I want to be fair and say not all bands but certainly many. As the 80's came to an end, 'hair metal' was for the most part cliche, some what redundant and for the most part, recycled. "When 'hair metal' exploded on the scene in the early 80's it was incredibly powerful, fresh and exciting," he continued. I think that many hair metal bands stopped trying to some degree and because of that, they started releasing mediocre music. In recent years, several other prominent 1980s hard rock musicians have weighed in on grunge's impact on the glam-rock scene, including STRYPER guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet, who wrote in an August 2022 social media post: "I don't believe that Grunge killed hair metal. Upon release in September 1991, NIRVANA's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" wreaked confusion upon the hair metal vanguard, putting an end to an era dominated by glamorous, androgynous and sparkly rock stars who absolutely saturated the radio waves and were almost exclusively what aired on MTV. So, I don't blame it on grunge as much as I blame it on all that was going on in that era." When everyone is making the same music, using the same producers, and the same video directors, you're going to have a problem. And so, things went from being amazing to being the absolute worst very quickly. The whole world was filled with mini- MÖTLEYs and mini- RATTs, and it just got to be too much. It got to the point where people were, like, 'You have to dress this way, move this way, sing this way,' and all this fucking shit. I mean… we can claim partial ownership for the music that came out of the early '80s, but by the time the decade ended, and 'Detonator' came out, the scene was totally flooded with cookie-cutter bands.
Amazon U.K.RATT vocalist Stephen Pearcy has weighed in on the never-ending debate about how the rise of grunge in the early 1990s forced most hard rock bands off the radio and MTV, with album and tour sales plummeting.Īsked in a new interview with Goldmine magazine if grunge was the deciding factor in RATT's split in 1992, Stephen said: "A lot of people think grunge had a huge impact on us, but at that point, it really had nothing to do with what happened to RATT. MTV Unplugged (originally released as Epic/Legacy 19075 92159-1, 2019)Īmazon U.S. Faithful fans and soon-to-be-converts will not want to miss this one. More than a decade after the set's first video release as part of a deluxe Ten box set, it's coming out in its widest audio release next month. Unplugged set the stage for even greater success for Pearl Jam in the decade ahead. On the contrary: during set closer "Porch," lead singer Eddie Vedder thrashes off his stool and scrawls "PRO-CHOICE!!" on his arm in marker while bassist Jeff Ament climbs Dave Abbruzzese's drum riser and guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard trade furious strums and riffs. With all those factors at play, the stage was set for a scene like no other, as Pearl Jam transformed a half-dozen hard-driving songs from Ten like "Oceans," "Alive," "Black," "Jeremy" and "Even Flow" (plus the yet-to-be-released "State of Love and Trust") into stripped-down performances that lost none of their power in acoustic form. 2 on the Billboard 200 - with "Alive" and "Even Flow" earning strong rock radio airplay. The seven-month-old Ten was steadily gaining in popularity - by year's end, it would peak at No.
Three days before, the group arrived from a European tour nine days later, they'd embark on the second leg of a North America tour, headlining Lollapalooza and several European festivals before the summer's end. None of that was yet on display when the band arrived at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens (less than two miles from Second Disc HQ!) on March 16, 1992. Though Nevermind was the symbolic avatar of grunge, famously knocking Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the Billboard 200, Pearl Jam helped push the genre's narrative in visual ways, with members appearing in the cult film Singles (with two new Pearl Jam tracks, including the blistering "State of Love and Trust," featuring on the film's soundtrack) and Vedder starring in the arresting music video for Ten single "Jeremy," today considered one of the greatest of its era. Along with Alice In Chains' Facelift (released in 1990), Soundgarden's Badmotorfingerand Nirvana's Nevermind, Ten established Seattle as a hotbed of urgent, emotional rock and roll. Less than a year before, the quintet fired the first salvo in what would be considered rock's grunge explosion with the release of debut album Ten. The band announced yesterday that the seven-song 1992 broadcast will bow on CD and digital formats on October 22, almost a year after its vinyl debut for Record Store Day Black Friday. One of the first major live sets by Pearl Jam - a stunning, stripped-down session for MTV Unplugged - will get a wide release in October.
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