it s a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. we re used to playing small clubs. you know? and we want to go back to playing small clubs. alternative rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, thursday night. it s a multiact package called the lollapalooza tour. you want to open up lighten up all your crossroads 1991, we were the first band on stage at the first-ever lollapalooza, which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. lollapalooza is cool. the idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like jane s addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, hole, red
rock. soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington. why don t you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? everybody is a grunge band. every band sounds different from each other are being lofted up to the main stream as being this is what grunge is. no one has ever asked us that before. so tell me about the seattle sound, what is going on up there? what s in the water? hands night, bands like nirvana, they didn t want any part in the music industry machine, but there they were on the charts and on the tv selling millions of records.
nails. soundgarden. red hot chili peppers and you get them altogether, it felt like a really new idea. the mid-90s it had been parodied by the simpson s. advertisements area and tons of security guards. it is in the american lexicon. it has co-opted the counterculture. the honeymoon is over. we are getting down to real commerce and there is a certain kind of decision going on. i could but put a zero after everything. i thought that maybe when i reached all these goals i would find some sort of peace. and i didn t and it was like i am more miserable now than i ever was.