When Kurt Cobain was six months the family moved to Aberdeen, a town of loggers near the village of Hoquiam, whose population exceeds 20,000. Born three years after the only sister of Kurt Cobain, Kim Cobain. Aberdeen has the dubious honor of be one of the cities with the highest suicide rate in the United States, 27 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, twice the national average. The high rate of unemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction and domestic violence help complete the picture. From the family of Kurt Cobain's mother inherited the musical genes: the uncle of Wendy recorded several albums in the fifties with the name of Dale Arden. His nephew and brother of Wendy, Chuck, played in a band of rock and roll, Chuck's sister, Mary, played guitar in country bars in the area of \u200b\u200bAberdeen, and even get to record a single. it was she who gave to Kurt Cobain some records of The Monkeys and The Beatles when the child turned seven years. I also try to teach Kurt Cobain playing guitar. He did not succeed because the child, who had been diagnosed as hyperactive, had a hard time focusing their attention (a Kurt Cobain was treated with the same drug that Courtney: The Ridilin). So Aunt Mary finally give him the small drum, the seven years since Kurt Cobain was walking around the neighborhood in full voice singing "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" and banging the drum with power.
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana depression would become the symbol of a generation.
From the family of her father Kurt Cobain genes inherited depression: when Kurt Cobain was twelve years old his uncle committed suicide mock shot himself in the abdomen. kenneth five years later, mock brother was flying head shot. courtney love used to refer to suicide as "the curse of Cobain."
"My mother has always been very affectionate with me - remember Kurt Cobain - I think I had a happy childhood." From a young Kurt Cobain showed some exceptional skill for drawing. It was also a child with health problems: chronic bronchitis and suffered escariosis (a deviation of the spine, which is accentuated over the years due to the weight of the guitar). Curious detail: small Kurt Cobain was ambidextrous, but handed out.
The divorce of parents Cobain Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain's parents divorced when the boy was eight years. Wendy was that decided to divorce, contrary to the opinion of Don. Wendy complained that Don just spend time at home. When no work was devoted to his favorite hobby: sports. Played basketball and baseball, coaching and refereeing games. Divorce profoundly affected Kurt Cobain. In the overnight went from being the joy of the house to become a shy and introverted child. Twenty years later, Kurt Cobain himself would recognize that the divorce of their parents had been the biggest trauma of its existence.
After the divorce, Kurt Cobain was living with his mother for a year. But the little Kurt Cobain did not quite fit in with the new boyfriend of his mother (Wendy initially attribute this dislike to jealousy. It was not until five years later when he realized that Pat was suffering serious mental disorders was a schizophrenic paranoid). Unable to control the tantrums of Kurt Cobain, Wendy sent the boy with his father, who lived in a trailer in Montesano, a small community of loggers located twenty miles east of Aberdeen. Kurt Cobain felt he had much in common with his father. Don was only interested in sports, which Kurt Cobain was told rather little, and could not understand - much less share-your child's interest in drawing and music. Shortly after starting to live with Kurt Cobain, Don remarried. His new wife brought two sons to the marriage.
Kurt Cobain, like other rock idols, had a short, intense life, like Jim Morrison
The whole family moved to a home as God intended - that is, without wheels, and the problems started Kurt Cobain could not stand the new family, and particularly his stepmother "the most hypocritical person I've met in my life." "I never felt I had a father, a figure close to me that I had something to share. I think my father gave me as impossible because it believed that my mother had brainwashed "Kurt Cobain remembered later. well, Kurt Cobain could not stand the commitment that Don had for your child excel in sports activities. his father enrolled him in a wrestling tournament that Kurt Cobain lost intentionally, by sheer bad temper. and when Don took him to hunt, Kurt Cobain refused to join the expedition and spent the day in the van, telling shrubs.
