Chris Cornell aparecerá en JIMMY KIMMEL el próximo mes

Krist Novoselic y Dave Grohl hablan del 20 aniversario del Nevermind

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been 20 years since the release of Nirvana’s “Nevermind.” The album, which included cultural anthems like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You Are,” marked the beginning of the alt-rock movement of the 1990s and transformed drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic and singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain into the poster boys of Generation X, until Cobain’s tragic suicide in 1994.

On a recent afternoon inside 606 Studio, the sprawling headquarters for Grohl’s band Foo Fighters, Grohl and Novoselic, while slumped on a couch near the same soundboard that they used to record “Nevermind,” reminisced with producer Butch Vig about how they made the album that forever changed their lives and what impact it had on the world.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of “Nevermind,” which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, Universal is re-issuing the remastered album Sept. 27 with various special editions. Bonus material includes obscure B-sides, alternate mixes, live recordings and video of the band’s 1991 Halloween concert at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre.

A limited super deluxe edition features rehearsal recordings captured on a boombox (“It was in the bottom of a box of stuff that was gonna get thrown out,” Novoselic recalls) and the original unused “Nevermind” mixes that Vig hoarded until the group began planning for the album’s anniversary last year.

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AP: What was your a-ha moment when you realized that “Nevermind” had become bigger than you?

Grohl: I’d say “Saturday Night Live.” Being asked to be on “SNL” was without a doubt that moment for me. That’s when I thought, “Oh my God. We’re one of THOSE bands now.” Then, in the dressing room, that’s when (expletive) “Weird Al” Yankovic calls and asks if he can do a parody of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” That was a weird weekend. That was it for me.

Novoselic: It was shocking to be famous. I bought a house to deal with it. Then, of course, there was Kurt, who was thrust into being the spokesman of a generation. That was hard for him. He had some personal things going on that were happening just as fast. He was in a whirlwind. Kurt didn’t necessarily identify with Generation X or mainstream values.

AP: What was it like going back and listening to “Nevermind” after all these years?

Vig: It’s still out there. It’s omnipresent, but this is the first time I’ve listened to it from a critical perspective. The remastering sounds great. The album holds up really well. It’s timeless. I think part of that is because the songs are really good. The production isn’t gimmicky. It’s just bass, drums and guitar. There’s not any sort of trendy sound.

Grohl: “Nevermind” represents more than just an album with music on it to me. It was a specific, exciting time in my life. Personally, my life is split by the release of that album. My entire life is pre-”Nevermind” and post-”Nevermind.” When it came out, my whole (expletive) world was changed forever. There’s something about the innocence of it all.

AP: How do you think music has changed since “Nevermind” was released?

Grohl: Honestly, if you look at what was going on back then, outside of technology, all of that stupid (expletive) that was going on is still going on today. You’ve got stupid shows on TV to make people famous so they can sell records. The top 10 is full of crap. It’s the same (expletive). You’ve got all these rock bands trying to make it in a van somewhere.

Vig: With information moving so fast, the whole world has A.D.D. You only grab onto something for a second before you discard it. When “Nevermind” happened, it was still a slower time. That record really took off from a grass roots level. The label printed something like 40,000 copies. Word of mouth was faster than the Geffen publicity machine could handle.

AP: How do you feel about the impact “Nevermind” had not just on music but on culture?

Grohl: I have this shut-off valve. When I start getting to that place where I consider the impact of the album, I just turn off because it’s hard to imagine something so innocent and simple turning into something that’s out of your hands. I think that album came out at a time when a lot of kids didn’t have anything to believe in and Nivrana was entirely real.

Novoselic: I remember at the time when Nirvana was just breaking and we were still very idealistic about it. We thought, “Yeah, we’re gonna change the world!” It’s like when I first heard punk rock music and even hard rock music, it spoke to me, but then again, revolutions get co-opted, and it never really turns out the way you think it would turn out.

AP: If there was some rip in the space-time continuum, do you think you could have made “Nevermind” today?

Vig: I don’t think it would sound the same. There’s a feel on the record that you can’t really manipulate. These days, I love computers and moving stuff around and (expletive) with the sound. I feel technology would somehow get in the way of the kind of record we made back then. I know it wouldn’t make it better. It’s impossible to imagine that happening now.

Grohl: With technology these days, we could have been one of those bands who recorded it by ourselves in a garage and uploaded it to YouTube and bypassed any of the conventional industry routes. Who knows? I know that if Krist and I went in that booth right now and recorded on that board, we could sound exactly the same. That’s how simple the whole thing was.

Chris Cornell lanzará un disco de un directo acústico en noviembre

Reviews hechos por fans de la película de Pearl Jam

Fucho sent me a Spanish language review of the film.  The closest screening to me was in Long Beach (a 45 minute drive on a week day/week night) and that wasn’t doable for me on a week day.  Obviously if Pearl Jam themselves were playing live I would have been there, haha.  I read that there is some sort of way to watch it by paying on DirecTV this weekend so I’m hoping to go to a friend’s house who has DirecTV to watch it and write a review.  Anyways here’s some reviews so far from the Ten Club board:

Kodiak posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

Just got back from Seeing the PJ20 documentary. Phenominal!!! The Tampa Theater was packed and it kind of had the atmosphere of a concert (if that’s possible on a much smaller scale with no actual live act…lol).

