nirvana.
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- Guss0
I met Krist a few years ago... really nice guy...
- iCanHasQBN0
these guys are great! should definitely get back together.
- we dont know where's Kurtbenfal99
- on an island with Elvis, MJ Jackson and Hitler.benfal99
- oh yeah, something happened to that kurt cocaine guy. googled him but nothing came up. weird.iCanHasQBN
- Paul McCartney really died when they thought it wa a hoax and what you see now is Kurt.CyBrainX
- dbloc0
Unseen Photos from the 1989 Heavier Than Heaven Tour
http://www.vice.com/read/on-tour…
- mg330
I've been reading a bit more about them lately and listening to stuff I hadn't really listened to in years. Brings back so many great high school memories. I think I got on the radio talking about him the day he killed himself.
I look back at all the great bands from that era, and I don't think any new bands really come close to what some of those bands were like. I think the Internet, celebrity obsession, and pop culture has sucked all the mystery out of bands now. The days when you'd hear about a band coming to town through the local paper or music paper, or possibly MTV, or a magazine, and all you could do is watch whatever videos you had and look at photos and read articles and play their stuff nonstop... what a glorious time that was! We know everything in the blink of an eye now. There's no mystery about bands anymore. There's no looking at bands on stage as if they were beamed in from another planet for a night to give you the goods. I still love seeing shows, but those times when you're growing up and seeing shows the first time, seeing the bands you idolize (especially if you were in a band in high school, which I was), spreading your wings and just being yourself, man, those were the best times ever.
- jtb260
I was definitely behind the curve with these guys. I din't find them until a few years after Kurt's suicide. By that time it was no longer cool to be into the band. Though the music was an enormous catalyst for me. It was loud, powerful and the melodies lodged them selves into my brain. I pulled out the acoustic guitar that sat in my closet unused since I was 8 and got a friend to show me how to play the songs in drop-d tuning. It was the foundation for more learning, and that discovery led to so many other great things.
I always laugh when I see the comments about how over-rated the band was, or how simple their music was. People want to negate their success in someway.
You either like the music or you don't. The rest is bullshit.
My own bullshit take: I'm a lover of both minimalism and expressive avant-garde art. I feel like Nirvana blended the two things perfectly. The instrumentals are rudimentary, and no-frills. Krist and Dave played simple but insanely tight rhythm parts which allowed Kurt to be as out of control and sloppy, or reserved and personal as he wanted to be. Minimalist and expressive. For me it works.
Aside from that the guys voice was incredible.
- mg330
I watched a live show of theirs from Seattle in 1993 last night on VH1. I've seen so much of their live stuff, but never noticed how absolutely f'ing hard Dave Grohl played drums. I heard so many people say that about him at live shows with Them Crooked Vultures and QOTSA. But I guess I never realized that his drum style was so similar even back then.
- MHDC0
- moldero0
I missed their in utero show in Oakland, figured ide watch them next time they came around, then 4 months later bam.
- MrT0
I was at uni and our share house crowded round the TV to watch Smells Like Teen Spirit on Rapido. Right afterwards, everyone got utterly wasted. We stole a cherry picker and robbed the student union through a 2nd floor window and my mate woke up in our fridge. Happy days.
- CygnusZero40
Possibly the worst singer in the history of rock.
- mekk0
- marychain0
Goddamn ya'll young
- dMullins0
This has always been my favorite Nirvana song. My high school band used to cover it regularly. One of the crunchiest/grimiest/best Nirvana guitar solos ever.