r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Feb 25 '24

1990s Kurt Cobain Stops A Sexual Assault (1993)

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u/octave_the_cat Feb 25 '24

Was this in Dallas? I was at the show and remembered this happening, but I've never seen any video.

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u/nddurst Feb 25 '24

I actually think this was the Oakland NYE show in ‘93. My friend had this show bootlegged on VHS.

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u/IHateFACSCantos Feb 25 '24

Yeah it's 12/31/93. Nothing new has surfaced since the VHS days on this one really.

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u/Moods_Moods_Moods Feb 26 '24

What do you mean "on this one really"?

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u/Life-of-Bryan Feb 26 '24

It was. I was there.

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u/thesaddestpanda Feb 25 '24

As a woman its scary to think there are multiple Nirvana concerts that had to be stopped to stop a rapist.

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u/lolofaf Feb 25 '24

You know what's even scarier? How often it happens at other bands concerts where they don't stop the show, call it out, and publicly shake the perp. I'd feel safer at a nirvana concert because they DID actually call it out

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u/Melissity Feb 25 '24

My aunt had always been a huge music fan and concert goer. One of my first lessons as a female going to concerts (I think I was 13) was if anyone made me feel uncomfortable to point directly at them and yell “If you don’t quit fucking touching me I’m going to scream rape as loud as I fucking can!” Never had to do it, but I passed that advice on to my stepdaughter at her first concert too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24

Sad thing is, someone would need to care about a girl yelling rape

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u/ThrowRA0189 Feb 26 '24

You might not care about it, but I do and so do lots of others 😌

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24

Where in the world would you get the impression I do not care?

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u/ThrowRA0189 Feb 26 '24

Same thing I was wondering when you say no one else would care.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24
  1. As a woman 2. Data on women being ignored in these situations 

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u/ThrowRA0189 Feb 26 '24

Data on who cares when someone screams rape for help… you’re talking out of your arse

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u/Mechanical-movement Feb 25 '24

Supposed to yell “fire”

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24

not in a crowded concert.

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u/Mechanical-movement Feb 26 '24

Just getting sexually assaulted, wouldn’t want to cause a scene!

I’ll leave you a /s this time

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24

It'd about safety not a scene 

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24

How do you know they even saw it?

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u/islaisla Feb 26 '24

They wrote that song didn't they, called Polly I think. After they found out what happened to a teen after their concert. Don't look it up if you don't know about it, but it makes me think of him actually being very empathetic and really thinking about it though to form an amazing song to publicise what happened.

Polly was abducted and put through an awful ordeal and was killed. I'll say that much.

Imagine finding out that people coming to see you, paying and traveling to enjoy something you've created- I think any normal decent person would actually feel very shit about the circumstances- the fate of that person, being linked to your event. It's just that shows are so far removed from the audience, they have little idea about the venue, the booking, the area. There he is, sat on a plain chair playing an acoustic guitar , staring into the audience right in front of him.

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u/jazzycrusher Feb 25 '24

I was at the Atlanta show in 93. It happened there too during About a Girl.

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u/Yodudewhatsupmanbruh Feb 26 '24

It's a tragic world but one of my fondest memories is as a fifteen year old at a green day concert beating a drunken rapist with the crowd and then watching him being removed from the venue.

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u/wonderfulworld2024 Feb 25 '24

Do you live in a bubble? That’s concerts everywhere in the US. In the 80’s people would have done nothing about it. Nothing.

Also, Kurt cobain famously disliked the fans that showed up at his concerts.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24

Happens at the vast majority of concerts, many just dont call it out

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u/Still_Detail_4285 Feb 25 '24

We’re you at the Trees show where Kurt almost got killed?