The term grunge evolved from something dirty and fans and the bands took back the word and embraced it! We made grunge ours when everyone tried to use it as a disparaging reference to the music and the entire scene. You can dislike the word grunge, but we embraced it long ago! This video explores how the bands evolved on grunge and the Seattle Scene.
Grunge was originally coined by Mark Arm of Mudhoney when he was still in Green River with the guys who would go on to form Mother Love Bone and eventually Pearl Jam. A lot of people understandably hate it but at the same time it was embraced. It gave the Seattle Punk Scene a true name for itself. And yes not all were truly punk band like for example Alice In Chains were a heavy metal band at heart but they came from a punk scene and even had some local punk influence like Green River, Mudhoney and the U-Men. Mudhoney was the polar opposite of AiC they were a punk band to the core with some heavy metal influence, Soundgarden and the Melvins had the best of both worlds, Nirvana had a little bit of everything mainly Pop-Punk with Beatles and some metal influences. Mother Love Bone as described by Chris Cornell was the mixture of Guns-N-Roses(Musically) and Nirvana(lyrically) then when they split up and formed Pearl Jam with Mike McCready they were classical/punk/metal all in one. Grunge isn’t a bad thing and it gave an identity to Seattle music although it was sadly overblown by the media.
It SOUNDS like per the video that these guys in all these bands were feeding off of each other and there were so many places to play that the scene just grew like fire.
I grew up in Texas always imagining this Seattle grunge vibe in the 90's. Once I actually went there, it was nothing I had imagined, rather everything I wanted and needed! 🙏
I believe in listening to all types of music- but at heart I'm 100% grunge!!! I hear souless,talentless noise on the radio and it does my head in 🙄🔫 Give me music with feeling and emotion saturating every note any day of the week!!!🖤
I love how Chris tells Matt to make sure to wipe his feet before pretending to go in that little camper. Chris had a very mean father. I suppose he always wiped his feet.❤️
originally Soundgarden, alice in chains,pearl jam and Nirvana (the og seattle 4) hated that term grunge. but they made it their own. they felt it was weird because they all sound drastically different from each other. soundgarden and alice have the most heavy metal sounds but at the same time Soundgarden can sound a bit classic rock like Zeppelin (Zeppelin is one of the god fathers. of metal so it makes sense)
@@jasminericenic yeah pearl jam was more on the classic rock vibe too. they were influenced by the who and many others. kurt/nirvana was heavily influenced by the beatles. he loved john lennon especially. he also was influenced by punk which totally agree with u on.
@@camilogonzalez7451 nah they definitely were a mix of led Zeppelin and black sabbath. thats why led Zeppelins jimmy page went to their first big gig in the beginning. he was told that ppl were saying they were the new led Zeppelin or a young led Zeppelin so he went to their gig and became a fan ever since. jimmy page became friends with Chris cornell too.
Im glad Eddie had come to a realization and accepted grunge for what a lot of ppl perceived it as. A lot of bands hate being categorized or put in a box, which is why so many of the band's in the Seattle scene had negative interviews whenever grunge was brought up. But Eddie seems honored to have been part of an Golden era and included alongside the other bands. Appreciate life around you ppl. Cause it goes by fast. You never know what u got til it's gone.
Awesome video! I was 21 in 91 when everything broke, what a time to be alive. 51 now and Badmotorfinger ,Ten ,Dirt ,Nevermind ,Sweet Oblivion are still on my daily playlist.
Tell me about it, bro. Sometimes I still wish I'd quietly slipped away on the eve of 2000. I could have done without the last two decades. Hell, I have more love for the 80s (which was everything "grunge" was against) than anything that came after 1/1/00.
@@gordocojones I feel what youre saying man,100 percent. The way politics is going and climate change, the whole fucking world is fucked. Put on Black Hole Sun ,and just let it come. Haha. Peace
I'll always love the Big 5... Nirvana AIC Soundgarden STP and Pearl Jam...I was only 13-14 when they came out and I'm 44 now...I'll always have time for them. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Great piece Grunge Scene! The Goth piece sometimes gets overlooked. I used to draw Tats for people clubbing and Goth designs were prevalent and desired. Not that Seattle was a dark place, but when you live in an area that rains most of the time, your dripping wet and cold and spend a great deal of time hanging in a garage or barn, the best music on the planet happens!
