Kurt Cobain Memorial Unveiled in His Hometown

On the 17th anniversary of his (rumored? controversial?) suicide, Nirvana fans gathered in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington on Tuesday, to attend the unveiling of a statue in his name.

The statue is a 3.9-meters-tall concrete sculpture of a guitar, and was created by local artist Lora Malakoff. The statue features a steel ribbon inscribed with lyrics from the Nirvana song “On a Plain,” reading “One more special message to go and then I’m done and I can go home.”

The guitar modeled is a Fender Jag-Stang, which was the guitar Cobain reportedly used on the “In Utero” tour, shortly before his death.

The statue is in a park near the Young Street Bridge, which is a site of pilgrimage for Nirvana fans, because it is featured in the opening lyrics on Nevermind’s closing track, “Something in the Way.”

Malakoff said, “I first moved to Aberdeen right after Kurt Cobain died, and I was always surprised there was nothing here to memorialize him. I had always hoped there would be. As one generation goes and another takes over, things change. That’s what happened here with Kurt Cobain.”

Still, the statue is not the first homage paid to Cobain in Aberdeen. In 2005, the Kurt Cobain Memorial Foundation installed a sign that reads “Come As You Are” to welcome people into the town, and that phrase has become an unofficial slogan in the town – it appears in several locations, including a mirror in the Aberdeen Finance Department, and the local water bills.

Source: http://blog.starcam.com/post/kurt-cobain-memorial-statue.aspx

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