MTV News with Kurt Loder on death of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during MTV Dreamtime (1994.04.11)

[@Spawnfreak]

When MTV news was actually the news.

[@matthewsprague4904]

Loder was practically our Cronkite.

[@chrissystewart6268]

30 years ago Nirvana fans lost Kurt Cobain He's so talented He touch many lives He'll never be forgotten . My mom used to love Smell like teen spirit. Me & my cousin used like heart shaped box. Talking about suicide is very important never know what's going with people's minds so it is important to talk about suicide Kurt died so young 27 my condolences goes out to Courtney Love & Frances Bean Cobain

[@bidhrohi12]

I like how Kurt reports factually without emoting. MTV did news better then than news does news now.

[@kimberly21381]

This is how all news used to be. I miss it.

[@SupernaturalsDark]

Two different things that can't be compared being the Internet was a military construction when Kurt was doing such news ... More like a reverse engineered alien construction that humans used as a construct that can't be taken credit for as humans

[@SupernaturalsDark]

I never even like realized ... Kurt reports on Kurt 🤔

[@krisfrederick5001]

Except half of what he said was proved to be wrong, that's not news it's assuming.

[@infinidominion]

​@@tiffanybatcheller-harris522bullshit, he was with MTV since 80's

[@lauraprochaska8521]

Goosebumps watching this all these years later💔

[@jasonpeters9716]

JMP77🖤

[@slayerdearly]

I turned 9 on April 4th 1994 and I didn’t know about Nirvana for another 8 years

[@Alexandria87]

I was 7 and same here

[@Spiritualchick82]

I was 12, and knew of him because my sister was this cool alternative rock chick back then. Crazy how much time passed since then!

[@RetroMan-]

Kurt died on the 5th...found on the 8th

[@slayerdearly]

@@RetroMan- I know that

[@shawoo]

Don’t make this about you. Nobody cares. This is about me, I was 10 when this happened and I remember watching this clip on TV and couldn’t believe it.

[@CarlosCarlos-m3e]

I'm 35 now... Nirvana Fan since I was 14 years old . RIP Cobain. HERO

[@elizabethcooper8598]

I'll never forget that day. I walked into my school, I was 15 at the time, and kids were sitting in the halls, crying, a few screaming, heads buried in their arms. My best friend ran up to me, almost hysterical, and threw her arms around me. R.I.P Kurt. 😢

[@richdiscoveries]

I was just thinking about the MTV broadcast so I decided to look for it. I was 15 as well, at my first high school girlfriends house. We have grown our separate ways with kids now, but still good friends with her. We live 3 blocks away from each other🙂

[@willsr2112]

No way people were screaming

[@elizabethcooper8598]

@@willsr2112 Really? You were there? Funny, I don't remember you.

[@willsr2112]

@@elizabethcooper8598 it just seems hard to believe

[@elizabethcooper8598]

@@willsr2112 Hard for you to believe. Not so hard for others who had similar experiences. Try not to judge people.

[@RonMotta1972]

I was a senior in college. For my generation, this was our Kennedy assassination moment and Kurt Loder was our Walter Cronkite.

[@GAIAZULA]

i was watching MTV when this aired one day after school in '94. It was shocking... I thought I was dreaming.

[@metalmacabre9991]

Nevermind was sonically a great album. I'm a professional drummer, and I've played death metal and doom metal, when i recorded with the doom metal band, the engineer had that CD on hand. I remember asking him about if he liked that CD. He said yes the band was ok, but the sound on that album is great, and he was right he said he used it as a reference for drums, and bass. You can hear all the instruments, all on the same level.

[@infinidominion]

Sneap is no joke

[@FrancardNoir]

It's my favorite album "sonically" as you say. The masters are just perfect.

[@Leandratvd]

i was born 15 years after, i'm 15 now 😭

[@bido8176]

Remember this like yesterday. Exactly where I was and who was in the room. College house. It gutted everyone.

[@kristinafisher2555]

30 years ago today RIP Kurt ♥🕊

[@acmelka]

I was watching this live all those years ago

[@Chalor.]

Fred Armisen from the 'bring MTV back!' Portlandia episode said that Kurt had a little tear when announcing this....there was no freakin' tear! Fred's a *LIAR!!!*

[@dengueberries]

Just came from watching that episode. I think it's intentional, making the point that Spyke is over-romanticising the era and projects his own emotions on Kurt's reporting.

