NIRVANA: ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME TONIGHT

"It was a great time": Soo, NIRVANA will be inducted into the ROCK and ROLL HALL OF FAME tonight (4/10/2014 BARCLAYS CENTER, BROOKLYN, NYC, NY)  along with KISS, PETER GABRIEL and many others. Rumors of JOAN JETT joining the surviving members of NIRVANA for the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony tonight are unconfirmed, (I can't play spoiler anyway), although, ITP's author owns a few JOAN JETT records, and I would be STOKED to see her with NIRVANA.

Again, I have to reiterate, our fore fathers and mothers bragged about how we missed the 60's, and older brothers and sisters on how we missed the 70's punk rock movement. OK? I think the 90's were even BETTER for all genres of music, and I mean ALL genres. Factoring in other 90's music scenes, (metal never died, and glam wasn't metal, metal became faster, slower more brutal, extreme and more diverse in the underground, waaay better) the second wave of Norwegian/Scandinavian black metal: MAYHEM, EMPEROR, DARKTHRONE,  CELTIC FROST, after a BATHORY influence.
The 90's Florida USA death metal scene: DEICIDE,  CANNIBAL CORPSE, OBITUARY, CYNIC, DEATH ect. The 90's New York Death metal scene: SUFFOCATION, IMMOLATION ect. The 80's Bay area thrash movement flew the flag and got huge, METALLICA, TESTAMENT, EXODUS. The southern metal scene grew in leaps and bounds PANTERA, CROWBAR, DOWN.
The Swedish and Gothenburg and European metal scenes became influential with AT THE GATES, OPETH, CARCASS ect.

90's industrial was of the influence from the underground of SKINNY PUPPY, to the industrial metal influence of KMFDM, FEAR FACTORY to the commercial success of NINE INCH NAILS.


Most people would state the European techno/electronic scene was of huge influence with raves that drew thousands as rap had meaning as a CNN for urban America.
From mainstream rock to underground extreme metal the 90's had a lot to offer musically and culturally as many are STILL catching up. Most music today is really just rehashed and culled from 90's/80's influence. The 80's/90's hardcore scene was of huge influence for many today Mall core is hardcore + thrash=metal core . Even NIRVANA's success was 80's post punk + nu wave=Melvins like garage rock with a PIXIES and BEATLES influence. This alternative scene had been growing post punk/nu wave since the 80's, NIRVANA, while symbolizing a portion of the 90's mainstream, were just the tip of iceberg of what was going on in the 90's,  as NIRVANA picked up some of the pieces of post punk/80's nu wave garage rock pop, put them all together and flew the flag for a while.

The 90's were wild, from the LA RIOTS to church burnings in Norway and we lost a lot of good musicians from DEAD and EURONYMOUS (MAYHEM) to COBAIN, BIGGIE, TUPAC. for many, it was "Get sober or die",  as many barely survived into the new millennium.

BTW, some of those 90s' bands are re-united, never broke up and need your support: From MAYHEM, DEICIDE, AT THE GATES, EXODUS, CARCASS to ALICE IN CHAINS, NINE INCH NAILS,  PIXIES and FISHBONE. So do support, not nostalgia, but NEW groundbreaking avant garde art as well, don't be a clone, be original.      

Congratulations to NIRVANA and all ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME inductees, they just happened to have sold enough records to get in. If it were up to me, I would give an award to all 90's pioneering bands/projects regardless of record sales, as their music is of great influence.

 .."And it was a great and insightful time".                                                                  


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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-