Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

April 5, 2004-Cobain's ex-wife Courtney Love is found dead from slashing her throat with a stolen steak knife. She leaves behind a very lengthy, unintelligible and poorly-written suicide note.

April 7, 2004-Shackles in Chains is released to an enthusiastic reception.
 
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March 25, 2004-Under Ron Paul's leadership, the remains of the Republican Party search to rebrand itself. To fill the void in the two-party system, Paul forms the Liberty Party, incorporating the best elements of both the Republican Party and various third parties. Al Gore makes a statement. "Today is the beginning of a new era in American politics. We are witnessing a new paradigm shift, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Southern Strategy."

Whoa, I didn't mean for the collapse of the GOP to be a "serious" entry. I just noticed that the TL seemed to have drifted into GOP-bashing, so I made a post to lampoon it.
 
April 8, 2004-Cobain makes a statement about the death of his ex-wife. "Well, for all the shit that we went through, I never stopped caring about her or admiring the person she was before she was before she went off the deep end. She was quite talented and made incredible music. But I guess that no one will ever look back and realize it."
 
April 9th, 2004: Frances speaks out about her mother's death. "I'm not going to forget what she did to me in 2000, but a part of me believes that it wasn't totally her fault, that she was losing her mind by that point. I wish that the doctors could have helped her more, because while my dad's the best musician to ever live, she wasn't half-bad herself in Hole. I miss you mom, rest in peace."
 
April 12, 2004-Nirvana plays a tribute show for Love and Hole at the Whisky A Go Go. Notable are Frances, Patrick, and Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson joining for renditions of "Miss World", "Violet", "Doll Parts" and "Softer, Softest."
 
Someone who was incredibly talented, but let her own insecurities cripple her and caused her to act out inappropriately and destroy what she'd created.
 
April 17th, 2004: Krist Novoselic announces intentions to record his debut solo album, which he says will be "very experimental in nature and mish-mosh all sorts of genres together." Meanwhile, Nirvana announces its next album is due out in the Fall of 2005.
 
April 18, 2004-Dave Grohl announces that he will work on a new Foo Fighters album while doing the Lollapalooza Nirvana tour, then tour to promote the album before the next Nirvana album is done. (The album is TTL's version of One by One, the same album, just released later)
 
April 22, 2004-Nirvana and their fellow grunge compatriots perform at a hastily gathered vigil at the Seattle Memorial Stadium, home of the Bumbershoot Festival. Most notable is a moment where all the bands perform together at the same time to do a mini-Soundgarden set of "Outshined", "Black Hole Sun", "Fell On Black Days", "Jesus Christ Pose" and "Slaves & Bulldozers".
 
April 22nd, 2004: Towards the end of the Seattle Memorial Stadium performance, Cobain plays a rendition of Nirvana's unplugged cover of "Jesus Don't Want Me for A Sunbeam". One concert goer records the entire performance and plans on uploading it onto a soon to surface video watching site they have dubbed "YouTube".
 
April 27, 2004-Cobain sits down for an interview with Wolf Blitzer. "It's quite amazing, the things that have happened in the last four years. I never thought we'd ever get to a point like this. That said, I take the recent deaths in my circle very hard. I never saw any of it coming, and I still have a hard time accepting it."
 
July 9: 2004: Krist Novoselic releases the first single from his debut album, "Nosedive"-a song about the crash of Delta Connection Flight 1910. The song heavily denounces Comair for allowing the crash to happen with their negligence.
 
June 2004-Nirvana begins their planned performances at Lollapalooza. During the shows, Novoselic is allowed to drop in songs from his album in the setlist. Meanwhile, Grohl and the Foo Fighters record their album with veteran producer Nick Raskulinecz in a mobile studio set up during the tour.
 
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