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Rae? Relations in ftoizriea: ^. . Russell House Ballroom 6 pm Speaker■ Dr. Bobby Donaldson I Cobain CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 ing to live on for 10 more years, then 10 more years and beyond.” In a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Nirvana ranks as the 27th greatest-ever rock ‘n’ roll act, scoring above such lumi naries at The Who, The Clash, Prince, Michael Jackson and Madonna. Cobain was 27 when he died. After he suffered a series of episodes, including a drug-in duced coma, Cobain’s mother filed a missing persons report on April 4,1994. Four days later, an electri cian hired to install a burglar alarm at Cobain’s apartment found him dead, with a suicide note next to him quoting the fa mous line from Neil Young’s “My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)” — “It’s better to burn out than fade away.” “Whatever ‘Teen Spirit’ smelled like, it smelled bad that day,” said Jeff Roberts, managing partner of the now-defunct Sounds Familiar record store in Myrtle Beach. “His death had a huge impact on a generation of kids that hadn’t seen any of its icons die. It hit ‘em right between the eyes.” Best remembers hear ing the news while sitting in the cafeteria at Conway High School in Conway and he dismissed it as teen gossip. “I didn’t grasp it at first,” he said. “I thought it was fabricated.” Corey Taylor, 30, lead singer of popular heavy metal outfit Slipknot, said he heard of Cobain’s death on the radio and immedi ately turned on MTV. “We just sat there stunned and thought, what’s going to happen now?” said Taylor, who, while growing up in Iowa, counted Nirvana as one of his favorite bands. “He (Cobain) sang every thing like his heart was bleeding. It was a serious loss, but inspired artists to do their own thing.” Myrtle Beach musician Patrick Best is certain Cobain’s legacy, in line with rockers who died young such as Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, will continue to influ ence future legions of music lovers. 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Kurt gave his audience what they needed at that time: hope for something better.” Meanwhile, Cobain’s ghost still haunts an industry that’s search ing for another shake-up, as rock music has, once again, become for mulaic and predictable. “We need another Kurt Cobain,” I said Dallas Smith, lead singer of 1 TVT Records act Default. “Rock ra dio has become pretty stale.” Ironically, Nirvana’s mold breaking blueprint has become the mold, said Brian Rickman, program director for Myrtle Beach radio station WKZQ. “Only now, 10 years after the fact, are we beginning to see even the slight est deviation from the Nirvana formula,” Rickman said.