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Kurt Cobain biography
Posted on Sun, 07/29/2012 - 07: 02
Everyone who has a gun in the house is equal to Kurt Cobain, everyone who can read between the lines is doomed to have a gun in the house…
Alexander Vasiliev
Kurt Cobain was born somewhere between burnt at the start of Apollo 1 and the flight to the United States daughter of Joseph Stalin – in February 1967.
The Jews have not kicked the Arabs, the Chinese blew up its hydrogen bomb and the Beatles released "Sergeant pepper" - "best album of all times and peoples" - all this happened in the first months of his life.
Like all children, of course, he will not notice all these important world events, lying in Grays Hospital next to his mother – Wendy Elizabeth Cobain, nineteen years old, and doing the same as thousands of other babies.
Kurt was born in the middle of the middle of nowhere, as the Americans say.
"The center of E...nogo nothing " was located in the town of Aberdeen – and this is not even the same Aberdeen that is in Scotland, but just a pale copy of it near Seattle.
Speaking of Scotland – the Cobains had Scottish roots, as well as German, Irish and English.
By 1967, when Kurt was born, Wendy and Donald Leland had been together for about 2 years.
Wendy Elizabeth worked as a teacher, then as a secretary, and sometimes as a waitress, Leland worked as a mechanic at a service station.
Three years after Kurt was born, in 1970, he had a sister, Kim.
Until I was 9 years old, I was firmly convinced that I would become either a rock star, an astronaut, or a president
Kurt Cobain
Kurt's relatives were very musical – his mother sang well, Aunt Mary Earl played guitar and together with Kurt's uncle Chuck performed in a country ensemble.
But, of course, they were all surpassed by Delabert, Cobain's great uncle, a famous Irish tenor who starred in the"King of Jazz".
It was against this family background that Kurt's passion for music arose.
At four, he was happy to sing, compose lyrics and tried to learn how to play the guitar from Mary, but nothing came of this idea.
However, Kurt still disappeared at her rehearsals.
I was an incredibly happy child.
I was shouting and singing all the time.
I just couldnot stop in time.
I was really happy
Kurt Cobain
As a child, Cobain was intemperate and sensitive.
The boy liked to listen to The Monkees and The Beatles, he was happy to draw mostly Disney characters Pluto, Donald Duck, or superheroes like Aquaman.
At seven, live music was added to singing and writing lyrics – after suffering a fiasco with a guitar, Mary Earl gave him a Mickey Mouse drum kit.
Unlike Mary, Donald wanted to introduce Kurt to the game of baseball, but without success – Cobain would later say that he would always prefer the company of losers and a cigarette to the company of those who are crazy about baseball.
Apart from minor childhood upsets, Cobain's childhood was happy, and happiness was short – lived.
... today I found my friends.
In my head
Kurt Cobain
In 1975, Kurt's mother leaves her husband.
Wendy believes that Leland does not pay attention to her and her family, devoting all his time to basketball and baseball.
Despite Donald's obvious reluctance, the Cobains are splitting up.
Kurt is eight.
His sister is five.
The impression made by the separation of parents on Kurt is huge.
He is ashamed of his mother and father and wants to have a normal family.
Kurt didnot get along with his mother's new roommate, 22 year old Michael Medak, right away.
It was then, according to his mother, that he became sullen, angry and cynical.
Having never established contact with Wendy's roommate, Kurt decides to move to his father in Montesano.
One wilderness is replaced by another, and the teenage conflict with Michael is a conflict with his father's new wife.
Jenny Websty already had two children James and Mindy, and in January 1979 gave birth to another one Chad.
Life under the same roof with them seemed unbearable to Kurt, and he moved again – this time to his grandparents, Donald's parents.
The periods when he lived with Iris and Leland were replaced by others where he had to live with his mother's relatives.
At the age of 14, Cobain gives up drums and accepts a gift from Uncle Chuck – a guitar, which he is taught to play by Warren Mason from "The Beachcombers".
Speaking of uncles, Kurt's uncle Berl, a much loved nephew, committed suicide in the year he moved to his father.
A year later, Berl's brother Kenneth will shoot himself also with a fatal outcome.
Kurt returns home to his mother.
Under the influence of all these events, he strongly closes himself, preferring not to leave the house once again.
And when he does come out, he finds himself more than dubious entertainment drawing graffiti inscriptions, often of homosexual content.
At the same time, he was in close contact with a couple of gay friends.
It's hard to say what was more here homosexuality or protest.
Soon, under the pressure of society, their paths diverge.
His mother, Wendy, remarries in 1984.
