On'OnAPlain','Somethingintheway'and'AllApologies'Kurt playswithDropped-Dtuning(DbAbDbGbBbEb). On'Plateau','Ohme'and'LakeOfFire'heletstheMeatPuppets playtheguitar. Thepositionsofthechords,asplayedbyKurt,aregivenforeach song.Thesearethesocalledvoicings.Fromlefttorightarethe positionsontherespective...
and he didn’t know. There’s one song of his that I’d be proud to sing.” Seven years later, he’d introduce the Mother Love Bone song “Crown of Thorns” into Pearl Jam’s live show, finally letting Andy Wood’s music into the stadiums and arenas it was always destined to ...
“We learnt everything from the Wipers,” Kurt told an English fanzine in 1990. “They were playing a mixture of punk and hard rock at a time when nobody cared.” Indeed, it’s pretty easy to hear Nirvana’s power-chords-by-a-power-trio roots in this dark tune originally off of th...
I really did love that ensemble they had with the drummer before Dave Grohl — that's no slag on Dave Grohl — there was just an element from Bleach that we loved. We played a couple shows with them, maybe one in Seattle right around Bleach, and backstage the mood at these Sub Pop ...
I’m always intrigued by the early phases of a band. Once a band is famous, their sound has usually solidified into a known quantity, the line-up becomes relatively sacrosanct, there’s maximum attention and minimum mystery. The early days, however, are where there are the crucial left tur...
You know the words by heart. Just the strum of the opening chords and drumbeats ofNirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has you singing along. But did you realize that there are actually alternate lyrics for the song that became the staple of the grunge generation?Courtney Loverevealed some ...
You know the words by heart. Just the strum of the opening chords and drumbeats ofNirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has you singing along. But did you realize that there are actually alternate lyrics for the song that became the staple of the grunge generation?Courtney Loverevealed...
Structurally, "In Bloom" is full of power chords and sounds happy on the outside, but very mocking on the inside. According to Cobain, it's a destruction of "rednecks and macho men" who wouldn't be able to understand the band's intellectual art. According to a Krist Novoselic quote fr...