love that soundgarden and chris Cornell are getting the exposure they deserve in this video. without Soundgarden we wouldn't have grunge so big. they opened the doors being the first to be signed and the rest was history. they gave labels confidence to sign other grunge bands. they opened the doors for everyone else. its crazy how Soundgarden and alice in chains arent in hof! its a joke and ridiculous. soundgarden and alice was the most metal/black Sabbath/Zeppelin inspired bands too. i find it comical that Soundgarden and alice in chains softened their look a bit because of they "looked too scary" with the black leather etc lol🤣
@@Fireglo not without Soundgarden. they opened the doors and actually even introduced their colleagues/buddies to record executives. soundgarden was the first to be signed and it was almost like a trial situation chris cornell said.they were like if u guys do good then we will give others a chance.
Soundgarden was very a important part of the Seattle music community, there's no doubt. But Skinyard and Green River were around before them. Also, even though they didn't get as big as the others, the Melvins were hugely influential on the whole vibe. Any one of those bands missing from the picture would have resulted in something we can't accurately ascertain.
@@gordocojones they weren't thought i think Soundgarden was formed in 1984 something like that. so Soundgarden and those bands u mentioned hung out and did gigs together all the time too. my point was saying that Soundgarden was the first band from the Seattle 4/grunge movement to get signed which opened the doors for everyone else. like if Soundgarden failed as a bad they wouldnt have taken a chance not for a long time on other bands the record ppl said. so a lot pressure was on soundgarden to succeed. originally Soundgarden and the rest of Seattle 4 felt mother love bone was going to the one that broke down the doors but sadly andy wood died which really stopped that momentum a bit.
Kurt's death helped to shine the light even brighter not only on that scene but the times. So many have lost their lives since then , and it adds only to the darkness of those times. Cause they were dark days...
Interesting how Eddie wished he was born earlier to see Hendrix or The Who. Now I, being born in 2003, wish I was born earlier to see Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains when they were new and big...
I feel sorry for kids these days to have missed the “Grunge” era……nowadays everyone has their phone up their ass and listens to terrible rap/pop music…….but what do I know? I’m just a 41 year old metalhead/grunge kid at heart!!!! I would give anything to go back to the pre-internet and cellphone days….Buying tapes/cds, listening to music in my room, reading books, watching wholesome tv shows, looking people in the eyes and having genuine conversation, playing outside, calling my parents from a pay phone, buying the 12 tapes for 1 cent from Columbia records, smoking cigarettes and trying to not get caught by my parents….oh the good ole days!
lol i’m 19 and i love grunge, grunge will never die and it’ll never be a “i was around the era when it first rised so i’m better” especially now where kids like me can easily open youtube or apple music or spotify, look up nirvana or alice in chains and enjoy it
I love grunge nd I'm gen z lol... there are some good mainstream songs but most of them are just created for tik tok and are just generic pop and are utter shit..
I agree. Im 42. I put on some Temple of the Dog the other day and my girlfriend was completely mesmerized. She was like "what isss this?" It's like she is aware of how amazing that era of music was, but she just won't admit it. Its like grunge and alot of 90s alternative rock got wrapped up into a box and permanently shelfed. I think if new artists can rediscover and gain inspiration from it, it could finally make a return. However, rock as a genre is currently way behind pop, R'n'B, and hip hop. I'm not sure if that's going to change any time soon.
Seattle IS/WAS different. A "small community" inside a big city. I love how they all supported each other, even being so different, creating a very tight knit scene. All friends and acquaintances, even to this day. When one became successful, they all cheered as one. When one fell (or in Seattle's case, several) they all grieved as one. Truly the way real diversity works--organically and at ground level--not forced and expected. Must have been magical to live through that place and time. 👍🎤🥁🎸💔
Absolutely. Susan Silver said so in the video. The absence of individual/economic expectations, the rejection to the "rockstar way of life" heritage of the 80's glam era (so far from the average people), the convergence of several great musical talents at the same time and place, a couple of brave producers/promoters... This context and the values you mention in your comment turned the Seattle scene into an emotional, organic, cooperative, introverted and truthful form of musical expression like no other from then to the present day.
Born and raised in Seattle, hit my teen years in late 90s so i felt like I just missed the opportunity to see a lot of these guys live in the height of their success. Took some friends from out od state through the Mopop last christmas and roamed around downtown, felt like the soul left the city. I could hear seattle singing "im still alive!" In the echoes of the empty streets, homeless mentally ill individuals and $3500/mo studio apartments. Even the other neighborhoods like capitol Hill suck now.
