You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. You may want to know mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. Rock just bloes me away mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hair bands. You have poison, rat. Shes my cherry pie cool drink of water such a Sweet Surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on, sexually suggestive lyrics, not particularly deep music, but mtv is pushing it and theyre selling. Id turn on mtv all the rock bands looked a certain way, played a certainly music, expected to have a certain facade. Those who watch, mostly teenagers and young adults buy a lot of records, tapes and cds and they boy the most of what they see the most. Recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtvs offices to screen their new video and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. The Record Companies would submit videos every monday. And then we would have our music meeting and look at the videos and decide who was get put into the new rotation. I was a 21yearold kid that loved punk rock and quickly realized that the music they were playing just wasnt what i was into. When the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv, i was completely blown away. I said, listen, they really are incredible and we need to give them a shot, and if it doesnt work, then you can push me out of the music meeting. Tonights World Premiere video from the seattle band nirvana. Smells like teen spirit. It was like the musical kennedy assassination of our time. Everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song. Because nothing like that existed to that point. It was really transcendent. Hello hello here we are now entertainers here we are now, entertainers. Sounded like a threat. Sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, what do you have for us . What are you going to do for us . When im bad the socalled slackers, generation x, they were not being paid attention to, and this pressure was building up, especially in the Music Industry, for something that actually spoke to them. This is the First American generation that will make less than their parents will. Its a tough time to grow up in, and i think the band and kirk cobain in particular reflect that angst. Yeah yeah kurt cobain was a great songwriter with an ability to scream almost in tune. It just gave an intensity that was really unique. I kill you im not gonna crack nirvana gave the record industry a wakeup 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 suddenly so cool to be from seattle. One of the biggest music biz stories these day is the socalled rain city renaissance with emergence of noisy grunge rock with sounds like sound garden, alice in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington. Outshined outshined why dont you tell me what the biggest misconception about the socalled seattle music scene is . Everybodys a grunge band. All of these bands 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. Never heard that question. So tell me about the seattle sound. Whats going on up there . Whats in the water . Son she said are i got a little story for you what you thought was your daddy bands like nirvana, pearl jam, they wanted no part of the Music Industry machine, and yet there they were, on mtv, on the charts, selling millions of records. Hey im still alive hey i oh im still alive its a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. Were used to playing small clubs, you know. And we want to go back to playing small clubs. Primitive rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, on thursday night its a multipacked tour called lollapalooza tour. All your crossroads 1991, we were the first band onstage at the firstever lollapalooza. Which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. Lollapalooza is cool. The idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like janes addiction, Nine Inch Nails, soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers and get them all together. It felt like a really new idea. By the mid90s it was already parodied by the simpsons. Oh. Like woodstock only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. It is in the american lexicon. The commercial culture coopted the counterculture. The honeymoons over. Now were getting down to real commerce and theres a sort of disillusionment going on. Since i got everything i wanted i could put a zero after the number of record sales ive had. I could play 200 seat halls instead of 2,000 seat halls and i could be on mtv 1,000 times rather than once a month. Thought id reach the goals and find some sort of peace and i didnt. Im more miserable now than i ever was. vo it would be great if human beings were great at being human. And if all of mankind were made up of kind women and kind men. It would be wonderful if Common Knowledge was knowledge commonly known. And if the light from being enlightened into every heart was shown. It would be glorious if neighbors were neighborly. And indifference a forgotten word. It would be awesome if we shared everything and being greedy was absurd. It would be spectacular if the golden rule was golden to every man. And the good things that we ever did was everything that we can. vo 2 treating others like wed like to be treated has always been our guiding principle. vo just one touch. Ith introducing fancy feast creamy delights, with just the right touch of real milk. Easily digestible, it makes her favorite entrees even more delightful. New fancy feast creamy delights. Love is in the details. Welcome to the weekend rock. It was a week lit up in a large way by the release of in utero, a much anticipated third album by nirvana. Walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release including a song called rape me. The chain says it wants wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. To get into walmart they had to change the title of the song from rape me to waif me. I dont think kurt was too happy. Kurt wanted to maintain punk authenticity and also wanted to be popular. The starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. We decided to lay low and obviously that was you know, someone would say, oh, because kurts on heroin the whole time. It was just like its been really damaging to us, to tell you the truth. Its really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] 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 when did you sleep last night i remember watching him play the cover of a ledbelly song where did you sleep last night. It was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt a connection to kurt cobain and even when i was young i was so worried about him. My girl my girl in that era, the speculation of kurts not doing well. Kurt has drug problems. And nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds part, you know. And it seemed like everything was going to be okay. Night through from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. The lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. It didnt come as a major surprise, but it was devastating because of the way it happened. I pulled over and i was like there for 20 minutes to half an hour, just crying right there. I just dont understand it is all. I think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lennon. Yes. In that he was writing very much from the heart, 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 be fell apart after only making a couple records. You know, what do you do after that . Oasis, the verve, it was like the hangover of grunge. My heads pounding. This has been insane. Lets turn on oasis and after all youre my wonder wall they were the opposite of nirvana because they wanted fame. No matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger. We know were the best band in the country. Simple as that. Its that simple. The thing about oasis in a way they have no kind of, no false modesty. How can anybody go were the its like anybodys whos got the balls to do