Tony Hawk Shares 1991 Nirvana Ticket Stub and His Wish Kurt Cobain Could 'Hold Our Wondrous Grandchild,' Ronin

Mar. 15, 2025

Tony Hawk and grandson Ronin (left), Kurt Cobain in 1993.Photo:Tony Hawk/Instagram; Frank Micelotta/Getty

Tony Hawk/Instagram; Frank Micelotta/Getty

Tony Hawkis looking back at a special moment from his past.

The pro skateboarding legend, 56,shared a photoon his Instagram Stories over the weekend of a ticket stub from aNirvanaconcert on Oct. 20, 1991.

“Went straight from an S.U.A.S. [Shut Up And Skate] event at Houston Skatepark to this concert in 1991,” Hawk writes. “It was as transformative as live music can possibly be; we all experienced something rare and powerful that night. The world would never be the same.”

In his post, Hawk continued, “I wish Kurt were here so he could see the incredible woman his daughter has become; meet her caring, devoted husband; and hold our wondrous grandchild.”

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Hawk appeared in NBC News Studio’sMy Generation’s look back at Generation X in October and recalled a moment in the early 1990s when he was introduced to an underground band’s latest single.

“I was actually in New York interviewing a band forThrasher Magazine. Someone from the label said, ‘Hey we have this newNirvana,’ and put it on in the room,” he remembered.

The room was filled with the punchy yet ethereal beginning to the grunge band’s biggest hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

“Everyone stopped what they were doing and everyone looked around,” Hawk recalled. “And you just knew. You knew this was it.”

In herthoughtful caption, the artist wrote beautifully of how she’s often been told that her hands resemble her father’s. She also reflected upon feeling as though she wished that she could’ve known her father more closely, as she was just under 18 months old when he died.

In part, she wrote, “I wish I could’ve known my Dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story. I always wondered if he would’ve caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if he smelled of Camel Lights & strawberry nesquik (his favorites, I’ve been told).”

“But there is also deep wisdom being on an expedited path to understanding how precious life is,” Frances Bean added. “He gifted me a lesson in death that can only come through the LIVED experience of losing someone. It’s the gift of knowing for certain, when we love ourselves & those around us with compassion, with openness, with grace, the more meaningful our time here inherently becomes.”

source: people.com