Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

November 2004-Frank Zappa wins the Presidential election by a narrow margin of 24 electoral votes and 30,000 popular votes.
 
December 6, 2004-Cobain and the other members of Nirvana host a camera crew to watch a typical day in the recording studio and to answer questions about things like the election. "I have a feeling that things are gonna slowly get better after this," Cobain says. "After the insanity we've been through with Bush, anything is better."
 
December 8th, 2004: Dave Grohl mentions the possibility of fully reforming the Foo Fighters once more. "Now that the craziness is dying down, we're kinda entering that slow 90s period once more."
 
December 9, 2004-A former Marine named Nathan Gale attempts to kill the members of Damageplan, an offshoot band formed after the breakup of Pantera, featuring guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott and his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul, during their show in a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. However, security wrestles him to the ground before he can fire a shot.
 
December 10, 2004-Cobain responds to the near-tragedy. "Thank god that security was there to do their job and no one was hurt. This could've been a real clusterfuck."
 
December 11, 2004-Cobain and the members of Nirvana personally have a videoconference with Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul over the incident. During the call, Cobain states, "well, after something like this, I hope that this will encourage you both to start taking stock of what matters most, start clearing away all the bullshit that's been going on."
 
December 13, 2004-A new guitar design created by Cobain, a sort of sequel to the "Jag-stang", is released by Fender.
 
December 14, 2004-Patrick Cobain records guitar and vocal parts for a song on Nirvana's next album entitled "Down In The Mud."
 
(Some of my ideas:
IOTL, UK prog rock ensemble named Nirvana planned to release a somewhat tongue-in-cheek album of covers of US Nirvana songs, but Cobain's death stopped them. Nothing stops them ITTL, though.
With a bigger anti-Bush backlash, this can get some more traction, I believe.)
 
December 16, 2004-A UK band also entitled Nirvana receives the blessing to release a long-shelved covers album of their same-name American counterparts, which had been tied up in litigation with A&R and music executives spanning both Universal Music and Virgin Records. They also release a similar album of covers of the later part of the band's career a year later.
 
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