[@Chalor.]

@@dengueberries Poignant point

[@erinwalker711]

This was a Where-Were-You-When moment for Gen-X and Xennials.

[@jasonpeters9716]

Arrest Love & Erlandson

[@madxmanda]

I was 8 and this very segment was what made me discover Nirvana for the first time. Been a hardcore fan ever since. Rest in Peace Kurt Cobain, and respect, Kurt Loder. 🤘🏽🥲💔🖤

[@maryanncuva4551]

I was 11 years old when this happened

[@kathygonzalez1413]

Me too 😢😢

[@stephenotoole408]

I was going on 11 the following month.

[@Superunknown.z]

I was -20 years old haha

[@jasonpeters9716]

I was 16

[@trennedyblair836]

Rest In Peace Kurt Cobain

[@Lily-gs9iv]

Yupe I remember this and Layne Staley went to rehab that week as well.

[@lynnloww]

Wow never knew that I know everything nirvana or all music in general. I’m like a damn music historian. Lol

[@machoquietmangray92]

But he didn’t commit suicide… how can you with a shotgun that had a suicide guard on it with extra length on the barrel. Rip Kurt

[@sara2ninfa]

I wish mtv never had to make this new 😢

[@derekjsoutar]

I was 2.5 years old when this happened. Obviously i dont remember it. I do recall knowing aboutnit in early 1996. Heard the radio station 99.3 CFOX in vancouver bc talking about it

[@marcgoldstein2957]

The Bass toss...UCLA...I was there...Crazy!

[@ScentlessSun]

It changed so many lives.

[@tomfranco4866]

I remember when this happened my wife at the time told me about it when I got home from work prior to Kurt's death I think John Candy had died a week or two prior

[@rebeccavinson-conover2449]

I watched this live when I was 8 in front of a big wooden console tv with a dial and rabbit ears. I was lucky I had an older sister who put me on to good music so this was really devastating to me

[@aronkelley8634]

KC 💙

[@TheNecessaryEvil]

Loder is 78. 😒 Also nirvana blows

[@agnes2100]

Re open the investigation ’Soaked in bleach’ 🥴

[@myblasterproductions]

Rest easy

[@dankroy]

I was -8 years old when he died 💔💔💔 I miss him I really wish I could turn back

[@papapelo16]

I was 24 in my truck listening to the cd. SLTS. R.I.P.

[@JokersNtheOddball]

I saw this that night. I was waiting to get picked up for a middle school dance. I was a very musically mature 12 yr old

[@gbvideos9228]

I was 14 years old ..a freshman ..I was about to buy in utero and then this happened .. I eventually bought it later months later.. his death somehow made him popular even more

[@JordanPolack-p1t]

1993 i love kurtvana est in my mind 2001 you know your rights 😁🇺🇲🤘😞💪👍🕯️🙇😁whatever

[@JimHolton-h6n]

This brings back memories. I was thirteen years old and watching mtv when the breaking news was coming on every 15 minutes

[@melissawright1979]

I was 6 nearly 7 when this happened

[@joshuamiller8948]

Where did he get the weird detail he repeats in these about a "house he owned, but didn't live in anymore'' ??? He owned the house. He had just purchased it a few months before and barely had moved in before going on the European In Utero tour, but he lived there. Only a total of like 6 weeks, but he was definitely living there during the intervention that occurred at the house on March 25, 1994 after he and Dylan came downstairs from shooting drugs all night..

[@JamaalAbegaz]

It's probably two details 1. They knew his address of record (remember how the paparazzi was in the 90s) 2. They knew through property records he'd owned the house (like having someone local to a records request, a news agency could find that out v easily then)

[@RevenantEternal]

Where did you get YOUR details?

[@joshuamiller8948]

Moi? Considering I could pry teach a college class on Kurt Cobain, MY details are verified, accurate, and true. @@RevenantEternal

[@ANIMLFIRE]

I was 13, I will never forget it, Miss ya kurt

[@briancannon3987]

He faked his death

[@zenzen1916]

RIP Mike Bloomfield, angel masquerading as a human in an evil ugly world. "Kristy" is a fraud. Love him for ever🥀💔

[@canesgooble]

god it just reminds me of that south park episode

[@W81Researcher]

Was this the first breaking news?

