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Consignment. it worked that way. the problem with nirvana was that kurts songs were so good. we were raised in that scene where it was our secret. but then all of a sudden, we become one of them. what do you do? now millions of people are singing their songs. i can only speak for myself. i was the drummer. i could literally walk in the front door of the nirvana concert and barely get recognized, you know? i didnt have to bear the weight of the responsibility of being that front person of the ban...

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What they may inspire other people to do. ♪ last night ♪ >> much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the 90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. ♪ she cant wait she cant wait ♪ ♪ she cant wait she cant wait ♪ >> the first ones to break after the strokes in terms of new york artists is interpol and yeah yeah yeahs. these are strange people. theyre countercultural by nature. karen oh, shes this violent, swaggering rock boi. and this heartbr...

Kitchen, we dont see those stories. what about the network showing us the empty grocery store shelves or price of meat and beef and milk up. where are the networks? are they at the grocery stores, no, how about car dealerships, used cars up 40% in one year. if you want a new car you have to wait, no discounts. no stories about how the democrat party biden and american marxist ideology is affecting every day americans here. it would hurt the democrat party, hurt the democrat party, what about peo...

Of vietnam. weve got to get out of vietnam i disagree, weve got to get back into it. this is where we part ways, im anti- vietnam. >> im all ended going back, we had a right to be there. im finally happy about afghanistan. its probably because people like that our too stupid to realize she could just go to spot if i in their buying thing off itunes very. >> i buy, but i buy why am i talking about that. are you said that classic music is basically saying youre old, like nirvana is classic rock. >...

Imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones could shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling. i see killing. thats what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto up out of me, dog. >> its a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, there it is, platinum record. >> country musi...

Someone would say, oh, thats because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl, my girl ♪ ♪ dont lie to me ♪ ♪ tell me where did you sleep last night ♪ >> i remember watching him play a cover of a l...

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, she said, have i got a little story for you ♪ ♪ what you thought was your daddy ♪ >> bands like nirvana, pearl jam, they wanted no part of the...

>> 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 can 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 like r.e.m. was something new entirely. ♪ follow me, yeah follow me i got my spine ive got my orange crush ♪ >> the w...

Rock n roll was thought of as dead. >> in the 2000s, the predominant music generally is hip-hop. and thats the case in new york. no ones thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. 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 i feel so down ♪ >> after 9/11, the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight ♪ >> vulnerability, anxiety. a...