But living with his father meant, at least one positive contribution to Kurt Cobain, his father subscribed to the club columbia zip disks and that's how Kurt Cobain could listen to records Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Kiss, which arrived by mail and that his father did not even open. Don eventually ends up deciding that the enduring not live with his son, so Kurt Cobain, in his day happened to courtney, became a burden that their families were passed from hand to hand. lived with three different uncles and aunts, and about twice a year he played montesano to move from Aberdeen, or vice versa, moving home and school. Wendy
felt his moral duty was to welcome Kurt Cobain's house, but at the time she was experiencing many difficulties. she was separating from her boyfriend who had abused her physically and mentally (Once gave him such a beating that wendy place in the emergency room of local hospital) and also had just lost his job. so he asked his brother to take over chuck of Kurt Cobain.
Cobain Kurt Cobain received his first guitar
Chuck, was a guitarist, Kurt Cobain gave him his first guitar at the time of his fourteenth birthday. it was a fourth-hand electric guitar and unknown brand that came with a mini amplifier curtelux of only ten watts of power. but Kurt Cobain was excited and in less than a week he had learned to play his first song on guitar, "back in black" by ac / dc. At fourteen
Kurt Cobain year was a sickly boy shy that no word exchanged with a soul in school. had not a friend. when classes ended went straight home and practiced on his guitar until it was bedtime, playing songs by Led Zeppelin, Queen and cars. by the time he became interested in the punk explosion. aberdeen but did not reach the tiny one English album of punk. Kurt Cobain only knew of the whereabouts of the sex pistols through what I read in magazines. in his room playing guitar as I imagined it should sound the Steve Jones, a sort of riff-rock tough and Bitch.
In high school he met two men who called scott and andy, and respectively played the bass and guitar. rehearsed in a meat locker that was abandoned outside the city. one day the three played there and decided to form a band. Kurt Cobain left his guitar there convinced that the next day to try again on the same site. But the days passed and his colleagues did not seem very determined to repeat the experience. and Kurt Cobain could not regain his instrument because wendy hesitated to bring up the store and he was far too young to drive. when he finally managed to convince a friend to take him, he found the guitar pieces, abandoned among the trees.
Kurt Cobain begins its career
In May 1984 Wendy Cobain married a second time with a ranger named Pat O'Connor. After much mourn and pray, Kurt Cobain got his mother let him live with her again. Shortly later, after a loud fight in which marital wendy pointed to her husband with a handgun, and wished the new Mrs. O'Connor, made a package with all the weapons found in the house (pistols, revolvers, rifles and game) and shooting river. Kurt Cobain, who had seen it all, persuaded a fellow school to recover the package, others say he paid an older boy who will get him. Having weapons, commitment and shared the money. That's how Kurt Cobain could buy a second guitar. In his new home Kurt Cobain guitar again with renewed spirits. But now was not limited to playing popular subjects. It started with his own compositions, and also sang. Pretty bad (according to his mother).
enrolled in school on the basketball team, not because it interested him much nor too little, but because he was forced to play sports. Kurt Cobain was limited to a few pots to the ball before playing any intentional staff to let him return to the substitutes bench. It was on the bench where he met Matt Lukin, a boy something greater than himself, fan of cheap trick and kiss, who played bass in what would be the first punk band from aberdeen, the melvins.
Kurt Cobain, began to use drugs because of their poor health and depression which characterized him throughout his life. Kurt Cobain quickly became fan of the melvins. Attended his trial and all his concerts, helped them load and unload the equipment. Matt Lukin was who brought the young cobain to witness their first live concert: black flag, in seattle. And it was through the melvins as Kurt Cobain met Krist Novoselic, who was then living with occasional basis to perform work of any kind and listened to led zeppelin, devo, kiss and black flag. Thus was born the seminal group of what would later nirvana: Ed, Ted and Fred. Or what is, Cobain on drums, Novoselic on guitar and a bass player named Steve, who disappeared soon after, leaving Kurt Cobain and Krist free to play with any of the melvins was available, or to play versions creedence in the local clubs.
wendy cobain Back then threw his son from a summer house and Kurt Cobain camped under a bridge. Also dropped from time to time by a friend's sofa until matt lukin welcomed him in his flat. Kurt Cobain began working as a cleaning lady, cleaning offices and pension de dentistas. Entretanto novoselic y Kurt Cobain se entretenían tocando las canciones punk que Kurt Cobain componía y decorando las paredes de aberdeen con pintadas del tipo "dios es homosexual" o "matar a cristo", una de las cuales le costo a Kurt Cobain treinta días de arresto menor por acto de vandalismo.
