{"id":15429,"date":"2002-11-07T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/07\/pete-townshend-on-kurt-cobain\/"},"modified":"2002-11-07T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T14:09:00","slug":"pete-townshend-on-kurt-cobain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/07\/pete-townshend-on-kurt-cobain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Townshend on Kurt Cobain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Townshend reviews Kurt Cobain’s Journals<\/u><\/a> in The Guardian<\/i>. He has a unique perspective from which to comment on these journals, and not only because “in the middle of one of his rants against the rock press establishment,” Kurt Cobain writes, “I hope I die before I become Pete Townshend.” From what I’ve read and heard, it sounds as if Cobain’s entries reveal much about his tortured psyche, one that perhaps contributed to his talents but which ultimately doomed him to his sad fate. Townshend writes:
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We find it so hard to save our own, but must take responsibility for the fact that the message such deaths as Cobain’s sends to his fans is that it is in some way heroic to scream at the world, thrash a guitar, smash it up and then overdose.<\/p>\n

Read this book to see that the human spirit, even at its most sublime, can effect monumental damage on itself and its fellow souls if addiction enters the story. I mourn for Kurt. A once beautiful, then pathetic, lost and heroically stupid boy. Hard rock indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Townshend reviews Kurt Cobain’s Journals in The Guardian. He has a unique perspective from which to comment on these journals, and not only because “in the middle of one of his rants against the rock press establishment,” Kurt Cobain writes, “I hope I die before I become Pete Townshend.” From what I’ve read and heard, … <\/p>\n

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