[@stevecox4154]

No. Over the immediate couple days following there were numerous iterations of the story as more details were emerging. The original announcement was quite brief, around 90 seconds, and it interrupted the broadcast of whatever segment was on. Loder read a statement from Courtney Love soon after the NBC affiliate in Seattle broke the story.

[@matthewnelson4298]

Murdered

[@phoenixpharaoh9517]

U tested positive for correct, at least his kid want nothing to do with mama!

[@theebigjoe2]

i was watching.

[@motorheadbanger90]

"Best New Artist" in 1991 when they started in 1987?? wtf ever

[@jasonpeters9716]

Yeah cuz first half of GenX as teens in early-late 80s had SHITTY tastes

[@jasonpeters9716]

Last end of GenX teens in Early-mid 1990s had GREAT tastes

[@thereforeayam]

"zapp...ert" ...remember that, Loder?

[@LRCw32]

Okay. Reading the comments, I need to set the record straight! I was born spring '67, "the other Cobain" from NY, never used Seatle heroin, and without a band! So I didn't find fame. Ahead of Kurt in some ways, behind in others! The point is!! Loder WAS THE one who interviewed them for MTV, WITH ALL THE SIGNS everyone missed!! In his monotone you see here. Calling Cobain out, even MOCKING the depression & being condescending to Cobain, leading up to what you witness right here, as the #1 GUY reading what he knows is TIMELESS HISTORY! LIVE on the spot! Probably full of guilt he has to block and be professional as possible! No one could have known! Now it's too late! (besides Ricky Rackman, headbanger's ball/David Kendall, 120 min/ Tabitha Soren interviews!) For my peers, this was OUR adult John Lennon assassination, which happened when we were 13, AND ALSO FOR KURT!!!

[@danrodrigues3531]

'He'd been killed by a blast to the head from a 12 gauge shotgun.' Kurt Loder was pretty blunt about the manner in which Kurt died. He could have simply said he committed suicide and left it at that...

[@grindingshiba]

Wanna cry abt it?

[@danrodrigues3531]

@@grindingshiba You bet I do, Karen...

[@manvolta]

Exactly. I think it was disrespectful.

[@python357magnum100]

News used to be, and is supposed to be factual, when no one cared about your lil feelwings, it was much better then.

[@BenWalker-li6wz]

Loder doesn’t decide what he says. He’s reading from a teleprompter

[@RevenantEternal]

22 Gauge

[@OrbaDaBorba]

12 Gauge*

[@boneyardmilitia1836]

20 Guage..semi auto..Fact

[@manvolta]

I think it's disrespectful to go into detail about "a blast to the head from a 12 gauge shot gun."

[@encualva]

Crystal generation

[@Holret]

may be considered that today, but for such high profile star, people would have really wanted to know the caue of death. kurt was huge!

[@StephanYancy-lp9xz]

WHAT COLOR WERE KURT COBAINS EYES? BLUE,ONE BLEW THIS WAY,ONE BLEW THAT WAY.

[@PitBullPlaysGames]

the best day ever

[@mr.r2023]

Just like in South Park. lol

[@gracesedan4759]

Bruh

[@BXshqip87]

He lost his salvation 😢

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

WTF?

[@TheCharlesAtoz]

You make no sense

[@BXshqip87]

@@TheCharlesAtoz those who except Jesus and believe in him will enter the kingdom of heaven. When person dies they don't go heaven. they are sleeping until Jesus comes to Resurrection them. In third coming those who didn't will be judged and burn in the lake of fire of Lucifer and fallen angels and war between God and Satan will be over and new Jerusalem will be on the new earth.

[@BXshqip87]

@@TheCharlesAtoz read the Bible read revelation

[@BXshqip87]

@@TheCharlesAtoz those who take their own lives will not inherit the Kingdom of heaven.

[@butchsasser6131]

Great day in history…

[@messycloud]

Excuse me? How can you be happy when someone died

[@harpuavids]

@@messycloudIgnore him 😒

[@Easy-cg1it]

aww still mad and sad the voice of your generation killed himself??

[@nickpr5964]

Still not over them ending that awful hair band music era?

[@AmericanGrunt.]

Fuck is this reply and comment

[@crisieisbell2599]

I was class of 96 tears!