.
@@amixofeverything That would be painful for sure. I have a good friend who’s partner committed suicide, He had been fighting depression for years. My feeling was that he had a terminal illness. The pain became unbearable and was no longer compatible with life. Depression is a very serious illness. Not something that you can just snap out of or ignore. I truly hope he is now at peace and beyond pain.
Shame I dident get to be alive when Cobain was. He died the year I was born but 3 month before my birth. One of my favorite musicians of all time and thank my best friend growing up for loving there mosice and exposing me to nirvana at the time.i even bought him one of there albums as a birthday gives. And kinda like dave. The drummer of nirvana that taught him how to play guitair. My friend was the one that taught me how to has well.
“Of course I didn’t kill my husband. But if I was going to, I’d probably forge his handwriting, hire a seemingly incapable P.I to look for him, dose him up hard on Valium then pump 3x the lethal dose of heroine into him, then have him blow his head off with a gun way too long to successfully pull the trigger with anything but his toe, also completely void of any fingerprints, with the shell ejected on the wrong side of the gun. You know typical case of suicide”
Kurt was the reluctant voice of a generation and a cultural movement in history. Life in the early 90's was a wonderfully strange time. We are all better for sharing the time we had with him... His voice changed the world.
I actually remember the first time I heard smells like teen spirit, it was on Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 radio show, late 1991 to 1992. I was about 12 to 13, but I was old enough to know how radical the sound was, especially mixed with all of the pop hits of the time. I wasn't into heavier music at that point, but that was the first step for me. I learned power chords from Cobain, watching a VHS tape of nirvana performances, pausing repeatedly, trying to figure out where his fingers were, and I finally got it figured out that way. Thanks Kurt.
Rest in peace Kurt, you're loved so much and missed. Happy Late birthday aswell. we wish you were still around, but those of us who still love your music still appreciate every second of the music you've created.
Exiting a gig by The Fall in sept 93 I came out to run into Kurt. A lovely, soft spoken and generous man, just 5'6" tall . This was weeks prior to the release of what the press had been saying was the unlistenable Steve Albini produced In Utero. Kurt played down the rumours and his living in Los Angeles. We talked until Courtney's voice became louder in the distance, I thanked him for the music and our chat ended. Mind you we spoke for 20-30 minutes. In Utero is a recording without peer...
Even though I have never truly been a die-hard grunge fan, Nirvana holds a special place in my heart. How could it not, with an excruciatingly talented bunch as them? With regards to their most famous album: everyone always keeps going on an on about "Smells Like Teen Spirit", but imho "Come As You Are" is by far the better song on Nevermind.
As someone that has been dealing with depression for years, i can see him taking his life away regardless of that murder theory. The man was miserable, felt hollow and on top was having a drug addiction. In the early 90's there were still no institutions, protocols or proper treatment to effectivly help people deal with mental illness let alone major depression with suicidal attempts even to this day we are struggling with these diseases since treatment is dismissed with just the usage of drugs instead of a proper follow up and behavioral intervention (Specially in the US with its lack of infrastructure in preventive medicine). As a side note, if anyone is dealing with depression or mental illness, seek help, i've been there and that state of mind clouds the judgement but there's a way to overcome it and, in my case, to learn to live with it.
To be clear, you absolutely do have a point. People that believe into the Murder Theory often, very adamantly so, try to present Cobain as a very happy down to earth guy who just happened to get heavily misunderstood and presented in the wrong way by the Media, and while there is some truth in that, his entire story still remains a Tragedy. Describing Cobain as a regular guy who just was misunderstood is in my opinion just as wrong as painting him as some kind of sad Angel who just was too pure for the world so he had to leave it. The guy had a completely desolate upbringing, suffered from depression since early age which lead to an absolutely disastrous drug addiction and had major issues with his sudden Position as the Face of Grunge Rock. Not to mention the famous chronic stomach disease, which is speculated to be a hoax. Hell, he even lost custody of his own child because of a vanity fair article ! He had more than enough reasons to at least contemplate suicide. However, all of that doesn’t change the fact that there are many things fishy around his death and the investigation that tend to get overlooked because he also suffered from mental illness and addiction.
He used heroin to self medicate the pain of his undiagnosed stomach issues. He couldn’t get help anywhere as such issues aren’t fully understood. He would sometimes say when he sings and screams he would focus on the pain in his gut as it brought out a deeper emotion
I think it's sad we still remember him as a troubled young man and completely overlook he was suffering constant chronic pain and illness and pushing himself to keep going and do something with his life despite it. That was not simply a depression and mental illness suicide. That was a chronic illness suicide. Which we still have a hard time understanding is most likely one of the most common types.
My heart breaks for Kurt Cobain's mother. When she 1st heard their album "Nevermind" sitting in her living room, she looked at the boys & said, "Are you ready for what this is going to do to you all? I mean _really_ ready?" She _knew_ how massive the album was going to be. What fame it was going to bring these young men. It was their best work, it was a solid album of #1 hits, she wasn't wrong. 🤗
His mother was barely around when he was growing up.. she came back around AFTER he died.. If ya can, go check out “about a son” it’s a collection of interviews of Kurt Cobain and speaks about how his aunt is the one who was most influential in his life..especially with music
@@buckfuddy5561 Yes, that's the truth. That Montage of Heck narrative is a load of garbage. Wendy gave no shits and made no such "You are NOT ready for this" statements. Such revisionist history!!
@@cassielong6617 that was cheap cope from a depressed addict that choose to overdose the same day his daughter was being born, he was a selfish narcissist
Why is that a dream? You know there’s zero chance Mr Whistler knows anything about the “band”. 2 minutes after shutting off the teleprompter he will have forgotten almost everything he said about the most overrated band of the 90s
You just took me right back to 9th grade! I was having the worst Monday ever to, Thank You soooo much! I needed that! I ♥️ Nirvana RIP Kurt Cobain you inspired so many of us and I can’t imagine what music would be without you! ✌️♥️😊
Wow, this is the most kid gloved handling of Courtney I've heard on this subject. Also how do you get addicted to acid? I took tons of it during that time and just dropped it one day and never looked back. Never felt any uncontrollable urge to do it again. You should do a follow up on the Foo Fighters.
Lmao....on Dragnet yesterday, a drug peddling kid at the end of an episode, supposedly died of an LSD overdose. Lol That doesn't happen but this show was filmed in 1964 and people had an irrational fear of recreational drug use partially due to the film Reefer Madness a few years before. Alot of people just believed this misinformation instead of researching it themselves.
I'm 41...and it was pretty great. It was like every 3 months a new awesome band debuted. Haha Edit: I only liked Nirvana for about 5 minutes. As a musician they didnt impress me skill or talent-wise. Most of their fans are nonmusicians.. which is fine. Just one guys opinion..
@@archiereddy9560 Absolutely, thats why I bought sewing and studding kits. But womens alternative fashion (like E girls especially) are whats really carrying it on right now. We need more mens fashion and music to help catalyze it more.
In a sense, Kurt Cobain's suicide after a short career helped to cement Nirvana's legacy - with his death, it meant Nirvana didn't stick around enough to start sucking. That said, the small amount of recorded output he left us with could have offset quite a bit of suckage had he kept going.
I wish you would have added some suicide hotlines towards the end. @Ethan Ramos that reminds me of when Kurt asked me "Do you think some birds are scared of heights? I bet some fish hate to swim?" He was a great friend and had a huge heart.