I lived in Federal Way ,WA in that time too, I went to many small Venus in Seattle like Alligator , topless,Showbox , pioneer square & Broadway rock scene clubs and big shows at the Key arena & Kingdome , etc ., great memories ! Stay safe & blessings from the Sonoran Desert , North Mexico
OK HOTEL circa 1991... Ya man. Every band I ever saw there. If you were there, you were THERE. You were in it, without much choice due to the size of the place.
home when it first came on mtv, i was a lil kid and i remember everything about that video. pjs Jeremy i remember clearly too i thought it was always awesome and artistic and hated they got so much shit for it.
In a car goin to drink in one of the vacant lots in Cavite south of Manila, Philippines. I still remember it, man. I remember that scratchy guitar intro. Then those pounding drums kick in. I go, "wow! This is new!" I was with 4 friends getting drunk.
Why is Metal almost never mentioned as a big influence on the Seattle bands? Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam was a big fan of Mercyful Fate, Venom and Motorhead. King Buzzo was really into Venom and Slayer. Nirvana literally listened to Celtic Frost on the way to record Bleach.
If it's never mentioned it should tell you they weren't that influenced by it. That question doesn't even make sense. There's a big difference between liking something and being influenced by it
@El Barbero That isn't entirely true. Punk may have been their main influence, but Heavy Metal was definitely in there. Those bands liked Heavy Metal. Nirvana would listen to Celtic Frost on the way to record Bleach.
Only thing I experienced close to this in rock was NYC in the early 2000s. The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio. Throw even The White Stripes from Detroit in it. It had the same buzz as the Seattle Scene, but just didn’t go mainstream like Grunge did. The music industry had changed too much by the beginning of the Millenium to allow something like the Seattle Scene to happen again.
Qué años !!que momento, qué recuerdos!!,y ver a Chris Cornell, qué bueno, Nirvana, Nirvana... Soundgarden.., Alice...! 👍😂 Qué grande era , joder!!, Chris Cornell,más grande... imposible!... creador,LA VOZ, cantando, componiendo,... lo que fuera... Es de esas personas tan particular,tan especial,con un talento tan ENORME,que trasciende de las canciones,tan buenas como originales,se nota que se estimulaban y desafiaban entre ellos ,al componer discos como superunknown,down on...y lo anterior,eran inimitables Y esas afinaciones en sus temas,te ponías a sacar (por ejemplo, porque me ponía a sacar todos y cada uno de sus temas)4th,if july,y sabías que "faltaban notas "en esos acordes,y claro,era por sus afinaciones tan cojonudas,que dan ese sonido tan"de ellos,".. únicos!!
Nirvana is my favorite band from the "grunge" bands but it's horrible how so many great bands like Mudhoney, Tad, the Melvins, Skin Yard and so many others that deserved to be as big as the big 4
In 1991. I was at a HS party. Hair bands were playing and a lot of people wore neon colors and hyper color shirts. After some time the room fell silent. All of us were bobbing our heads and tapping our feet. At the end of the song. A guy stands up on a table and yells. “ Holy shit! It’s the next Elvis!” Nirvanas “In Bloom” was playing. It was magical. A few weeks later. All of the hair bands and neon colors were gone. Every one wore flannel. Every car played grunge. The movie Singles suck so bad. It should have been a coming of age movie for us Grunge teens. We did not care about older Gen X. Us younger Gen X were in the spotlight.
I grew up in Seattle so I can add some history to this video: where Chris Cornell was saying “ before this was a strip club it was a happening place to see shows “ was literally like one block from layne staleys last place he lived and unfortunately where he was found dead . It got changed back to the rainbow bar after this video. Up until his death he would go there sometimes and just sit and nod out in the corner, according to some locals and the bar staff. I used to live just a couple blocks away as well. I think now it’s some skeezy nightclub or a hookah lounge or something lame.
Grunge is always a movement, an attitude to me.... The sound was what got them lumped together. We all knew the various Seattle bands sounds different ....
It has to be tough to answer the "grunge" questions over and over, but Eddie handles it beautifully, without demeaning anything or projecting any disgust or exasperation toward the interviewer.
in fact it took him quite a long time to change the approach to the term to a positive angle, given his near life-long rejection for the commercial side of music. But yeah, it seems recently he has 'exorcized' it, and that allows us to hear his insights over the entire scene. It's great.
