Recently I read the news about the music tours from Guns N' Roses and Pearl Jam. It reminds me the good old days when I was in college. Perhaps I was young at that time, I was on hook with American modern (back then) rock music. It was early 90s, I recalled the top notch rock bands included Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Metallica. U2 and REM were hot too, although I don't their music were as rock.Nirvana and Pearl Jam were from Seattle, where I studied. Before Pearl Jam became super famous, they once hosted a small free concert in Seattle Center (Space Needle) and I watched it. How much are their tickets now? I don't even try to ask.
For Nirvana, they became famous overnight with one hit song, Smell Like Teen Spirit. At the peak of their career, main member Kurt Cobain committed suicide. He shot himself in his head. It shocked the whole city. Then Nirvana went down quietly. With all the fame, fortune, and talent, it seems not enough without a loving soul.
Reference: Grunge Music
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Those were also the days when I first moved to this country and could not get my fix on music from England. The access to UK bands and their music was limited and my brother and I had to settle on US rock (and at that time grunge). MTV kept feeding it to us. Later we were able to find the music from England again and the grunge stuff was behind us. However, Guns N Roses, which is not grunge like Nirvana, is still one of my favorite US bands.
Guns N Roses was actually the band that hooked me up with American Rock. The 1st CD (actually cassette) I bought in US was their single "Live and Let Die". "Don't Cry" was great hit. I especially like "November Rain", I guess this is the first song that combines hard rock and classic music together.
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