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Was Seattle rock aka GRUNGE really massively mainstream popular in its time?
I am just listening to some old Soundgarden and it got me thinking,
I grew up with those bands, but obviously I haven't lived in US at that time, and I remember they indeed were on radio and TV representing those days rock scene (god bless those times).
But it never was like mass hysteria, that you would see teenagers trying to immitate hip west coast shirts or work boots etc. on the street.
So people knew that, it was on TV and it was on radio, but it wasn't like the heavy metal movement with mullets and denim and everything orthodox or disco movement with killer hairdos, sick color combinations etc. - it wasn't very visual.
On the other hand, as I saw the "HYPE" documentary from 1996, they implied exactly the opposite.
Or was that the Nirvana hysteria, that made a lot of kids and pubescents go Kurt Crazy and unleashed the fanatism?
I know Nirvana has a lot of following even with these days pubescents, although they usually don't know nothing about other good related bands like The Gits, Tad, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, bands that never made it that big, compared with Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam or Soundgarden .
How do you remember those times?
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