KURT COBAIN SUICIDE NOTE

dragonzflame wrote:

The ''it's better to burn out than to fade away'' line IS a reference to the Neil Young song. It was used in Highlander as an in-joke for some high-up crew member (could have been the producer or director, I forget who) who was a big Neil Young fan. In the context of the circumstances, the Neil Young song makes much more sense to be quoted in the suicide note (if indeed that's what it was) - ''rock and roll can never die'' ''gone but not forgotten'', etc.

don't know who/why this was revived - but this comment is the most accurate made - esp in light of the fact that the song title is actually
"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"

anyone thinking Cobain was quoting "Highlander" should feel silly

Wow...I had no idea that Kurt was a fan of Queen's music. I know Dave Grohl and members of the Foo Fighters were but not Kurt.

Cool.

PrimeJiveUSA wrote: Wow...I had no idea that Kurt was a fan of Queen's music. I know Dave Grohl and members of the Foo Fighters were but not Kurt.

Cool.

i can't see anything that says he was a fan of queen OR their music - he said he had admiration and envy for the "relish" Freddie had for adoration from the crowd.
what he said was this:

For example when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seem to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

I had NO idea he specifically referred to Freddie.

Amazing.

Oh, and I just went to look up what Freddie's comments might have been after hearing about Cobain's death.

Um, whoops...

malicedoom wrote: Oh, and I just went to look up what Freddie's comments might have been after hearing about Cobain's death.

Um, whoops...

and did you do that through a seance?
what did freddie say?

"it's fucking hot down here in the 7th circle....
I did meet Kurt briefly - he's in the middle ring  looking like a hedgerow and i'm in the inner ring (appropriate eh?) wandering around this desert of fire with Rock Hudson, John Curry and Quentin Crisp

LOL - exactly - I just had to share that with everyone here...

Brensky, he said one of the best moments of his chilhood was listening News of the World. Roger Taylor said Kurt was a fan of Queen 70's work. What do you want more?

@Apocalipsis_Darko

That sounds good enough to me.

PrimeJiveUSA wrote:

Wow...I had no idea that Kurt was a fan of Queen's music. I know Dave Grohl and members of the Foo Fighters were but not Kurt.

Cool.

"I used to take a nap in the van and listen to Queen. Over and over again and drain the battery on the van. Then we'd be stuck. That happened a few times. We'd be stuck with a dead battery because I'd listened to Queen too much."
Kurt Cobain
(reflecting on his dad taking him on father and son days out)

@noorie

Yep...sounds like he was a Queen fan...at least he was when he was a kid.