Who's your hero?

[TheRightToArmBears]

Kurt Cobain is my hero. I love pretty much everything he ever did, and his lyrics are awesome and deeply personal ('Been A Son' about his father whishing his sister was a boy, 'Silver' is about staying with his grandparents). There's simply nothing about him that I don't find endearing (except maybe the drugs).

I'm pretty sure I would never have picked up an instrument (or even have been very interested in music at all) if it wasn't for Nirvana.

Agreed. By the way its called "Sliver" not "Silver"

Ona more personal note however I have to pick Layne Staley from Alice In Chains. Died on the same date as Kurt Cobain (not same year however) and whilst Nirvana get days dedictated them, AIC dont. Which I think is an absolute travesty. Died of drugs like most Seatlle grunge bands and his body wasnt found for 2-3 weeks and had to be identified by dental records.......Nobody wondered where he was...Carried on with their lives
I know Cobains death hit alot of people hard but Laynes was alot more tragic
AIC have the only song able to make me well up due to a single verse in the song Nutshell (I recommend it highly)

"And yet I find, and yet I find repeating in my head,
If I cant be my own, Id feel better dead"
The MTV Unplugged version was the last live show they did from what I recall making that line really stick out to me
I also recommend a song called "Junkhead"...Even though he was struggling with addiction he didnt want to give it up

"You'll never understand the users mind,
But try with your books and degrees
If you let yourself go and open your mind,
Im sure you'd be doin it like me...and it aint so bad"

My fiancee has agreed that when the time comes, if we have a son, we can call him Layne

*apologies for waffling*

Also, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam (my alltime favourite band ever xD)

Embarrasing typo is embarrasing...

I only had Nirvana albums when I was a kid, I didn't really get into AIC until later... Nevermind, Metallica's Black album and GnR's Appetite For Destruction were the 3 albums that I listened to non-stop for large parts of my childhood.

 

[godevit]

Arthur dent.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Batman, of course, and, as I said in the "Dream Dinner Party" thread, Greg Graffin and Henry Rollins.

I also feel a song is necessary here:

• Did you ever know that you're my hero?
  And everything that I'd like to be?
  I can fly higher than an eagle,
  Because you are the wind beneath my wings.

 

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Nobody is quite awesome enough to encapsulate all that my overactive imagination would want from an idol.

I suppose I'd settle for a some king of Victor Smolski/Teresa of the Faint Smile/Stephen Fry/George R. R. Martin/some other people I'm gonna remember in about 3 seconds hybrid.... Thing...