- On April 8, 1994, shortly before 9 am, was found Cobain's body. On his chest lay a rifle pointed at his chin. Was identified only by his fingerprints.
- Fifteen years later, the voice of "grunge" is remembered by fans in Colombia with several tributes.
By Camilo Argüello Benítez
Bogotá, 08-April-2009 (Colprensa) .- The room on the second floor of his home in Seattle, it smelled of gunpowder and blood, but was more intense the smell of blood that dripped from his right ear on April 5, 1994, three days after Kurt Cobain's body was found with a 20 caliber rifle on his chest and pointing to the chin with which the guitarist, singer and songwriter of 27 years old, committed suicide.
Cobain took six days and the history disappeared last March that he had attempted suicide by swallowing several pills. And although the coroner determined he died April 5 in the afternoon and a high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were found in his bloodstream, the research found that someone tried to use your credit card the next morning. Today, 15 years later, for some of his followers the facts are not entirely clear.
However, Cobain, the man who decided to take away the image of "glam rock" away from the pads, hairspray, makeup and tight leather pants, typical eighties singers, the absolute king of old jeans, plaid shirts and sneakers Doc Martens, is remembered in Colombia as the voice and image of a generation "chaotic and painful, like any other teenager in the late eighties." He describes
Andrew Cardozo, a contemporary of Cobain at birth the same year, 1963, but in Bogota, and one of the "widows" of Nirvana as a philosophy that embraced the significance of this historic rock band "without material desires" .
It was precisely such thinking that led Cobain and his group formed by his best friend Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters frontman today) to the top of fame; to improve, according to experts, one genre of rock as the "grunge" by combining sounds of hard rock, punk, hardcore and some of the pop rock classic, issues that went beyond the claims of the singer, who began a bitter struggle between living like a star and his way of thinking, to like the public without receiving anything in return.
In interviews, Cobain did not conceal feel strange for fame and money that reached because their intentions never thought beyond the boundaries of a group with little commercial significance, do bus tours and "live." In fact, this mentality is clearly evident in songs and concerts, where there were platforms and always played in small places, a few meters from the public.
But the way you think brought other problems, such as public disagreements with the singer from Gun's and Roses, Axl Rose, who proposed to Cobain several touches on the U.S. tour of his album "Use Your Illusion II" but the lead singer of Nirvana has always refused to criticize the group for "lack of creativity." LIVING DOWN
In the early nineties, Cobain revealed in the crisis stage of his life. When everything seemed to have changed for good when she married rock singer Courtney Love and father of a girl in 1993 whom he called Frances Bean, her rejection of the public became evident and the signs of suicide as well, as the scenario candles and flowers that called for the MTV Unplugged in New York.
In his suicide note, Cobain admitted that even the applause of the crowd was overwhelmed: "I feel incredibly guilty. For example, when the lights go out before the concert and hear the roar of the crowd, I do not affect the way to Freddy Mercury, who seemed delighted that the public love him and adore. Which I admire and envy (...) Only good on me, and I think I simply love people too. Therefore, it makes me feel too fucking sad, "she wrote before committing suicide.
However, 15 years after his death, Kurt Cobain is a legend. His music inspired bands like The Vines, L7, Silverchair, their dress became a global style and be a depressed man with fame was elevated to the status of "martyr."
Therefore, in several bars in Bogota and other cities, fans are prepared to honor the legendary Cobain, it was with his lyrics that spoke to young people disillusioned about their future, "he thought as we and suffered like us, but let their songs as an antidote to suicide, "the fan Andrew Cardozo.
