Cobain Continues Redone: A Kurt Cobain Survives Timeline

TheGuyWhoHeartsHistory

April 17th, 1997: Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich ends up in hot water when an informant receives information that Gingrich had been involved in several extramarital affairs, while publicly condemning President Clinton for the same actions. This information is published into a New York Times article entitled: "Gingrich Goes Hypocritical? The Extramarital Affairs of The Anti-Cheating Proponent".

April 25th, 1997: Cobain is asked his opinions regarding Gingrich's affairs. "I knew the bastard was a hypocrite all along. Those Republicans always preach about morals while fucking the population of this country."

April 29th, 1997: Courtney Love is contacted by DGC records. They agree to sign her on as long as she avoids confrontation with Cobain.
 

Toxic34

May 2, 1997-Nirvana is broached by Geffen personnel about their opinions about digital music. Cobain looks at the issue. "Well, I see it this way. You either adapt early, or you get left behind. Prince, or whatever he calls himself now, is going on about the Internet being a way to promote music. I think this is something the labels got to corner before they get cut off."

May 3, 1997-Cobain meets with Frank Zappa again, and they both talk about digital music delivery. Zappa agrees that if artists and labels start to focus on this fledgling medium, it will mark a turning point in the business.

May 7, 1997-Love bumps into Patty Schemel near the studio Love's solo album is being tracked in. The meeting is terse and frosty.
 

Shiva

May 1, 1997: An anonymous member of Representative Dennis Hastert's office sends Larry Flynt information regarding an illegal 'structuring' of financial statements to hide huge cash payouts to a number of individuals who had accused Hastert of sexually molesting them as teenagers when he worked as Yorkville High School's wrestling coach in the 1970's, and had been covering it up ever since. Larry Flynt contacts the FBI with this information. The FBI begins investigating shortly thereafter.

May 2, 1997: With 'The Devil's Advocate' in editing and with a release date set for September, Keanu Reeves was contacted by the Wachowski Brothers about a project that they called 'The Matrix' but they wanted him to do some homework first before they felt comfortable with revealing the script. Thus Reeves found himself reading a number of philosophy books.

May 4, 1997: Spelmain and their record label agree to push back the release of their self-titled album to June to do more promotional work, the first single, "Poison Kiss" is released along with a music video for MTV. Critics note the harsh punk rock sounds as a very different sound from their Hole days with Eric doing back up vocals and playing lead guitar, Melissa doing the actual singing and playing bass guitar, and Patty on drums. Some speculate that 'Poison Kiss' is about Courtney Love.

In the video for 'Poison Kiss' the band is performing in a club that is slowly decaying around them while following 'the Girl' played by model Jaime King during her night, arriving at the club, dancing to the band, injecting heroin, hallucinating, and having to be resuscitated via adrenaline injection to the heart (a shoutout to 'Pulp Fiction'), the video ending with Jaime King and the patrons in an empty field where the club stood, the band missing.

May 7, 1997: Washington D.C. was rocked by the arrest of one of the highest ranking Republicans in the Senate, Senator Larry Craig for soliciting prostitution from a cocaine dealing MALE prostitute in his early 20's near a bar that was popular with D.C.'s gay community. Larry Craig was noted for being one of the most homophobic members of Congress, having a long history of voting against LGBT rights.
 
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Toxic34

May 10, 1997-Journey begins the tour to promote Trial by Fire, barnstorming across arenas and amphitheaters all over North America.

May 20, 1997-From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-kah is released to great acclaim. Much praise is given to Grohl's emergence into the spotlight, and his own considerable talents.

May 28, 1997-Chris Farley is deemed insurable for the Fatty Arbuckle script. During an interview, he also announces plans to make a movie focusing on his SNL character Matt Foley. "I've gotta figure out how to translate that into a script, but I think it can be done."

May 30, 1997-Company of Angels, a biopic of Joan of Arc, is put into production, with Katheryn Bigelow directing, a script by Jay Cocks, and production and funding by Luc Besson. Besson nearly pulled out to do his own film because of Bigelow's refusal to cast his wife Milla Jovovich in the role of Joan, but Besson was pressured by Gaumont and Sony to contain his ego and keep the agreement.

