re: #746 Walter L. Newton

I was pointing out a you can’t claim a decade is defined as good or bad by one band, I thought we were talking about Cobain. If I was to use Cobain as the metric, yes, his music sucked.

The genre refined itself, with no help from Cobain.

It is true, we were. I think Cobain was a great songwriter, but there’s not a lot of craft to his guitar playing. The guy has things to say, said them, the country listened. He reached a lot of people, and people still find his music important to them. But in terms of raw technical ability, the guy in the band with the chops was Grohl. And he proved it after Nirvana ended with the Foo Fighters, playing every instrument and just kicking ass all over the place.