that is good in my book. That im a creep creep came out in the early 90s. That was as much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana songs or pearl jam songs, but it was hardly extraordinary. Inevitably, the first song that becomes a hit everybody caricatures the band from that. We have to wait and see whether we have a chance to prove were not just that. Okay. I remember vividly listening to radio heads next record, the bends nonstop and i would just seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, the percussion, every tiny little nuance. Dont leave me dont leave me dry this week the band release aid new album that has critics chirping with praise, too. Okay computer is like dark side of the moon of the 90s. It really showed this is going to be the defining band of the next 25 years. You could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radio head, and what came out of alternative through beck. In the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey into i was always interested in hiphop. This sort of nonlinear word connections. Im a loser baby so why dont you kill me beck is defining whats happening now with that mesh of styles. Hes mixing electronic, country, rap, rock n 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 i had actually fronted a band, stood up and sing charismatic, 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 looking for something to help me turn out right 4. In an era where everything was serious, a heavy tone, especially after kurt cobains death, the foo fighters create a music video and find a perfect balance between making people laugh with also having the ability to play incredible rock music. Only proprietary tempur material precisely conforms to your body. You get up to twice as much pressure relieving power, so you wont toss and turn. And tempurpedic is the best at minimizing motion transfer from your partner. Youll sleep deeply. And wake up, feeling powerful. Now through september 17th, save up to 500 on select adjustable sets. Find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic. Com whyoure not thinking clearly, so they called the Fire Department for us. I could hear crackling in the walls. 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One of the things overlooked by all of this rock n roll explosion going on was Country Music. These acts were putting out good music, they were touring constantly around the country and building up a fan base. Blame it all on my roots i showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. Are you surprised by that . Yes, sir. I guess my family knew they were going to be asking the questions and got there before they did i got friends in low places where the whisky drowns and the beer chases my blues away living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. The first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. To the oasis i said, that is exactly what i want to do. Garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade and the fastest selling musical artist ever. Hes been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. Hes got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock n roll star. It sounded like rock n roll, guitars and big drums and everybody singing along. Thats what people liked about rock shows. As the acts became maybe less twangy that expanded their audience. Artists like George Strait or brooks dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. Over the last two years Country Music has taken over the airwaves and record charts with over 2 billion in sales and climbing. As the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers cant keep up with demand. Youve got kids, a house payment and these people are more like you are than madonna is. Is there life out there so much she hasnt done women in country was a huge thing in the 90s. Reba mcentire, martina mcbride, the dixie chicks, shania twain. Lets go girls i remember when shania twain came out. I was very attracted to her. But found out i just wanted to be her best friend. Best thing about being a woman is prerogative to have a little fun oh oh oh totally crazy in all fields in our society now women, i wouldnt say dominating, i think that theyre just rising to their true place. I feel like a woman as things wore on, it became a great decade to be a girl after years of singing backup for such stars as Michael Jackson and rod stewart, she exploded on to the music scene in 1993 with her album tuesday night music club. All i wanna do is have some fun i got a feeling im not the only one radio has been so long in coming playing female artists. So its definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. If it makes you happy female artists like sheryl crow or liz fair, even though had had success they were routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. There was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young womens thoughts, feelings, voices, respected or taken seriously. Im just a girl there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, super girly and kind of tough, and the front of a band of all these guys. Thats all that youll let me be im just a girl in the world and thats all that youll let me be. It was like the middle finger up to of imguy that ever annoyed y. Look whos here. Alanis. Ran into her. Shopping, thought wed take you with us. Alanis has a brand new album, brandnew look, i noticed. I was dropped from mca records after having made records through my teens. And my personal promise was i wouldnt stop until i wrote a record that really exemplified and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. Is she perverted like me would she go down with you in a theater like what did she say . Women can say that . Yeah, they could. She was sing being a relationship that had obviously gone wrong, but it wasnt this kind of nice, oh, my god, you left me, now im sad. This was rage at this man. You didnt hear that a lot from women. But im here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away its not fair in america alone jagged little pill sells 50 million albums. Its alanis moment. You you you oughta know over the last four years just learned how to write for my own sxreenz write for myself. And its pretty ironic that the moment i started doing that was the moment that most people related to it. An old man turned 98 you know, theres that ego centric tendency on my part and perhaps on everyones part to think youre alone in your pain. I quickly realized i was not alone and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. People were tired of sublimating, being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. So, i think there was this door that busted open and i was on the crest of the wave. Its like rain on your wedding day its a free ride on your ironic was really funny because what she was talking about wasnt ironic at all. But she was one of the biggest stars of 90s. Theres lots of other women making music, too. Lets celebrate all of it. The latest trend in rock n roll, women. Last night some of the top female artists took the stage to launch lillith fair, a series of summer concerts rocking the world and shattering misconceptions. A lot of the summer festivals are very maledominated and i just thought that wasnt at all representational of all the music out there. So this is sort of a way to even the scales a little bit. I went to the doctor and i went to the mountains i looked to the children i drank from the fountains but theres more than one answer to these questions lillith fair was incredibly powerful. Our brains, our bodies, our creativity, our ambition mattered. It validated a lot. I am the one i am [ cheers and applause ] wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that . Uhhuh. I switched to tmobile, kept my phoneeverything on it oh, they even paid it off wow yeah. Its nice that every bad decision doesnt have to be permenant ditch verizon. 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