There were times where everyone cheered, laughed, and even some touching moments. Knowing where I was at in my life and getting into high school and the things I went through and seeing how this band came to be during that time and all the things that make them who they are…it’s just amaing. I mean the scene where Eddie starts to get comfortable as a lead vocalist is just freaking awesome. Also, the stage climbing/diving video clips are just unreal. I still can’t believe Ed did that crazy stuff…lol.

At one point near the end, they show a clip from PJ playing Betterman from one of their more recent tours. The entire theater was singing along…freaking awesome. I have never been to a movie where the crowed reacted quite like that.

The movie does focus more on the forming of the band and their first couple albums and some of the stuff PJ stood up for and had to go through but the middle/later years are only briefly covered. Overall, I am fine with that. The most important parts are covered and the movie had to be a certain length for theaters/PBS. I just placed my order for the Blu Ray which has over 4 hours of extras. I can’t wait to see it again…especially all the extras!!!

Hugh Freaking Dillon posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

I really enjoyed it, but I mirror the same comments as many others. I mean, Jack Irons is shown in one performance. Dave Krusen was shown in a couple, but barely mentioned. Dave A was with the band for the first 3 albums, and he’s in barely anything. I just don’t get why this band tries so hard to rewrite history. Dave A was in the band during its meteoric rise.

If you go to so much trouble to show the history of the band to the world, why ignore one fifth of it? it would have been ultra classy to have him interviewed, or even mention his skills as a drummer and what it brought to VS and Vitalogy, or even make a waffle joke. Something.

I can’t stand half my old band, and haven’t spoken to them in 2 years, but I still plan on mounting our cd promo poster on my wall with their pictures on it.

I think the movie should have been called Pearl Jam 1-7, and 18-20.

PJ73 posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

First I really enjoyed the movie – loved the early footage and all the MLB videos. The band members all come off as really great guys too, which we probably all knew, but it’s nice to see in the movie  Lots of funny moments (Singles party esp!) that had the theater laughing. I also enjoyed some of the band member vignettes at the 3/4 mark too.

My issue with it is Cameron Crowe – I could tell he was the director. I find him a good director who chooses his works well but his pacing, especially with his later movies, always feels a little off. At points in this movie, I thought I was getting bombarded with info and then it would kind of lilt off and the movie would skip several years and then bam – we’re at Roskilde. And then a lot of early 2000s, then bam – we’re at 2008. I also thought the movie glossed over the drummer situation and the No Code years too quickly. No Code’s omission was pretty glaring to me since I consider that album to be their turning point, when they became the band they are today.

That said, the subject matter more than makes up for any pacing issues and I am more than looking forward to seeing this on PBS (and seeing how they handle the frequent use of the f word) and then the extended DVD.

Honestly not a bad way to spend a couple of hours

Chris Cornell dice que el nuevo disco está practicamente terminado

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Si os apetece oír un fragmento de los dos nuevos singles de Nickelback, los podéis oír en Amazon

Los singles son (“When We Stand Together” y “Bottoms Up”), y se pueden escuchar desde aquí:

http://www.amazon.com/When-We-Stand-Together/dp/B005NNUZN6/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316492121&sr=301-1

http://www.amazon.com/Bottoms-Up/dp/B005NNUZ68/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316492026&sr=301-1

Vía la 107 The End podemos oír tres de los temas no publicados anteriormente que incluirá la reedición ‘deluxe’ del “Nevermind” de Nirvana. El 27 de septiembre se pondrá a la venta.

http://blogs.1077theend.com/endmusicdiscovery/2011/09/19/end-music-discovery-3-previously-unreleased-nirvana-tracks/

Informa The New York Times que Neil Young anda escribiendo sus memorias que espera publicar en otoño del año que viene. Su título provisional es “Waging Heavy Peace”.

Top 5 canciones preferidas de Nirvana de King Buzzo

1. “In Bloom” Probably my favorite off of Nevermind. I do wish Dave would have mixed up the drum fills instead of playing the same one over and over….”


2. “Smells like Teen Spirit” I like it because it’s a combo of “More than a Feeling” by Boston and “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult. Listen to it with that in mind and it will all come clear to you…”


3. “Milk It” Of course I like this song! Of course I like it because it’s a total, TOTAL rip off of a song I wrote called “It’s Shoved.” It’s on our Bullhead record which I think came out in ’91… Listen to both back to back and then tell me if I’m crazy.. Well, I am crazy, but not because of THIS song.


4. “Rape Me”  When Nevermind sold about a billion copies, almost immediately you had about a billion bands all ripping of the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” riff for their own songs… “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was such a huge smash that even Nirvana jumped on the rip off band wagon and wrote this song… Which is a rip off of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”… I mean what the hell right? It worked the first time so why not?


5. “Negative Creep” I think I like this riff of theirs more than any other…