Who was the first Grunge Band? (for those that care)

Retroverbial · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:49 pm

Personally, I preferred Neil Young in his Buffalo Springfield and CSN&Y days.

(at least back then his guitar was in tune)

:mrgreen:

Arjay

63supro · **Joined:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:19 pm **Posts:** 8827

Retroverbial wrote:

Personally, I preferred Neil Young in his Buffalo Springfield and CSN&Y days.

(at least back then his guitar was in tune)

:mrgreen:

Arjay

+1 I think Steven Stills tuned it for him :lol:

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:12 pm

Voted for Neil Young like nearly everyone else but I am one of those that don't care. I've never liked the 'genre' or even the fact most of these bands don't sound anything like each other enough to be classed as a genre.

For me rock is rock. Crap is crap and great is great. I don't really believe in pigeonholing any band in a genre. I would certainly hate that to happen to my own band.

Some have real chops lyrically and musically and are more like 'real' rock legends GN'R, Zeppelin, Stones etc. Others are just teenage angst bands that I stopped relating to when I got my first pubic hair.

Love Alice in Chains. Hate Kurt Cobain.

CC

63supro · **Joined:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:19 pm **Posts:** 8827

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

Voted for Neil Young like nearly everyone else but I am one of those that don't care. I've never liked the 'genre' or even the fact most of these bands don't sound anything like each other enough to be classed as a genre.

For me rock is rock. Crap is crap and great is great. I don't really believe in pigeonholing any band in a genre. I would certainly hate that to happen to my own band.

Some have real chops lyrically and musically and are more like 'real' rock legends GN'R, Zeppelin, Stones etc. Others are just teenage angst bands that I stopped relating to when I got my first pubic hair.

Love Alice in Chains. Hate Kurt Cobain.

CC

+1 Well said CC! :wink:

Solid Body Love Songs · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:45 pm

Grunge seemed like a made up name. The bands that were popular in the 89-96 era from the pacific northwest sounded different than other bands but kind of similar to each other. Of those bands Alice In Chains led the pack, IMHO YMMV.

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:16 pm **Posts:** 881

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Grunge seemed like a made up name. The bands that were popular in the 89-96 era from the pacific northwest sounded different than other bands but kind of similar to each other. Of those bands Alice In Chains led the pack, IMHO YMMV.

I always saw AiC as a band caught up in the whole Grunge thing, they were misunderstood metal

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:04 pm

Negative Creep wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Grunge seemed like a made up name. The bands that were popular in the 89-96 era from the pacific northwest sounded different than other bands but kind of similar to each other. Of those bands Alice In Chains led the pack, IMHO YMMV.

I always saw AiC as a band caught up in the whole Grunge thing, they were misunderstood metal

I agree with you there although if forced to take a genre I would say more hard rock. Great band with amazingly harmonized vocals.

CC

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:31 pm

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Grunge seemed like a made up name. The bands that were popular in the 89-96 era from the pacific northwest sounded different than other bands but kind of similar to each other. Of those bands Alice In Chains led the pack, IMHO YMMV.

I always saw AiC as a band caught up in the whole Grunge thing, they were misunderstood metal

I agree with you there although if forced to take a genre I would say more hard rock. Great band with amazingly harmonized vocals.

CC

they had vocal harmony mastered for sure, and the guitar riffs and solos are this strange, beautiful fusion of classical, spanish, and metal.

the CNN report on Laynes death disgusts me... MJ gets a month, he gets 45 seconds

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:10 am

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Grunge seemed like a made up name. The bands that were popular in the 89-96 era from the pacific northwest sounded different than other bands but kind of similar to each other. Of those bands Alice In Chains led the pack, IMHO YMMV.

I always saw AiC as a band caught up in the whole Grunge thing, they were misunderstood metal

I agree with you there although if forced to take a genre I would say more hard rock. Great band with amazingly harmonized vocals.

CC

I can't stress the term 'forced' enough. I hate genre in music.

CC

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:16 pm **Posts:** 881

Bruce and John started it

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:50 pm

speaking of seattle bands..... for Christmas i got the sludge masterpiece Bullhead by the Melvins..... "Boris LIKES a lot of LITtle things to KICK".... classic

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:16 am

Loaded are my fave band from that neck of the woods these days.

CC

zontar · **Joined:** Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:48 pm **Posts:** 2315

Miami Mike wrote:

I voted for Neil Young - - he was grunge before there was grunge. :wink:

Well Neil Young was a big influence on grunge--so for that reason deserves some credit, but he wasn't really the originator--he has played a lot of different styles and makes them all his one.

He is one piece of the puzzle of grunge, but as was mentioned, not one band or person created it. It just happened.

And I do like Neil Young.
he was a big influence on my playing, but I'm not really a grunge player.

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:04 pm

the wipers definitely influenced it as well

radio_friendly_unit_shifter · **Posted:** Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:17 pm

Floyd_The_Barber wrote:

the wipers definitely influenced it as well

yeah, and flipper. i think more flipper than the wipers

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