Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

January 1st, 2000: The Kurdt Kobain Journal is released nationwide. A self-proclaimed: "schizo-biography", the journal details Cobain's early life and eventual rise to stardom not only as a successful solo artist, but as the frontman of Nirvana. Illustrations by Cobain are included throughout the book, with captions detailing the origin of each.
 
January 9th 1999:George Harrison checks himself in for stomach cancer treatment.

January 15th 1999:Tabitha's Secret lead singer Rob Thomas is shot non fatally in the foot by a die hard fan of the Foo Fighters claiming that Tabitha's Secret is stealing their style.
 
April 4th, 2016: Cobain and his daughter Frances depart to the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji to take part in the latest season of the CBS reality show Survivor. This season's theme is: "Millenials vs. Gen X", with a famous figure headlining both of the tribes. Given his reputation as the "voice of Generation X", Cobain is placed on the Gen X tribe; Takali, while his daughter, one of the most acclaimed musicians of recent times, is the tribe leader of Vanua, the "Millenial" tribe. Cobain is voted out on Day 33, while his daughter makes it to the Final Tribal Council and ends up wining.
 
January 7th, 2000: In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Cobain is asked what his plans for the new millenium are. In an answer that would define the later portion of his career, he said: "If Krist and Dave say yes...Nirvana's returning with a vengeance!".
 
January 16th, 2000: Cobain contacts Dave Grohl inquiring about the resurrection of Nirvana. Much to his surprise, Grohl accepts his offer. "Foo Fighters wasn't working out the way I wanted it to and frankly, nothing beats writing and playing music with my best buds!". Novoselic receives word the same day and decides to re-join as well. Nirvana is back.

January 24th, 2000: The once-again reformed three-some decide to begin working on their 5th album, to start the millenium off on an exciting note. Cobain, aware of Governor George W. Bush's Presidential campaign and promises of "compassionate conservatism", decides to write a novel centered around the hypocrisy of American society and its expectations of conformism entitled Pickled Intuition. Grohl is on board with the idea, but only under the condition that he gets to write at least two songs.

January 27th, 2000: Production for Pickled Intuition begins in Los Angeles, California. During this time, Cobain crafts the cover art for the album, which showcases Albert Einstein's brain being submerged in a jar of briny green fluid, to convey the idea that Bush's "forward thinking" is merely a marketing plot being bogged down by "pickled fluid", which is a metaphor for conformism.

(NOTE: This album is pretty much TTL's version of Green Day's OTL album Warning. Both albums deal with issues of conformism and societal expectations released just before 9/11 and before the political scene significantly heated up.)

February 1st, 2000: For the time being, Grohl disbands the Foo Fighters. Meanwhile, Pickled Intuition's opening track; "Guileless Gladiator" is recorded, with Cobain describing the track as: "Our way of starting off the millenium by giving a nice big fuck you to all those anti-intellectual politicians that the Governor is associating himself with. Basically, it's the album that would have gotten you hung in the 1980s for calling out Reagan."
 
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February 5th, 2000: All the tracks for Pickled Intuition have been written:

All tracks written by Kurt Cobain except where noted:

Side 1
1. Guileless Gladiator
2. The Tale of the Terrible "Noman"
3. Forkids
4. Revel the Reegaah
5. Green is Mean
6. A Stick Is Number One
7. Read Don't Read (Written by Dave Grohl)

Side 2
1. Signage
2. The Aloner Clan
3. Ball Not Ball
4. Robot Rambler
5. Beat Around the Bush
6. Caring Calamity
7. Resurrection Woes (Written by Dave Grohl)

February 8th, 2000: Pat Smear rejoins the group.
 
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February 16th, 2000: Production begins on Pickled Intuition.

February 20th, 2000: Rolling Stone begins a documentary detailing the revival of Nirvana and their comeback album.
 
May 23rd, 2000: Pickled Intuition is released nationwide. Marketed as Nirvana's "comeback album", it receives generally favorable reviews and becomes an instant commercial hit, largely due to the marketing campaign set forth by the group. Cobain, known for his anti-establishment ideals, remarks: "If this record didn't contain the ideas I wanted, I'd be pissed that we were selling so much, but it has everything I want to say, so maybe the meatheads are taking the hint, for once."
 
<reads the post about Cowboy Bebop's music being done by Cobain and Rob Thomas>

While Im sure they do a great job, you've just butterflied away "Tank!" and "The Real Folk Blues", two of my fav anime OPs and EDs respectively.
 
March 25, 2000: After incumbent Gary Locke announces he will not seek another term in office to be with his family, Krist Novoselic announces his campaign for Governor of Washington.
 
June 1994-Layne Staley of Alice in Chains enters a lengthy rehab stay after the release of the Jar of Flies EP, and takes a year and a half away on hiatus. (Mad Season doesn't get off the ground, but the Tripod album and MTV Unplugged appearance occur, followed by a lengthy arena and amphitheater tour headlining)

July 1996: Cobain gets a call from Edward Van Halen. The guitarist wishes to apologize for his being heavily intoxicated when appearing backstage at a 1993 Nirvana show at the Great Western Forum, which had been laced with racial epithets. Cobain accepts his apology. The two begin a long conversation, in which Van Halen discusses problems with frontman Sammy Hagar, Ray Danniels' role managing the band, and an upcoming compilation album. Cobain officially urges a split with Hagar if he doesn't change his behavior, hoots down at plans to replace him with Mitch Malloy or Gary Cherone of Extreme, and recommends a reunion with David Lee Roth. Hagar soon leaves Van Halen, though asserts he was fired, and the band records two new songs with Roth with Glen Ballard producing. The reunited band steals the show at the MTV Video Music Awards, the single "Me Wise Magic" receives heavy radio and MTV rotation, and they set to hunker down to record a new album together.

October 1996-Thanks to lengthy correspondence with Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, Cobain and frontman Axl Rose reconcile. Cobain is able to use his newfound friendship with Rose to mediate conflict between him and lead guitarist Slash. After a year and a half of false starts, recording for GNR's next album proceeds quite smoothly, with a focus on raw spontaneity. Rose also slowly rebuilds his friendship with former rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, and he returns to the band.

1996/1997-Kiss heads out on their Alive/Worldwide Tour, a reunion of the original lineup in full makeup. Skid Row is the opening act on the U.S. dates, a dream come true for frontman Sebastian Bach. The tour also rejuvenates Skid Row's fortunes and collaborative energy.

November 25, 1997-INXS heads out on their Lose Your Head Tour, a homecoming tour of Australia and the final dates promoting their latest album, Elegantly Wasted. Frontman Michael Hutchence dedicates each night to his good friend, Bono, as he did every single performance prior.

1998-During his activities that year, Cobain pillories the media for their focus on President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, and castigates the Republicans' hypocrisy, as well as the obnoxiousness of controversial atheist Christopher Hitchens for injecting himself into the story. Congress votes to censure President Clinton, and the fire begins to die.
 
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