How Hippy was Grunge?

The hippies were all about peace and love, and caring about the conditions of our world.

Grunge was about apathy.

I rest my case.

 

Most of grunge bands hate the "hippie" era bands
Cobain hate the Grateful Dead and all hippie bands ...
but bands like Soundgarden have led zeppelin or early black sabbath as influence.
And Pearl Jam were the most "hippie" of the Grunge scene....

and grunge is not a mix between the beatles and punk
but is more a mix of hard rock and punk

 

however kurt cobain was obsessed with the beatles as a child and it was the beatles that made him want to play an instrument...

nirvana was described as a mix between 70's rock style sound with the anger of punk music or something, hence why people called it punk-rock...

i dont really know where the name grunge came from.

 

the media. eace:eace:

 

well with crazy horse being viewed as the first grunge band and neil youngs latest album(living with war) pretty much being entirely a protest album where neil young definitely plays a lot like he did when he was with crazy horse id say that grunge is directly related to the hippie movement...but really, who cares...just listen to what makes you feel good and what moves you and dont listen to what others say

 

Apperantly Mark Arm of mudhoney came up with it. A reviewer called one of his bands "pure shit, trash, grunge" and so he told people he played "Grunge Music".

Might have been someone else though.

I think some Grunge bands were influenced by psycedelic music, if you listen to some songs by like Soundgarden or Screaming Trees you can hear the influence. After the whole grunge thing faded out Pearl Jam started acting a bit like hippies.

 

pot = to hippy as heroin = to grunge.....atleast most of it. how else do you think they came up with all those fucked up dissonant sounding songs?



FOR THE RECORD! pearl jam is and never was grunge music.

 

There is a huge psychedelic, hippie influence on early grunge, especially in image. But there isn't too much of the loving ideology. Most grungers were very cynical and unhappy. It's similar in that they were both angry with "the system" but grunge made no effort to change it.

Yeah, me too. And I've listened to a few of their albums too all the way through.

 

First of all, hippies used pot as a recreation drug. Heroin was probably tryed as a recreation drug with grunge musicians but then developed into a addiction. Heroin and pot are two tottally differant things. Plus both cultures used both drugs.

And Pearl Jam is considered grunge because Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard were part of Green River, one of the first grunge bands. When the band split Steve Turner and Mark Arm formed Mudhoney which was defiently a grunge band. Gossard and Ament moved on to Mother Love Bone (what whould have been the first big band out of the scene if it wasn't for andys death) and then after Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood died they met Eddie Vedder and formed Pearl Jam. So they do have grunge roots.

 

They still aren't grunge at all. Grunge has a punk influence and Pearl Jam has no grunge influence. The only reason they're considered grunge is that they came from the same area and some members were once in a grungy band. Doesn't matter what the media says.