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Post by Mormel on Jun 5, 2016 11:32:52 GMT -5
I just bought a t-shirt at the clothes store, and it's basically a poster ad for Nirvana's 1991 USA tour, with all the tour locations listed at the bottom, from Olympia to San Diego. So I was wondering if anyone here went to see them back then. And if so, how was it??
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Post by Mormel on Jun 5, 2016 12:52:40 GMT -5
^I refuse to believe you're younger than me.  I was 4, but my mom was more into GNR at the time and she never did 'get' the appeal of grunge. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 5, 2016 14:30:17 GMT -5
I wasn't particularly listening to my demographic's targeted music then. In the early 90's I was probably picking up A Tribe Called Quest over Nirvana. I think the closest I've come to liking grunge (pardon if that's not the correct genre) is Closer. That dude's got a good singing voice, and well, what a subject matter. :-) Bot sure if Silverchair's Isreal's Son might fall into that category too.
My wife on the other hand was full into that type of music from the CDs she had when we got together.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 5, 2016 16:03:52 GMT -5
I hated Nirvana in '91. Nothing in the interim has changed my feelings.
I guess we got Arseface out of it. So there's that.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 5, 2016 16:22:12 GMT -5
I didn't get Nirvana until they stopped being the big thing on MTV and I realized that people whose tastes I respected were still listening to them all the same. Once I started looking at the lyrics and hearing some of their older stuff, I began to respect them, but it wasn't until the Unplugged performance in '94 that I truly began to get them.
Shorter answer to the original question: No. I wasn't ready for Nirvana yet in '91.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 16:42:24 GMT -5
As a native Washingtonian - many of my friends are quite conservative of music and the mere mention of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana have lots of love and hate in his music. I would been 32 years old in 1991 and I was working 70 hours a week that year and did not paid much attention to the music world and I simply cared less. Having said that, Kurt died three years after that and therefore he became a mere footnote in music history that I hardly knew at all.
I did not attend Nirvana in 91 because of work and I did know several friends that attended it and they are still living today and they don't talk much about at all because they may upset the fans of Kurt Cobain who led the group. I've listened to a couple of his songs and frankly they aren't my cup of tea. I'm quite conservative in music tastes Mormel.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 19:33:38 GMT -5
I graduated from university in '91 and was a broke-ass college student/broke-ass unemployed recent grad for most of the year, so couldn't afford convert tix if I had to. If I could have, I would have checked out the tour, but the financial reality was that it wasn't happening. I did listen to Nirvana a lot (recording songs on cassettes off the radio because I was too broke to even afford a CD player or CDs for about another year. But then I was pretty much the perfect demographic for the Seattle sound at that time, being the disaffected slacker generation...
-M
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Post by batlaw on Jun 5, 2016 22:28:15 GMT -5
No. Didn't ever see them. Personally not a group I ever would've wanted to see.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jun 8, 2016 9:54:33 GMT -5
I wasn't particularly listening to my demographic's targeted music then. In the early 90's I was probably picking up A Tribe Called Quest over Nirvana. I think the closest I've come to liking grunge (pardon if that's not the correct genre) is Closer. That dude's got a good singing voice, and well, what a subject matter. :-) Bot sure if Silverchair's Isreal's Son might fall into that category too. My wife on the other hand was full into that type of music from the CDs she had when we got together. That's the best reason you could find if you needed one  But seriously, compairing Nirvana to Silverchair is like compairing Nick Drake and The Monkeys |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jun 8, 2016 9:55:24 GMT -5
I saw them in 90, one of the first 5 gigs I ever went to. We were around 200-250 in the venue. Most of the people who were there were or have become proeminantly active in the "underground" parisian scene. Nirvana opened me to many many things. I can trace back to my enjoying of them to my enjoyement of modern classical, jazz, noise, sound poetry, Beefheart, The Residents, Stockhausen, etc... They are the band that single handly made all the furry/leather hard rock mainstream that plagued the late 80ies irrelevant. Most of the time, when I hear people hating on them, they talk about music technique, trailer trash aesthetic, supposedly poor melodies, etc... That is IMHO completly missing the point. I couldn't care less for the "emo" side people project on them, but they really are THE band of my generation, which makes me react in an odd way when I see young fans wearing t-shirts from a band that ceased to exist long after those very t-shirts were manufactured and want to ask them "don't you have any bands of your generation that you love?!" |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 8, 2016 10:07:11 GMT -5
I wasn't particularly listening to my demographic's targeted music then. In the early 90's I was probably picking up A Tribe Called Quest over Nirvana. I think the closest I've come to liking grunge (pardon if that's not the correct genre) is Closer. That dude's got a good singing voice, and well, what a subject matter. :-) Bot sure if Silverchair's Isreal's Son might fall into that category too. My wife on the other hand was full into that type of music from the CDs she had when we got together. That's the best reason you could find if you needed one But seriously, compairing Nirvana to Silverchair is like compairing Nick Drake and The Monkeys While I had to look up who Nick Drake was and read and sample his songs on the wikipedia page, I still get your point. :-) |
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I was 4, but my mom was more into GNR at the time and she never did 'get' the appeal of grunge.
But seriously, compairing Nirvana to Silverchair is like compairing Nick Drake and The Monkeys