Kurt Cobain.10 years gone...already? - Beyond Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Mon, Apr 5, 2004 2:07 AM I'm with Donhonyc & Uncle John, We missed out on some incredible music when Kurt loaded his gun. The NME over here in the UK offered a free CD of 'Kurt's Choice' which had tracks by Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers, Iggy Pop, PJ Harvey, Bad Brains amongst others amongst others, and it just struck me how much it mirrored my tastes of the time. There seemed to be a few kids at every junior high who papered their walls with show flyers, made their own handmade Flipper t-shirt, and went to all the shows they could. One of the weird things for me was never seeing them live, missing out by a whisker at each of many opportunites. They played a tiny club at my university town in the days where I'd go to pretty much every band who came by from the States - unfortunately, it wasn't during term-time! It went on from there until I managed to get tickets to 4 shows on their 'In-Utero' tour. Of course, I still have those tickets unused. When the un-plugged album came out a few months after his death, I heard it in a record shop in London popular with fairly hardcore music fans. After a while, I noticed everyone was singing to it under their breath, which made me realise how much they touched a certain generation. These days, I see those corny RIP Kurt t-shirts and the way he's become a poster boy for a certain breed of black eyeliner-wearing teenager and and it leaves me non-plussed. However, I won't forget the feeling when 'Smells like Teen Spirit' suddenly crashed into the chart, and for a while I felt that we'd won. Trader Woody

I'm with Donhonyc & Uncle John,

We missed out on some incredible music when Kurt loaded his gun. The NME over here in the UK offered a free CD of 'Kurt's Choice' which had tracks by Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers, Iggy Pop, PJ Harvey, Bad Brains amongst others amongst others, and it just struck me how much it mirrored my tastes of the time. There seemed to be a few kids at every junior high who papered their walls with show flyers, made their own handmade Flipper t-shirt, and went to all the shows they could.

One of the weird things for me was never seeing them live, missing out by a whisker at each of many opportunites. They played a tiny club at my university town in the days where I'd go to pretty much every band who came by from the States - unfortunately, it wasn't during term-time! It went on from there until I managed to get tickets to 4 shows on their 'In-Utero' tour. Of course, I still have those tickets unused.

When the un-plugged album came out a few months after his death, I heard it in a record shop in London popular with fairly hardcore music fans. After a while, I noticed everyone was singing to it under their breath, which made me realise how much they touched a certain generation.

These days, I see those corny RIP Kurt t-shirts and the way he's become a poster boy for a certain breed of black eyeliner-wearing teenager and and it leaves me non-plussed. However, I won't forget the feeling when 'Smells like Teen Spirit' suddenly crashed into the chart, and for a while I felt that we'd won.

Trader Woody

Post #84588 by Trader Woody on Mon, Apr 5, 2004 2:07 AM