And nothing about suicide attempts until after his death! He was opiod free when Rome happened and Dr Gulatta said it was a reaction to a mix of Courtney meds, who's meds? Courtney meds and champagne. Until his stomach issue was fixed he had alot of issues but in a interview he said ahhh all gone I finally got a Dr who prescription me the right meds. He was happy. He had a baby girl. Courtney slept with everyone but Kurt. He wanted a divorce and wanted to pause nirvana for a bit. He was burnt out from all the touring. He trusted his entertainment lawyer rosemary carol. Bad mistake. If he would've got different lawyer she would've got nothing. His kid would get it all. I've read every book, watched every interview I could. In my opinion he didn't kill himself. too high level of smack and his note said nothing about leaving this world. Just leaving music. Ppl don't make plans, buy plane tickets, then decide to off themselves. He was 7 miles away from his wife and didn't go see her when he left rehab. She had a handwriting practice sheet in her bag left at said lawyers, a list of things to do that came true, and didn't want Tom to go to house at first. too many coincidences for me if you really do your homework. El Duce passing polygraph then dead, somebody using his credit card then stopped as soon as hes found dead, dylan saying i didnt know aboutvthe greenhouse but thats his BF? All stinks!! Junkies will do anything for money or drugs. Courtney knows this. Ceryil Wect oversaw so many cases. He's a expert on these matters and I believe he knows from experience what's really the cause of death. Gone too soon. Never forgot. I don't like it when ppl do videos on kurt and saw he was doomed from the start but ppl who actually knew him and was friends say he never said he wanted to die. Just wanted to not be in pain from gut issue. We all say I'd rather die than feel this pain or that pain. But we really don't mean it!
I remember a guy in my eighth grade English class said that Kurt Cobain was his hero, and the teacher yelled, “Hero’s don’t take heroin and if they do they beat the habit, not kill themselves! There is nothing heroic about leaving a two year daughter behind!” Years later my classmate was arrested as a key player in a local heroin distribution ring. But his family had connections, so he only had to go to rehab. Everyone else got five to twenty years in the poky.
I agree with your teacher 100%. Suicide is a coward's way out. It takes a lot more guts to stick around. Sounds like your former classmate needs to be in jail.
@@mybraineatseverything7404 congrats on never being suicidal, but until you are in the position of taking your own life, you will have no idea how hard it is.
@@mybraineatseverything7404 your brain is going to end up eating a steel capped boot if you get around mouthing off your worthless opinion. Seriously, keep it to yourself before you get your mouth closed for good.
@@numerum_bestia so it's okay to threaten to murder someone who disagrees with you about suicide? That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I've been suicidal before. I've been through treatment. Suicidal people are in pain yes. Calling them cowards doesnt help, that's true. That doesnt mean suicide isn't the cowards way out. Two things can be true at the same time.
Kurt killed himself because of the pain of his undiagnosed stomach problems. He used heroin as a pain killer. He spoke about killing himself many times because he suffered from it so badly.
I've heard the "Courtney killed Kurt" theory since I was a kid. Why hire a hit man when she could have just NOT resuscitated him numerous times, stage an intervention, push him into rehab, or hire a PI to find him when he went off the grid? That's really complicated when she could have just let a suicidal man be on his own.
It’s easy. You being the rock god and me being ur other half. You die,it’s my fault. You die from drugs, I gave them to you. If you die, because your addition it is I who did not you help. If you die by gun, I shoot you. Courtney never had a chance. She hired a hitman or not, there always be fans that believe for one reason or another she is at fault
@YourFriendlyGoth okay, but you are not him. Cobain had already made several attempts. The heroin might have removed the fear of pulling the trigger on a shot gun. Also, he wasn’t simply depressed, he was bipolar, in chronic pain and an addict, which are different conditions with different behaviors and motivations involved. Just because a shot gun doesn’t make ‘logical sense’ to you, does not mean anything, it may have been as simple as being the closest weapon to him at the time. He had the family history - four fairly close relatives committing suicide, he has the personal background - several attempts until he finally succeeded (which is one of the biggest indicators that someone will succeed at suicide), he had the means - overdose with drugs and after several failures he had firearms. So far the only true person with motive to kill Cobain was himself.
@YourFriendlyGoth We don’t know what his tolerance to heroin was at that point and he had a background of keeping multiple weapons around. He grew up in a home with guns, he is from a state where hunting is the norm, he had a bunch of guns removed from his home while his wife was pregnant.
Kurt loved life, hated the life everyone forced on him. Kurt wasn't a partying rockstar, he was a broken man who was trying to numb it all with as many drugs as he could. Kurt told people he had schizophrenia but people told us he was just crazy. "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends, they're in my head" and if you don't trust that, Kurt talked about being schizophrenic in interviews
As a Xennial I remember the day Cobain died. I remember going to school depressed all day. I wasn't the biggest Nirvana fan but I knew how important a figure he was for my generation. I'm sure it was similar to way people felt when Lennon died.
I was in Grade 9 when he died. Didn't know who the band was, had just come from a rural grade school where rock was from the devil. Sure knew who they were after.
He ain't wrong....ALLEGEDLY 🙃😉🙃 Maybe it's because I'm a Gen-Xer, thankfully born before Millennials. I grew up a young teen during the grunge period and damn, it was amazing!! Lots of death talk, mortality and tragedy. Worst of all, actual death of amazing artists during this time. Well, tbf every genre of music loses their greats too soon 😶😕
It is theorised that kurt had chrons or ulcerative colitis. I have UC, it ended up taking my whole large intestine, reconstructing my small one. 7kg of dead rotting tissue. The pain when you eat, the vomiting, the use of pain killers (doctors now understand to give those to people in pain lol). Its so difficult to explain to people what this is like. They just think you have a bad tummy ache and are being a baby. Never mind or organs being digested inside you and crapping blood. There is this weird thing, people see a missing arm or leg, they understand thats bad. They hear 'cancer' and know thats bad. But when the damage is inside, or something they dont know the name of. They minimise it. Its frustrating. You're trapped inside your own body, you want to do so much, the mind is strong, but the body is so weak. If you know someone going through something like that, give them all the help you can, get them to a doctor and force the doctor to do something. The fast way out is alot less painful then the slow way, if you dont help, they can't fight that forever.
@@samd939 would you be as interesteded as I in a Biographics video on the thunder from down under, the voice from bois(e), the lungs from Mei Fung, Mr. Layne Anfernee Staley?!
The saddest part of Kurt’s story is how his daughter has to live her life not remembering her father and having only photos and videos of him to know him from
I once saw a guy trying to "sing" Teen Spirit on karaoke. I had never read the words before and this guy gave it his best effort - but still really badly.
I Met Kurk Cobain BEFORE he was Famous In the UK Back in 1990 I was 19 . NIRVANA Kurk Cobain Played In our Local Pub ' The Shelly Arms ' in Sussex which always had Live bands at weekends after the gig they packed up The bar owner Warren then closed up which left ME and the band and The bar owner Warren at the bar. I spoke to Kurt then unaware who they were as they were unsigned at this time we drank and smoked weed till about 04:30 in the morning. At 1 Point Kurk said to ME " So man wot ya think of our music ?" which i replied " Yeah man Bloody good , i reckon your'll do really well " He was a really nice guy and funny. TRUE STORY.
It strikes me how seemingly the vast majority of the people leaving comments on this channel can't seem to realize he's basically just a news anchor who never writes any of the text he presents.
@@roxannemoser date, slept with, abused, took drugs with, she just a leach, I'm sure a guy she dated before who was quoted as saying she was latching on to anyone who could make her famous.
8:45 Acid addiction... That's not how that works. If you just tripped acid the last thing you wanna do is trip again its anti-addictive and used for addiction recovery.
I'd normally agree, except I knew someone who did acid one day and bugged me for the next week starting the next morning for some more. Holy fuckin hype. I don't think that's the case in this instance.
@@scottmatznick3140 nah truebagels right. Your friend probs had a good experience and wanted another go. But I bet he hadn't been doing it consistently or for long. I've never met anyone one wanted to do it, day after day for extended periods of times. Acid/LSD has many therapeutic properties including overcoming other (more hardcore) drug addictioo
Addiction doesn't have to be shitting yourself from dope sickness. Some people feel amazing on psychedelics and can develop a dependence. Plenty of people have binged on acid constantly. I would have if i had a consistent supply. I think in this context he was just listing acid as part of kurt getting into drugs.
