So I watched it and I was like, ‘Hey man, nice shot,’ and the next thing I knew I had this song written.'” Every one of us is gonna die.’ There’s like a morbid curiosity with all that.

When you’re 22 and you get this footage, you’re like, ‘Wow.’ You can see anything on the internet, but back then, we were just watching it out of the fascination of like, ‘God, we all gotta die. I’m from the suburbs, I don’t remember seeing people being killed - I didn’t see a lot of things like that when I grew up. “It was like, really sick… me and my stoner buddies were like, ‘Oh dude, you gotta check,’ you know, just like morbid punk rockers that we were back then. Patrick claims he obtained the footage while touring as a member of Nine Inch Nails on Lollapalooza 1991 and detailed how it gave him the impetus to compose the track. I had to finally go on and say, This song, if anything, it was inspired by R. or someone put it out and said, ‘It’s a song about suicide,’ so DJs in Seattle said, ‘No, this song is about Kurt Cobain’ and they kept repeating it over and over and over and that’s the problem when you say it over and over, whether or not it’s the truth or not, it’s just the truth. The sad thing is that my label, Warner Bros. The problem was the song was written in ’91. “That was the tragedy of the song coming out after he killed himself. “This song was so controversial, and I literally was, ‘What did I do?’” Filter frontman Richard Patrick told the radio station KLAQ in 2012. The most well-known is Filter, who had a breakout single with the 1995 industrial classic “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” which, while widely thought to be about Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, who had taken his own life the year prior, was actually about Dwyer. These days, the clip is widely available across the internet, and while Vanyaland has no intent to showcase the gruesome scene, it is worth noting those who were inspired by it in the world of music.

Philadelphia area newspaper the day after Dwyer killed himself. The news media as a whole had no protocol in place to deal with such a shocking turn of events, but those who showed the complete and disturbing footage - which ended with the politician slumped on the floor with blood and brain matter splattered on the wall behind him and blood pouring from his nose and mouth - would see if heavily copied and traded among those who desired to see such a macabre display. Many children saw it take place as they were home from school with a snow day. The bullet exiting from the back of his skull had killed him instantly.ĭwyer’s death by suicide was broadcast on noon newscasts around the state and beyond.

Following several tense moments, he put the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. No one knew what he planned to do with the gun, imploring him to put the gun down. Almost 30 minutes into a speech where the 47 year-old married father of two defended himself as an innocent victim of a corrupt system, Dwyer opened an envelope from in his briefcase which revealed a.

Filter hey man nice shot