wow! You just went full blown dickweed with that statement. how many great artists "couldn't survive themself" as you so delicately put it?
bands like nirvana, aic, and pearl jam created the grunge scene and sound that is still heavily followed today, almost thirty years later. It still maintains an almost cult like following.
While I do like smashing pumpkins and agree they put out some pretty good stuff. They never have nor ever will reach the same level of play as the other three I named.
I am not gonna argue on Pearl Jam mate. Now there's a fucking BAND. They have influenced my music more than almost anybody. Look I dig Grunge, I was bit of a poster-kid for it around these parts. And I miss the 90's like all get-out bro.
I followed grunge from it's very beginning. And mate, I am PISSED at Kurt for blowin his own head off. It made that I couldn't believe in a single thing he did any longer. I related to him up to that point. None of the greats that passed shot themselves brother. Getting taken out by even heroin, or your own puke like Jimi as horrible a fate as it is, it was not their CHOICE. Kurt had a responsibility towards a generation. He knocked all the fuel out of the engine and the wind out the sails of our morals, of what we were standing for in those magical times. It was really an exciting time to be alive here in South Africa. The Grunge ideal was REAL here. We'd just overthrown the system for chrissake, we were here to actually DO IT. Our angst and anger was harnassed, we had a purpose, we were the dirty little bastards tending to the light at the end of the tunnel. Kurt pissed on that bro, and finally the system had words to throw back at us, an example to break us down with, they had a gap to hit hard below the belt and make a higher moral stand. And along came the record companies and cleaned up the image, to the point where it was all squeeky clean by 2000.
And he really wasn't worth shit on a guitar. That's just fine when one can still relate to the song, like Mudhoney's music, old punk like The Sex Pistols, etc. We don't listen to that for the MUSICIANSHIP. We are into that for the SPIRIT. I can't believe in Kurt. So his playing MATTERS.
Not worth the dirt on Corgan's beard, who is still working on the same ideal, encouraging musicians to take matters into their own hands and teaching about putting intrinsic value in what you do so you can make a career out of it. I have a COLLECTION of Corgan interviews I watch often. Add to that the fact that he's a true musical innovator and BRILLIANT guitarist and you have a downright musical GOD. He has it all, very few others do. I play my 10-year old daughter his music and tell him about how he has inspired me. This is where I stole all my tricks. I love this man.
Yes Sir, I can be a dick sometimes. It happens. But at least I am an honest, open, and completely transparent dick. Makes me one of the better ones, and somebody's got to dilute the ocean of huge dicks by being a small one. So I am not sorry about it at all. This is who I am and I'm okay with that mate