Growing up in the 90s was amazing as when 1990 came I turned 15…I first heard of Nirvana from my skater friends…One of which was in the sub pop singles club, I first heard Lovebuzz..All I could think was this doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve ever heard..Now mind u at the time Motley Crue, an Iron Maiden and kiss posters covered my walls…My skater friends was playing bands to me like Circle Jerks, 7 seconds etc…But this voice on lovebuzz jus got me to the soul…It was like I had heard something that changed my whole world..I then got my friend to make me a cassette tape of bleach…I wore this tape out…completely…As teen spirit was released later me and the rest of the world was introduced to Kurt’s genius song writing..I also started playing guitar in 89 an when Nevermind came out I was so happy to be able to play entire songs all the way thru…Kurt indeed had taught us that it doesn’t have to be the most technical guitar playing on any song to make it great, it’s the feeling put into the playing an the lyrics that makes a song…As 1994 came I was a senior in high school an I can remember the day that across our local radio station came “ A body has been found at Kurt Cobains house..I froze in my tracks..Completely stopped what I was doin an thought..No way this can be him…He has everything to live for…Money, Fame, His Family…Later that day it was announced he had shot himself…as a 18 yr old when this happened I didn’t even know anyone who had committed suicide, hell at that time I didn’t even know anyone except a great uncle or aunt who had even died…My brain could not handle my hero could do this to himself…I did like everyone else of that day/ watch MTV to catch any details…The sound of Kurt Loder on MTV news saying Kurt was dead…hit me very hard…I tried to listen to Nirvana music to make me feel better about what he had accomplished, but it jus made it worse for me..He was gone an all the music that we would have gotten from him went with him…Shortly after the memorial that was on mtv as well, I had to completely stop listening to Nirvana..I jus couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact he was gone an hearing him sing hurt my heart so much…Fast forward to 2014, I like most of Gen X is a parent myself heard of Nirvana being inducted into the Rock an roll hall of fame..that day I got out all my nirvana cds put them in my car an listened to all of them in the order they were released..I was shocked actually to how good the music still sounded 20 yrs later… it what shocked me most was that now I could listen to Nirvana and not be sad about the loss of Kurt I was somewhat proud…Kurt and Nirvana has a huge place in my heart an soul, all those yrs went by an listening to Nevermind felt so good again…This is just my story of how Kurt an Nirvana affected my life..RIP KURT…
of those relatives you say killed themselves, one was a cop who's gun went off in bar and accidentally shot himself after asking if everyone was ok and then dropped dead. The other fell down stairs drunk so yes they killed themselves but not in the context you speak of.
I've never heard this before. I'll have to follow up on it. I have heard that one relative, though, stabbed himself in the chest. While he initially survived, he reopened his wounds while in the hospital, and that's what killed him.
3:00 Simon if his dad remarried the woman is his Stepmother not Mother-in-law. Mother-in-law is the Mother of the Spouse Not the new wife of his father that is not his biological mother
it was definitely foul play, but informative otherwise. I simply refuse to believe that someone who was incapacitated to the point of sudden death on an overdose of heroin could have physically shot himself
Actually I think that Michael Cali Dewitt pulled the actual trigger after Kurt Cobain was incapacitated and then they agreed that he would leave town and do other things while keeping it a secret
Sorry to say there are a lot of errors in this video. I knew Kurt a bit, and many of his friends and family think he was murdered. The narrative of the suicidal drug addled tortured soul that certain person/s have tried to create (or people seem to need) is not quite accurate, I hope a more accurate picture might come out in future... Many people were jealous of Kurt's genius and used him, poor Kurt.
I know it was a shotgun that Kurt used, but does anyone know if he used buckshot or slugs. I know slugs are likely more effective for that purpose, but Kurt strikes me as a buckshot sorta fellow.
@@chrisweir221 Agree. When everyone was listening to Nirvana, I, was busy with AIC, FaceLift, and then Dirt, in my earphones non-stop for months on end.
I was 13 years old watching mtv eating dinner the first time I saw teen spirit on TV. You could feel something, cant really explain. But you knew you were seeing something special. 🤘
You sir, are one of the busiest guys on RUclips. Started watching you years ago, and saw your evolution to what I consider "the perfect narrator". Kudos to you Simon (and of course your team/teams)!
If you think music has taken a nose dive you simply haven't been looking hard enough. Yes stuff they play on the radio is more or less trash but there are so many amazing artists and groups that are not as well known.
I felt the same way for a while. But you just gotta look for something that sounds good to you. Let YT’s algorithm work for you. Just watch and like some old music videos, and as newer (at least to you) videos pop up give them a listen. And don’t be afraid to venture outside of your preferred genres and language. I found some great bands doing that.
SUB POP had the best record store dtwn Seattle, super fun time in Seattles music scene and everyone actually had a great time, the artists, the fans....it was history making and everyone knew it as it happened!
“No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.”
Kurt Cobain
But falling down is the fun part of heights.
It's the impact part that really sucks. Also, a life hack: never say 'I love you' before she does.
Typical Kurt! So sensitive and intuitive. i didnt know he said that, nice quote, thanks Ethan
@@Drew-ft7wf Your welcome mate
It's absolutely a Fake Quote
Interesting enough, one of the band members Nirvana had was kicked out of the band, went to Soundgarden, got kicked out of that band too, then joined the military, became a member of a special forces team and got the nickname "Rockstar", left the military, went to college and got a degree in Philosophy, and now works in a successful bar in NYC. That's a hell of a story.
Despite the lockdowns?
@@datsimplenope all this happened long before the pandemic.
@@Vampwatch1462 I see
And his name? Ben Shapiro.
Damn that one needs to be a video Who was that?
Hysterical fact about the cardigan Kurt wore during the unplugged show, he bought it at a thrift store for 3 bucks, some ultra posh store is now selling a copy of it for like 900 bucks. No joke.
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Kurt would hate that so much
Every stoner/hesher in my school (including me) wore ratty t-shirts, equally ratty flannel over-shirts (never buttoned), faded/threadbare Levi’s and busted Converse sneakers (they were cheaper than Nikes and they lasted forever). We wore that stuff in the mid 80s because we were too poor to afford nice clothes. It wasn’t a fashion statement. It was poverty.
When grunge hit in the late 80s, every rich kid at my school was decked out in a crisp, new flannel shirt. Cheerleaders would pay us ten bucks a pair to shoot holes in brand new Levi’s with shotguns. Underclassmen paid us to dub our old Zeppelin and Sabbath albums onto tapes that their parents bought them (Debbie Gibson, Whitney Houston and so many other assorted lame bands/“artists”) so they could be corrupted by “devil music” on the down low.
Those were the days.
@@sardonicus76 haha that’s awesome.
@@sardonicus76 that's a cool story and I remember those days. Everyone wanted to wear grungey flannel plaid. But to say Whitney was "lame" is just flat out wrong. She had one of the best voices to ever come out of the states. Her version of the Nation Anthem STILL hasn't been surpassed.
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." ~ Kurt Cobain
What if the person that you are is a waste?
@@parkb5320 that’s a paradox
@@parkb5320 make yourself worth something. your best self is your true self, always strive for it and never stop.
Kurt had fucking bars
Amen!! I'm so glad he knew this. He was so very special.
Saying you’d let your own son live with you if he gave up his passion is just about the scummiest thing I’ve ever heard
Don't forget that his dad said; you kind of owe ME for moving you to Aberdeen. If 8 didn't this NEVER would of happened.