Her new chosen one, Pat O'Connor – is a docker and an alcoholic.
During one quarrel, he breaks her arm, during the other, she drowns his arsenal in the river.
Kurt quickly hires two guys and pulls out the trunks, and then, having driven them, buys himself powerful amplifiers, persuading their seller to take "herbs" from his drag dealer with the money he earned.
My name is Kurt, I sing and play the guitar, and in general, I am a walking and talking bacterial infection…
Kurt Cobain
Having learned to play the guitar tolerably well, Cobain determines his style.
After reading about the "Sex Pistols" in "Creem", Cobain lights up with the idea of putting together a punk band.
Kurt doesnot know what "S. P." sounds like – you just canot get their records in Aberdeen.
Cobain invents his own version of punk – "a lot of screams and three chords" and begins to look for something similar around.
Melvins a band from Aberdeen, which is trying to combine punk with elements of hard rock, anticipating the upcoming grunge, seems suitable for him.
It is in the company of the "Melvins" that Cobain closely converges with the Croatian emigrant Chris Novoselic.
Soon Cobain gathers the first viable group – "Fecal Matter".
Kurt becomes the vocalist and guitarist of "Fecal Matter", Dale Crover works on bass, and Greg Hokanson is in charge of drums.
While Kurt plunges deeper into music, giving up on everything, his relationship with his mother worsens.
So, there is a known case that occurred when he brought a girlfriend home and tried to have sex with her in his room.
Then Wendy broke in to them and threw them both out of the house, not forgetting to call the girl a prostitute.
This was Cobain's first intimate experience.
Without finishing the tenth grade, he drops out of school.
His mother gives him a choice – leaving home or finding a job, and Kurt leaves.
He sleeps with friends for a while, then in their backyards, in the public library, and finally under the bridge over the Wishka River.
This life experience of" white trash "later affected Kurt's work, especially on his songs such as"Something in the Way".
He also gave the name of the first after the disbanded "Fecal Matter" group of Cobain - "Skid Row", the street of the poor of Los Angeles, whose name has become a household name.
I was looking for a name that would be beautiful or nice or cute
Kurt Cobain
After the collapse of "Fecal Matter", Kurt went around his friends with a demo of the disbanded team, wanting to assemble a new line up.
After listening to "his" recording, Novoselic ... forgot about it for several months.
And then suddenly I approached Cobain with a proposal to create a rock band.
At first, their drummer was Bob Mcfedden, who left the band a month later.
"Skid Row", "Ted Ed Fred", "Bliss", "Pen Cap Chew", "Bliss Through Oyster", "Windowpane" - the names of the newly formed team are changing at an astronomical rate, and the basis of the music is the achievements of "F. M.".
In parallel with the musical search, Cobain is still forced to start working part time.
In May 1986, a drunk Cobain, who got into someone's private property, is "accepted" by the cops.
He is sentenced to 8 days in prison.
Your right to...
Nirvana
Kurt Cobain
By the winter of 1987, Kurt and Chris again change the drummer, hiring Aaron Burkhardt.
Soon he is replaced by Dale Crover, with whose participation the first demo teams are being written.
He is replaced by Dave Foster.
At the beginning of 1988, a kaleidoscope of names finally snaps out the cherished "Nirvana".
A couple of months later, in March, the guys give their first concert under a new name, and around May they find a permanent drummer – Chad Channing.
In the same year, the newly formed team releases the first single "Love Buzz/Big Cheese"
In June 1989, the debut album "Nirvana" was released on the label "Sub Pop" and produced by Jack Endino.
The money for the recording – $ 606 and 17 cents was borrowed by Jason Everman, a seasonal fisherman from Alaska and a friend of Channing.
The album was called "Bleach" - bleach.
I've never craved fame or anything like that.
It just so happened…
Kurt Cobain
In the wake of the success of "Bleach", Nirvana goes on a big tour of the West Coast of the United States, performing in 26 cities.
Their debut, combining the influence of punk and black metal, Black Sabbat, Led Zeppelin and The Melvins, attracted the "recording sharks", including Geffen Records.
The success was consolidated by the European tour, when the guys staged 36 concerts in just 42 days, gaining a resounding success with the British public.
It was not without difficulties.
The label tried to adapt the music to "grunge" as much as possible, harshly pressing Kurt on this topic, and discord began among the musicians themselves, which resulted in the expulsion of Chad, who claimed a big role b in creating texts from the group.
I love everyone — that's what's sad…
Kurt Cobain
It is difficult to say what love is for Cobain.
Shocking the audience, he kissed the bassist passionately, dressed in women's clothes and declared that he could be as feminine as he wanted.
