Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison were more than leads of great bands. They were heros of their generations. They had so many talents and each influenced a multitude of people. Aside from being singers and song writers Kurt was also a musician, guitarist and mass-media phenomenon, and Jim was also a poet, film maker and writer. Their groups also had about a twenty year span in between them. Even though it seems you could not compare them you actually can. Unlike fictional writers their material comes more from their life experiences and feelings.
Even though it was different things that affected each one you can still see a pattern of similarity between their lives. They both experienced hardships in their lives and also a few unexpected turns. There was a massive amount of stress put on their lives because not only did they have to worry about what they wrote but also what they said. Live performances were constantly being taped, there were interviews and television shows and specials, newspaper and magazine articles, and also public appearances. To them this also had to become a form of artistry. The publicity and fame that comes to band is far greater than any that would come to just one single writer.
This was also a factor in their writings and maybe even in their tragic deaths. Influences for their writings came throughout there whole lives. Even as far back as childhood. Kurt was very damaged from his parents divorce. He once said “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”(www.downer.com quotes) He also confesses ” I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath, thinking that if I blew up my head, they’d [mom and dad] be sorry.”(www.downer.com quotes) In a song “Serve the Servants” from In Utero he talks about this by saying ” I just want you to know that I/ Don’t hate you anymore/ There is nothing I could say/ That I haven’t said before/ Serve the servants-oh no/ That legendary divorce is such a bore” As for Jim, he grew up in a military family. His father was in the navy. They were constantly moving and Jim’s dad was frequently not home. Jim seemed to grow a lack of respect for his family and authority.
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Back in the day, divorce wasn’t what it is today. It was never just a “thing”. Divorce was, in a sense, a taboo. But if they did, society would look down upon them, and the women would be left with nothing. The husbands would take the house, the money, and in most often cases, leave the kids. There were no divorce laws, stating that each side gets fifty-fifty. Or joint custody. Nor was there any ...
In an early fact sheet Jim claimed his family to be dead. One of the office managers of the recording company told him she didn’t think that was nice and asked what his parents will think. Jim replied that if anyone asked they were dead. Jim never respected authority in fact he liked the farthest thing from it . He says in that same fact sheet, I’ve always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or over throwing of established order.
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos- especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… The song “Five to One” from Waiting For The Sun was about rebelling and taking over. Jim figured that by 1969 there would be five times as many people under twenty-one as would be over, so why not rebel. One of the most single important events in Jim’s childhood occurred while traveling with his parents on a desert highway. They came upon an over turned truck, and saw dying and injured Pueblo Native Americans that had been thrown from the truck lying on the pavement.
Jim began to cry. His dad stopped the car to make sure help was on the way, which it was. He got back in the car and drove away trying to comfort Jim as he still cried. Because of this experience Jim went and learned much about the Native Americans. Later Jim even claimed to his friends that he had been possessed by one of the dying Native Americans as he passed. The Native American influences were seen, as he often wore a concho belt and preformed ritulistic-type dance movements on stage. Another influential period in their lives was their school years.
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Kurt did not like school at all. While in high school he started getting into music and finally seeing shows and doing what he always wanted to do. He states “I wanted to move to Seattle, sell my ass, and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid.”(www.downer.com quotes) Then finally in 1985 Kurt dropped out of high school. Kurt knew what he wanted to do. He wanted to write music and school was just getting in the way. He also hated the “high school culture” of the clicks and sport favoritism. In the next few years Kurt would meet Kirst Novoselic and together they would float through many bands until they finally stopped at Nirvana.
Kurt wrote in the original biography of the band that “for the last nine months we have had the pleasure to take Chad-Drums under our wings and develop what we are now and always will be NIRVANA.” The name for the band comes from the definition of the word, which is: 1.The final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness. 2.A place or state of oblivion to care, pain or external reality. The Doors seemed to be searching for nirvana too. In a New York Times article “The Doors seek Nirvana” by Alfred G. Aronowitz it was said that Jim’s campaign motto was “Nirvana now.” Jim’s education on the other hand was complete, he graduated from UCLA. His aspirations were always to be a writer, poet, or a film maker.
He never really thought he would become such a famous singer. Jim also read a lot. His heroes were artist and writers. He even, uh, borrowed a few lines from William Blake: “some are born to sweet delight/ some are born to the endless night.” William Blake also said ” when the doors of perception are cleansed man will see things as they truly are, infinite.” The Doors found this statement quoted in Aldous Hugely The Doors of Perception which is where the groups name comes from. Also the style of the French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud would influence the form of Jim’s short prose poems. In the book No One Here Gets Out Alive Danny Sugerman list a number of artist and then states …the mad ones, the doomed ones, the writers, poets, and painters, the artist stubbornly resistant to authority and insistent on being loyal to their true nature, at any coast – this was the lineage with whom Jim m ….
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On his tenth birthday Jim Walker was introduced to the game of basketball by receiving a basketball from his uncle Mark Walker. Jim acted as if he loved the gift to please his uncle but really expected more from him. Jim never really played basketball at this age because he would rather spend his time doing things most other ten year olds did like riding bicycles and playing with G. I. Joes. On ...