@@gr33n3ggs4 wow, I never heard that before. Messed up. Do you recall where you heard that from?
@@blue-calla
VH1 documentary on GRUNGE. Here on You Tube
hey, is there any advice for when you are in that situation? i keep getting told i have a choice, but that doesn't fill one with confidence, ty in advance
Well his father was a boomer so there.
I drove through Aberdeen right before Covid last year and stopped by the bridge and Kurt's old house. The guy that owns that house is turning it into a museum and he was super nice and took a picture of us on the front porch. He said there were tons of drawings on the walls Kurt did when he was growing up.
Wow! Which isthe address?
Wow what a coincidence, I went to Aberdeen right before covid aswell and did all of that.
@T S I'm from the same state it's not that wild of an idea when Aberdeen is only an hour away
you literally didnt do any of that
@@guylewis2865 Imagine not being from Washington
That MTV unplugged they did was epic.
It was check out the Alice In Chains unplugged it’s a masterpiece
Best one ever.
@@x-raymind7778 Nutshell unplugged is my fav song of all time
When the M in MTV still mattered.
For real!
"I'd rather be hated for who i am then be praised for who i am not" - Kurt Cobain
Loved not praised
I loved his music. He was in my opinion, a closet genius. This may sound odd coming from my background, (I am a pastor), but the authenticity of his music was clear, profound, and very personal. He sang from his heart.
All music should be clear profound and from the heart... Otherwise its BORING
I like his music and work for Nirvana I can't imgane Nirvana without Kurt
You should buy the book that compiles all his writings and journals. Makes him seem much less closeted in his intelligence lol
He was a poser and a chode. His most prolific words are really david Bowies
Yeah…… people who use their brains don’t believe in man made religions. Have you heard the many, many, MANY songs from Nirvana bashing religions? You might be out of your element dude.
Dead men don't pull triggers.
Lack of blood at the scene indicates that his heart had already stopped beating when that gun was fired.
Despite what some claim, Kurt's cranium was not spread all over the room, the only sign of trauma was a small trickle of blood coming from his ear and the wound.
Kurt wanted us to face the truth, not hide behind conspiracy theories like cowards. If he could see all the conspiracy theories today, he would probably kill himself again. If you follow the evidence it’s clear that he killed himself and Courtney Love tried to get people to stop him. Face the truth!
We could've been living in a world where we hear the name "Kurt Cobain" and instead of thinking of some troubled rockstar, we'd be thinking of a sailor in the navy who wrestled in highschool.
He should have done that instead.
You would not be hearing the name and if you did you wouldn't know who he was.
@@tchrisou812 That'd be fine
@@preettygoood7774 I agree
That would not be fine. I think Kurt would be okay with his overall exit appeal created by his death. His character screams it. Who would want Cobain to have been any other way than he was? Sheer self destructive brilliance 🤪😝🤑🤮😵🤯
"I'm so happy because today I found my friends, they're in my head" -Kurt Cobain
My mom grew up in aberdeen and went to highschool with kurt and his sister kim. She even partied with them which i am mad jealous of. She said she didnt talk to kurt too much because he was quote "shy, reserved, and awkward" but she did get to see him play at a couple of parties which is so incredibly cool to me. What i wouldn't give to have witnessed those early days with her 😃
Amazing ❤️
Reserved is the last word I'd use to describe Kurt. Now, shy and sometimes quite, yes, but not reserved
@Rasputina16 his public persona was something of a character.
@@matthewschneider3391 I always habe and always will think Kurt Cobain hung the moon. I was 14 when he died, and a huge fan, like bad. It broke my heart and traumatized me to a degree as well.
@Rasputina16 same. Was 13 and he was the coolest mother on the planet
A tragic loss for the musical world. The Unplugged in New York album is probably the best live recording ever. Kurts voice during that performance gives me the chills.
my favorite kurt cobain quote always has been and always will be “i’d rather be hated for who i am than loved for who i am not”
That's not actually his quote. It's a common misconception
It's also only an excuse for not wanting to change and evolve.
Undoubtedly speaks of his authenticity
I know he hated the "voice of a generation" label, ( Bob Dylan hated that too) but he and Tupac did make music that spoke to the youth of that era, perhaps better than anyone else in the 90s.
And Oasis I reckon. (If you're from England)
Oh great now I'm imagining a duet with Tupac and Cobain. That would have been fucking epic 😎
@@jonnysupreme I have to admit that while I've heard of oasis, I'm not familiar with their music. Did they struggle with the voice of a generation label as well?
@@sjw4life546 nah Oasis loved being rock stars and openly said so, which was actually pretty refreshing by the mid-'90s.
The Gallagher brothers' (the two key figures of the band) background was almost like a British version of Kurt's- working class, divorced parents, deliquency, clashing with their dad. But they took things in a far more optimistic direction, which was also a breath of fresh air at the time.
I'm Australian and Oasis were also huge over here. I kind of think of them at their peak (first two albums) as being like the UK's answer to AC/DC. Back-to-basics blue-collar rock that has so much fire and energy that it can appeal to just about anyone. And like with AC/DC, Oasis is also great party/drinking music.
@@huwguyver4208 thanks for the info!
He needed help. He really, really did. It doesn't sound like a partying rock star; it sounds like self-medicating.
I worked in an Emergency Room for several years. It was in a small beach town. Because there was a campground at the beach, there was also a good sized homeless population. Many of the campers ended up at one time or another in the ER. Many of them were in the ER for drug issues. Yes. Many of them were self medicating. That’s what so many people don’t understand. Emotional pain can be unbearable. Honestly it can be so severe that it becomes terminal. It’s impossible to know or understand another persons pain and we as a society need to be more understanding. So many of the people that are written off as drug abusers are really in need of mental health care and right now, in this country, you are unlikely to be able to access good mental healthcare unless you have great medical insurance. Or deep pockets. My poor homeless community had neither. There was little we could offer them. It still breaks my heart.
His family also had a history of suicide.
@@amixofeverything That would be painful for sure. I have a good friend who’s partner committed suicide, He had been fighting depression for years. My feeling was that he had a terminal illness. The pain became unbearable and was no longer compatible with life. Depression is a very serious illness. Not something that you can just snap out of or ignore. I truly hope he is now at peace and beyond pain.
yep... i can relate
Look out for another we al lack love in someways ❤️🦋🙏
The halls of my art school freshman dorm were a MESS of weeping folks that day in April "94. (Shocking, I know) 🥺🎨
Shame I dident get to be alive when Cobain was. He died the year I was born but 3 month before my birth. One of my favorite musicians of all time and thank my best friend growing up for loving there mosice and exposing me to nirvana at the time.i even bought him one of there albums as a birthday gives. And kinda like dave. The drummer of nirvana that taught him how to play guitair. My friend was the one that taught me how to has well.
I cried when he died, too. I was at work.
"Don't give him any sugar."
- wise pediatrician
I was told same as a child.
Right.. but valium and meth (adderall) is totally fine ...
@@KS-PNW adderall is amphetamine, not methamphetamine. Small changes in chemical structures make a huge difference.
"How about don't give your kids drugs"
I wonder if the FDA strictly controlled sugar in children's food and things like bread and pasta if the cases of ADHD would become nearly nonexistent.
Courtney Love: the Carole Baskin of grunge.
“Of course I didn’t kill my husband. But if I was going to, I’d probably forge his handwriting, hire a seemingly incapable P.I to look for him, dose him up hard on Valium then pump 3x the lethal dose of heroine into him, then have him blow his head off with a gun way too long to successfully pull the trigger with anything but his toe, also completely void of any fingerprints, with the shell ejected on the wrong side of the gun. You know typical case of suicide”
Absolutely
OMG, the accuracy of this comment haha
Um, yes.
THAT GOTDAMN CAROL BASKIN!
