1/14/2024 0 Comments Pearl jam unplugged itunesNeil Young, often referred to as the godfather of grunge, folk grunge (and any other label you want to put on it) was often cited as a major influence by both Nirvana and Pearl Jam, who both recorded material with him at different stages of their careers. Why Does the Acoustic Guitar Work so Well with Grunge? While it’s true the grunge sound could be best summed up by the legendary Boss DS-1 distortion pedal grunge also had a distinct acoustic side, as many of the artists mentioned above performed, and released a trove of acoustic material. So what’s all this got to do with the acoustic guitar? Once Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” hit the airwaves, this (mostly regrettable) era of pointy guitars, and self-indulgent over-produced pop fell instantly out of favor, and bands including Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Screaming Trees, and Stone Temple Pilots, were thrust into the spotlight. While record execs didn’t see it coming, the style over substance approach to hard rock and popular music (best demonstrated by hair bands such as Poison, Cinderella, and Motley Crue) of the late 80s had well and truly passed its use-by date. Grunge, aka “ The Seattle Sound” was more or less, a musical revolution emanating from one American city, Seattle, and initially through one local Seattle record label, SUB-POP Records.Īt its inception “grunge” represented a massive cultural shift in popular music that was best exemplified by Nirvana’s “Nevermind” replacing, then King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” at the top of the Billboard charts. The grunge era exploded out of Washington, Seattle in the late 80s, peaking during the early 90s before becoming gradually diluted into post-grunge typified by artists such as the Foo Fighters, Bush, and Collective Soul.
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