The question was "came from the Seattle Scene." I think that means Grohl qualifies since he was in "the scene."
General Who was the most talented MUSICIAN to come out of the Seattle grunge scene?
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Grohl being from the East coast really explains his attitude to me... He's not all depressed and moody like the other Seattle guys.
Grohl is certainly the most broadly talented. But seeing as how music is subjective, and I never really got jazzed over Nirvana or Foo Fighters, I have to go with a tie between Chris Cornell and Jerry Cantrell.
That whole period of time was blacked out for me; it was early in my professional career, and i had a young family, so I didn't listen to a lot of music and didn't keep up with whatever new was coming out. A while after that, a friend gave me one of his Soundgarden CDs, and I took it home and listened to it. It blew my mind. I could not get over how great Cornell's vocal sounded, and I loved the guitar riffs. I found AIC much, much later. In fact I just saw Jerry Cantrell with his band open for Bush a few weeks ago.
That whole period of time was blacked out for me; it was early in my professional career, and i had a young family, so I didn't listen to a lot of music and didn't keep up with whatever new was coming out. A while after that, a friend gave me one of his Soundgarden CDs, and I took it home and listened to it. It blew my mind. I could not get over how great Cornell's vocal sounded, and I loved the guitar riffs. I found AIC much, much later. In fact I just saw Jerry Cantrell with his band open for Bush a few weeks ago.
Awesome vocalist, but without Cantrell’s backing vocals, guitar and songwriting ability Layne might have been an awesome singer that nobody ever heard of.
He still had the best voice in the grunge era. No one touched his range and emotions when singing.
Eddie Vedder is second
Eddie Vedder is second
If you got Vedder over Cornell you’re the one who’s hitting the whacky weed! But to each his own. It’s all purely subjective anyway.
Vedder and Layne had "cool" voices totally unique.
Chris Cornell's voice & musical range blew them both away, and they both said it.
And they both collaborated with him, Vedder on Temple of the Dog & Layne on SAP.
There is no comparison.
Layne & Chris.
View: https://youtu.be/aESvWB-kMas?si=U6wqumbmJ93JdO--
Vedder & Chris.
View: https://youtu.be/VUb450Alpps?si=rlJO9VPr48UnvBMi
Cool thread, brings back tons of memories.
Chris Cornell's voice & musical range blew them both away, and they both said it.
And they both collaborated with him, Vedder on Temple of the Dog & Layne on SAP.
There is no comparison.
Layne & Chris.
View: https://youtu.be/aESvWB-kMas?si=U6wqumbmJ93JdO--
Vedder & Chris.
View: https://youtu.be/VUb450Alpps?si=rlJO9VPr48UnvBMi
Cool thread, brings back tons of memories.
Probably Chris Cornell
Now I think about it, listen to Alice In Chains unplugged and when Layne Staley was singing River of deceit in Mad Season
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Layne sounded better on live songs imo, rather than albums
What's rare is these 3 guys we're talking about all regularly outperform their studio voices.
Axel Rose for example could never hit his album clarity, and imo most singers either couldn't or didn't.
I had to hunt down SAP as a kid being an AIC nutgugger, at the time it was hard to find.
Right Turn was never played on the radio, I was looking for "Got me wrong".
I drove to Tacoma to buy a guitar I found in the Little Nickel wants ads because I had that sporadic teen spirit that could inly see in the now, & I HAD to learn guitar to play Got Me Wrong & Led Zeppelens Hey Hey What Can I Do?
Those 2 songs, AC/DC's Back in Black, and Over the Hills and Far Away by Zep were my first 4 guitar tunes.
Although I did it for me, it took my pussy game to new heights.
Brother was also underrated.
View: https://youtu.be/nH8BgfluCJA?si=V6pSxs2pas2AQE9t
On AIC, I remember trying desperately to get to Tower Records when Jar of Flies came out, as in the marketing team included 2 dead flies within the cellophane packaging of like the first 5000-10,000 cassettes. The crowd was overwheling and they were gone within like 45 minutes. Major disappointment.
Timely interesting interview.
Keep it coming dudes.
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Keep it coming dudes.
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Yep
I don’t like studio albums as you find out how good they are. I love acoustic music
Yeah, they're one of the handful of bands that makes me not able to write off the 90's as completely mediocre. Then again, what came after made me soften my stance a bit on that decade. Candlebox was another one from that scene that I still put on time to time.
I'll post what I'm listening to here when it's "jet city" music, aka "emerald city, aka "grungetown", aka "Seatown", aka "He'er-awn tawn', aka "reign-city", aka "Seattle Freeze".
View: https://youtu.be/1DnSiznUrVI?si=7v_oDaN39CglOzic
View: https://youtu.be/1DnSiznUrVI?si=7v_oDaN39CglOzic
He was grunge 20 something years early