MTV News has posted an interesting article that asks the question, “What would Kurt Cobain be doing if he were still alive?” Cobain would have turned 40 last Tuesday (Feb. 20).
The story features quotes from some of Cobain’s old peers: producers
Jack Endino and Butch Vig and biographers Michael Azerrad and Charles
Cross. Most of them say Kurt would probably still be making music in
some capacity but that Nirvana would be no more — begging the question
of whether the band would have indulged in the now-trendy reunion craze.
It’s, of course, an impossible question, one that’s been asked for years about artists like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. But what do you think: Would Kurt have gone into hiding and made art purely on his own terms? Would he just take a job as Burger King manager in Iowa somewhere and give up music totally? Or would he have gotten some help for his mental and physical problems, sorted things out and re-emerged as the next American Idol judge?
— Mike Breen
Comments:
February 25th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I think he probably would have cleaned himself up and gotten himself better in the head. I think he would have had to in order to survive. From there, there is no telling really, but he probably would have either become bigger and more interesting as an artist, or, with a clear head, become a willing corporate rock star who produces crap. He’d probably go nuts with all the watered down Niravana rip offs he inspired. I hate to say it, but I am glad we’ll never know. Only, what, three albums? I think that’s plenty. His influence speaks for itself, for better or worse.