Kurt Cobain and Martin Luther King Jr.

Fourteen years ago tomorrow Kurt Cobain killed himself. Forty years ago today Martin Luther King was killed.

People always seem to remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when notable people are killed or die.

MLK's assassination was eight years before my time. When Kurt Cobain was found dead I remember exactly were I was, I was in the eleventh grade and my friend Erin whose family lived across the street from my family had a sleep over. I remember all these sad kids filling into Erin's house talking about how much Kurt meant to us and how much his music meant to us.

It's interesting to think what people like Kurt, John Lennon, MLK, RFK would be doing had they lived. Would Kurt have divorced Courtney and left the music industry all together? And would we not have to endure Fred Durst had Kurt lived? Would John Lennon be making records that consit of nothing but whale noises and Buddhist monks chanting with Bjork? Would MLK be working with Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton trying to bring some understanding?? Would RFK be calling for Bush's impeachment and endorsing Obama?? Hummm..

What's more interesting is with all these notable deaths and assassinations there is conspiracy theories that abound. People think that Courtney had Kurt murdered cause he was about to divorce her. Even with John Lennon's death there is a conspiracy theory that Mark David Chapman was a US Government agent sent to kill John Lennon by the incoming Regan administration. With RFK's death there supposedly was a second shooter. With Martin Luther King Jr.'s death there is the infamous Raoul who supposedly used James Earl Ray as a patsy. And even with Pres. Lincoln's assassination the conspiracy theory behind that is that the Catholic Illuminati and the Vatican were behind Lincoln's assassination since John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the Lincoln plot were Catholic.

I guess people like to tell themselves that there is something else behind tragic events. They just can't believe what really happened.

Below is a clip of Nirvana performing "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" from MTV Unplugged back in 1993. This is my favorite track off the Unplugged album, there is such sorrow and melancholy in Kurt's voice on this track.



And Martin Luther King's very famous and inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Washington Monument in 1963.