Kurt was the reluctant voice of a generation and a cultural movement in history. Life in the early 90's was a wonderfully strange time. We are all better for sharing the time we had with him... His voice changed the world.
The late 80's and early 90's were some of the funnest and most chaotic years of my life. Great times.
He'slucky he didn't get to experience Trump and the selfish IT generation.!
@@zeroelliott IT generation?
Long live Kurt and long live the 90s...
Kurt was the voice of a reluctant generation
Ah, yes... memories of my high school days. Wish Cobain had had another couple decades of creation. :(
That’s what I think about the most! Not even his death and everything that comes with that. But his creatively and what he would have released!!!!
and another wife
I'd be happy with even two more albums.
Guys like you are why he couldn't cope with fame. Treating artists like walking music makers isn't good
Or even just a couple more albums. Everything Him, Krist, and Dave put together turned to gold.
I actually remember the first time I heard smells like teen spirit, it was on Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 radio show, late 1991 to 1992. I was about 12 to 13, but I was old enough to know how radical the sound was, especially mixed with all of the pop hits of the time. I wasn't into heavier music at that point, but that was the first step for me. I learned power chords from Cobain, watching a VHS tape of nirvana performances, pausing repeatedly, trying to figure out where his fingers were, and I finally got it figured out that way. Thanks Kurt.
so you are telling me that you are 40 years old and you chose this username?
@@rhett2408we can't all be boring assholes, Rhett
@@rhett2408
You should change yours to “Douchebag”. It suits you.
@@fromulus...🤣☠
Love this story.
Rest in peace Kurt, you're loved so much and missed. Happy Late birthday aswell. we wish you were still around, but those of us who still love your music still appreciate every second of the music you've created.
"You can survive anything if you pick the right song" (Kurt Cobain)
Any of nirvana songs make me wanna bust a Kurt and not survive
@@fernandoalvarado6084 oh my god…… I mean true, but oh my god
damn, he didn't pick the right song for himself
He was listening to REM when it happened
Sigh. Kurt's death helped me in my own depression, which I'm now free of. Beautiful music. Beautiful musician.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Pain & poetry
5:40 - Chapter 2 - Maladies
7:55 - Chapter 3 - Holding the sick bowl
11:35 - Chapter 4 - "A 60 minute-tape of us defecating"
15:00 - Chapter 5 - Shooting with love
20:05 - Chapter 6 - Verse , chorus, verse
22:35 - Chapter 7 - Last days
*Emotionally felt dramatic clapping & nodding.
I so love this episode! Thanks simon. At my lowest low right now.watching this made me think things over.
Hows everything going? You can talk to me if you want
Hope you get out of that low and choose to stick around, the joys of the life ahead of you will make any past/current suffering worth it 🙏✨
Exiting a gig by The Fall in sept 93 I came out to run into Kurt. A lovely, soft spoken and generous man, just 5'6" tall . This was weeks prior to the release of what the press had been saying was the unlistenable Steve Albini produced In Utero. Kurt played down the rumours and his living in Los Angeles. We talked until Courtney's voice became louder in the distance, I thanked him for the music and our chat ended. Mind you we spoke for 20-30 minutes. In Utero is a recording without peer...
Did you know that Brix Smith from The Fall almost joined Hole?
Sometimes I panic at the thought that a life full of tragic notoriety can be summarized in a 26 min video.
Even though I have never truly been a die-hard grunge fan, Nirvana holds a special place in my heart. How could it not, with an excruciatingly talented bunch as them?
With regards to their most famous album: everyone always keeps going on an on about "Smells Like Teen Spirit", but imho "Come As You Are" is by far the better song on Nevermind.
Drain Me is my favorite Nevermind song
people keep going about both of those songs, not just smells like teen spirit and imo lounge act or stay away is the best on that album
Pearl Jam "Alive" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991, along with Soundgarden, Alice in Chains.....God music was great in the 90's
Nah. That weak crap destroyed rock.
PANTERA FUCKING RULES !
@@homelessjesse9453 so you preferred men in tights and hair spray men? bender.
Early 90’s yes. Last half was pretty weak.
Kurt hated smells like teen spirit. Thought lithium and others were far better on that album
As someone that has been dealing with depression for years, i can see him taking his life away regardless of that murder theory. The man was miserable, felt hollow and on top was having a drug addiction. In the early 90's there were still no institutions, protocols or proper treatment to effectivly help people deal with mental illness let alone major depression with suicidal attempts even to this day we are struggling with these diseases since treatment is dismissed with just the usage of drugs instead of a proper follow up and behavioral intervention (Specially in the US with its lack of infrastructure in preventive medicine).
As a side note, if anyone is dealing with depression or mental illness, seek help, i've been there and that state of mind clouds the judgement but there's a way to overcome it and, in my case, to learn to live with it.
To be clear, you absolutely do have a point. People that believe into the Murder Theory often, very adamantly so, try to present Cobain as a very happy down to earth guy who just happened to get heavily misunderstood and presented in the wrong way by the Media, and while there is some truth in that, his entire story still remains a Tragedy. Describing Cobain as a regular guy who just was misunderstood is in my opinion just as wrong as painting him as some kind of sad Angel who just was too pure for the world so he had to leave it.
The guy had a completely desolate upbringing, suffered from depression since early age which lead to an absolutely disastrous drug addiction and had major issues with his sudden Position as the Face of Grunge Rock. Not to mention the famous chronic stomach disease, which is speculated to be a hoax. Hell, he even lost custody of his own child because of a vanity fair article ! He had more than enough reasons to at least contemplate suicide.
However, all of that doesn’t change the fact that there are many things fishy around his death and the investigation that tend to get overlooked because he also suffered from mental illness and addiction.
He used heroin to self medicate the pain of his undiagnosed stomach issues. He couldn’t get help anywhere as such issues aren’t fully understood. He would sometimes say when he sings and screams he would focus on the pain in his gut as it brought out a deeper emotion
Feel ya bro
B1 deficiency contributes to mental health isuues
I think it's sad we still remember him as a troubled young man and completely overlook he was suffering constant chronic pain and illness and pushing himself to keep going and do something with his life despite it.
That was not simply a depression and mental illness suicide. That was a chronic illness suicide. Which we still have a hard time understanding is most likely one of the most common types.
Whilst this is a good Biographics, I was there at the Reading Festival performance. He was clearly taking the piss.
ikr, he was literally wearing a wig and a hospital gown
Are you guys gonna do one on Johnny Cash?
That may need to be a two parter
YES. Please! 😊💯
I thought they already had, maybe that was someone else though.
Yeah of course they'll get to Johnny Cash eventually I mean come on he was one of the most influential musicians ever.
I mean he has not even done Bob Dylan yet
My heart breaks for Kurt Cobain's mother. When she 1st heard their album "Nevermind" sitting in her living room, she looked at the boys & said, "Are you ready for what this is going to do to you all? I mean _really_ ready?" She _knew_ how massive the album was going to be. What fame it was going to bring these young men. It was their best work, it was a solid album of #1 hits, she wasn't wrong. 🤗
His mother was barely around when he was growing up.. she came back around AFTER he died..
If ya can, go check out “about a son” it’s a collection of interviews of Kurt Cobain and speaks about how his aunt is the one who was most influential in his life..especially with music
The album is called Nevermind
@@--thatbih - Thanks! Ever know something but when you start typing your brain farts? 🤣 Yeah, that was me this morning.🤗
@@buckfuddy5561 Yes, that's the truth. That Montage of Heck narrative is a load of garbage. Wendy gave no shits and made no such "You are NOT ready for this" statements. Such revisionist history!!
In Utero
Steve Albini is such an underrated contributor to the rock and roll scene.
He’s really not underrated at all.
Racer X Racer X
Big Black was pretty good
The first CD I ever bought with my own money was a Melvins cd. Great band.