Kurt Cobain alcanza la fama
Krist Novoselic y Kurt Cobain tienen contacto con el batería Chad Channing, y con el sello discográfico Sub Pop en Seattle. El primer nombre de la banda fue "Feccal Matter", en donde fueron solamente demos y posteriormente los tres nombran a la banda como Nirvana. En 1989 aparece su primer álbum Bleach. El 11 de abril de 1989 se encuentra por primera vez Kurt Cobain con Courtney Love en The Club Satyricon in Portland. Nirvana quickly begin his first tour in Europe, where the band's music, and grunge in general, begin to like it.
After hearing a demo recording, Dave Grohl, this would be accepted as a new battery. In June 1991 began recording the second album, Nevermind. The producer Butch Vig (Garbage), who later would say that without Dave, Nirvana never had so much energy.
The album is not a success yet, but Nirvana is already beginning his second tour in Europe, which lasted more than 6 months. Kurt Cobain: "all I want to go home, home alone ..." (Interview with the German magazine Visions in 1992). On February 24, 1992 Kurt Cobain marries Courtney Love in Waikiki in Hawaii. The opinion of many serious handling Kurt Cobain left for her. On 18 August the same year their daughter Frances Bean born. In December 1992
appears Incesticide, a collection of demos and singles unknown. In the summer of 1993 appears In Utero, the third studio album. The producer is Steve Albini, who had also worked with REM. In principle the album title would be "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die", to which the record company refused to think it could be an apology for suicide, Geffen wanted to make a "Nevermind II." The album was mixed several times because Kurt Cobain wanted to get away completely from any commercial sound and success of Nevermind, which the record was not quite agree.
Autumn begins what could be the last Tour, this time worldwide. Furthermore, this time with a second guitarist Pat Smear accompanying Kurt Cobain. In December recorded for MTV Unplugged, and in November the band performed on Saturday Night Live. Start the decline
Unfortunately, Kurt Cobain began taking drugs and said he started using heroin in the early 90's, he said that it was used as a shield against long hours work that caused him the tour and also to ease the pain they caused stomach ulcers and irritation of the intestines.
continued to write his songs focus on the subtle touch that characterized him, was very stressful trying to find ways on how to write songs and how they had to interpret and often these could be completely different.
In February 1992 he married Courtney Love in Hawaii later that year, Nirvana released their third album, Incesticide and in August, Kurt Cobain was hospitalized for treatment for heroin abuse. Soon after, a daughter whom she named French bean. In 1993 the group released another album called in utero, which was highly acclaimed by the music press as it contained some of the most passionate work cobain, songs and all apologies and heart-shaped box, detailing aspects of their fragile marriage, other songs scentless apprentice as detailing the agony and the ravages of experiences he had had.
Kurt Cobain's concerts were marked by a frenzy of energy and emotion. The fans loved Kurt Cobain.
Kurt Cobain's suicide
Kurt Cobain was a fan of guns and sometimes several of them had in his possession and also ways of confiscating them. In the winter of 1993-1994 nirvana embarked on an extensive tour of Europe. In 20 concerts, Kurt Cobain had some health problems and some presentations were suspended until it felt right. When he recovered he flew to Rome with his wife who was preparing to begin a tour with his own band. On March 4, 1994 cobain admission to hospital in a coma after a failed suicide attempt by taking a cocktail of drugs. This attempt at suicide was officially considered an accident but his family and friends knew the truth.
Days after he recovered, he returned to Seattle. Courtney Love, friends and managers convinced Cobain to enter a detoxification program in los angeles california. According to his mother, this treatment only attended a couple of times.
