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Kurt Cobain Essay, Research Paper

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen,

Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of

Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt

was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy was a homemaker.

She had a very tight bond with Kurt. He was her first born. She had another

child three years after she had Kurt. Her name was Kim. Donald was a mechanic.

He was very into sports. He often tried to push Kurt into sports but Kurt just

didn’t like them. Even though the Cobain’s didn’t have much they seemed to do

all right. Wendy dressed her children in the best clothes she could afford.

They always looked like the best dressed kids in Aberdeen.

Kurt was an extremely happy child. He would wake up everyday so happy. He was

always filled with joy and always had a smile on his face. Kurt once said his

upbringing could be decribed as “white trash posing as middle class”. His

mother told him to stay away from the poor kids. She said they were dirty. So

Kurt did and he also would beat the up. Then in 4th grade he realized he liked

them better. Around that time people started to notice that Kurt was very good

in art. Most of Kurt’s friends didn’t really like things like art and music.

He loved these things so much he stopped making friends because he was different.

Kurt was not such a health kid. His whole life he suffered chronic bronchitis.

At age of seven he was diagnosed hyperactive. He was put on Ritalin. This

seemed to make him stay up until four in the morning. They soon put him on

sedatives. This did not work either. They made him fall asleep in school.

Doctors told Wendy to try subtracting sugar and Red Dye #2 from his food. This

was the right prescription for Kurt. Sometime during the 8th grade Kurt was

diagnosed with scloiosis. In his later years the weight of his guitar made it

worse. Suicide also ran in his family. In 1979 a great uncle committed suicide

and in 1984 an uncle also committed suicide.

Kurt was in love with music since the age of two. He was brought up in a

musical family. One of Wendy’s uncle had some records out in the 40’s and 50’s.

Her brother was in a Rock and Roll Band. Her sister was in a country band and

played the guitar. Almost everyone had some sort of musical talent.

Kurt had always wanted to be a drummer in a rock and roll band. His first drum

set was a Mickey Mouse drum set. He played with it everyday until it was broken.

At the age of seven he got a bass drum along with some Beatles and Monkees

records. In 3rd grade Kurt started taking drum lessons. He also played the

drums in his grade school band. When Kurt was fourteen he got a guitar for his

birthday and decided not to play the drums anymore. He wrote his own songs and

wanted to start a punk rock band.

At the age of 8, Kurt’s parents got a divorce. Kurt was destroyed. He no

longer was happy and smiling. He became very inward and was always frowning.

About a year after the divorce Kurt went to live with his dad. He had many new

changes to cope with. Donald had remarried. His new wife had a son and a

daughter. Kurt did not get along with any of them. As a result he was moved

out of their home. Between 1975 and 1984 Kurt moved two times a year. He was

shuffled between three sets of aunts and uncles, grandparents and sometimes back

to his dad. To have somewhere to fit in Kurt started hanging around some older

kids. This is also when he started to become a little stoner kid. From 1984

to1985 Kurt lived with his mom. She soon kicked him out because he dropped out

of high school. He was a senior in high school and just weeks short of

graduation. For one year he lived in friend’s houses, cars and even under a

bridge.

In the winter of 1985 Kurt formed his first band with Krist Novoselic and Aaron

Burkhard. They went through a series of names before finally deciding on

Nirvana. Some of them were Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred, Pen Cap Chew,

and Windowpane. Their first live performance took place in Olympia in the

summer of 1985. This same summer Kurt tries heroin for the first time. He loves

Olympia so much that he decides to move there in the fall of 1987. Also in 1987

Kurt feels a burning pain in his stomach for the first time. This pain haunts

him for the rest of his life.

In January of 1989 Sub Pop Records hears a 10 song demo of Nirvana. They offer

to put out a single. That summer Aaron Burkhard is replaced by Chad Channing.

Nirvana’s Sub Pop single is “Love Buzz” and “Big Cheese”. In October of 1988

1000 copies are distributed. Also that same month Kurt smashes his first guitar

which later becomes his trademark.

Sub Pop asks Nirvana to record an album. They add a 2nd guitarist around this

time. His name

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