I wish Kurt knew how much of a positive impact he had on so many people including me!
He didn't care. He didn't care about her child, why would he care about strangers?
@@homerc9101he cares abt his child wydm
@@homerc9101he loved his daughter and thought she would be better off without him around
@@cassielong6617 that was cheap cope from a depressed addict that choose to overdose the same day his daughter was being born, he was a selfish narcissist
Simon talking about kurt Cobain my dreams have come true biographics
knew I wasn’t alone in that thought
Were you triggered when you heard the name that must not be spoken? (CL)
Facts
Why is that a dream? You know there’s zero chance Mr Whistler knows anything about the “band”. 2 minutes after shutting off the teleprompter he will have forgotten almost everything he said about the most overrated band of the 90s
Mike too!
3:07 Mother in Law? or step-mother?
I was wondering if I missheard that or if my knowledge of English is cometely wrong. How did a pre teen have a mother in law who was he married to 😂
Step-mother. A rare Simon mistake.
@@goodchessactor Simon never makes mistakes it must have been the author 😜.
Yeah, I caught that too
I just picked this up as well. XD
Kurt and Nirvana changed the music industry. The industry could have been different now had he still be alive.
You just took me right back to 9th grade! I was having the worst Monday ever to, Thank You soooo much! I needed that! I ♥️ Nirvana RIP Kurt Cobain you inspired so many of us and I can’t imagine what music would be without you! ✌️♥️😊
Wow, this is the most kid gloved handling of Courtney I've heard on this subject. Also how do you get addicted to acid? I took tons of it during that time and just dropped it one day and never looked back. Never felt any uncontrollable urge to do it again.
You should do a follow up on the Foo Fighters.
watch the E! True Hollywood story on her... i think she wrote it herself... or don't... it's lame
Lmao....on Dragnet yesterday, a drug peddling kid at the end of an episode, supposedly died of an LSD overdose. Lol
That doesn't happen but this show was filmed in 1964 and people had an irrational fear of recreational drug use partially due to the film Reefer Madness a few years before. Alot of people just believed this misinformation instead of researching it themselves.
She had him killed. Then Allen Wrench found dead next to the train tracks. Wrap up all loose ends. 😢
Kurt and just the whole 90s grunge/alternative movement has such a big influence on me. Wish I could've lived through it
time for us to bring it back my guy
@@archiereddy9560 The rise of alternative culture is already here. Grunge and punk are a bug influence in the new subcultures
@@alexclosson5673 yea ik and we gotta keep it alive
I'm 41...and it was pretty great. It was like every 3 months a new awesome band debuted. Haha
Edit: I only liked Nirvana for about 5 minutes. As a musician they didnt impress me skill or talent-wise. Most of their fans are nonmusicians.. which is fine. Just one guys opinion..
@@archiereddy9560 Absolutely, thats why I bought sewing and studding kits. But womens alternative fashion (like E girls especially) are whats really carrying it on right now. We need more mens fashion and music to help catalyze it more.
I’ve watched every single biographics video and this is in my opinion the most heartbreaking one
In a sense, Kurt Cobain's suicide after a short career helped to cement Nirvana's legacy - with his death, it meant Nirvana didn't stick around enough to start sucking. That said, the small amount of recorded output he left us with could have offset quite a bit of suckage had he kept going.
Kurt never wrote a bad song. Even his demos pre nirvana are sick
Did Simon just call Kurt's step-mom his mother-in-law at 3:00?
Yes lol
I wish you would have added some suicide hotlines towards the end. @Ethan Ramos that reminds me of when Kurt asked me "Do you think some birds are scared of heights? I bet some fish hate to swim?" He was a great friend and had a huge heart.
That seems so dorky and cute…the way I always imagined him to be 😆
Krist is 6'7, not 7', Unplugged recorded in November and not October and missed the fact that the last celebrity to see him alive was Duff McKagen
And he said mother-in-law instead of stepmother. Oh Simon 🙄
There is so much incorrect info in this video I don’t even know where to start!
@@kellie866 Yes, truly. It's a mess.
And nothing about suicide attempts until after his death! He was opiod free when Rome happened and Dr Gulatta said it was a reaction to a mix of Courtney meds, who's meds? Courtney meds and champagne. Until his stomach issue was fixed he had alot of issues but in a interview he said ahhh all gone I finally got a Dr who prescription me the right meds. He was happy. He had a baby girl. Courtney slept with everyone but Kurt. He wanted a divorce and wanted to pause nirvana for a bit. He was burnt out from all the touring. He trusted his entertainment lawyer rosemary carol. Bad mistake. If he would've got different lawyer she would've got nothing. His kid would get it all. I've read every book, watched every interview I could. In my opinion he didn't kill himself. too high level of smack and his note said nothing about leaving this world. Just leaving music. Ppl don't make plans, buy plane tickets, then decide to off themselves. He was 7 miles away from his wife and didn't go see her when he left rehab. She had a handwriting practice sheet in her bag left at said lawyers, a list of things to do that came true, and didn't want Tom to go to house at first. too many coincidences for me if you really do your homework. El Duce passing polygraph then dead, somebody using his credit card then stopped as soon as hes found dead, dylan saying i didnt know aboutvthe greenhouse but thats his BF? All stinks!! Junkies will do anything for money or drugs. Courtney knows this. Ceryil Wect oversaw so many cases. He's a expert on these matters and I believe he knows from experience what's really the cause of death. Gone too soon. Never forgot. I don't like it when ppl do videos on kurt and saw he was doomed from the start but ppl who actually knew him and was friends say he never said he wanted to die. Just wanted to not be in pain from gut issue. We all say I'd rather die than feel this pain or that pain. But we really don't mean it!
I remember a guy in my eighth grade English class said that Kurt Cobain was his hero, and the teacher yelled, “Hero’s don’t take heroin and if they do they beat the habit, not kill themselves! There is nothing heroic about leaving a two year daughter behind!” Years later my classmate was arrested as a key player in a local heroin distribution ring. But his family had connections, so he only had to go to rehab. Everyone else got five to twenty years in the poky.
I agree with your teacher 100%. Suicide is a coward's way out. It takes a lot more guts to stick around.
Sounds like your former classmate needs to be in jail.
@@mybraineatseverything7404 congrats on never being suicidal, but until you are in the position of taking your own life, you will have no idea how hard it is.
@@mybraineatseverything7404 your brain is going to end up eating a steel capped boot if you get around mouthing off your worthless opinion. Seriously, keep it to yourself before you get your mouth closed for good.
@@numerum_bestia so it's okay to threaten to murder someone who disagrees with you about suicide?
That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I've been suicidal before. I've been through treatment.
Suicidal people are in pain yes. Calling them cowards doesnt help, that's true.
That doesnt mean suicide isn't the cowards way out. Two things can be true at the same time.
Kurt killed himself because of the pain of his undiagnosed stomach problems. He used heroin as a pain killer. He spoke about killing himself many times because he suffered from it so badly.
I've heard the "Courtney killed Kurt" theory since I was a kid. Why hire a hit man when she could have just NOT resuscitated him numerous times, stage an intervention, push him into rehab, or hire a PI to find him when he went off the grid? That's really complicated when she could have just let a suicidal man be on his own.
Because Kurt wasn't suicidal and was going to take their kid and leave
It’s easy. You being the rock god and me being ur other half.
You die,it’s my fault. You die from drugs, I gave them to you. If you die, because your addition it is I who did not you help. If you die by gun, I shoot you.
Courtney never had a chance. She hired a hitman or not, there always be fans that believe for one reason or another she is at fault
@@LordSluggo no he was actually very depressed and suicidal. He wrote about it. He talked about it. Please do some research. The man killed himself.
