11-21-2018, 10:46 PM
(11-21-2018, 10:19 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: He specifically didn't start a genre.
There were other bands doing it and some doing it much better.
They were a MTV poster child for a change of formatting.
In fact I can hear much more influence of Alice In Chains in bands even in today's music than Nirvana.
Tell me what bands have Nirvana influenced their sound... ??
Anyway. Pop culture yes. You can suck and be a pop culture icon. Many examples over decades.
The guy who gets the most famous is always the guy who gets the credit. See Elvis. And maybe they get the biggest for a reason. They have a certain something the others don't.
And as to who influenced today's bands, other than all sounding so alike to me, I can't say who influenced them, which is me showing my age. I guess I'm also jaded, having grown up in the Golden Age, the age that each new generation discovers, the age that will never end.
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