That's not what I asked. What I asked was in response to the earlier remark of being compared to the so-called "fake" bands.
As in, the "fake" bands didn't "keep it real." At what point does "keep it real" apply or stop applying? Millions out there have been able to overcome addiction. Others have been able to walk away from the spotlight and lead successful lives.
Cobain was influential and talented, there's no argument about that. Personally, I can take or leave Nirvana. But my personal tastes don't take away his place in history. I'm just saying that the manner of death shouldn't elevate a person above others who have come before him or her and laid the path.
It's not like he's walking the path of the martyrs, know what I mean?
Interesting how we as a society will mourn the likes of Elvis, Hendrix, Joplin, Jackson, Lennon, not so much for the talent they had, or the influence they brought to the music, but because of the nature in which they died, where as artists like Roy Orbison or George Harrison are soon relegated to the background for just...well...dying.
If Paul McCartney dies tomorrow of natural causes will his death be less meaningful than Lennon's, even though they both played a role in making the Beatles what they were? (As well as Harrison and Starr, by the way.)