He loved everyone blacks, gays, women and asked their haters not to come to his concerts.
Kurt walked around the stage in heels, a bra and a crown and declared that he would like to be gay, only to irritate homophobes more.
And then I met Courtney.
This happened in 1989, their acquaintance was fleeting, but later both said that they felt sympathy for each other.
In 1991, Love began to communicate with the new drummer of the band Grohl, who introduced her to Kurt's circle.
Their relationship developed rapidly, and in 1992, Courtney, pregnant with Kurt, married him.
Cobain was happy.
When I started taking heroin, I knew it would be as boring as smoking marijuana
Kurt Cobain
In parallel with the passion for Love, Cobain begins to experience a passionate craving for heroin, which will soon become "air"for him.
The inevitable problems are growing after the release of Nevermind – Cobain's most "positive" album, released in 1991.
The album becomes "multi platinum", and Lithium, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are MTV hits.
"The Voice of the generation" Kurt is shocked by the fame that has fallen on "Nirvana" – after all, the new album seemed to him sugary, too pop and smooth.
On the "Nevermind" support tour, Chris and Cobain warm themselves up with shock doses of alcohol, smoke "weed" and break guitars in every way.
Grohl sits behind the drums and strictly warning Cobain not to dare to jump on his installation, sips agadam.
After" alcoholism", in 1992 after the birth of Frances Cobain, in an interview with" Vanity Fair", Love casually says that she injected heroin during pregnancy, not knowing that she was expecting a child.
But in an article that comes out later, it is claimed that she was on heroin in the last months of pregnancy.
A campaign begins against Kurt and Love in the press, and then in court.
The verdict of the court is mild – just regular drug tests for Kurt and Love.
Soon after, Cobain begins working on "In Utero", protecting his vision of the sound in his new work from annoying producers.
The deliberately rough, raw album produced by Albini did not suit Cobain in some details, and it was already finalized by Scott Little.
Rumors began to spread about the conflict between Cobain and the DGC label.
As a result, although the album was commercial, it still did not achieve the success of "Nevermind", but it did not go into the mainstream.
It's better to be dead than cool
Kurt Cobain
In early 1994, Nirvana toured Europe, and on March 1, after a concert in Munich, Cobain fell ill with acute laryngitis and bronchitis.
Some of the concerts have been canceled.
On March 4, Love finds Kurt unconscious in a hotel.
According to the conclusion of doctors, he has a pharmacological coma, which came from a "cocktail" of rohypnol and champagne prescribed to him.
Cobain is pumped out after 20 hours.
There are no traces of drugs in his blood.
On March 18, a quarrel occurs between Kurt and Love.
Love calls the police, telling the cops that Kurt De is threatening to commit suicide.
She's lying.
Kurt denies everything, saying that he simply does not want to see his wife – that's why he closes himself in his room.
At this time, Courtney begins to spread rumors that their relationship is in decline due to the increasing heroin addiction of her husband.
This is refuted by the guitarists of the warm up of "Nirvana" Barber and Shelley, who claim that in the last tour Kurt walked around with water, without even touching alcohol.
On March 20, under pressure from Love, Kurt is re sent to the Exodus center for rehabilitation.
In a conversation with a doctor, he denies problems with heroin, although he demonstrates a desire to leave the clinic, "having finished with it".
April 1, 1994 Kurt runs from the center, jumping over the fence.
In Los Angeles, he books a ticket to Seattle and, after signing autographs, goes home.
On April 8, 1994, electrician Gary Smith finds Cobain's body in the greenhouse.
His corpse is ugly - his head was torn apart by a shot in the mouth.
There are injection marks on Cobain's hands, a triple dose of heroin in his blood.
There are no distinct prints on the trunk.
Next to it is a very vague suicide note written in red ink.
There is no direct reference to his death in it, and the last lines allegedly addressed to Love may not have been written by him.
Love herself tells Detective Tom Grant that Kurt disappeared on April 1, but later he finds out that Courtney and Kurt saw each other on April 2.
He is also alarmed by Love's confused testimony, and her attempts to block Kurt's credit card fraudulently.
The divorce process, in which Love's share in Kurt's inheritance could decrease from 30 to 1 million, has been curtailed.
The profit of the copyright holders after Cobain's death is $ 800 million.
Well, to hell with it, with money.
Let's talk about art.
In one of the songs," a homosexual, a pagan, and a drug addict fucking pot bellied pigs " wrote: "I am in a daze, because I have found God."
Oh, really did you find it?
Dmitry Melekhovets and Valeria Berekchiyan