Jerry Garcia said a similar thing about the supposed "San Francisco sound" of the sixties. That is, it's not one sound, it's a bunch of different groups with very different sounds from one another.
If you're a fan of Scott Weiland there's a video of him fronting AIC on an acoustic song, Angry Chair. Plus there's a video of his band The Wildabouts covering Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
Soundgarden played Alive by Pearl and Pearl Jam played Smells like Teenspirit. Both are in CZcams. - Bands didn't play AIC songs live because they were too mediocre as compared to Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
The term grunge evolved from something dirty and fans and the bands took back the word and embraced it! We made grunge ours when everyone tried to use it as a disparaging reference to the music and the entire scene. You can dislike the word grunge, but we embraced it long ago! This video explores how the bands evolved on grunge and the Seattle Scene.
Grunge was originally coined by Mark Arm of Mudhoney when he was still in Green River with the guys who would go on to form Mother Love Bone and eventually Pearl Jam. A lot of people understandably hate it but at the same time it was embraced. It gave the Seattle Punk Scene a true name for itself. And yes not all were truly punk band like for example Alice In Chains were a heavy metal band at heart but they came from a punk scene and even had some local punk influence like Green River, Mudhoney and the U-Men. Mudhoney was the polar opposite of AiC they were a punk band to the core with some heavy metal influence, Soundgarden and the Melvins had the best of both worlds, Nirvana had a little bit of everything mainly Pop-Punk with Beatles and some metal influences. Mother Love Bone as described by Chris Cornell was the mixture of Guns-N-Roses(Musically) and Nirvana(lyrically) then when they split up and formed Pearl Jam with Mike McCready they were classical/punk/metal all in one. Grunge isn’t a bad thing and it gave an identity to Seattle music although it was sadly overblown by the media.
You can't explain an iceberg by his top ,you should put your cressy sub Mask and a body glove and Watch under the skirt !
Soundgarden pointing at the governor’s mansion and saying “this is where Nirvana lives now” had me rolling.🤣🤣🤣
Oh thats's what it was? kool! lol
There's light in Kurt's room🤣🤣🤣
he was right
Soundgarden were hilarious
Chris was so happy and full of energy in the 90's 😥
That absolutely broke my heart seeing how happy and full of life he was and then knowing how he ended up 💔💔💔💔
If we could only stay young forever, i’de still be grunge ROCKIN’ today! 🇺🇸💋💋🤘🏻😉
I was too when I was late 20's early 30's
We all were much happier in the 90s. Rest In Peace Chris you are missed!
He was when he left us too!
0:00 me going through my daily spotify mix
It SOUNDS like per the video that these guys in all these bands were feeding off of each other and there were so many places to play that the scene just grew like fire.
Rip Kurt, Rip Chris, Rio Layne ❤️
I grew up in Texas always imagining this Seattle grunge vibe in the 90's. Once I actually went there, it was nothing I had imagined, rather everything I wanted and needed! 🙏
“It’s too much reality for me, you know?” Such words never felt more truer
The best rock generation ever in history, grateful to live the 90's at my teens!
90’s teens unite!
@@Spooky_515 ou yeah!
I believe in listening to all types of music- but at heart I'm 100% grunge!!! I hear souless,talentless noise on the radio and it does my head in 🙄🔫 Give me music with feeling and emotion saturating every note any day of the week!!!🖤
Same here! I'm an 90's girl for the rest of my life.
@@cornflakegirl1718 Tori Amos fan by any chance??? Love her!!!
@@frankeerhyme7416 I LOVE her! She's my muse.
@@cornflakegirl1718 Right!!! Her unplugged session was insane! I still have her on every playlist I own. Was devo'd when her and Maynard broke up 💔
@@frankeerhyme7416 Maynard is a GREAT artist, just like her. I love A perfect circle too!
I love how Chris tells Matt to make sure to wipe his feet before pretending to go in that little camper.
