Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

January 8th, 2003: Production on the next Nirvana album, entitled Dixie Dope, begins. It is scheduled for release in September of that year and allegedly "is the Empire Strikes Back to Pickled Intuition's A New Hope", in Cobain's words.
 
January-February 2003-Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the recipient of NASA's second "successful failure", after the crew is rescued by sister vehicle Atlantis after launch video, satellite imagery and EVAs reveal the left wing was punctured by a strike from falling foam insulation. NASA voluntarily grounds the shuttle fleet for a year to revamp the insulation and move on a suitable replacement vehicle, reusable for up to ten missions, by 2020. In the meantime, President Bush receives a momentary surge in his poll numbers after Saddam's death, but worries about what will fill the void left behind soon prevail.
 
I'm not exactly sure. A now banned user knew much more about them then I did.

I know that it was the first band for Rob Thomas, and their demise led to the birth of Matchbox Twenty. In addition, the only real tragedy that befell any of the grunge bands was Andrew Wood's OD, as Pearl Jam wouldn't have formed without it.
 
I know that it was the first band for Rob Thomas, and their demise led to the birth of Matchbox Twenty. In addition, the only real tragedy that befell any of the grunge bands was Andrew Wood's OD, as Pearl Jam wouldn't have formed without it.
Yes, grunge is not the "tragic" genre in this TL. Punk pop probably would be, since both Billie Joe Armstrong and Jared Leto died under tragic circumstances here.
 
I know that it was the first band for Rob Thomas, and their demise led to the birth of Matchbox Twenty. In addition, the only real tragedy that befell any of the grunge bands was Andrew Wood's OD, as Pearl Jam wouldn't have formed without it.
Ok I want to have Rob Thomas stop being friends with Kurt Cobain due to Cobain becoming more political
 
February 2nd, 2003: Alice in Chains begins an Afro-Eurasion tour similar to the one Nirvana went on two years earlier. However, they are unable to enter many of the countries Nirvana did in earlier 2001, due to heightened security concerns. Layne Staley insists on gaining special access into Iraq in order to perform a benefit concert.
 
October 2nd 2002: Tabitha's Secret hold a concert in support for Liberty minded candidates for the midterms and before playing their hit song Push lead singer Rob Thomas calls out Kurt Cobain calling a partisan hack and that he doesn't know that both parties are the same.
 
November 20, 2003: The NTSB releases its final report on the crash of Delta Connection Flight 1910. The board determines that the plane's horizontal stabilizer failed in flight due to insufficient maintenance, causing the plane to enter a vertical dive from which the pilots were unable to recover. The report criticizes Comair, who were operating the flight on behalf of Delta Air Lines, for insufficient maintenance.

OOC: Basically, something similar to Alaska Airlines Flight 261.
 
February 2003-Rumors leak out of a potential Ramones reunion tour, including Dee Dee, who had left in 1992. In the meantime, Joey is interviewed about his feelings about President Bush, and he states, "well, I've been a pretty liberal guy all my life. But I've learned to really delegate things to Johnny. He's always been the one that brings the discipline to us. Will a tour happen? I don't know. Is there really an audience for us anymore? Is it like what the Sex Pistols have done?"

(Speaking of, about time for John Lydon to enter the fray and be his usual crass self, dontcha think?)
 
(Yes. IOTL, his second book mentions how he almost met Kurt at the La Brea tar pits, and says he's happy he wouldn't show up, because "he'd have just ripped me off.")
 
October 30th 2002: Rob Thomas in a interview with Rolling Stone says Tabitha Secret's new album will be more libertarian themed and that we are prob the most Liberty minded band in the country.
 
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