Rock Legend Kurt Cobain is known for his new style of music, filled with hints of pop and metallic resonance, as he played with the famous band Nirvana. Starting in 1988 with their 10-song demo with Jack Endino, the legendary “GodFather of Grunge” Seattle Producer. With the help of Sub Pop Records, Jonathan Poneman, he offered Nirvana’s first single that helped carry them into becoming a rock icon. Coming from a troubled childhood, and poor habits, Cobain not only had many followers over his…
Dave Grohl (who was the drummer of Nirvana and then the founder of Foo Fighters) stated how this music influenced him. According to him, it was The Beatles who made him interested in music in the first place. At a young age, he bought a guitar and would practice…
For example, Dave Grohl, drummer for the band Nirvana and founder of Foo Fighters, told Access Hollywood that Paul McCartney had inspired him at a young age. He said, “it got me to understand song structure and melody and harmony and arrangement. So, I never had a teacher…
"One day Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies being born underwater, I thought that was a really neat image, so we decided, 'Let's put that on the album cover.' Then when we got back a picture of a baby underwater, I thought it would look…
“With the lights out, it's less dangerous, Here we are now, entertain us,” screamed Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, in Paris, in February of 1994. If somebody had told the rebellious teenager a few years before that his band would have mainstream success and that it would forever change their lives, and that he would be touring the world, and playing concerts on each and every continent (excluding Antarctica) he would have laughed in their face, but their songs went mainstream and they…
Piracy Piracy is defined as the copying and distributing of copies of a piece of music for which the composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding record company did not give consent. (Neuwirth, 2014) It is difficult to know exactly when and where the first instances of piracy occurred but there is evidence to show that composers as old as Beethoven where affected. “Both he (Beethoven) and his publisher had to contend with piracy by rival publishers who brought out editions of their own.”…
Since the dawn of time, people have always been interested in things that are free. It seems like a kind and harmless thing that would make the world that much better, but this is unrealistic. Everything costs something, whether it is time or cash, everything is worth something. That one game you play, with all the advertising on it; the free toy in the overpriced cereal; and even the YouTube video that was worth staying up until midnight for. But there are ways around this; Stealing, blackmail,…
On the night of February 20th, 1967, the cry of new life spread soundly through the maternity wing of Grays Harbor Community Hospital. This seemingly average night in Hoquiam, Washington would prove to be one of profound and unforeseeable significance; Wendy O’Connor and Donald Cobain would welcome their first-born child Kurt into their lives and, in that very same instance, the world would gain one of the most influential musical icons to strum a guitar. It was in this northern logging town on…
Today in our modern society, there are multiple different genres of music to pick and choose from. So obviously, there is at least one type that people prefer to listen to. The meaning of music varies from person to person. To some, music is an outlet to release one's inner emotions, while to others, music is just something to past time. Rock and Roll is one of America's pastimes, from the riff of electric guitars to the beats of the drums, one can't expect to live life without at least hearing…