Chris had a very mean father. I suppose he always wiped his feet.❤️
originally Soundgarden, alice in chains,pearl jam and Nirvana (the og seattle 4) hated that term grunge. but they made it their own. they felt it was weird because they all sound drastically different from each other. soundgarden and alice have the most heavy metal sounds but at the same time Soundgarden can sound a bit classic rock like Zeppelin (Zeppelin is one of the god fathers. of metal so it makes sense)
as well as pearl jam being more arena rock sounding and nirvana having a lot of punk influences
@@jasminericenic yeah pearl jam was more on the classic rock vibe too. they were influenced by the who and many others. kurt/nirvana was heavily influenced by the beatles. he loved john lennon especially. he also was influenced by punk which totally agree with u on.
soundgarden is more like black sabbath
@@camilogonzalez7451 i'd say soundgarden was to alice in chains like led zeppelin was to black sabbath
@@camilogonzalez7451 nah they definitely were a mix of led Zeppelin and black sabbath. thats why led Zeppelins jimmy page went to their first big gig in the beginning. he was told that ppl were saying they were the new led Zeppelin or a young led Zeppelin so he went to their gig and became a fan ever since. jimmy page became friends with Chris cornell too.
Im glad Eddie had come to a realization and accepted grunge for what a lot of ppl perceived it as. A lot of bands hate being categorized or put in a box, which is why so many of the band's in the Seattle scene had negative interviews whenever grunge was brought up. But Eddie seems honored to have been part of an Golden era and included alongside the other bands. Appreciate life around you ppl. Cause it goes by fast. You never know what u got til it's gone.
I loved your comment.
Awesome video! I was 21 in 91 when everything broke, what a time to be alive. 51 now and Badmotorfinger ,Ten ,Dirt ,Nevermind ,Sweet Oblivion are still on my daily playlist.
Tell me about it, bro. Sometimes I still wish I'd quietly slipped away on the eve of 2000. I could have done without the last two decades. Hell, I have more love for the 80s (which was everything "grunge" was against) than anything that came after 1/1/00.
@@gordocojones I feel what youre saying man,100 percent. The way politics is going and climate change, the whole fucking world is fucked. Put on Black Hole Sun ,and just let it come. Haha. Peace
I’m 61 and have been listening to Bhad Bhabie
Goddamn. We Rule.
(I just turned 50 this year.)
And I’m proud to be a Gen X. Hold up. Is that what they call us? 😆👊
@@gordocojones You missed out on a lot of great stoner rock and indie rock and hardcore. No Windhand? Lmfao fuck that.
I'll always love the Big 5... Nirvana AIC Soundgarden STP and Pearl Jam...I was only 13-14 when they came out and I'm 44 now...I'll always have time for them. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Andy Wood singing to a sleeping Kurt Cobain……would love to have a tape of that.
Great piece Grunge Scene! The Goth piece sometimes gets overlooked. I used to draw Tats for people clubbing and Goth designs were prevalent and desired. Not that Seattle was a dark place, but when you live in an area that rains most of the time, your dripping wet and cold and spend a great deal of time hanging in a garage or barn, the best music on the planet happens!
They all seem to have had a good sense of humor back then and still do today.
love that soundgarden and chris Cornell are getting the exposure they deserve in this video. without Soundgarden we wouldn't have grunge so big. they opened the doors being the first to be signed and the rest was history. they gave labels confidence to sign other grunge bands. they opened the doors for everyone else. its crazy how Soundgarden and alice in chains arent in hof! its a joke and ridiculous. soundgarden and alice was the most metal/black Sabbath/Zeppelin inspired bands too. i find it comical that Soundgarden and alice in chains softened their look a bit because of they "looked too scary" with the black leather etc lol🤣
Yes we would.
@@Fireglo not without Soundgarden. they opened the doors and actually even introduced their colleagues/buddies to record executives. soundgarden was the first to be signed and it was almost like a trial situation chris cornell said.they were like if u guys do good then we will give others a chance.
@@thelilyfarrell yes without Soundgarden.
Soundgarden was very a important part of the Seattle music community, there's no doubt. But Skinyard and Green River were around before them. Also, even though they didn't get as big as the others, the Melvins were hugely influential on the whole vibe. Any one of those bands missing from the picture would have resulted in something we can't accurately ascertain.
@@gordocojones they weren't thought i think Soundgarden was formed in 1984 something like that. so Soundgarden and those bands u mentioned hung out and did gigs together all the time too. my point was saying that Soundgarden was the first band from the Seattle 4/grunge movement to get signed which opened the doors for everyone else. like if Soundgarden failed as a bad they wouldnt have taken a chance not for a long time on other bands the record ppl said. so a lot pressure was on soundgarden to succeed. originally Soundgarden and the rest of Seattle 4 felt mother love bone was going to the one that broke down the doors but sadly andy wood died which really stopped that momentum a bit.
