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Something new needs to happen here and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ i need an easy friend >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i cant see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock, l...

Bring this to the table because we do not hear enough from reformers. >> laura: muslim women have the power to take this whole thing back. i talk to so many friends -- some do. not linda sarsour. >> not linda sarsour. whats happened is the liberal democrats have decided they are the poster girl. >> laura: why do they -- why is linda sarsour delivering this new nirvana of feminism? and you complain that the people? >> they decided about a decade ago that they were going to become the victims. tha...

Its really frightening, we can bring this to the table because we do not hear enough from reformers. >> laura: muslim women have the power to take this whole thing back. i talk to so many friends -- some do. not linda sarsour. >> not linda sarsour. whats happened is the liberal democrats have decided they are the poster girl. >> laura: why do they -- why is linda sarsour delivering this new nirvana of feminism? and you complain that the people? >> they decided about a decade ago that they were g...

But after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ last night ♪ ♪ she said ♪ ♪ ive never been so down >> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. it needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of promise that young bands can deliver. >> abandoning the rules for what they may inspire other people ...

>> laura: what is interesting, trump said tonight we can take our time. on the one hand, they are criticizing trump for doing something too fast, shooting from the hip. he said, we can take our time, we can get through this because this is complicated. if hes too fast, too slow -- oh, we need results now. i think regular folks watching this tonight, i think they are more captivated by real positivity and hope than they are about someone who is going off to jail, chief of staff -- except for that...

President trump does be better or worse than the status quo. and there is a very significant danger that it will be worse. >> whats the best case scenario, guy? how could he come out of this meeting making those incremental changes without giving away too much? >> well, the best case scenario would be for kim jong-un to agree to some steps. dismantling some of the nuclear sites, the testing sites, the production sites. and also visibility, letting our guys in to look at this. that would be a -- ...

The biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybodys a grunge band. >> all of these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no ones ever asked us that before. >> weve never heard that question. >> so, tell me about the seattle sound. whats going on up there? >> whats in the water? ♪ son, have i got ...

It just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ i kill you, im not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up 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 sud...

Much from the heart, very directly, and he didnt play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing, it was like the hangover of grunge. oh, my god, my heads pounding. this...

Rap, rock and roll, everything. everything. hes throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life ive ever fronted a band, had to actually stand up and sing. and seem charismatic or whatever, which i cant do. but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save me looking for a sign of life ♪ ♪ looking for something to help me burn out bright ♪ >> in an era when everything w...