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It Was 15 Years Ago Today

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

Kurt Cobain's body was found in Seattle a decade and a half ago today. 

Unfortunately, every time I think of the shock of hearing that news via my college radio station, I recall how awful the radio announcer was. She was a fellow DJ with aspirations to make it as a radio personality, but she lacked anything resembling a personality, and even used a fake last radio name "Winters" instead of her more ethnic-sounding name. So when she announced this news, it was in her constantly smiling radio voice, plus she didn't really like music so she didn't care.

Anyway! One media personality who was appropriately somber about the loss back in April 1994 was Kurt Loder, who covered the developing story as MTV's 9-11, which it kind of was. A recycled eulogy for Cobain (from the 10-year anniversary) by Loder is up on MTV.com. 

And meanwhile, The Courtney Love Show continues lumbering and sputtering along to its own cacophonic tune.

Courtney is preparing a lawsuit to reclaim $30 million in cash looted from the estate of Kurt Cobain. An additonal $500 million was scammed in real-estate investment ventures, says an article on E! Online. "There are now Kurts and Courtneys and Franceses spelled different ways that allegedly own properties all over the country that were bought by Kurt's assets," said Courtney's attorney. What this means, and who Courtney is suing have not yet been specified.

But she berated anyone who didn't understand the ins and outs of the coming lawsuit in her MySpace blog. An excerpt:

do you UNDERSTAND?
DO YOU UNDERFUCKINGSTAND?

to show you much else would make you start singing i dont know,....Metallica? am i speaking to BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD?
HAVE YOU EVER READ A BOOK?

ONE?

You're also welcome to try to make head or tail of her Tweets. Courtney tweeted more than 50 times yesterday, and not one of the messages makes sense.

Related: 

From the Annals of "Sassy": Kurt Cobain Wore an Engagement Ring

C-Love in HEEB's Wasted Issue

Sloppy Seconds: Courtney Love's Bizarre Death Rant


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Posted Apr 08 2009, 03:01 PM
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GeeBee said:

I have to relate the following tale about the death of a musician, and how it was announced on the radio. In Scotland, Edinburgh's local station is Radio Forth. One evening in the late 70's the DJ, Jay Crawford, was told that Bing Crosby had died. He said nothing, but put on the emergency copy of MacArthur Park (it's over 7 minutes long) and dashed downstairs to the record library. No Crosby records - a big blank section. Back upstairs, yelling to his producer. Producer luckily remembers Ken, the MOR guy who is on later that night, has been preparing a Crosby special and has them in his office. Goes to Ken's office - it's locked. Runs to front desk, grabs security guy and gets him to use his master key, grabs the top record from the pile, gets it on the turntable just as Richard Harris finishes. Breathlessly announces that Crosby has passed away, and in tribute, here he is singing. "Heaven, I'm in heaven..." Some very pissed off listeners. Jay barely kept his job.

April 8, 2009 5:28 PM

Maxwell Hammer said:

I first heard it announced by Paul Harvey.

I was having a really hard time. I had graduated from college the previous December and had a series of sucky jobs. So I went out into the woods on the Natchez Trace to think. I was near suicidal myself.

Wandering through the woods got my head straight. So I was going back home. When Paul Harvey's afternoon news came on. He said something like, "Yet another rock star suicide. This time from Seattle." And he had that long pause that he did. Which gave me enough time to think, "Oh, no, it's Eddie Vedder." Then Paul said, "The lead singer of a band called Nirvana, Kurt Cobain."

Which sort of through me for another loop. For some reason I never thought Kurt would actually do it. In my mind he was like Morrissey or Robert Smith. Always whining about it but never doing it. Eddie Vedder seemed much more likely.

Then the news that week was just bullshit. Andy Rooney had some smartass thing to say about it. Metallica called him a coward. Fucking assholes.

The people who think it's cowardice have never been there. When you hurt that bad it seems like the only thing you can do to make it stop.

April 8, 2009 6:09 PM

About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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