Grunge helps my sadness
Kurt's death helped to shine the light even brighter not only on that scene but the times. So many have lost their lives since then , and it adds only to the darkness of those times.
Cause they were dark days...
Those were killer days! Dark days? Fuck that , I miss those times like a motherfucker
I'M FROM BRASIL , AND FELL MISSING THESE TIME 🇺🇲🤘🎸🛹🗽🇧🇷🍺🎵😎
Abraço amigo aqui do Brasil também
Interesting how Eddie wished he was born earlier to see Hendrix or The Who. Now I, being born in 2003, wish I was born earlier to see Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains when they were new and big...
I feel sorry for kids these days to have missed the “Grunge” era……nowadays everyone has their phone up their ass and listens to terrible rap/pop music…….but what do I know? I’m just a 41 year old metalhead/grunge kid at heart!!!! I would give anything to go back to the pre-internet and cellphone days….Buying tapes/cds, listening to music in my room, reading books, watching wholesome tv shows, looking people in the eyes and having genuine conversation, playing outside, calling my parents from a pay phone, buying the 12 tapes for 1 cent from Columbia records, smoking cigarettes and trying to not get caught by my parents….oh the good ole days!
lol i’m 19 and i love grunge, grunge will never die and it’ll never be a “i was around the era when it first rised so i’m better” especially now where kids like me can easily open youtube or apple music or spotify, look up nirvana or alice in chains and enjoy it
I love grunge nd I'm gen z lol... there are some good mainstream songs but most of them are just created for tik tok and are just generic pop and are utter shit..
I agree. Im 42. I put on some Temple of the Dog the other day and my girlfriend was completely mesmerized. She was like "what isss this?" It's like she is aware of how amazing that era of music was, but she just won't admit it. Its like grunge and alot of 90s alternative rock got wrapped up into a box and permanently shelfed. I think if new artists can rediscover and gain inspiration from it, it could finally make a return. However, rock as a genre is currently way behind pop, R'n'B, and hip hop. I'm not sure if that's going to change any time soon.
I’m 72 and love Grunge. Just discovered the genre 4 to 5 years ago. I know where was I right?
@@virginiaknighten4687 better late than never!!! Keep rockin', life is short!
Seattle IS/WAS different. A "small community" inside a big city. I love how they all supported each other, even being so different, creating a very tight knit scene. All friends and acquaintances, even to this day. When one became successful, they all cheered as one. When one fell (or in Seattle's case, several) they all grieved as one. Truly the way real diversity works--organically and at ground level--not forced and expected. Must have been magical to live through that place and time. 👍🎤🥁🎸💔
Absolutely. Susan Silver said so in the video. The absence of individual/economic expectations, the rejection to the "rockstar way of life" heritage of the 80's glam era (so far from the average people), the convergence of several great musical talents at the same time and place, a couple of brave producers/promoters... This context and the values you mention in your comment turned the Seattle scene into an emotional, organic, cooperative, introverted and truthful form of musical expression like no other from then to the present day.
Eddie Vedder is just so…so **chefs kiss**
Born and raised in Seattle, hit my teen years in late 90s so i felt like I just missed the opportunity to see a lot of these guys live in the height of their success. Took some friends from out od state through the Mopop last christmas and roamed around downtown, felt like the soul left the city. I could hear seattle singing "im still alive!" In the echoes of the empty streets, homeless mentally ill individuals and $3500/mo studio apartments. Even the other neighborhoods like capitol Hill suck now.
I lived it! 17 years old in 1992! Best times! All I had money for was beer, cigarettes, gas money and show tickets. Music was life!!!!!
I lived in Federal Way ,WA in that time too, I went to many small Venus in Seattle like Alligator , topless,Showbox , pioneer square & Broadway rock scene clubs and big shows at the Key arena & Kingdome , etc ., great memories ! Stay safe & blessings from the Sonoran Desert , North Mexico
@aofmual you are soooo wrong about that bub
I love my "Grunge" music , is my refuge !! 👏🏻😎🤘🏻
me too
great harnessing of the grunge vibe!
CHRIS WAS A BUNDLE OF JOY
OK HOTEL circa 1991... Ya man. Every band I ever saw there. If you were there, you were THERE. You were in it, without much choice due to the size of the place.
The first 10 - 15 minutes of Pearl Jam 20 was amazing. Wish Cameron Crowe would make the definitive Seattle Scene documentary
this is one of the best videos i’ve ever seen
So grateful I was a teenager in the 90s, it was just the best growing up with the big 4 as a soundtrack. Thanx for the video, awesome AF 🙏
That was awesome!! Thank you for sharing this video, 😊💓🤘✌️
My first time seeing this awesome video! Loved it!
