Ever wonder if he’d be still viable today? I’m thinking he wouldn’t. Those bands that matter tend to burn out rather quickly.
Doubtful. He died when he was still relevant, but today he’d be little more than tabloid fodder, just like what’s happened to Courtney Love. I can’t imagine he’d ever have been able to kick all the drugs and move on with his music.
But who knows? Maybe he’d have become grunge’s elder statesman, like Joe Strummer was for punk.
Maybe, but I never considered him to be self aware and enlightened like Strummer. Instead he was just the druggie who played barre chords in an exciting order. His contribution to music should be listed as such.
Maybe, but I never considered him to be self aware and enlightened like Strummer. Instead he was just the druggie who played barre chords in an exciting order. His contribution to music should be listed as such.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m not sure I agree. Most of my favorite interviews with Strummer happened after The Clash had broken up, when he’d had a little time to reflect on his life and what he had really been trying to accomplish with the band. It always seemed like he thought the band was a little bit of a failure—never quite what it should have been—and I think he spent a lot of his time afterwards being a bit of an apologist for it.
Cobain, meanwhile, died well before he had that chance to reflect. He was only 27 when he died, after all.
When you get a song stuck in your head, do you find that it comes to you at a certain time of day or during a certain activity? For me it’s an early-morning shower. If something plays in my head then-I hear it off and on all day.
This morning, it was Portishead, of all things. Couldn’t tell you what song.
“Beware of the Blob” by the 5 blobs, theme song from the movie, The Blob. It’s damned catchy, and not very scary either (apart from not being able to get it out of your head and the fact that it’s simple refrain can go on just as long as “The Song That Never Ends” but with a Burt Bacharach beat.
