A look at the diverse music of the 1990s, from Nirvana to Dixie Chicks to Tupac. Songwriter with an ability to scream almost in tune. It just gave an intensity that was really unique. I kill you, im not gonna crack nirvana gave the record industry a wakeup call and said, here is your new audience. So, start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. I would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. It was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l. A. Hollywood 80s. And it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. One of the biggest music biz stories these days is the socalled Rain City Renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. Bands like soundgarden, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. Outshined outshined outshined
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you wanna open up with 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 you can get these important and popular bands from the underground, like jane s addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, hole, red hot chili peppers, and you get them all together, it felt like a really new idea. by the mid- 90s it s already been parodied by the simpsons. it s like woodstock only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. it is in the american lexicon. the commercial culture has co-opted the counterculture. the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce and there s a certain kind of disillusionment going on.
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 hot chili peppers, and you get them all together, it felt like a really new idea. by the mid- 90s it s already been parodied by the simpsons. wow, it s like woodstock, only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. it is in the american lexicon. the commercial culture has co-opted the counterculture. the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce. and there s a certain kind of disillusionment going on. since i got everything i wanted i could put a zero after the number of record sales i ve had. i could play 200,000-seat halls instead of 2,000-seat halls, and i could go on mtv 1,000 times a
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 hot chili peppers and get them altogether felt like a really new idea. by the mid-90s it had already been parodied by the simpsons. advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. it is in the american lexicon. there s a certain kind of disillusionment going on. i could play 200,000 seat
in 1991, we were the first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza. it 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- hot village chili peppers and get them altogether it felt like a new idea. by the mid-90s it had already been parodied by the symptoms. it is like woodstock with advertisements and security guards. the commercial culture has co-opted the counterculture. the honeymoon is over. we are getting down to real commerce. there s some disillusionment going on.