Absolutely love this! 💖
yeah
Awesome job I love grunge and play it on guitar 🎸...rock on!
i love so much the Seattle scene ❤️
God Loves Grunge!!! Est. 1966
Who else remembers exactly where they were the 1st time they heard Teen Spirit?
At home on MTV in the fall of 1991 i was 14.Still love all of these guys of course 🤘
home when it first came on mtv, i was a lil kid and i remember everything about that video. pjs Jeremy i remember clearly too i thought it was always awesome and artistic and hated they got so much shit for it.
In a car goin to drink in one of the vacant lots in Cavite south of Manila, Philippines. I still remember it, man. I remember that scratchy guitar intro. Then those pounding drums kick in. I go, "wow! This is new!" I was with 4 friends getting drunk.
The first time I heard Teen Spirit was actually a cover of Teen Spirit so idk if that counts lol.
@@Fireglo how is that even possible lmfao
Why is Metal almost never mentioned as a big influence on the Seattle bands? Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam was a big fan of Mercyful Fate, Venom and Motorhead. King Buzzo was really into Venom and Slayer. Nirvana literally listened to Celtic Frost on the way to record Bleach.
If it's never mentioned it should tell you they weren't that influenced by it. That question doesn't even make sense. There's a big difference between liking something and being influenced by it
Jerry Cantrell knew Queensryche and was a fan. I think they were mainly asking Eddie Vedder and he isn't from there.
Everyone knows grunge is metal mixed with punk with a little indie and classic rock thrown in.
@El Barbero That isn't entirely true. Punk may have been their main influence, but Heavy Metal was definitely in there. Those bands liked Heavy Metal. Nirvana would listen to Celtic Frost on the way to record Bleach.
@elbarbero399 Mother Love Bone is not hard to like. They were awesome and were going to break grunge nationally first before Andy died.
They will always be beautiful!🥹
Gen-X, our mothers were right! We're totally not losers.
But, we are outnumbered. There's literally like 47 of us left and most of us are breddy cool.
Thank you! ❤️
Only thing I experienced close to this in rock was NYC in the early 2000s. The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio. Throw even The White Stripes from Detroit in it. It had the same buzz as the Seattle Scene, but just didn’t go mainstream like Grunge did. The music industry had changed too much by the beginning of the Millenium to allow something like the Seattle Scene to happen again.
Qué años !!que momento, qué recuerdos!!,y ver a Chris Cornell, qué bueno, Nirvana, Nirvana... Soundgarden.., Alice...! 👍😂
Qué grande era , joder!!,
Chris Cornell,más grande... imposible!... creador,LA VOZ, cantando, componiendo,... lo que fuera...
Es de esas personas tan particular,tan especial,con un talento tan ENORME,que trasciende de las canciones,tan buenas como originales,se nota que se estimulaban y desafiaban entre ellos ,al componer discos como superunknown,down on...y lo anterior,eran inimitables
Y esas afinaciones en sus temas,te ponías a sacar (por ejemplo, porque me ponía a sacar todos y cada uno de sus temas)4th,if july,y sabías que "faltaban notas "en esos acordes,y claro,era por sus afinaciones tan cojonudas,que dan ese sonido tan"de ellos,".. únicos!!
Everyone in Aberdeen are related.
*I can relate. I'm from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and it's basically the same thing*
Thank you!
Tha last great music scene!
Awesome.
Nirvana is my favorite band from the "grunge" bands but it's horrible how so many great bands like Mudhoney, Tad, the Melvins, Skin Yard and so many others that deserved to be as big as the big 4
How I wish I can transport there.......🖤
Best years in music ever,Seattle scene ,especially Big 4 that was Avalanche!!!!!
I was born in ‘92 in the heart of the grunge era. Grunge isn’t dead but still lives in my heart. Grunge brought me to Seattle once and will again!
Love this
Fuck I miss the grunge scene. I was in my element 🤩 still listen to all these epic bands
i’ve lived in seattle my whole life and never once knew they were ALL from here. i just love all their music so much more now
you’ll love this shit even more after your 11th birthday
@@albeback5234 lmao i’m 22
Thanks!!
So banda imortal. Grunge não é morte!
