That’s funny. I made the mistake just the other day of ordering drumsticks online. I wanted VIC FIRTH 7A sized sticks, they sent me sized 7AN sticks. These sticks are so light and wimpy that they’re almost as useless as using a couple of pencils.

Maybe if I was backstage with Nirvana, a pair of these anemic bad boys would’ve been the solution.

Instead, I’m just going to order another pair, and save these just in case my cat decides to take up the drums!

Best. Live album. Ever. Kurt’s rendition of “Where did you sleep last night” is so full of gut wrenching emotion…to this day it gives me chills everytime I listen to it. Just perfect in every way.

mark lanegan’s version of “where did you sleep…” is still better.

Dave:

In what way does it freak you out??

Way to try to be cooler-than-the-room, Samuel. Lemme guess: Green River was the real best band to come out of Seattle, right?

I love it when nobody’s give their introspection about their stupid drumsticks compared to Dave. Good on you and good luck. I hope that someday you will be bigger than Dave with your knowledge. I doubt it though. My opinion only, and only for humor unless you take offense.

“I wanted VIC FIRTH 7A sized sticks….” Flaker is exactly correct. As somebody in the business, Chinaski appears to be a typical rookie making rookie statements. Don’t stress, keep practicing,but with that attitude you will never be one of the best.

Sometimes I get so sick of hearing about Nirvana and wish that Dave Grohl would not talk about them, but then I feel like a pretentious prick for bashing on a band that I totally jacked it to years ago.

When will this complex end? Can anyone outgrow Nirvana without being even a quasi-dick about it?

More and more I’m thinking that the internet was just invented so people would have a place to whine and complain about shit.

But how many times do we have to hear that Nirvana is derivative of the Pixies? The Pixies are still around, getting older, fatter and more pathetic, and Kurt is forever enshrined as a young, thin, drug-addicted legend. Somehow, in the long run, The Pixies won’t be remembered as fondly now that they’re struggling with bad backs, psoriasis, and Alzheimer’s.

Kurt will go down like Hemingway. That’s just the way it is and bitter assholes who can’t take that will forever be with us like fake moon landing crazies.

After Unplugged Nirvana would not have lasted much longer. One of the things nobody seems to remember is that Kurt was very anti-establishment, way more than Pearl Jam. Just listen to what they have to say about Extreme on “Live Tonight Sold Out.” Teen Spirit may still be a karaoke song for ignorant asshole jocks, but it makes their stupid “hel-lo”s all the more entertaining, knowing they are so emotionally stunted they will never understand the song.

I still haven’t gotten over my Nirvana complex and I never will. Nirvana was ahead of their time and they still are, because their success was about a grassroots backlash against corporate music. In Nirvana’s time corporate music was Extreme and Poison. Today it comes from “artists” like Linkin Park and Avril Lavigne.

The anti-Nirvana backlash came when Nirvana’s sound itself inevitably became mainstream music. Because of his suicide Kurt could never have pulled a Plastic Ono Band or a Dylan-electric kind-of turn in response to his critics. If he did, we might have been saved from Fred Durst and Nickleback.

Quadzilla 99, I’m in love with you.

Right on, dude.

Nirvana was more anti-establishment than Pearl Jam? What a joke.

It was Pearl Jam that quit doing interviews and videos. It was Pearl Jam that took on high ticket prices. Nirvana was more than happy to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone twice, and make a video for every single they released.

I never bought the Kurt Cobain “poor me” complex. The man was so very gifted, and yet he became a rock music cliche by allowing drugs take it all away from him. He shouldn’t be admired for that. He should be remembered as a great artist, but also a shining example of the stupidity that comes with drug addiction.

I know a lot of people here have spite for Billy Corgan, but the man has taken a hard-line anti-drug approach for years, and that is admirable.

Nirvana are one of the best bands of all time, and yet still highly overrated. The Pixies did it sooner, did it better, and they’re all still alive. I truly wish we could say the same about Cobain.

DarthLizardKing: i couldn’t agree w/ you more. I love Nirvana AND Pearl Jam. so many people dump on PJ, and for what? both bands made truly great albums, but they’re great for different reasons, they don’t sound alike. anyways, whilst Nirvana have left a breathtaking legacy and rocked like-a-mofo, we shouldn’t worship Kurt like some fucking god, cos in the end he was a junkie who deprived his daughter of a dad. Ugh!

I, myself honor Dave for speaking about Nirvana. Imagine how hard it has got to be for Krist and Dave to speak of.

Darth Lizard King and Andrew The English Bloke: That’s your opinion and maybe not others. Accept that. Don’t go round saying “we shouldn’t act as if this junkie was a God”. People have a right to do what the hell they want. To some, Kurt was a God. After his death there were 68 kids that took their own lives over it. The death of Kurt Cobain was a huge shock to everyone, some more than others. It still affects people today.

please describe bands (with specific examples) that sound like they were influenced by Nirvana. Oh, yeah and make sure it’s a good bad not just Silverchair. Nirvana was a product – and kurt is dead.

Nirvana – the product of the over glorified band due to a tragic death of a rock legend. You wonder if they could of kept up with the times of change like Pearl Jam has. you wonder if they would of stayed mainstream and kept selling out, unlike pearl jam. You wonder what if Kurt got sober, would he still be the genius he was? Nirvana’s Nevermind, released after Ten, doesnt hold a candle to it. It does have the tract, “smells like teen spirit on it.” The invention of the Mosh Pit comes to life. Track for Track Nevermind doesent compare to Ten – “Teen spirit” was just a voice of the generation, where as “Jeremey” and “Alive” got overshadowed by a Marble’s in a Junkies mouth?

The age old debate of Nirvana vs. PJ will always be at hand. Yet Rollingstone keeps putting Nevermind in the top ten and TEN in the top Hundred.