June 2, 1997-Frank Zappa launches a new website through which all his future albums will be available for paid download, at half-price compared to CDs.

June 24, 1997-Motley Crue releases Generation Swine, the first album to feature the original lineup in eight years. The album is negatively received by the critics and by the band's fanbase for an apparent desire to pander to alternative music fans.
 
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TheGuyWhoHeartsHistory

(What should the singles from From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-ha be?)


* From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-Ha track listing:

All tracks by Kurt Cobain, except where noted.

1. Lovecor
2. Pang Is All They Know
3. Everlong (Grohl)
4. My Hero (Grohl)
5. Times Like These (Grohl)
6. Walking With You (Grohl)
7. Beatle Burp Begets Bohemian Bickerer
8. Cloud Clime Cantin
9. Obligatory Sad Unintelligible Song Song
10. Curse
11. Mandatory Breeding Laws
12. The Weepy Smiley Gets Big

Singles from From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-Ha:

1. Lovecor
2. Pang Is All They Know
3. My Hero
4. Everlong
 
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Shiva

TheGuyWhoHeartsHistory said:
(What should the singles from From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-hah be?)
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I think at least one of the song's mentioned ITTL such as 'Walking With You' or 'Everlong' since changing things up by having Grohl sing would be a surprise for Nirvana's fans. 'Aneurysm' would be good too, Then I suggest a TTL song that people speculate is about Kurt's breakup with Courtney Love. There could also be a song about Kurt's relationship with Theron, but we could save that for the next album.
 

Toxic34

(Forgot to add the first part)

June 2, 1996-Cobain calls Axl Rose, in a desire to make peace with the mercurial Guns N' Roses frontman. Rose agrees that it is time to bury the hatchet, and potentially talk of a future co-headlining tour at some point. As a result of this, Rose also works to officially mend fences with his current and former bandmates as well. Lead guitarist Slash, who was on the verge of quitting the group, is thus creatively inspired by the new camaraderie in the group, and work on the next album is soon underway, with an emphasis on raw spontaneity. Paul Tobias, a childhood friend of Rose who had been brought in to fill the spot vacated by Izzy Stradlin and Gilby Clarke, is sacked from the group, with Stradlin and Clarke dividing the rhythm guitarist spot, as dictated by Stradlin's schedule.

June 28, 1997-The title track from Guns N' Roses' next album, Chinese Democracy, is released to radio. The production of the album was nearly derailed due to growing creative conflict, but thanks to Rose's efforts to change, the album comes together relatively smoothly, and is universally praised by the critics and fans.
 

Shiva

June 6, 1997: Spelmain's self-titled debut album is released, a surprise hit that starts at #7 on the billboard charts and (eventually) peaks at #3. The album is noted for being a much grittier punk-rock sound than when they played in Hole. While Melissa is the lead vocalist, several tracks have her giving equal time singing with Eric, a couple tracks he takes the lead on.

June 8, 1997: Courtney Love deflects questions from a reporter on what she thinks of her bandmate's new music, saying that she's been too busy with recording her debut solo album to listen to it yet.

June 9, 1997: The media's has fun with reports from a local Fox affiliate in Tampa Bay that O.J. Simpson was spotted at a bar that night with an unidentified blond model, confirming rumors that Love and O.J.'s relationship had ended a few weeks prior after a couple months of being on life-support.
 

Toxic34

June 15, 1997-While promoting his new solo album, Marching To Mars, Sammy Hagar lashes out at Eddie and Alex Van Halen, accusing them of dishonesty in stating why he ended up out of the group. He also heavily promotes the lead single, "Little White Lie", which is a not-so-veiled shot across the bow. He also accuses the brothers of planning to remove Michael Anthony from his spot.

