Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

December 16, 2000-Jerry Garcia announces that So Many Roads will be the last studio album for the Grateful Dead, and the band shall be on hiatus until the next election cycle, while the members pursue their side projects.
 
April 2016-Frances Cobain announces a sequel to the Millennium of Miracles, entitled the Stronger Together Tour, which places its full weight behind Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Several of the same acts rejoin for the second go round, but also incorporate new blood such as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, Roger Waters' touring rendition of The Wall, and Donald Glover/Childish Gambino. The tour includes a performance at the Desert Trip Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, site of Coachella.
 
April 4th, 2016: Nirvana joins the Stronger Together Tour, with Kurt Cobain remarking: "My daughter's doing the same great thing I did 16 years ago and that makes me so damn proud to be her father!"
 
November 12th, 2000: Courtney Love is arrested for battery and child endangerment.

June 5th, 2001: Love is convicted of battery and child endangerment and sentenced to 2 years in a Washington State prison. Upon release, she will be eligible for parole, but per Cobain and his lawyer's terms, she will be barred from being within 50 yards of Frances at all times. As Love is being escorted to the prison, she is heard muttering: "Fuck you Kurt".
 
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April 21st, 2001: Nirvana plays at the 2001 Kids Choice Awards to promote their album Pickled Intuition, since its hit single "Aloner Clan" was nominated for the Favorite Song Award. The trio ends up winning both the Favorite Musical Group award and the Favorite Song Award. Tabitha's Secret, Blind Melon, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains also play at the event.
 
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October 3rd, 2003: School of Rock is released to theaters. Starring Jack Black as Dewey Finn, the plot centers around Finn posing as his best friend Ned Schneebly, a substitute teacher, in order to get back at his rock band No Vacancy and win the Battle of the Bands competition they are taking part in. The movie also features Frances Cobain as Summer Hathaway, the lone punk-rocker in a class full of hip-hop fans. As a running gag, Cobain's character is constantly told that she: "Looks like the kid of some real famous dude", which she keeps denying.
 
April 30, 2001 -- R.E.M releases their lead single from the forthcoming album "Reveal", Imitation of Life. The song immediately hits #1 and its video's BTS is played on repeat on MTV.
 
December 14, 2000-The recounts in all 50 states are finished with hours to spare. In the end, Al Gore is declared the winner of the election, after the states of Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania switch their votes to Gore.

Gore already won PA in this scenario, and there's NFW that Arkansas or NC in 2000 would go to the Democrats. And in this scenario, Nader is a much stronger candidate. Electoral tie, goes to the House of representatives. GOP Majority, Bush wins. Chaos ensues, and a constitutional convention is initiated.
 
Gore already won PA in this scenario, and there's NFW that Arkansas or NC in 2000 would go to the Democrats. And in this scenario, Nader is a much stronger candidate. Electoral tie, goes to the House of representatives. GOP Majority, Bush wins. Chaos ensues, and a constitutional convention is initiated.

I appreciate the help, I really do, but you might have forgotten that in this TL, Gore's campaign knifed the "exaggerator" stories, embraced Clinton's help, used a 50-state strategy, and didn't give Bush room to breathe. With Clinton's help, victory in places like Arkansas, New Hampshire and so on is possible.
 
We should definitely focus somewhat on how the Republicans will be affected by being guilty of the voting theft accusations. However, one has to consider AltHistoryNerd's points, especially since Bush's election would justify TTL's version of American Idiot that Nirvana would create in place of Green Day. With Gore in office, it doesn't seem as feasible. What do you guys think? Honestly, I think we should have Bush win, especially since it'd be a drama-inducing twist after all the hard work the MoM members put into the tour and like I said, it would give them a new political climate to work with musically. Think of the political possibilities that could be unlocked with Bush being elected ITTL by even shadier circumstances. Remember how badly the Dixie Chicks were shamed for speaking out against Bush in the OTL? As I said, Nirvana could become the crusader band that stands up against Bush's corrupt administration and fights back against his suffocating jingoistic bullshit. With Gore in office, I don't see as much potential for the group or other artists. Hell, we could start a second counter-culture movement in this timeline even.
 
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January 1, 2001-Stone Temple Pilots release "Coma", the lead single off their upcoming album Shangri-La Dee Da. The song hits #1 on the Mainstream Rock charts and #13 on the Hot 100.

January 6, 2001-The House vote George W. Bush in as the 43rd President. Outrage as further protests with the cry of "Not My President!" emerge.

January 20, 2001-George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd President. The inauguration is marred by protests in many of America's largest cities.

February 2001-Following Zack de la Rocha's earlier announcement to leave Rage Against the Machine, the band officially folds.
 
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September 16th, 1998: Blind Melon's fourth studio album, The Imitation Drain, is released. Critics give it generally positive reviews, particularly for its more sophisticated lyrics. It spawns three singles, including "Dried Out, Dried In", "Face Full of Poke" and "Hip".
 
April 7, 1998-Jerry Cantrell, the guitarist of Alice in Chains, releases his first solo album, Boggy Depot. It is a moderate success, but mystifies critics for its radically different sound from AiC.
 
January 2001-Jason Newsted quits Metallica just as they are preparing to record a new album. (Even without the Napster battle and Metallica not being big targets for the past year, the strife and tension during the recording of St. Anger still occurs essentially as it happened IOTL)

April 2001-Marilyn Manson joins Ozzfest 2001, as the second headliner under Black Sabbath.
 
May 2001-Cobain publishes the novel he'd worked on throughout the Millennium of Miracles Tour. Entitled Thugocracy, it is a blistering attack on President Bush's campaign, and the election results, particularly with incidents such as the so-called "Brooks Brothers Riot" in Miami. The EP contained in the book, containing four solo Cobain songs and two Foo Fighters songs, is also sold separately and regarded highly, particularly Cobain's "Wheel Of Misfortune."
 
May 7th, 2001: Vice President Dick Cheney attacks Cobain and Thugocracy in a press conference in which he states that he thinks that Cobain is: "A disrespectful, vile, degenerate punk who has the gall to make unproven claims against the highest seat in the country! He's lucky he's not living in a dilapidated excuse for a country like the Congo!"
 
May 9, 2001-Cobain is interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, in which Cobain states "I'm just expressing my freedom of speech, just like the Founding Fathers intended. And I know that the Bush-Cheney gang wants to clamp down, because I don't agree with their worldview. I'm not surprised. I said 10 years ago that I didn't stand for the macho posturing, guns and booze culture."

May 22, 2001-Senator Jim Jeffords defects from the Republican Party and becomes an independent in opposition to President Bush's planned tax cut, which threatens to squander the Clinton surplus.
 
May 11th, 2001: Nirvana embarks on their Afroeurasian tour to promote Pickled Intuition. Grohl explains that the money they earn from the tour will go towards impoverished nations, since the group already has made enough money to support them for a while.

June 27th, 2001: In Cairo, Egypt during one of their concerts, Cobain is heard visibly shouting: "FUCK BUSH! FUCK BUSH!". Though the attendees of the concert take no notice and some even find the remarks amusing, Bush's administration hears of the news and is irate.
 
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June 27, 2001-James Hetfield of Metallica enters rehab for alcoholism.

September 1, 2001-Nirvana is the opening act for U2's performance at Slane Castle, part of their Elevation Tour.
 
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