In 1991. I was at a HS party. Hair bands were playing and a lot of people wore neon colors and hyper color shirts. After some time the room fell silent. All of us were bobbing our heads and tapping our feet. At the end of the song. A guy stands up on a table and yells. “ Holy shit! It’s the next Elvis!” Nirvanas “In Bloom” was playing. It was magical. A few weeks later. All of the hair bands and neon colors were gone. Every one wore flannel. Every car played grunge. The movie Singles suck so bad. It should have been a coming of age movie for us Grunge teens. We did not care about older Gen X. Us younger Gen X were in the spotlight.
I picked a good time to watch this video. Today is the *32nd* anniversary of when one of the Soundgarden interviews took place! 🤓
Until now 2021..in indonesia grunge still exist...
Soundgarden nirvana alice in chains my fav...i see first time nirvana in 1989 at bloom Milano italy
Great vid
I grew up in Seattle so I can add some history to this video: where Chris Cornell was saying “ before this was a strip club it was a happening place to see shows “ was literally like one block from layne staleys last place he lived and unfortunately where he was found dead . It got changed back to the rainbow bar after this video. Up until his death he would go there sometimes and just sit and nod out in the corner, according to some locals and the bar staff. I used to live just a couple blocks away as well. I think now it’s some skeezy nightclub or a hookah lounge or something lame.
God damn it ,Andy Wood look like his mum !!!!
shut the door when you leave LMAOO
Kool...
I miss 90s Seattle and the 90s in general. It was the last decade that was worth a shit.
Soundgarden was all time my fav.from the seattle scene from day one ultramega ok and king animal all in my life timeline ...
14:30 we all somewhat want to be born a little earlier so we could enjoy the moments with the bands we love/idolize at that very time.
Grunge is always a movement, an attitude to me.... The sound was what got them lumped together. We all knew the various Seattle bands sounds different ....
They sounded different but felt almost the same, about the music and the community.
Grunge was simply a label for the bands of the Seattle scene. Nothing more, nothing less
It has to be tough to answer the "grunge" questions over and over, but Eddie handles it beautifully, without demeaning anything or projecting any disgust or exasperation toward the interviewer.
in fact it took him quite a long time to change the approach to the term to a positive angle, given his near life-long rejection for the commercial side of music. But yeah, it seems recently he has 'exorcized' it, and that allows us to hear his insights over the entire scene. It's great.
I think I can still feel the barriers kurt was talking about
❤️
Hahah Daves reaction 4:20 he looks like some sort of a random cartoon character in a cartoon series.
🔥
Jack Endino minute 7:10 is Howard Stern
Jerry Garcia said a similar thing about the supposed "San Francisco sound" of the sixties.
That is, it's not one sound, it's a bunch of different groups with very different sounds from one another.
The Mother Lovebone...
Bring back Grunge!!
Bring back the Grunge music!
90s were a great era.
Born in 91. Wish I was born 20 years earlier
Could someone help me with the song playing when they flash to Andy Wood at around 7:10?
Malfunkshun My Only Fan
@@TheGrungeScene God Bless, I was trying to type in what I thought the lyrics were on Google lol
@@jacksonharvey1225such an underrated band. Raw talent
Punk and grunge; the worse it sounds, the better it is!
I wanna go back and do it all over.
in 91 i was 17. twas the gtreatest thing, man.
I was 13 and ready to rock
Has nirvana ever covered aic? Or vice versa? Would’ve been really cool to hear
Nope.
Alice In Chains covered soundgarden with the song hunted down
If you're a fan of Scott Weiland there's a video of him fronting AIC on an acoustic song, Angry Chair. Plus there's a video of his band The Wildabouts covering Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
@@jimmyfabs78 thanks for the suggestion
Soundgarden played Alive by Pearl and Pearl Jam played Smells like Teenspirit. Both are in CZcams.
- Bands didn't play AIC songs live because they were too mediocre as compared to Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
Soundgarden far by the best from the Scene
The Northwest sense of humor is sorely missed.
For sure everything started from Matt Cameron too BAM BAM and amazing black girl calked Tina Bell
5:36.. kims tshirt.... i really hope he's not......he is still alive though where as chris is not.... makes you wonder
When you realize Krist is actually taller than Charles Barkley.
Kurt Cobain is immortal
4:29 looks like steve o wearing a wig 😅😅😅
great generation of musicians, and Soundgarden was the best of them
💋💋💋🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸ONLY IN THE USA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💋💋💋