Kurt Cobain 30 years gone

Thirty years…where did the time go?

I remember I was driving around Arlington with my best friend when I heard. I guess I shouldn’t have been but I was pretty shocked.

MTV started replaying the MTV Unplugged Nirvana show pretty quickly and the canonization started….

It was a pretty big bummer…still is…

I was at a school dance… lol. Still remember vividly as well.

Awful to say, but gotta assume Kurt wouldn't have made it until now whether or not he killed himself then or a later date via a gun or droogs.

It's funny to listen back to nevermind that was considered "grunge" at the time, yet to me now it seems so polished. What say you, hutch? 

Of course the real question here…would Kurt have stayed "woke" or would he have participated in Jan 6th?

Yeah I agree underneath it all it’s  a pretty pop album…I think Butch Vig deserves a bit of credit for that…

nkotb wrote:
Of course the real question here…would Kurt have stayed "woke" or would he have participated in Jan 6th?

You serious brah? I think he would've spit in the face of Drumpf… or Biden for that matter.

Of course Kurt deserves most of the credit…dude could write!!

From everything I have read Kurt would have broken up Nirvana and gone solo or recorded with Michael Stipe.

the MTV unplugged is amazing, I still listen to it

I think 95% of people didn’t know they had done the unplugged. Then Kurt dies and MTV starts playing it multiple times a day - and playing the man who sold the world cover all the time-and the record company puts it out posthumously. The perfect posthumous album! Opens a whole new audience for Nirvana.

Worked out great for everyone but Kurt…

I mean, Novoselic went the other way (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/03/nirvana-krist-novoselic-praises-trumps-strong-and-direct-protest-speech).  Maybe Kurt would've too, or would be dueting with Lin Manuel Miranda…it's a vast multiverse

Yada wrote:

nkotb wrote:
Of course the real question here…would Kurt have stayed "woke" or would he have participated in Jan 6th?

You serious brah? I think he would've spit in the face of Drumpf… or Biden for that matter.

Nice post

Notice the price!

$9!!!

Hutch wrote:
Notice the price!

$9!!!

33 years ago!

Yada wrote:

Hutch wrote:
Notice the price!

$9!!!

33 years ago!

True. They probably had $1 and $2 beers then…

I bet gas was cheaper back then too. Thanks Biden!

I remember in 1993 you could get gas for 87 cents a gallon around here….

Hutch wrote:
I remember in 1993 you could get gas for 87 cents a gallon around here….

the combo of a pack of jack's cigarettes and a gallon of gas at Sheetz for $1.99 were epic times.

Yada wrote:

Hutch wrote:
I remember in 1993 you could get gas for 87 cents a gallon around here….

the combo of a pack of jack's cigarettes and a gallon of gas at Sheetz for $1.99 were epic times.

As a non-smoker I am unfamiliar with this brand – what are these super cheap cigs and what do they cost now?

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:

Hutch wrote:
I remember in 1993 you could get gas for 87 cents a gallon around here….

the combo of a pack of jack's cigarettes and a gallon of gas at Sheetz for $1.99 were epic times.

As a non-smoker I am unfamiliar with this brand – what are these super cheap cigs and what do they cost now?

The Google tells me $19.95 per pack, but you can't smoke them.

https://vintagecigarette.com/product/jacks-menthol-full-flavor-cigarette-soft-pack/

Never realized Kurt learned Where did you sleep last night from Mark Lanegan. He actually plays on Lanegan’s version on his 1990 solo album The Winding Sheet.

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:

Hutch wrote:
I remember in 1993 you could get gas for 87 cents a gallon around here….

the combo of a pack of jack's cigarettes and a gallon of gas at Sheetz for $1.99 were epic times.

As a non-smoker I am unfamiliar with this brand – what are these super cheap cigs and what do they cost now?

In the early ’90s, Sheetz sold Jacks, its own cigarette brand. At the time, it was experimenting with in-house brands, including the loudly advertised—and then quietly discontinued—cola brand It! (exclamation points theirs).

Jacks cost $1 a pack, when the average cigarette price per pack was $1.40. As fewer people smoked, tobacco companies increased prices to maintain profit margins. Sheetz actually made less from selling a pack of Jacks at $1 than it did a pack of Marlboros or Camels at $1.40 (15 cents versus 45 cents), but the low price on cigarettes kept people coming in, and of course no one ever leaves Sheetz with just what they came for.

“Sandwiches were up, drinks were up, candy bars were up,” Louie Sheetz, brother to Steve and Bob, told the author of Made to Order. “The discounted cigarettes were bringing in foot traffic, and customers were buying other products.”