Skate legend Tony Hawk has penned a touching tribute to Nirvana and their late frontman Kurt Cobain.
Hawk, whose son Riley is married to Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean, lately took to Instagram Tales to share an image of a ticket to a Nirvana present on the Vatican in Houston, Texas on October 20, 1991.
He calls the live performance “transformative” and says he wished Kurt might have held his and Tony’s lately born grandson, Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk.
“Went straight from an S.U.A.S. [Shut Up And Skate] occasion at Houston Skatepark to this live performance in 1991,” Hawk writes. “It was as transformative as dwell music can presumably be; all of us skilled one thing uncommon and highly effective that night time. The world would by no means be the identical.”
He continues: “I want Kurt had been right here so he might see the unbelievable girl his daughter has turn out to be; meet her caring, devoted husband; and maintain our wondrous grandchild.”
Riley and Frances Bean married in a Los Angeles ceremony on October 7, 2023. R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, Frances Bean’s godfather, officiated.
The couple welcomed Riley on September 17, 2024, with Frances Bean asserting the start on Instagram 12 days later. “Welcome to the world most stunning son,” she wrote. “We love you greater than something.”
Final week, Tony posted a photograph of himself and Ronin on a skateboard collectively. “What occurs when your entire children can skate on their very own and now not depend on you to provide them rides?” he wrote. “You wait till they’ve their very own children. Circles (wheels?) of life.”
Kurt died on the age of 27 on April 5, 1994, and Nirvana disbanded shortly after. Nonetheless, surviving members Krist Novoselic (bass), Pat Smear (guitars) and Dave Grohl (drums) have carried out collectively since, most lately for a live performance celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night time Stay the place pop celebrity Submit Malone dealt with vocals and guitar.