he might still be around making music in some form if Nevermind had never happened. i don't get the sense that someone as heartfelt and insightful he was is built to handle super-stardom at the level that he and that band reached in such a short amount of time. i know alot of people pick at him for biting the Pixies and the Melvins, but pretty much every great work of art is greatly influenced by something else so while i didn't think very highly of Nirvana when they were out. (my mind was too segregated at that time to appreciate his talents.) i think his sense of songwriting and expression makes him one of the more noteworthy artists to come around in the last 30 years or so.

RIP