I was listening to NPR at work over the weekend when I heard that it was the 15 year anniversay of the death of Kurt Cobain. I was a fan. Music primarily sucked in the late 80’s early 90’s. Alot of the great alternative bands I listened to as a teenager were long gone. Electronic music was equally horrible…..mostly due to the saturation of cheap digital synths. I started listening to Mutant pop, a local college radio program that featured underground music/punk rock.
There was this vast community of bands making music without the stupid mtv hairband posturing. The summer after I graduated from high school I went to my first show at “The Zoo”. this was the local alternative venue back in the day in my town. This band called Soundgarden were playing…I had heard a couple of tracks from their “Louder than love” album and decided to go. I think I went with an old school chum, anyway, I was blown away.
It wasn’t long before I started working at a local restaurant where I made a new friend who was a local musician and heavy into the hardcore music scene. He introduced me to this band called Nirvana who had just released their album “bleach”. It was like listening to the beatles buried in a metal sludge pit. I bought it and scored a rare 7″ single on marble blue vinyl…sliver b/w dive. I saw them live and was on the floor when Kurt did some crowd surfing. a year later nevermind was released and well…you know the rest. They changed the sound of american music. So anyway here’s a little video….it’s kind of sad.
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April 7, 2009 at 9:29 pm
That is really sad…