While in Seattle, Kurt Cobain feared for his life and that is why he bought a shotgun. On April 5, 1994, according to police, Kurt Cobain went to a greenhouse behind his home, put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. His body was found by an electrician who came to the house to install a security system, to see that no one answered the door, he went to turn around to go to the back door. There was something that he said looked like a mannequin lying on the floor but saw was blood in the ear. He notified the police and when they opened the door they found Kurt Cobain dead on the floor near him found a suicide note purportedly written in red ink to his daughter Frances Bean (actually it was addressed to his fans) that only had 19 months of age the suicide note ends with the words " i love you i love you. "
It was at twenty, like Hendrix, and Janis, and Morrison and sid. And as they supposedly could not resist the pressures of success and not the disappointments of every day. It came from an unhappy childhood and a city rich in ghosts, where fog, rain and snow obscured the sun for nine months and the industrial belt (dedicated to supplying the military market) provides the few jobs that young people are vying hungrily.
Alone in the crowd, it was revealed against all, sure did not have to accept what others served him, and chewed and digested, wanted to change things and when he realized that it would be very difficult to take the pen and guitar was launched to shout his own, to make their voices heard, it was the voice of many who did not.
Kurt Cobain, because of its short life and a continuing evolution in his musical career at all costs prepending the idea of \u200b\u200bmarketing his music, became a legend of Rock.
Amid the solitude he met two men and a woman who would play important roles in your life and give him the odd moment of calm. Were Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic formed the Nirvana and that taught the world that was the philosophy of seattle. With the second happy married and statically and unfathomably unlucky. As Sid and Nancy, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love went from the symbiosis to despair, love, hatred and passion to aggression.
They had a daughter who's filled with a temporary happiness but the problems had gone too far, and came to losing custody to force excess alcohol and drugs. The delicate balance could never against fights and frustrations, and the echo of millions of teens around the world to identify with his poems and his hymns acids desperate, they did not happier because they just meant that things were as bad or worse as I saw them in their darkest nightmares.
And the anger fought with the greats of the industry that supported it with the indulgent smile of those who only care about sales and major press and ended up in his anger burning a tour bus in or fighting with an audience also loved it. Planted left many offended other and wept impotent rage when even all the power implicit in being "a true rock star" was enough to get a happiness that was always denied. apparently This world was not for him, did not, did not like, not enough.
letter translated
To Boddah:
Speaking as the stupid with great experience rather be an emasculated, infantile. This note should be pretty easy to understand. Everything I was taught in courses of punk-rock I've been following over the years since my first contact with, say, ethics, independence and bonding with my community has proven true. It's been too long since I excitement of listening to or creating music, nor write, nor even by Rock'n'Roll. I feel incredibly guilty. For example, when the lights go out before the concert and hear the cries of the public, I do not affect the way to Freddy Mercury, who seemed delighted that the public love him and adore. Which I admire and envy. In fact I can not deceive you, neither of you. Simply not fair to you or me. Pretend I'm having 100% fun is the worst crime I can imagine. Sometimes I have the feeling that I must sign before taking the stage. I've tried everything that I do. (And I do, creme Lord, but not enough). I am aware, we have affected many people. I must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. Need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasm I had as a child. In the last three tours have much better appreciation for all the people I've known personally and as fans of ours, but nevertheless I can not overcome the frustration, the guilt and empathy towards people. Only good on me, and I think I simply love people too. Therefore, it makes me feel too fucking sad. The typical Pisces sad, sensitive, unappreciative, my God! Why I can not enjoy? I do not know! I have a divine woman, full of ambition and empathy and a daughter to me very reminiscent of what I used. Full of love and joy, trust everyone she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. That scares me so that I can barely function. I can not bear the thought of Frances becoming the miserable grim, miserable and self-destructive as what I've become. I have everything, everything. And I'm grateful, but since the seven years I hate people in general ... Just because people find it easy to relate and have empathy. Comprehensive! Just because I love and feel sorry for people too much.
Thank you all from the pit of my burning nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I an erratic, moody baby. I have the passion. And remember that it is better to burn out than to fade away.
Peace, love and understanding.
Kurt Cobain Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar.
Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be much happier without me. I love them. I love them!
Nirvana MTV Unplugged
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