Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

(Maybe. Also, last thing before I turn in, what will happen to John Entwistle and the TL's version of The Who?)

October 7, 2001-U.S. airstrikes begin in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda has been sheltered.

October 20, 2001-The Concert for New York City is held at Madison Square Garden. Nirvana does four songs, performing alongside David Bowie, Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor, The Who, Adam Sandler as Operaman, and the surviving Beatles.
 
(I'm fine either way, honestly. I'd prefer Brian to live, but I don't care. If you think he'd make things worse, I'll respect your judgment. Well, good night)
 
November 2001: The Taliban are routed from Kabul. Intelligence shows that bin Laden has escaped into the Tora Bora Mountains, and possibly into Pakistan.

December 3, 2001: Enron Corporation, the Houston-based energy firm, files for bankruptcy. The company was pounded by questions over its debt load, special purpose entities to bundle its debt as growth, and kickbacks from these SPEs going into the pockets of CFO Andrew Fastow. Moreover, Enron CEO and founder Kenneth Lay is known for connections to the Bush family.
 
(Out of timeline)What about Axl Rose? Axl Rose could be the conservative rival to Kurt Cobain in this TL. It would make a very interesting timeline if they went at each other's throats.
 
Well, Axl hasn't given any indication of what his political views are. Odds are he actually couldn't care less.

Sorry that there couldn't be more progress today.
 
Maybe the rivalry doesn't have to be between Kurt and Axl. There could be another musician with conservatives views that Cobain could disagree with, hell who says the person he has blows with has to be a musician? Maybe ITTL, Charlton Heston doesn't develop dementia and remains alive and lucid for much longer, leading to the two developing some sort of conflict? Though I created this timeline, I prefer to hear you guys' ideas before deciding on what to use.
 
That could work. Also, I could imagine a long standing political feud between Kurt and Ted Nugent, especially in terms of how the Nuge tries to rewrite his sexual history. He could also have similar feuds with Sammy Hagar and Kid Rock.

Wish I could stay, but I have to work. Sorry about that.
 
October 1999-British pop star Gary Glitter is convicted of downloading child pornography and of historical sexual assault on a then 13-year-old girl. This happens in large part because the woman resisted the urge to give a scoop to a tabloid in the event of a conviction. After Glitter is incarcerated, more victims come forward to tell their stories. As a result of the weight of the evidence, Glitter pleads guilty to each new count in exchange for giving crucial information about a network of pedophiles in the top rungs of the British entertainment industry, implicating stalwarts as Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, and Jimmy Savile. Each of the three men deny the charges against them, but are convicted. Showings of Top of the Pops reruns featuring Savile are scrubbed to remove his presence while preserving the performances, and copies of the show Jim'll Fix It are destroyed by the BBC. In Australia, the native son Harris is similarly denounced, as copies of his famous anthems "Sun Arise," "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" and "Jake The Peg" are burned, his writings and paintings facing a similar fate, and his honors revoked. Famed Beatles producer George Martin, who worked with Harris, expresses amazement and disappointment at finding out that one of his closest friends could do such vile and reprehensible acts. Knowing that a similar outcry could come up against him, Pete Townshend of The Who quietly informs police that he had used a credit card to view child pornography sites for the sake of research and to aid sexual assault survivors, such as himself. A forensic analysis of his computers proves his account to be true, and no further action is taken. Townshend is commended for his bravery in coming forward to head off potential controversy.
 
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Glad Saville pays for his crimes before death. Also note that one of those episodes of Jim'll Fix It being destroyed is a Doctor Who crossover - IOTL they pulled the DVD that included it as an extra which has of course made it a collector's item.
 
February 2001-Cobain films a cameo appearance in Ben Stiller's upcoming film Zoolander.

August 2001-During a show in Barcelona, Spain, Cobain comments on the disintegrating marriage of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He states, "well of course she wants out of the marriage. He's part of a fruity religion that believes in Xenu the Galactic Overlord and churns out movies like Battlefield Earth." These remarks reach the desk of Scientology head David Miscavige, and set the stage for a future confrontation.
 
December 2001-A previously planned live album covering the summer tour is released. However, it is a compilation of only the European dates, as the current parent company of DGC and all entities associated with Geffen Records, Universal Music Group, refuses to sign off on releasing any of the Middle Eastern shows. The album, Live Intuition, officially fulfills Cobain/Nirvana's deal with DGC, which had been extended in 1994. Cobain and the members of Nirvana are now officially free agents, and are given all the masters of their studio and live recordings, and are left to ponder how to release any future product. Offers from Warner Bros., Atlantic Records, Sony Music, and Virgin Records come in.

January 2002-President Bush gives his State of the Union Address. With soaring approval ratings over the strikes in Afghanistan, Bush calls upon the need for a broader "war on terrorism." He refers to Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil", and gives some chilling lines. "Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." In addition, a new agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is created, with a new color-coded threat level assessment, and enforced security at airports, including taking off one's shoes and belt before going through the metal detectors.
 
February 7th, 2002: Former Vice President Al Gore speaks out against Bush's extremist rhetoric, stating: "What happened in September was terrible, but there are multiple ways to solve this problem and just because you're against one method of solving the problem, doesn't mean you don't want to solve it at all."
 
February 9, 2002: Cobain gives a public statement about President Bush's plans to expand the war. "I'd been willing to start giving our so-called President the benefit of the doubt after what happened on September 11th. There is a definite need to go after al Qaeda and bring bin Laden to justice. Which, by the way, he failed to do and let him escape somewhere into bumfuck Pakistan when our troops had him in a vise and might've been able to get him then and there. But now he's talking about changing the rules of the game, rattling our sabers against countries that had nothing to do with it, and clearly wants to go there because some people think his daddy didn't do a good enough job when we were there last. Face it, we've been had. He's gonna use our goodwill to scheme our way into an unnecessary war and make himself look like a legitimate leader. But of course, he still isn't. Al Gore should be in the White House, and the election was a blatant fraud. At the very least, he wouldn't have all that Enron baggage."

February 10, 2002: Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld give blistering attacks on Cobain's statements. "This is the very definition of being unpatriotic. Our troops are on the frontline, fighting against the terrorists, and Mr. Cobain is choosing to attack our strategy and expose his whiny sour grapes about the 2000 election. The electors and the House made the right choice, and Al Gore would not be striking out against bin Laden the way President Bush has. Need I remind you that President Clinton failed to sign off on raids to capture bin Laden back in the '90s? He especially could've done that in '98, and the whole Monica Lewinsky thing would've been irrelevant." The Clintons are heard to rage at this blatantly revisionist take on the effort to take down bin Laden and the response to Operation Desert Fox.
 
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