DAVID GROHL SEETHER COUNTRY SONG VIDEO SERIES
The best one of the series and actually learned a lot I didn't know about Nirvana etc.
R.E.M represented the more mellow side of Alternative Rock, stuff you could listen to in the car. Obviously he struggled to face up to the problems he had and only saw one way out. Kurt Cobain was clearly the Sid Vicious of the 1990's. Good show but could hd said more about the grunge scenenirvana are great pearl jam are great so are the rest No soundgarden or rage against the machineĬompletely useless if it don't have Pavement, obviosly. How come it says "Alternative Rock 1980 - 1994" grunge did NOT end with nirvana, its still goin 2day!!!! woooo rage against tha machine are back!! just wish soundgarden would to0 :( Kurt Cobain truly was the last great rock star. I have been digging out all of my old REM and Nirvana videos. I quite agree with Jayne from Sheffield on the emotional aspects of this powerful episode it should win some kind of award for excellence in video journalism. This episode has been the best of the series and they all have been quite good. and made all the difference." Have Your Say But I'm hopeful that this programme will introduce people to a few less familiar names who played their part, as well as providing a fresh and intriguing take on some of the biggest bands who took the road less travelled. The road's a distant memory now, and it's filled with glimpses of what might have been - signposts we didn't get a chance to follow that would have led us to bands like Sonic Youth or Pearl Jam, both worthy of a film in themselves. singer fondly recalled the band's gruelling years on the road and spoke movingly about the fragile, destructive talent of Kurt Cobain. Our shoot drew to a close in London with an audience with Michael Stipe, where the R.E.M. The tour also took us to two small towns as fittingly strange as alternative rocks' quirkiest band, The Pixies: the hippie enclave of Eugene, Oregon, home to guitarist Charles Thompson, and the industrial, midwest city of Dayton, Ohio, where bassist Kim Deal was born and raised.
We struggled to light a black grand piano, raiding a linen cupboard for bed-sheets to cope with the reflections, as Mills benignly sipped red wine before regaling us with wonderful tales about the band's early days and impromptu piano versions of songs like 'Nightswimming' and Eric Clapton's 'Layla.' Later that night, we convened at John Keane's studio, where the band recorded 'Out of Time', to interview R.E.M.'s Mike Mills. landmarks - the railway sleepers on the 'Murmur' sleeve - and ate soul food from Weaver's D's restaurant, where 'Automatic for the People' is still the refrain. In the steamy heat of Athens, Georgia, we filmed R.E.M. tracks including 'The One I Love' and 'Losing My Religion.' Scott reverently pored over tapes and handwritten track-sheets that he hadn't seen in over two decades and as the vintage reels turned, he was back in 1987 with Michael Stipe bashing lyrics out on an old typewriter while Peter Buck strummed the guitar. producer Scott Litt and the original studio master tapes of classic R.E.M. In Los Angeles, we had an appointment with R.E.M. In Seattle, where grunge was born, we filmed a rare interview with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, no longer the goofy bass player who used to leap around the stage but a thoughtful, lugubrious man who still brightens when recalling the thrill of discovering bands like Black Flag and Hüsker Dü for the first time. Those in the know followed the advice of The Replacements and tuned their radio to 'the left of the dial' in search of more challenging, authentic and passionate guitar music than the spandex and hairspray acts that straddled mainstream rock in the 80s.Īs we embarked on a pilgrimage across America in search of the people and places that helped pioneer alternative rock, it almost felt like we were following in the tyre-tracks of the bands who'd started it all nearly 25 years before.įour hours drive from Seattle is the mist-shrouded logging town of Aberdeen, Kurt Cobain's home and a place he described as 'Twin Peaks without the excitement.' The welcome sign reads 'Come As You Are', but it's the musty music shops, thrift stores and boarded up houses that most eloquently evoke Kurt Cobain's troubled childhood.
still had religion, 'alternative rock' was hard to find. "In the days when 'Teen Spirit' was a brand of deodorant, grunge was something that blocked the sink and R.E.M. Director's notes Robert Murphy Director/Producer
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