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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
I remember like it was yesterday. Not that I'm that big of a fan, but I do remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a Friday afternoon. I left town headed to College Station to stay the weekend with my friend and his new wife (they had just married in December). My friends wife had asked me to stop by her mom's place and bring a chest of drawers in the back of my truck. When I left here, I was tuned to KRBE's Friday 80's Lunch Flashback show: Cure, Depeche Mode, MCL, Vicious Pink, Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, ect. When the show ended and KRBE returned to playing Bobby Brown crap, I started listening to this mix tape I had made. One side was: Borbetomagus, Art Bears, Ultra Vivid Scene, John Zorn, ect. Side two was nothing but Legendary Pink Dots. Anyway, I was trucking right along when this cop pulls me over in Montgomery for speeding. Before the officer walks up to the window, I eject the tape and then turn my truck off. Due to my line of work, I was extended some professional courtesy and let go with a verbal warning. As I pull back on to the highway, I turn the radio on and KRBE is playing a Nirvana track. This caught me by surprise because they usually played crap during the day. That Nirvana track was followed by another and playing back to back tracks by the same artist is something this station doesn't do. After the third or fourth track, the DJ came on informing the listeners about Kurt passing away.
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Wow you've got a good memory, I turned 14 a few days before and I was genuinely sad when I heard from a friend that he had passed away. I had just moved from Australia to Croatia a few months before and Croatia was still in a rocky state, everything seemed to be changing for me and losing Kurt was saddening as he was one of my favourite musicians. It was weird though how immediately after his death all these people who didn't listen to Nirvana suddenly started listening to them for a while, then after a few months this died down and everyone went back to normal, including me who still thinks Nirvana was a great band, I don't care about how popular they became or the hype, that stuff is crap anyway and I try not to take notice of it in general.