@YourFriendlyGoth okay, but you are not him. Cobain had already made several attempts. The heroin might have removed the fear of pulling the trigger on a shot gun. Also, he wasn’t simply depressed, he was bipolar, in chronic pain and an addict, which are different conditions with different behaviors and motivations involved. Just because a shot gun doesn’t make ‘logical sense’ to you, does not mean anything, it may have been as simple as being the closest weapon to him at the time.
He had the family history - four fairly close relatives committing suicide, he has the personal background - several attempts until he finally succeeded (which is one of the biggest indicators that someone will succeed at suicide), he had the means - overdose with drugs and after several failures he had firearms. So far the only true person with motive to kill Cobain was himself.
@YourFriendlyGoth We don’t know what his tolerance to heroin was at that point and he had a background of keeping multiple weapons around. He grew up in a home with guns, he is from a state where hunting is the norm, he had a bunch of guns removed from his home while his wife was pregnant.
Kurt loved life, hated the life everyone forced on him. Kurt wasn't a partying rockstar, he was a broken man who was trying to numb it all with as many drugs as he could. Kurt told people he had schizophrenia but people told us he was just crazy. "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends, they're in my head" and if you don't trust that, Kurt talked about being schizophrenic in interviews
As a Xennial I remember the day Cobain died. I remember going to school depressed all day. I wasn't the biggest Nirvana fan but I knew how important a figure he was for my generation. I'm sure it was similar to way people felt when Lennon died.
You are right about that.❤
I was in Grade 9 when he died. Didn't know who the band was, had just come from a rural grade school where rock was from the devil. Sure knew who they were after.
"Death is hilarious"
Simon Sir, your super ultra busy schedule is certainly taking a toll on your mental health and wellbeing.
He ain't wrong....ALLEGEDLY 🙃😉🙃
Maybe it's because I'm a Gen-Xer, thankfully born before Millennials. I grew up a young teen during the grunge period and damn, it was amazing!! Lots of death talk, mortality and tragedy. Worst of all, actual death of amazing artists during this time. Well, tbf every genre of music loses their greats too soon 😶😕
O'doyle rules
It's just bleed over from business blaze
Kurt would agree with Simon.
Oh how I wish mental health would of talked about more then! If you like the music or not they have influenced so much! Loved this bio!
Having met billy corgan before. 100% beleive his version of this story.
There's nothing about it that's hard to believe. I wouldn't believe a word he says these days though, since he apparently lost his whole goddamn mind.
It is theorised that kurt had chrons or ulcerative colitis. I have UC, it ended up taking my whole large intestine, reconstructing my small one. 7kg of dead rotting tissue. The pain when you eat, the vomiting, the use of pain killers (doctors now understand to give those to people in pain lol). Its so difficult to explain to people what this is like. They just think you have a bad tummy ache and are being a baby. Never mind or organs being digested inside you and crapping blood. There is this weird thing, people see a missing arm or leg, they understand thats bad. They hear 'cancer' and know thats bad. But when the damage is inside, or something they dont know the name of. They minimise it. Its frustrating. You're trapped inside your own body, you want to do so much, the mind is strong, but the body is so weak. If you know someone going through something like that, give them all the help you can, get them to a doctor and force the doctor to do something. The fast way out is alot less painful then the slow way, if you dont help, they can't fight that forever.
5:24 Casually putting an Alice in Chains photo without Layne, hoping nobody would notice...
Ah, you caught that too, a disgrace
@@samd939 would you be as interesteded as I in a Biographics video on the thunder from down under, the voice from bois(e), the lungs from Mei Fung, Mr. Layne Anfernee Staley?!
Oof.
Had the exact same thought
Sad!! This channel just lost some points!
Please make one about Ian Curtis from Joy Division
Great shout. This was fantastic
"What are they tunning a harp?"
Surely a big rich rock band would have a bunch of extra guitars.
"This guy representing the leadbelly estate wants to sell me leadbellys guitar for $500.000!"
I even asked David Geffen if he would buy it for me personaly
@@antonhansson4362 Kurt said Gesson originally! MTV edited for the release so he said Geffen lol
One of the best albums ever
The saddest part of Kurt’s story is how his daughter has to live her life not remembering her father and having only photos and videos of him to know him from
Kurt didn't commit suicide. He had so much heroin in his body he couldn't have lifted the gun.
nonsense. Kurt was a heavy user who absolutely could have handled 225mg and remained functioning. Kurt ended his own life
When you’re a heavy user the heroin tend to lose its effects when a lot doenst do anything
The will power I had to use to not pause this video mid sentence and start playing nirvana 🥵
I once saw a guy trying to "sing" Teen Spirit on karaoke.
I had never read the words before and this guy gave it his best effort - but still really badly.
Hah, love the part with the cops finding a tape of MDC.
I Met Kurk Cobain BEFORE he was Famous In the UK Back in 1990 I was 19 . NIRVANA Kurk Cobain Played In our Local Pub ' The Shelly Arms ' in Sussex which always had Live bands at weekends after the gig they packed up The bar owner Warren then closed up which left ME and the band and The bar owner Warren at the bar. I spoke to Kurt then unaware who they were as they were unsigned at this time we drank and smoked weed till about 04:30 in the morning. At 1 Point Kurk said to ME " So man wot ya think of our music ?" which i replied " Yeah man Bloody good , i reckon your'll do really well " He was a really nice guy and funny. TRUE STORY.
@3:06 he disrespected his *stepmother* (his mother-in-law would be love's mother almost two decades later)
edit: @8:05 *Krist Novoselic
And now he rolls out The Pixies and Husker Du. Simon just got way cooler thanks to his writers
Bro, you dropped your umlaut. I'm sure they've busted up many green rooms due to that indignity.
Yeah those were just facts and I’m sure Simon has no fucking clue who any of those bands are.
It strikes me how seemingly the vast majority of the people leaving comments on this channel can't seem to realize he's basically just a news anchor who never writes any of the text he presents.
Actually she was doing heroin before cobain. Courtney love dated smelly from NOFX
Courtney dated a lot of people before Kurt. She was a groupie.
She dated billy corgan on and off again.
@Monkey Zara meh
@@roxannemoser date, slept with, abused, took drugs with, she just a leach, I'm sure a guy she dated before who was quoted as saying she was latching on to anyone who could make her famous.
I thought i remembered that being the case. she was no angel.
Kurt's the biggest musical icon of my generation so thanks for the video.
8:45 Acid addiction...
That's not how that works.
If you just tripped acid the last thing you wanna do is trip again its anti-addictive and used for addiction recovery.
I'd normally agree, except I knew someone who did acid one day and bugged me for the next week starting the next morning for some more. Holy fuckin hype.
I don't think that's the case in this instance.
@@scottmatznick3140 nah truebagels right. Your friend probs had a good experience and wanted another go. But I bet he hadn't been doing it consistently or for long. I've never met anyone one wanted to do it, day after day for extended periods of times. Acid/LSD has many therapeutic properties including overcoming other (more hardcore) drug addictioo
Addiction doesn't have to be shitting yourself from dope sickness. Some people feel amazing on psychedelics and can develop a dependence. Plenty of people have binged on acid constantly. I would have if i had a consistent supply. I think in this context he was just listing acid as part of kurt getting into drugs.
