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Nirvana hit 90s teen culture like a bomb.
Really, the story is that Nirvana unseatedeverything.
The image suited the era.
After 1991, elegant disaffection became a coping mechanism.
Displeasure sent youth filing out into all sorts of activism.
It is no coincidence that soon after, MTV exposure becomes a factor in a presidential election.
Its difficult to call Kurt Cobain the center of some of these cultural vibrations.
It was clear that he hated hearing as much, because pressure like that led him to catastrophe.
But its also hard to imagine the 90s going down the way they did without him.
Early Foo Fighters records seemed to swing very deliberately away from the scabrousness and deliberate obtuseness of Nirvana.
Theyre sentimental and direct, and that makes some of them work at weddings.
Theyre fleet and propulsive, which makes a lot of them great for radio.
Each approach has pros and cons.
Kurt was shockingly intelligent but hard to read.
He preaches,sometimes decidedly coarsely, about the value of learning to play an instrument.
Grohls still good for no less than half a dozen corkers per album; some average better than others.
In Kurstins hands, the Foos exploded in a million directions, softer in spots and heavier in others.
The songs morphed and changed, where their predecessors were satisfied just emoting over an unassailable riff.
The heroes of the 90s mainstream-rock revolution are dying.
Against all odds, the Foo Fighters are protectors of the flame.
Onstage, these students of rock-and-roll history become spirited evangelicals.
If you know your shit, youre rewarded with a night full of Easter eggs.
Opener All My Life descends unexpectedly into the riff from Ted Nugents Cat Scratch Fever.
Grohl effects AC/DC guitarist Angus Youngs famousduck walkduring another song.
The ten-minute mid-show band-introduction session gives Mendel a crack at the bassline from Queens Another One Bites the Dust.
Jaffee plays the piano lick from John Lennons Imagine while Grohl sings the words to Van Halens Jump.
(They fit surprisingly well together.)
For a little while, beautiful ghosts from rocks back pages feel present and vivacious.
In his fourth decade as a touring musician Scream counts!
its clear that Dave Grohl will be around as long as anyone is willing to have him.
Reports that rock and roll is dying are premature.
at the Disco, and the Dave Matthews Band.
A few of them arequite good.