June 20, 1997-The video for "Everlong" is released to MTV. The video shows Grohl singing and playing guitar, and Cobain drumming, as per the recording. The video is a partial spoof of the classic horror film The Evil Dead, also featuring references to Teddy Boy subculture and the relationship of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
 

Toxic34

June 28, 1997-Chinese Democracy is officially released. It is also announced that Nirvana will open for Guns N' Roses when they embark on their fall North American stadium tour, beginning in three weeks. Guns' management had to outbid an offer to open up for the Rolling Stones on their tour to promote their upcoming album, Bridges to Babylon.

July 7, 1997-Cobain is among the people who get to see a first test screening of the final cut of The Devil's Advocate, and is largely impressed. By the time the film is released in October, the film is quite successful, with praise given to Pacino and Theron's performances and the atmosphere of the film. Keanu Reeves is noted for his believable portrayal of a lawyer and the undeniable chemistry he has with the other actors, but faulted for his cringe-inducing, inconsistent Southern accent. In addition, some critics feel that the film is schizophrenic in moving between what Roger Ebert refers to as "the Exorcism stuff clashing with the John Grisham stuff."

July 10, 1997-Cobain bumps into John Lydon at the House of Blues Sunset Strip. Lydon, true to form, accuses Cobain of ripping him off, and also states that Nirvana, Mudhoney and other similar acts have ruined the legacy of "real punk."
 

Hadley

So does this version of Chinese Democracy have some of the same songs that OTL did (albiet performed rather differently)?
 

Toxic34

Hadley said:
So does this version of Chinese Democracy have some of the same songs that OTL did (albiet performed rather differently)?
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It has many of the same songs, as in the ones that had been written up to that point, thus later ones like "Shackler's Revenge" and "Scraped" are not present. The album's production is thus also different, as it came together more quickly, and live in the studio, rather than Axl's endless re-recordings and overdubs.
 

Shiva

July 12, 1997: Bradley Nowell, the lead singer of Sublime who, after his two near fatal overdoses last year, had spent the greater part of this year in rehab and therapy announces that Sublime is heading back into the studio to work on a remix album. Some in the industry speculate that Sublime is doing this to cut corners a bit so they can release a new album more quickly.

July 14, 1997: D.C., which was still settling down from the 'events' of March was rocked to it's core when, after a mere three month investigation the FBI arrest House Representative Dennis Hastert for 'Illegal Structuring' of banking statements to hide cash payments to a number of 'individuals' link to accusations against Hastert of child molestation when he served as a high school football coach in the 70's. Hastert, having been making waves as a possible replacement for Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House had his lawyer deny the charges.

July 16, 1997: Walt Disney Pictures begins filming of 'Mighty Joe Young', which will star Bill Paxton and Charlize Theron, the planned filming is expected to take six months with principal photography to begin in Los Angeles for the parts set in America before moving to Africa.

July 18, 1997: During a Q&A session with a reporter, Courtney Love brags about how well the recording sessions are going. When asked if she's seeing anyone new she answers, "No, I'm single and I've been too busy to meet anyone. I think it helps my sobriety to just stay busy, you know?"
 

Toxic34

July 20, 1997-The joint Nirvana/Guns N' Roses tour kicks off at the Georgia Dome. Much praise is given to both bands' performances, especially the three-song encore jam by both bands, consisting of "Mr. Brownstone", "Drain You", and a cover of "Dead Flowers."
 

Hadley

Toxic34 said:
It has many of the same songs, as in the ones that had been written up to that point, thus later ones like "Shackler's Revenge" and "Scraped" are not present. The album's production is thus also different, as it came together more quickly, and live in the studio, rather than Axl's endless re-recordings and overdubs.
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Man, I would have LOVED to hear Street of Dreams with Slash and Izzy on it.
 

Toxic34

(Probably focus on Courtney's solo release, filming of the Fatty Arbuckle script, and any ripples you like to think of)
 

Toxic34

July 24, 1997-Christy Marx announces that the rights to Jem have reverted to her, and work on Season 4, and a 90-minute film as a series finale, to resolve all the loose ends.
 
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