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April 5th

#26
Reality-check:

Hendrix
Joplin
Cobain
Staley
Bonham
Morrison

Depression + drugs & alcohol abuse = dead.

As much as I appreciate the contribution to the music world all of them made, what makes me sick is the fact that their deaths are mistakenly used to elevate them to some sort of deity status, when they really should be poster children for the dangers of excess and untreated depression.

(hops down offa high-horse) - Nirvana was ok - Alice in Chains was ok - both interesting, neither better than the other. Commercially, there was some reason to pit one against the other in a ridiculous pissing-match, but really - they were both interesting and cool. Trying to call one better than the other is like saying my left shoe is better than my right. Both shoes - both go on feet - end of story.
 
#30
bassmonkeee said:
Not that I don't like Layne more than Kurt, personally, I think you should change your name to "braindead" based on your interpersonal skills.
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hahaha

I agree Layne was a better musician in terms of robotic, mathematical, computational skill, but I can't say one is better than the other in terms of soul, which is what counts, because I miss both of them pretty equally. That is to say: a lot.
 
#31
I respect your opinion on Kurt Cobain and I'm sad that he's dead. It's sad when anybody dies. But I just don't see the big deal over Kurt Cobain at all or Nirvana for that matter. I can't stand them. I don't see how they got the following they have.
 
#35
ImaStupidBaby said:
he wasn't technically that great. but that's not the point of nirvana. after years of flashy technique, nirvana represented a return to an emphasis on songwriting. thats why he's remembered.
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He wasn't technically great at all. I'll give Cobain some writing credit, but that's where it all ends. I'll never forget the time back in the day when some guitar rag said Cobain was a better guitarist than Jerry Cantrell. I knew then that it was all a popularity thing.

I'll be the first to admit that the 80's metal thing had gotten way out of control, but instead of pulling it back a bit, the pendulum swung way in the opposite direction from technicality to high school garage band status.

As much as 80's metal became an image, Nirvana was just as much an image as was the whole "grunge" thing. The idea behind going back to the basics also involved playing anything that was inexpensive and readily available thus Kim Thayil playing Guild guitars through 2x15 bass cabs because that's all he could get. Krist Novoselic played all these old beat up basses on stage and in videos and I remember seeing a video of him recording with a nice Warwick.
 

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