Growing up in the 90s was amazing as when 1990 came I turned 15…I first heard of Nirvana from my skater friends…One of which was in the sub pop singles club, I first heard Lovebuzz..All I could think was this doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve ever heard..Now mind u at the time Motley Crue, an Iron Maiden and kiss posters covered my walls…My skater friends was playing bands to me like Circle Jerks, 7 seconds etc…But this voice on lovebuzz jus got me to the soul…It was like I had heard something that changed my whole world..I then got my friend to make me a cassette tape of bleach…I wore this tape out…completely…As teen spirit was released later me and the rest of the world was introduced to Kurt’s genius song writing..I also started playing guitar in 89 an when Nevermind came out I was so happy to be able to play entire songs all the way thru…Kurt indeed had taught us that it doesn’t have to be the most technical guitar playing on any song to make it great, it’s the feeling put into the playing an the lyrics that makes a song…As 1994 came I was a senior in high school an I can remember the day that across our local radio station came “ A body has been found at Kurt Cobains house..I froze in my tracks..Completely stopped what I was doin an thought..No way this can be him…He has everything to live for…Money, Fame, His Family…Later that day it was announced he had shot himself…as a 18 yr old when this happened I didn’t even know anyone who had committed suicide, hell at that time I didn’t even know anyone except a great uncle or aunt who had even died…My brain could not handle my hero could do this to himself…I did like everyone else of that day/ watch MTV to catch any details…The sound of Kurt Loder on MTV news saying Kurt was dead…hit me very hard…I tried to listen to Nirvana music to make me feel better about what he had accomplished, but it jus made it worse for me..He was gone an all the music that we would have gotten from him went with him…Shortly after the memorial that was on mtv as well, I had to completely stop listening to Nirvana..I jus couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact he was gone an hearing him sing hurt my heart so much…Fast forward to 2014, I like most of Gen X is a parent myself heard of Nirvana being inducted into the Rock an roll hall of fame..that day I got out all my nirvana cds put them in my car an listened to all of them in the order they were released..I was shocked actually to how good the music still sounded 20 yrs later… it what shocked me most was that now I could listen to Nirvana and not be sad about the loss of Kurt I was somewhat proud…Kurt and Nirvana has a huge place in my heart an soul, all those yrs went by an listening to Nevermind felt so good again…This is just my story of how Kurt an Nirvana affected my life..RIP KURT…
of those relatives you say killed themselves, one was a cop who's gun went off in bar and accidentally shot himself after asking if everyone was ok and then dropped dead. The other fell down stairs drunk so yes they killed themselves but not in the context you speak of.
I think their deaths would be described as miss adventure
@@dougrogan379 Mis-adventure.
Miss Adventure would, however, probably make for a rather fun movie/comic character. 😁🤔
I've never heard this before. I'll have to follow up on it. I have heard that one relative, though, stabbed himself in the chest. While he initially survived, he reopened his wounds while in the hospital, and that's what killed him.
@@diarradunlap9337 yes, or a horror theme park
@@badgerbadger-badger-Poppy Pretty shure it was said in soaked in bleach but can't say I ever herd that last one before
You should do one on Layne Staley or Scott Weiland both were singers and both had a unique and tragic life.
Who?
@@themacocko6311 check out the band Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots
I’d love one on Layne. Chris Cornell too.
@@jesschase1690 soundgarden was a great band
Layne Staley is my favorite rock band vocalist
3:00 Simon if his dad remarried the woman is his Stepmother not Mother-in-law. Mother-in-law is the Mother of the Spouse Not the new wife of his father that is not his biological mother
I wonder if Simon knows or just pretends he doesn’t know this basic of relationships? 🤔
@@cosmogal.ashella1907 He simply reads a script, which other people write. He does neither proofread nor factcheck the scripts, it's not his job
it was definitely foul play, but informative otherwise. I simply refuse to believe that someone who was incapacitated to the point of sudden death on an overdose of heroin could have physically shot himself
Actually I think that Michael Cali Dewitt pulled the actual trigger after Kurt Cobain was incapacitated and then they agreed that he would leave town and do other things while keeping it a secret
2:37 Kurt Cobain wasn't left handed. He was right handed. He just played guitar as a lefty.
"Let's grunge it up!"? Congratulations, Simon, you've made z least Grunge statement in z history of Grunge music.
Live in NY was hands down the best live recording ever made.
True story.
He didn't even warm up. Got out of the limo late, flicked his cigarette, walked on stage and made the best live album ever.
@@justpeanuts123 haha damn
hellllll no. Alice in Chains had the best live-unplugged out of any grunge band
I concur..
Frank Abigail
No just no
3:07 shouldn't it be stepmother instead of mother in law?
“ I’d rather be hated for who I am , than loved for who I am not”
Kurt cobain
Sorry to say there are a lot of errors in this video. I knew Kurt a bit, and many of his friends and family think he was murdered. The narrative of the suicidal drug addled tortured soul that certain person/s have tried to create (or people seem to need) is not quite accurate, I hope a more accurate picture might come out in future... Many people were jealous of Kurt's genius and used him, poor Kurt.
can't you do sth to bring justice to Kurt?
Inb4 I even watch it, Layne Staley or Chris Cornell next?
Probably Chris but Layne hurt my heart so much more. His voice, he had so much more that we’ll never know.
Moving from Hoquiam to Aberdeen is like moving a block down the street lol
Great episode. Very sad.
I was lucky enough to see them in 1993. It was an awesome show.
Hopefully he found some peace.
“I hate it when they quote me and then spell my name wrong” - burt cokain
🤣🤣
"Jesse had some beans, he was happy, happy, happy, that he had some beans"
-Kurt Cobain
Hey uhmm..."Shotgun Shells". Not Rifle Shells 🤣🤣
Or did he actually buy rifle rounds and not shotgun shells
@@mr.infamous8229 well rifle rounds are't gonna work in a shotgun. And he did die of a shotgun wound to the head according to the reports.
@@esiprecision7504 Just saying could be more fuel for the "homicide" crowd
I know it was a shotgun that Kurt used, but does anyone know if he used buckshot or slugs. I know slugs are likely more effective for that purpose, but Kurt strikes me as a buckshot sorta fellow.
@@borisdorofeev5602 It was shot.
He actually traded and sold all his classic rock,hard rock collection and replaced with punk music. He was a big fan Buzzcocks.
Luckily he remembered More than a Feeling or they might not have blown up
Layne Staley Alice In Chains next please.
Some other dead rock/metal/alternative musicians they should do Ronnie James Dio and Lemmy Kilmister
Yes! Layne might not have had the cultural impact that Kurt had, but his story is particularly tragic.
@@DinsdalePiranha67 and in my opinion a much better singer.
@@chrisweir221 Agree. When everyone was listening to Nirvana, I, was busy with AIC, FaceLift, and then Dirt, in my earphones non-stop for months on end.
I’d love that
I was 13 years old watching mtv eating dinner the first time I saw teen spirit on TV. You could feel something, cant really explain. But you knew you were seeing something special. 🤘
It was refreshingly different.
You sir, are one of the busiest guys on RUclips. Started watching you years ago, and saw your evolution to what I consider "the perfect narrator". Kudos to you Simon (and of course your team/teams)!
Do Elliott Smith
An amazing songwriter with a beautiful voice who's death truly is mysterious
Ibf cringe rick and morty references
Elliott was amazing. So many great songs.
Love love looooooove Elliot
The 1990's hosted the last great era in music. The industry took a nose dive after Cobain's death. and I fear it will never recover.
Come on there were great music coming out after him as well. Sure the past decade the music has gone stale
If you think music has taken a nose dive you simply haven't been looking hard enough. Yes stuff they play on the radio is more or less trash but there are so many amazing artists and groups that are not as well known.
2000s metal has joined
I felt the same way for a while. But you just gotta look for something that sounds good to you. Let YT’s algorithm work for you. Just watch and like some old music videos, and as newer (at least to you) videos pop up give them a listen. And don’t be afraid to venture outside of your preferred genres and language. I found some great bands doing that.
CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: 2017 was the last good year in music and the 90s were the peak of amazing
SUB POP had the best record store dtwn Seattle, super fun time in Seattles music scene and everyone actually had a great time, the artists, the fans....it was history making and everyone knew it as it happened!
Well..apparently not EVERYONE had a great time. Hence the topic of this video.
This is full of mistakes.
Curt didn't interduce heroin to Courney.She did some before they got together